Newspapers Nebraska

The land is tabletop flat between the Big Blue and Platte rivers, a good place to get a clear view of the world: the bright red and orange sunsets of summer and fall, the harsh winter winds that whip through small towns like freight trains, and, come springtime, the return of migrating birds and the lush prairie plant life. "To stand centered in a 360-degree horizon," Norris W. Alfred once wrote, "is to experience a natural worldliness, colorful and complete."

The land is tabletop flat between the Big Blue and Platte rivers, a good place to get a clear view of the world: the bright red and orange sunsets of summer and fall, the harsh winter winds that whip through small towns like freight trains, and, come springtime, the return of migrating birds and the lush prairie plant life. "To stand centered in a 360-degree horizon," Norris W. Alfred once wrote, "is to experience a natural worldliness, colorful and complete."

To raise cash for a planned expansion, Freedom Newspapers Inc. in Irvine has agreed to sell two small Midwestern papers to a Nebraska publishing company. Terms of the deal were not announced. Freedom is the holding company for the Orange County Register and 28 smaller dailies. Only once before has the 64-year-old chain--considered one of the most profitable in the nation--sold a paper. In 1978, Freedom sold its Hornell, N.Y., daily, the Evening Tribune, to Seneca Newspaper Group.

To raise cash for a planned expansion, Freedom Newspapers Inc. in Irvine has agreed to sell two small Midwestern papers to a Nebraska publishing company. Terms of the deal were not announced. Freedom is the holding company for the Orange County Register and 28 smaller dailies. Only once before has the 64-year-old chain--considered one of the most profitable in the nation--sold a paper. In 1978, Freedom sold its Hornell, N.Y., daily, the Evening Tribune, to Seneca Newspaper Group.