By Tyler Dahlgren Every quilt has a story, as does every quilter. Fashion was Pam Johnson’s first love. A country girl who grew up cooking, gardening and taking care of the house, she figured that’s what she’d pursue after graduating from Campbell High School in 1981. “As I started checking into that, I found out that to be a fashion designer, I was going to have to move to the city someplace,”...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren I can close my eyes and make 30 years disappear. It's Field Day at Prairie Wind Elementary in northwest Omaha, late spring of '96. For us kindergarten kids, this was the Super Bowl. We dreamed of eternal glory at the potato sack race finish line and of the everlasting fame that would come with winning the baseball long toss. It was a hot day, by May's standards, and the hallway...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren More than 650 of Nebraska’s best and brightest student scientists put their innovation to the test at the ESU 10 Regional Science Olympiad, an event that has been growing since its inception in 1990. The olympiad, which turned UNK’s Cushing Fieldhouse into one giant science lab on March 18th, drew students from as far as Burwell, Ogallala and even Omaha. Throughout the day, they...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren The sun beats down on the seven-acre farm beyond the south endzone of Wade Miller Stadium, the home and headquarters of Umonhon Nation Public School’s III Sisters Farm to School Program. It’s one of those sultry dog days of summer, the heat is inescapable, and, for a fleeting moment, Wakeen Teboe thinks about calling it quits. Air conditioning is alluring during these kinds of...Read More