The Rotten Apple Saloon Among Those Happy To See All Roads Open For The AppleJack Festival
For more than four years, Nebraska City has hosted the AppleJack Festival with a major road or bridge closed.
By News Channel NebraskaNEBRASKA CITY – Nebraska City business leaders are relieved that traffic is flowing once again on all of the city’s major roadways for the first AppleJack Festival in the past four years.
Construction of the Highway 2 interchange over Highway 75 and instability on the Fourth Corso viaduct brought out the road and detour signs, but even bigger traffic problems arose this spring when flooding closed Interstate 29 and Missouri River bridges from Council Bluffs to St. Joseph, Mo.
All the main roads are open for this year’s festival.
NCTC Amy Allgood: “Expect a few delays because we do get a lot of tourists, but the roads are open. We’re really excited for you to use the Fourth Corso Viaduct bridge. It’s open and it’s beautiful.
Donald and Stephanie Bonar opened The Rotten Apple Saloon on East Fourth Corso while bridge was closed and said opening of the new bridge has been great.
Bonar: “It was nice to actually see customers coming back over the bridge. We had been cut off for five and a half months due to the First Street construction, the intersection here and the bridge all being down at the same time and just seeing people coming back over is really a positive thing for us.”
The location had hosted Geno's for years. The Bonars gave the new saloon a name in recognition of the city’s apple-theme festival and said they are looking forward to there first AppleJack without major road closings.
Stephanie Bonar: “For AppleJack we actually have a great line-up.”
The Missouri River is forecast to rise to a crest of nearly 22 feet on Saturday, but the type of flooding that closed the highway and Interstate 29 earlier this year is not expected.
The Fourth Corso viaduct was closed four years and the Missouri River bridge had been closed over 100 days.
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