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September 2009
Starting Line of an Adventure Race in Kearney Nebraska A Trip to Kearney, NE with an Adventure Race to Boot
There are certain places I expected to find myself when I moved to Omaha to begin working on Omaha.net full-time. I pictured interviews in the Old Market and trips to community events in Benson. If I tried hard, I could even project myself into an Omaha...
Nina Mote
Nina Mote moved to the US in 1962 and has lived in Omaha for nearly 40 years. She works on PR, Public Education and Outreach for the Hindu Temple in West Omaha. We spoke with Nina at the Hindu Temple on July 24, 2009. Nina Mote was recommended by Beth...
Carter Lake at Levi-Carter Park Levi Carter Park
Carter Lake is probably the only town in the Nebraska-Iowa area whose ownership was decided by a Supreme Court case. In 1892, Iowa got the town, but residents from Omaha, Council Bluffs, and beyond enjoy the lake, located in Levi Carter Park, to this...
Omaha Summer Arts Festival Omaha Summer Arts Festival
Update Box The 37th annual Festival will be held June 10, 11 and 12, 2011. The Omaha Summer Arts Festival is a free annual arts festival held in the heart of downtown Omaha. Various parts of Farnam Street, from about 10th to 15th Streets, are...
Coast Guard Chopper Freedom Park Exceeds Expectations
I’ll admit, I had low expectations for Freedom Park. Just short of the airport off of Abbott Drive, down a nondescript, potholed little street, it was easy to write off the place as a patriotically themed graveyard of old military trucks. This...