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Ne The Associated Press OMAHA The Department of Veterans Office of onstruction has unveiled the first designs for eastern first national military cemetery. A pair of engineers from the office unveiled the plans Tuesday for the 230-acre cemetery during a downtown Omaha meeting attended by about 80 local veterans. The engineers said the first burial at the 230-acre cemetery could occur within two years. were a lot of questions, and this answered said James McCoy, 83, of Bellevue, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant. Project Manager David Martino said the centerpiece of the Sarpy County National Veterans Cemetery will be a flag assembly area at the highest point on the site, where services for Memorial Day and Veterans Day can be held.

Nearby will be a memorial walkway, where vets groups may put up monuments. The $36 million contract to build the first phase of the cemetery was approved last summer by the U.S. House as part of a $73 billion appropriations bill for VA and military construction projects. That bill is still awaiting approval by the Senate. But architects from Vireo, an Omaha landscape archit ecture firm, have begun drawing up plans for the west ern half of the site south of Omaha.

The VA bought the land last December for $6.2 million. The first phase, 35 acres, also will include 2,500 in- ground burial crypts and 3,000 spaces for cremated remains. The cemetery eventually could hold up to 130,000 graves and is expected to accept new burials for 200 years, Martino said. Design of the cemetery is scheduled to last two years, as is construction, said Mark Tillotson, director of the National Region. But the second year of design and the first year of construction will overlap, allowing the first burials by summer 2015 and completion of the first phase a year later, he said.

Sarpy Co. vets cemetery may be ready in 2 years The Associated Press KEARNEY The archway monument and museum that straddles Interstate 80 at Kearney has been renamed. Known since its opening in 2000 as the Great Platte River Road Archway, the monument is now simply The Archway. The board of directors for the Great Platte River Road Memorial Foundation announced the change Tuesday, saying one of many steps to be taken in coming months to rebrand the monument. Foundation officials said the change will help promote and market the attraction and will simplify Internet searches, travel guide directories and other promotional materials.

The museum commemorates the Oregon, Mormon and California trails that pioneers used and honors the highway systems and railroads. The museum has struggled with disappointing attendance since opening in 2000. Nearly 250,000 people visited in 2001, but last attendance was down to 49,960. The archway emerged from bankruptcy in September after it settled more than $20 million in debt with bondholders, vendors and businesses by paying $100,000. Officials also hope a new interstate exit that opened just east of the archway this year will boost attendance.

Now, it will simply be The Archway Lincoln Journal Star Thirteen state senators joined Wednesday with former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey and Lancaster County Commissioner Jane Raybould in formally endorsing Chuck 2014 Democratic gubernatorial bid. Hassebrook announced the endorsements at a news conference in the Capitol. Kerrey, former governor and former U.S.

senator, was the 2012 Democratic Senate nominee. Hassebrook withdrew from that race and endorsed Kerrey when he entered the contest shortly before the filing deadline. Senators endorsing Hassebrook: Bill Avery, Danielle Conrad and Amanda McGill, all of Lincoln; Brad Ashford, Tanya Cook, Burke Harr, Sara Howard, Rick Kolowski and Heath Mello, all of Omaha; Ken Haar of Malcolm; Russ Karpisek of Wilber; Kate Sullivan of Cedar Rapids; and Norm Wallman of Cortland. Hassebrook nabs endorsements Tree emem brance GWYNETH Journal Star Smaller trees with lights frame the Tree of Remembrance which holds personalized ornaments commemorating loved ones at Calvary Cemetery..