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Dolores Schriner is turning 90 !!Join us to celebrate her birthday October 13, 2024, from 1 to 4 p.m.

An inventive mind and a long-time fascination with balloons led Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe to be the first aeronaut in the United States military.Terry Lowe of Lincoln, a great-great-grandnephew of Thaddeus, introduced an AppleJack audience to his ancestor and the beginnings of aerial surveillance during war in an hour-long presentation at the Civil War Veterans Museum and GAR Hall.Lowe said Thaddeus was largely self-taught as a young man, and he teamed up with a traveling chemistry professor who helped him learn about chemistry and also travel the country.

The 2924 AppleJack Car Show on Sunday, Sept.

Hungry festival goers loved this year’s AppleJack Pancake Feed at the Nebraska City Firehouse on Saturday, Sept.

Crew members of the USS Nebraska Submarine serves ride on a float in the AppleJack parade, a central event of the first weekend of AppleJack on Central Avenue on Saturday, Sept.