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Add a warm, cozy feel to this year’s gardens with the 2024 Pantone Color of the Year, Peach Fuzz. It was selected for generating a feeling of kindness and tenderness and encouraging sharing, community, and collaboration. Consider including this color in your garden to convey these emotions or as a good excuse to add more plants to your landscape.

Jean Burge Gregory and LaCosta Jackson, Lillica, Ivy and Judah traveled to Council Bluffs last weekend where Lillica and other members of the Heart City Dance competition team competed. Lavern and Pauline Lanz went to Rapid City last week and met her sister, Marlene, as well as Derek and Andrea Lanz from Minnesota.

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What is a hardiness zone? The hardiness zone is based on 30year averages of the lowest winter temperatures at specific locations. It is then divided into 10-degree Fahrenheit zones and again into 5-degree half-zones. The map reads we are in zone 5a. It doesn't take into consideration our temperature fluctuations in winter, high temps in summer, or drought. I recommend you choose plants that are in Zone 3 or 4, we do raise some Zone 5 plants, but they may succumb to winter.

Lincoln-Stories in four April episodes of “Nebraska Stories” include a Nebraska transplant from Michigan who finds parallels between his own journey and those who came from Wales to Wymore; a collection of 69 masks that border on bizarre; and a tiny courthouse featured on Ripley’s “Believe it or Not.”

“Well, doc,” the patient was telling me, “I get winded so easily now. I can hardly go to the mailbox without stopping to catch my breath. It did not used to be that way. Do you think something is wrong?”

“For our Citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body,” Philippians 3:20-21.

The National Weather Service (NWS) encourages everyone to be “Weather-Ready” as this spring season begins. All of the NWS offices serving Nebraska, in conjunction with the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, aid in this effort by hosting a Severe Weather Awareness Week the last week in March each year.

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All four of the Evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—record in our Bible’s both Jesus’ death on the cross and His resurrection from the dead. Jesus’ death on the cross is, with few exceptions, universally acknowledged as being an historic fact. The fact of Jesus’ resurrection, however, is often questioned by those who deny the existence of God, the reality of an afterlife, and the possibility of the miraculous. Is Jesus’ resurrection, therefore, historic fact or merely historical fiction?