Sandhills ranch with ‘Dumbbell’ name and rich past sells to locals, including a former NE lawmaker

The Dumbbell Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska. A sale closed in late October, separating the roughly 15,500 acres of rangeland, meadows and more from a family that had owned it for more than a century and putting it in the hands of a pair of locals, former State Sen. Al Davis and another longtime neighbor, Chris Gentry. (Courtesy of Hall and Hall)