When Americans sit down with their families for Thanksgiving dinner, many of them fill their bellies with the same traditional Thanksgiving menu, including turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. How did these dishes become such a widespread tradition? Let’s take a look at the history of Thanksgiving foods.

Mrs. Micheel’s fourth grade students tell us about their family Thanksgiving traditions.

Nebraska’s limited river otter harvest season opened Nov. 1, providing those with a valid fur harvest permit an opportunity to trap one otter per season.

What ingredients would you use to stuff the Thanksgiving turkey? These first grade students of Mrs. Alberts think they have the right ingredients for their Thanksgiving turkey.

At one of the many tables set up, students have a pile of bills and coins - looking a bit like a poker table - yet this class is anything but a gamble! Students from Cody-Kilgore, Valentine, Thedford, Ainsworth, Rock County and Keya Paha schools were gathered Thursday, November 17, at the Cherry County Fairgrounds to collectively learn life skills. There were several stations set up for students to learn what goes into making real life decisions.

1st Grade students from Lila McAndrew Elementary were given a tour of the Ainsworth Star-Journal on Friday, November 18th. Publisher Rod Worrell showed the young students the page that was printed when they started school as Kindergartners with their class photos.