As part of a comprehensive plan for Nuckolls County being developed by a consulting firm based in Kearney, county residents were asked to complete a survey in the summer of 2023. A report based on that survey was delivered to the county commissioners on Monday.

Some of the highlights follow.

Just less than half of the respondents have lived in the county for less than a decade and close to one-third have lived in the county for more than 40 years.

Several age groups were represented by those who responded and the respondents appeared to be fairly evenly spread over a 50-year range (25 to...