Wolf: Development of formerWal-Mart building benefits county. About a year ago, the Dawson County Opportunity Center in Lexington was in the planning stages. Today, eight Lexington Public Schools preschool...

Taken from the news columns of area newspapers. New site for Central Plains Home Health COZAD—The Central Plains Home Health and Hospice Agency moved to its new location downtown at 835 Meridian Ave....

He organized pregame routine 16 years ago. The Gothenburg color guard has posted America’s flag before kick-off of Swede home football games for the past 16 years. Cliff Geiken, a World War II veteran...

Locomotive remanufacturer close to winning railroad contract. Trucks have been spotted rolling up to loading entrances at the Dayton Phoenix Group facility in Gothenburg’s industrial tract. Cars have...

Recognize your blessings. That’s an ordinary message transmitted over and over through a number of common venues: a Sunday sermon, a pep talk from a friend, a self-help book. But what about a bird? The...

Step by step, bag after bag the lump in my throat grew heavier. I did not recognize all of the names on the luminaria lining the track at the Lincoln County Relay for Life last weekend. It didn’t matter....

The final piece of vital equipment fit perfectly between the seat and the console as we pulled out of the driveway. That book of colored lines and dots is what would guide us to Niagara Falls and back. We...

Players focus on 212 degrees. Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. At 210 degrees it’s very hot and at 211 degrees it’s even hotter but water doesn’t actually boil until it reaches exactly 212...

Luck not on Gothenburg’s side in final game. Sometimes Lady Luck shines on you and sometimes she doesn’t. Lady Luck apparently was looking the other way as Gothenburg dropped a 4-0 game to Scottsbluff...

Boys team returns experience. Three trips to the state cross country meet might make finishing a fourth season in Kearney seem predictable for Gothenburg senior Luke Rehmert. Juniors Brett Dockweiler,...

Henke: Results were typical for first meet. KEARNEY—Inconsistent ball striking resulted in mounting frustration for the Gothenburg girls golf team in the opening meet of the season at Kearney on Thursday. The...

Season begins with Maxwell. A handful of wins last season and a year of experience have boosted expectations for Brady’s 2010 football team. In 2009, the goal of the Eagles was simply to break a nearly...

Eight letter winners return. Experience. It’s a word Brady volleyball coach Lynne Johnson says with a bit of hesitation mixed with delight. “I honestly don’t know when the last time was, if ever,...

District taking steps to help students improve. It’s difficult to look at brand new numbers from the first year of a statewide reading test and fully understand how a district has performed. But when...

A new website focused on the Republican River Basin offers education and information about the contested river. Development of the Republican River Basin Water and Drought Portal was led by the University...

At 9 feet, stalks of corn tower high along Nebraska highways and byways, more so than any other row crop. Yet many Nebraskans have little knowledge about the state’s No. 1 crop or its end uses -- the...

American consumers are accustomed to seeing the “Made in China” label on products, but someday the Chinese may see their food products labeled “Grown in the U.S.A.” China’s agricultural system...