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For the second year, a collaborative effort is underway to help area residents access federal health coverage for the hundreds of people in the region who are u

WHEELING — In buying the former Wheeling Inn hotel at the entrance of Main Street, the Wheeling Convention and Visitors Bureau had a vision for what that property could be in the future. The CVB just received a federal earmark that will put that vision much closer to reality. The CVB received $5 million in […]

As a part of child abuse prevention month, a community collaborative took place at Hastings City Auditorium planting pinwheels.

Twenty Nebraska counties had a child poverty rate higher than the national average in 2020. All 20 counties have populations under 40,000, according to U.S. census data collected by The University of Omaha’s Center for Public Affairs research. Now, in some smaller Nebraska towns, local community leaders are fighting back.

Reply Pictured is the inaugural Nutrition Ambassadors class prior to the pandemic. OFS currently teaches the program’s youth virtually. (Operation Food Search) Operation Food Search (OFS), a non-profit hunger relief organization, recently received a $159,000 grant from Community Impact Network and its emergency coronavirus task force. The one-year grant will be used for the nonprofits programs including: · Operation Backpack, a weekend food assistance program for Normandy Schools Collaborat...