Stories from Tuesday, May 26, 2026

IMPERIAL, Neb. – Elna Joann (Christensen) Johnson, 91, died at the Imperial Manor May 22, 2026...

The 2026-2027 Nebraska Playbook is now available. Distributed to area hotels, restaurants, retailers, convenience stores and chambers of commerce, the publication serves as an outward-facing guide to dining, entertainment and tourism opportunities throughout the Gazette service area. Gazette readers are invited to pick up copies to share with friends, relatives and visitors from outside the area...

McCOOK, Neb. — Dan Stramel doesn’t think it’s anything to brag about, but he plays a big part in veterans’ lives. Governor Jim Pillen has recently appointed Stramel to his second term on the Veterans’ Advisory Commission, 3rd Congressional District...

...or something like that. At least the story that I heard this morning was that it happened in Charleston, South Carolina. It seems that there was a Confederate Prisoner of War Camp, holding officers and enlisted troops that had been captured from the Federal Army during our Civil War. ...

Dear Editor, Over Memorial Day this year my thoughts returned to my cousin, Private Gerald Walters, who died in Vietnam. So many years have passed, yet the loss still feels personal and unfinished. As I wrote before, he was more than a soldier’s name on a memorial wall...

I first caught wind of this notion on social media, but it wasn’t long before it found my inbox in a story from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists titled “Your AI chatbot is polluting my backyard.” The article argues that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is creating an enormous but largely invisible industrial footprint that ordinary Americans may eventually be forced to support. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Gerald “Jerry” Gohl, age 77, of McCook, Neb., passed away unexpectedly in his sleep at his home on May 25, 2026.