Local view: Keep a sleeping bag in your car to keep your life, fingers and toes

It was a clear, windless April day in the early 1980s; the thermometer crept up over 60 degrees in the Missouri River village of Newcastle, Neb., population 350. Children buzzed like insects anticipating spring, but the kids had a larger agenda. The upcoming, one-night-only performance of the “Wizard of Oz” at the little K-12 school of barely 100 students kept the munchkins and their pals busily on task.

By: Ken Lindberg, for the News Tribune