Voters decided to stay with the known during Tuesday’s primary when they re-elected Mike Bacon, Dr. Carol-Shackelton-Skinner and Monty Bowan to the Gothenburg Memorial Hospital board.

Improving food pantry: The Senior English class, under the direction of Roxanne Whiting and Carol Keiser, helped out at the food pantry at the American Lutheran Church. They built shelves and rearranged...

Coast to coast: Bjorn Suneson, of Göteborg, Sweden, stayed at the Comfort Suites in Gothenburg three nights last week during his third coast-to-coast run across the United States. Pictured, Suneson was...

Wagon Full: These youngsters, and a dog, Jingles, were headed home on May 2, pulled by their mother and relative Shenandoah Schram. The children had spent time at preschool and at Ehmen Park as temperatures...

As I brushed back strands of hair to pull through a pony- tail holder, I wasn’t thinking about what had happened yesterday or what I needed to accomplish tomorrow. Somehow, I muted that little voice...

When I volunteered to make a chocolate cheesecake for a church supper last month, I knew I would need help with the presentation. At home, the bottom of the springform pan works for serving but I thought...

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 third annual Nebraska Junior High Championship track and field meet will be at Gothenburg High School hosted by the Cindermates beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The top 24 seventh- and eighth-grade...

Two Gothenburg High School seniors signed their names this week to scholarship offers to continue their athletic careers in college. Mitch Spiegel will wrestle at Northwest Kansas Technical College and...

Members fo the Gothenburg girls and boys track teams have the luxury of driving across town instead of across the state for the B-6 district meet on Thursday. Gothenburg is hosting the meet with boys...

COZAD—Sometimes when the last track invite of the year rolls around just a few days before the district meet, participants simply want to get it over with. That wasn’t the case at all with the Swede...

SUTHERLAND—The Brady girls 4x100 relay not only beat every other team at the Best of the Midwest meet in Sutherland on May 1 but the foursome also improved their own school record time. Shaylin McClellen,...

Seventeen students will receive their high school diplomas during commencement exercises at Brady Public Schools Saturday at 4 p.m. The program will begin with an invocation by junior Matt Litzenberger...

Relay paves the way for girls’ surprise second at final invite ARNOLD—When Brady track coach Rich Britten sent entries for Friday’s Stapleton Invite at Arnold, he purposely changed up a few names. “So...

LINCOLN—From waterfowl and wildlife to its floods and droughts, the “flat water” that played a significant role in the westward expansion of the United States has a story to tell. The Platte River...

LINCOLN—It fuels both bombs and power plants, but uranium probably doesn’t come to mind to many people when they think about Nebraska. Still, it’s here and a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher...

All consumers are not the same. Neither are all agricultural producers. Yet ag policy analysis typically has assumed they are, which can result in ineffective or inefficient policies. The University of...