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Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

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Republican River tour takes on new sense of urgency (05/02/08)
LINCOLN -- An early June water and natural resources tour will visit the lower Republican River basin in Kansas and Nebraska to help answer water use questions in the basin. The annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce water and natural resources tour is June 3-5, beginning and ending on UNL's East Campus...
NASA scientist visits town where he learned how to fly (04/22/08)
Twenty five years after Dick Trail of McCook taught him to fly, Mike Wusk prepared to leave McCook with three other members of his NASA atmospheric study crew this morning on their way back to Virginia from Alaska. Their plane is equipped with downward looking Lidar (light detection and ranging) laser, coupled with a telescope, to study pollution from the Pacific Rim and Europe that collects as a brown haze over the Arctic...
Please write (03/31/08)
I'm a 12-year-old girl of Maine. I would like to learn more about your state. I wrote here because I thought I'd learn a ton more by talking to people who actually live in Nebraska. I hope to one day travel to your state. I would like you to send me a postcard and/or pictures of your state. I would like to know about any historical poeple, places, events, your state bird, state animal, insect, flower, etc., and anything you may think is important. Please send your postcard to:...