While growing up on a farm near Eustis, Dr. Craig Bartruff was accustomed to the clank of a windmill as blades sliced the air to pump water from the ground. When his step-grandmother passed away years...

GOOD SPORT: Gothenburg High School speech and journalism teacher Dan Jensen reacts to a cream pie in the face as part of a fund raiser for the GHS Visual Arts Club during Friday night’s basketball game...

Stranger approaches student walking home. A Gothenburg teen and her family are more aware of how to keep themselves safe, following a frightening incident a couple of weeks ago. By sharing their story,...

Taken from the news columns of area newspapers. 123 Youngsters attend cheerleading camp COZAD—Response for the traditional Cozad High School Cheerleading Camp for grades school children was exceptional...

Hundreds of e-mails come through my two accounts on a daily basis. If I had to guess, 90% of them are junk. Most I don’t click to open. They go straight to the trash. Today’s sampling: Pay your...

The day my grandmother Helen showed me a string of pearls I was surprised, since she knew my indifference to fancy and expensive jewelry. Yet, I admired the iridescent luster of the bluish-grey orbs and...

“In all of our deliberations, we must be mindful of the impact of our decisions on the seven generations to follow ours.” This Great Law of the Iroquois is inscribed on a steel sculpture of human...

Swede girls fall short against Indians. Gothenburg’s girls controlled nearly the entire game against Broken Bow Friday night until it came down to crunch time. When it mattered most, in the final...

KEARNEY—Kearney Catholic used an aggressive press along with plenty of extra-curricular pushing and bumping to make up for a height disadvantage and defeat Gothenburg 59-39 at Cope Coliseum Saturday...

With five players at 6-foot-3 or taller, the Gothenburg boys knew height would be their advantage against Broken Bow’s shorter team Friday night. Only one Indian player measures 6-foot-2, meaning the...

Swedes defeat Broken Bow 35-31. There seemed to be something missing from Monday night’s opening-round game of the Southwest Conference basketball tournament. Actually, Swede boys coach Roger Koehler...

Eagles defeat Mullen, SMC. Mullen’s basketball team learned the hard way that a box-and-one defense on one of Brady’s key players will likely result in another picking up the slack. On Thursday,...

Twelve Brady High School students received honor roll with distinction recognition for the first quarter of the 2011-12 school year and three additional students earned the same award for the first semester. These...

With a 14-1 record, the Eagle girls move to No. 4 in the Omaha World-Herald Class D-2 state basketball rankings after defeating Mullen and Stapleton-McPherson County last week. Thursday’s game at home...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will lead a $25 million project to reduce throughout the beef production chain the occurrence of E. coli strains that pose a major threat to public health. The U.S....

The world is entering a “wild and woolly” time of genetic engineering of food, when some of the most significant advancements may come from “amateur biotech” practitioners and in the developing...

On behalf of the U.S. Livestock Genetics Export (USLGE), the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) is reminding Nebraskans of cost-share funds to promote U.S. livestock exports. USLGE received funds...