Each year, millions of students and their families make the very important decision of whether or where to attend college. For many, it’s the biggest decision they will make in their lives to date.

Almost 10,000 Nebraskans live in certified nursing facilities. These facilities are a home for our seniors, a community where they receive care, meet friends, and visit with family.

Nebraska Wildflower Week focuses on embracing wildflowers and native plants of Nebraska. This celebration will be observed June 1-9, 2024, when Nebraska’s prairies and gardens are typically at their prime. Be on the lookout for some of these prairie gems to be in bloom in the coming weeks.

My name is Joanie Holm. I am a certified nurse practitioner in Brookings, South Dakota and I am the person fortunate to have been the life partner of the original Prairie Doc, Richard P.

It has been a few years since my children were babies! Having spent my youth as a babysitter and a career in pediatrics, I was pretty comfortable in watching the developmental of babies, toddlers and young children. ( Teenagers are another story for another day!!) That isn’t always the case for young parents who may not have experience with this age group.

Memorial Day was born out of our nation’s most fractured and pivotal moment: the Civil War. Battered and worn after four years of internal strife, America nonetheless emerged intact in 1865, the dream of the Union preserved. The price of preserving our nation, our ideals, and our freedoms was approximately 620,000 American lives — nearly a quarter of a million more souls than our nation would give 80 years later to liberate Europe and defeat the Empire of Japan.

Safety First when Packing a Lunch May 25 was National Brown-Bag-It Day, celebrating the convenience and health benefits of lunches packed at home. Carrying lunch to work or school is a great way to use leftovers from home, helping to eliminate food waste. While preparing and packing a lunch does take time, it is estimated that American families can save $500 per year just by taking lunch from home! Saving money and reducing food waste are excellent reasons to brown-bag-it says Debbie Kuenning, Nebraska Extension 4-H Educator based in Chase Perkins Counties. Follow these tips to make sure your lunch and the lunches you pack for others are food safe.

Just like everyone, I have enjoyed the moisture we've been blessed with lately. I will say that, as someone who works with hogs and baseball fields about every day, I am getting tired of mud. But I will deal with it.

As unique is our loss is as unique is our grief. What do we do when one day we can smile, laugh, and look back at memories with fondness and thankfulness for the life we shared with our loved one; the next day we feel paralyzed by our pain and sadness? We feel broken and feel as though we may never be our “old self” again? We may not like the answer…we feel what we feel. There is no twelve steps, timeline or prescription for our grief. New research supports that as unique as we are as humans, as unique as our relationships are, as unique as our brains, is as unique as how we will process our grief.

When things are at their worst, Nebraskans are at their best. It’s what makes our state the greatest in the nation – our people.