Burning calories is often a focal point of weight loss efforts. People go to great lengths to burn more calories, but they might be surprised to learn how many they can burn performing relatively routine physical activities.
Weather emergencies can happen at any time of year and in any part of the world. Learning to recognize the most common weather hazards can help people confront adverse weather situations more capably.
Names released following fatal accident near Angora The Nebraska State Patrol has identified the two people killed in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon, June 14, near Angora on Highway 385. The driver of the other vehicle has been arrested for motor vehicle homicide.
A number of Southeast Community College students are spending their summer getting an edge in the “Prep 4 Success” program put on by the Tutoring and Transitions Center at the College. “The purpose of Prep 4 Success is to help new students get questions answered, meet new people and get prepared for classes this fall,” said Shannon Brinkman, Director of Tutoring and Transitions.
This week's Nebraska City Farmers Market, sponsored by Commercial State Bank, will feature story time and a craft with Amanda Winkler from the Morton-James Public Library. Market hours are 3:45 to 6 p.m.
Interest in the sport of pickleball has increased almost 200 percent in the past five years across Nebraska. In response to that growing interest, the City of Nebraska City and Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce have teamed up to add pickleball courts to the city's park system.
Nebraska Citians Isabelle Bare, Timothy Stanek, Jaci Recker and Kiera Rakowski, were among 186 high school students from across Nebraska who participated in the 27th Annual Masonic All-Star Marching Band, which performed Saturday, June 4, during Shrine Bowl festivities in Kearney.
On May 3, 2022, a court employee leaked a draft opinion in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson to the media. This draft opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, stated that the majority of the Supreme Court voted not only to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortion but to completely overturn Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood. Leaking this draft opinion of Dobbs was an absolutely unprecedented attack on the Supreme Court as an institution. The confidentiality of draft opinions is of the utmost necessity, and breaking that confidentiality is (at best) an undermining of our federal institutions. Even though this leak was abhorrent, proabortion activists cheered because they knew that it would lead to the intimidation of our Supreme Court justices.
“I never knew a man could sweat so much.” So wrote William Clark in his journal about the time the Corps of Discovery was making its way up the Missouri near the Nemaha River. Doug Friedli, executive director of the Missouri River Basin-Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trails and Visitor Center in Nebraska City, shared Clark’s sentiments on a warm June morning as he prepared to cut the ribbon dedicating the Erv Friesen, the 55-foot-long, 8-footwide keelboat that greets visitors as they approach the center.
For the past few months, I’ve been fielding questions about the baby formula crisis. Make no mistake, the shortage of baby formula is indeed a crisis.