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    The drunk driver that killed four motorcyclists last summer on Interstate 29 has pleaded guilty to four counts of vehicular homicide.
    Andrew Schlictemeier, 22, of Murray, Neb., is scheduled to be sentenced March 24 in Harrison County District Court. Under a plea agreement, he faces a penalty of up to 25 years in prison on each of the four counts. The Harrison County Attorney’s Office is asking for a 50-year sentence, but Schlictemeier could be paroled in 10 to 20 years.

There is no shortage of suggestions on just how the proposed interpretive center will tell the story of the Glenwood Culture Native Americans, center proponent Wayne Phipps said this week.

Last week’s public meeting on center planning drew 51 persons and they offered more than 100 proposals for the center ranging from ideas on appropriate displays and the size of the center’s theater to landscaping and sufficient parking space for tour buses and motor homes.

    Interest in next week’s public meeting of the group working to establish an archeological interpretive center here has been heightened with the announcement of a $602,478 state planning grant.
     Plans call for the center to be constructed on a five-acre tract on the south side of Highway 34 at its intersection with Levi Road. It is at the edge of the 900-plus acre state archeological preserve established in 2009. The proposed building site is known locally as the trailhead for Foothills Park walking trail.

     Matt Lothrop thinks he was probably a fourth grader at West Elementary School when he first started thinking about becoming a television sports reporter.

    “I was in the Optimist Speech Contest and found that I liked speaking and presenting myself,” Lothrop said during a recent interview. “Of course, I’ve always liked sports. Unfortunately, I realized I was probably never good enough to play sports for a living, so I figured why not cover sports for a living.”