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Feb 27, 2020 08:30AM ● By Gwen

I cannot help but think of March a year ago—in March 2019 my son Tyler left us. Tyler’s two wonderful daughters, Sarah and Danielle, are doi...

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Greg S. Cutchall

Dec 27, 2018 12:07PM ● By Greg S. Cutchall

Editor's note: These autobiographical pieces and corresponding photos are part of a special edition of 60PLUS featuring local residents who ...

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Omaha's Fire-Eating Santa

Dec 20, 2017 10:23AM ● By Lindsay Wilson

Tom Plith—the jolly old man with the snowy white beard—can often be seen breathing fire for a mesmerized audience outside the Imaginarium do...

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The Pamphleteer

Dec 12, 2017 10:35AM ● By Kim Reiner

Colleen Ramsey has always written what she knows: love, adoption, grief, and—more recently—aging.“I have to feel something,” Ramsey says. “I...

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Dr. Bruce Johansen Keeps Moving

Nov 21, 2017 09:07AM ● By Tara Spencer

Deep in the labyrinthine Arts and Sciences Hall at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Dr. Bruce Johansen sits at his desk wearing a rather de...

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Caregiver's Golden Years, Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Nov 05, 2017 03:34PM ● By Greg Jerrett

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented America with the Second New Deal, he created a national social safety net to prevent vulnerable sen...

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Planting Seeds of Community

Oct 27, 2017 04:11PM ● By Tara Spencer

Although he grew up in Louisiana during the time of segregation, Edgar Hicks says he was more fortunate than most of his African-American pe...

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We Can’t Drive 55

Jun 08, 2017 03:11PM ● By Max Sparber

I have a little pinback button with a red flag emblazoned with the words “Safety First.” It was produced in 1915 by the Nebraska Safety Leag...

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Memorial Day Tribute

May 08, 2017 11:53AM ● By Lindsay Wilson

Memorial Day is a federal holiday—a day of remembrance for those who have died while serving in our country’s armed forces. The May/June iss...

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A Treasure in Stained Glass

Apr 16, 2017 12:33PM ● By Robert Klein Engler

Sometime around 1904, when Omaha Bishop Richard Scannell visited Europe to invite young men to serve as priests among the German-American me...

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On Bread

Apr 10, 2017 12:12PM ● By Lisa Knopp

It was the story I didn’t want to write—that one about what I call “my malady,” my three episodes of severely restricted eating. The first b...

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Uber and Lyft

Mar 26, 2017 12:44PM ● By Carol Crissey Nigrelli

With the post-millennial rise of ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, a generation weaned on digital technology could suddenly tap a smartp...

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