By Tyler Dahlgren The Cottonwood Fire burned to the south of Brady, a fast-moving wall of heat driven by relentless winds that put homes and ranches and livestock in immediate danger overnight. The blaze, the largest in Nebraska history, jumped roads and threatened the Sandhills. Brady Public Schools superintendent Ann Foster received a call from a community member on the fire’s front lines on...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren Cara Holtorf gives a top-notch tour of Wilber-Clatonia’s Lambert Zoubek Agriculture Science Center, a facility that houses everything from an industrial kitchen to a walk-in freezer to a state-of-the-art greenhouse. There’s rabbits, chickens, sheep, a few goats and other barnyard animals, too. Then the agriculture teacher and FFA adviser opens a door and looks to the south. It’s...Read More