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Growing up on a hill overlooking North Omaha during World War II, Mary Carpenter remembers the numerous vegetable plots, called Victory Gardens, that dotted her Florence neighborhood. “Everybody…
Private equity-backed companies are gobbling up vast swaths of residential property across the country, including in Omaha. They are buying up hundreds of thousands of homes every few…
Cindy Vanek was supposed to be recovering from COVID-19, but something was wrong. The Papillion office coordinator contracted the virus just before Halloween 2020, a case she describes…
Over and over again, Steve Sharp told the village clerk that she deserved a raise. When Sharp was elected chairperson of the village board in 2010, Mary Terry…
As twin tornadoes barreled toward the village of Pilger, Gene Willers hurried his employees into the bank vault. The bank president knew the wind speed and suction of…
WINNEBAGO – What started as a seemingly routine tribal council vote sparked serious controversy on the Winnebago Reservation in northeast Nebraska this spring. That vote – which appeared…
In December, a group of Ukrainian farmers gathered for a graduation ceremony. They exchanged certificates, tossed graduation caps, danced – celebrating the completion of a course through Kultivariy,…
Don Hutchens is a farmer, just like his father and his father’s father. He wears an “I stand with Ukraine” button on his chest and a red University…
NEBRASKA CITY – For his final prom before graduation, Seth Kadlec has pulled out all the stops. His tuxedo coat has tails. His vest and bow-tie shimmer in…
Owning a home is one of the best ways for North Omahans to build generational wealth, said an Omaha real estate agent at a wide-ranging housing town hall…