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If Bruce Springsteen spent his Sunday in Nebraska, those who would know aren’t talking And then the rumor took off. Fueled by photos on Facebook, south-central Nebraskans were quick to identify the mystery visitor. “Bruce Springsteen came into Hastings yesterday.” “Seriously Bruce Springsteen, how cool is that. But now the question, why?” “Sounds like Bruce Springsteen was part of the Jeep commercial in Blue Hill.” They said Bruce Springsteen was traveling in an RV. That Bruce Spr...

What It Was Like To Be A Worker On The Transcontinental Railroad By Sarah Crocker/Jan. 29, 2021 12:42 am EDT Once upon a time, railroads were a big deal. They still are in the world of manufacturing and industry, according to the Association of American Railroads, but this mode of transportation once dominated the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Rail lines provided a vital network not just for moving goods but also people across a growing nation. In the first half of the 1800s, ...

Santi Ruiz On this year’s Indigenous People’s Day I encountered a curious phenomenon. My social circles are largely college-educated, left-leaning Gen Zers and Millennials, whom I assumed would be most likely to celebrate indigenous people as an underrepresented and integral part of the American fabric. Opening Twitter and Instagram, however, the zone was flooded with variations on the pastel infographic aesthetic that showcases one’s excellent politics. One wag’s tweet captured the dyn...

Copy to Clipboard President Donald Trump (Getty Images) Just two days before his exit from the White House, President Donald Trump issued another controversial order — to build a statuary park named the National Garden of American Heroes. The order to build this park comes just months after the countrywide uprising in favor of the removal of monuments that honor controversial personalities as ‘heroes’. Trump has released a list of 244 ‘heroes’ whose statues should be pu...

Cobbler Girls Get Hot, Roll Over Scoopers Terry Anderson, KBHB Radio SportsJanuary 16, 2021Sports Photo by Tim PottsSturgis sophomore Sawyer Dennis brings the ball upcourt and is guarded by Jordon Heckert, left, and Sadie Glade, right. STURGIS, S.D. — Rapid City Central made it rain from three-point range on Saturday afternoon at West Gymnasium, downing the Sturgis Scoopers 73-40 in a Class AA matchup. It was Senior Recognition Day, with the Scooper faithful honoring senior players Payton H...

Kesselrun Resources Ltd.: Kesselrun Resources Provides Corporate Update 2021 Drill Program The 2021 drill program is currently in the final stages of planning. Drilling is expected to commence later this month with a total 20,000 metres of drilling planned in this phase. Drilling will concentrate on the zones which made up the historic resource and the historically mined Huronian zone. Michael Thompson, P.Geo., President and CEO of the Company, commented, "We are very excited to begin this phas...

Colorado Springs has a reputation as a place that favors small government and limited public spending, but 75 years ago the city was a hub for projects funded by the governments New Deal.Without those projects, Rampart Range Road wouldnt snake into the mountains, Garden of the Gods wouldnt be studded with juniper trees, Monument Creek might still flood its banks and some of the citys most visible public art wouldnt exist.This year marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, a series of programs...

Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of Gall in todays "Did You Know That" column. Written By: Curt Eriksmoen | × Gall as photographed in 1881 by David Francis Barry at Fort Buford, N.D. Public Domain / Special to The Forum Up until 1863, relations between white people and the Lakota Indians, in what is now western North Dakota, were very good. Almost all of the Lakota interactions involving white people were with traders, trappers and occasional explorers or artists. The only ...

Context For much of the United States’ period of westward expansion, white settlers’ attempts to claim plots of land were met with fierce and sometimes violent resistance from indigenous peoples. This resistance intensified in the latter half of the 19th century as the U.S. federal government repeatedly signed and violated treaties with various Plains tribal leaders. Most prominent among these were the Sioux Indians, of which the Lakota are a subgroup. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 est...

KLKN-TV December 28, 2020 7:12 pm UPDATE MONDAY 10:19 P.M.:  Snow is starting to stick in south-central Nebraska.  This is the view along U.S. 34 & Highway 44 east of Axtell, Nebraska in Kearney County. UPDATE MONDAY 9:09 P.M.:  Evening computer models are starting to trickle in.  It is interesting to see how there are definitely two rules of thoughts.  A few of the computer models suggest a warm layer of air, residing 4,000 to 6,000 feet above the ground, causing precipitation to fall as ...