AIRWAY HEIGHTS - The Airway Heights Fire Department recently had to decide what to do with a 2001 Central States Fire Engine surplus. After presenting several options to council, council unanimously elected to donate the truck to Lincoln County Fire Protection District No. 7 in Wilbur at its study session Nov. 23.

The Airway Heights council originally elected to surplus the truck in April 2019. It then went to state auction for nine months and didn't receive any bids, fire chief Mitch Metzger informed council.

"It has since been at the waste treatment facility and we were prepared to send...