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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
In Newport, buying time for a dying town
- Peter Salter
- Jul 20, 2014
- Jul 20, 2014 Updated Jul 28, 2021
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Betty Christensen stands at the corner of Second and Main in Newport, four hours northwest of Lincoln. She was 87 when she started driving an effort to raise $200,000 for a new fire hall, community center and village office. "I guess I’m the pusher," she said. "And the rest of them do the work."
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NEWPORT -- At the intersection of Second and Main, a few blocks north of the closed steakhouse and the closed convenience store out by the highway, Betty Christensen pointed to her past.
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