GERING – The Legacy of the Plains Museum will be hosting a naming contest for one of their three new goats. The public is being asked to submit name suggestions for one of two male goats. Suggestions will be taken through July 9.
Youth in the Lied Scottsbluff Public Library Summer Reading Program were treated to a live production by Theater West as part of its “Library in the Lighthouse” production.
More than one-third of students who attend Nebraska's public and private colleges and universities received help from the government through the Pell Grant in 2019-20.
The Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation (NSHSF) announced Tuesday the grant recipients of the 2022 Statewide Grants Program, which included three organizations in the Panhandle. Recipients from 27 communities across the state will receive grant funding totaling $25,000. Locally, the…
St. Teresa Catholic Church is piloting Catholic Liberal Education, a curriculum rooted in the liberal arts and sciences and the classical method of learning cultivated by the church for hundreds of years.
Maggie Smith, the endowment's newest director, traveled to the Panhandle earlier this month to talk about the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, as well as introduce herself to leaders in the art and humanities community.
Wayne State will spend $26.5 million to build a new air-supported dome and renovate the college’s existing recreation and athletic facilities.
Wayne State will spend $26.5 million to build a new air-supported dome and renovate the college’s existing recreation and athletic facilities.
On Saturday, June 25, adults and youths in the Gering Public Library summer reading program learned about pollinators at several craft and display stations near the Community Ever Green House.
Children gathered in the Gering Public Library on Thursday, June 16, to learn all about the power of sound waves. The library’s summer reading program hosted representatives Nicole Havlik and Journey Noyes from the Edgerton Explorit Center in Aurora.
Kayleigh Schadwinkel-Hickman started her own dance company while in college and will celebrate her 10-year graduation reunion from Gering High School this summer. She can also add another accomplishment to her list – making her Broadway debut.
The Gering Public Schools Board of Education conducted its second evaluation of Superintendent Nicole Regan at the Monday, June 20 board meeting.
“Two times a week, three books at a time for the whole summer.”
The School Safety Task Force will review current practices and identify "evidence-based strategies and solutions to ensure Nebraska's schools remain safe."
The budget plan approved by the board on Thursday increases the annual household income qualification for the Nebraska Promise program, which allows students to attend classes tuition-free, from $60,000 to $65,000.
The Teen Advisory Council will host a live-action, interactive murder mystery fundraiser at the Lied Scottsbluff Public Library Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25.
The Community Education office at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington announces two bus trips this summer.
Colorful flowers and plants will be on display in six area gardens and landscapes throughout Gering and Scottsbluff during Theatre West’s 28th annual Garden Walk fundraiser.
Campers with disabilities swung for the fences with the Western Nebraska Pioneers Monday as part of a summer camp hosted by the Educational Service Unit 13 Transition Department.
The revocation follows a complaint alleging that beginning in the early to mid-1990s, Nolan Beyer “engaged in a personal and noneducational relationship with a student.”
ESU 13 campers joined the Western Nebraska Pioneers to learn about baseball, and business. Check out photos from the camp.
Everybody's talking about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, but what is it? Join visitors to the Gering Public Library for a discussion about cryptocurrency and for an opportunity to ask all the questions you have had but were afraid to ask.
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Content by Brand Ave. Studios. The annual Amazon Prime Day is coming July 12 and 13, and per usual will offer discounts on many of your favorite things.
Content by Brand Ave. Studios. The annual Amazon Prime Day is coming July 12 and 13, and per usual will offer discounts on many of your favorite things.
Gering Public Library and the Community Ever Green House are generating buzz about native bees with a Pollinator Fun Day Saturday, June 25.
Western Nebraska Community College officials are identifying emerging trends of discussion from its listening tour as they begin to draft a new five-year strategic plan for the service area.
Fourteen children crowded around tables Wednesday, June 15, cutting paper plates into the shapes of Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus and painting their creations in myriad colors. Later, they checked on plaster molds to see what the real-life fossil collecting process is like.
The Goshen Community Theatre is having a “Shelebration” as the youth workshop prepares to present Shel Silverstein poetry later this month. The Goshen Community Theatre Youth Workshop is producing “Shelebration!,” a show based on the poetry of Shel Silverstein. The audience will see a dentis…
School meals provide essential nutrition for students to power their brains as they learn throughout the school day. However, the cost families’ pay for those meals will change for the upcoming school year.
“We’re trying to talk across the environmental and animal and human sampling to learn from pulling the data together,” said Liz VanWormer, director of the One Health program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Undergraduate students at state college campuses in Chadron, Peru and Wayne will pay $186 per-credit hour during the 2022-23 school year after the Board of Trustees froze tuition for the second year in a row.
A new campaign called "We Care for Kids" hopes to build support for quality early childhood care and education in Nebraska.