Bringing the Smithsonian to Norfolk

Taylor Ewald, Reporter

January 28, 2016

Filed under Campus, Local News, Top Stories

When a Smithsonian exhibit comes to Norfolk, it's a monumental occasion. The Elkhorn Valley Museum was one of only seven museums in the entire state of Nebraska to be chosen to host the traveling exhibit, "The Way We Worked." Ryan Leichenhauer, the museum's executive director, says that "It's a special...

‘Shoes’ Unveils Mystery, History Of Footwear

February 12, 2015

Filed under Books

By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) “Shoes: An Illustrated History” by Rebecca Shawcross; Bloomsbury (256 pages, $40) ——— “Shoes: An Illustrated History” by Rebecca Shawcross shows the human fascination with footwear over millennia. It starts in primitive times, when all h...

Meet the New History Teacher

Brittany Hinkel, Editor/Reporter/Cartoonist

September 6, 2012

Filed under Campus

History: a subject that some students may find uninteresting. That is, unless the subject is taught by someone quite the opposite. Kathleen, or Kate, Trindle is a new history teacher here at Northeast Community College. She teaches both world history and American history. Trindle has always loved...

The Luck of the Irish

Britt Young, News Editor

March 11, 2012

Filed under National

St. Patty’s Day is known for wearing green, or someone will get pinched, but it is also a day that the Irish find sacred to celebrate a man that helped save Ireland. Saint Patrick is known to all of Ireland as the apostle and the patron saint of Ireland.  The History Channel states that “born in R...

The Happenings in January

Britt Young, News Editor

February 3, 2012

Filed under Campus, Local News

It is a day that everyone remembers a great man that changed the United States to the great nation that it is today.  That man it Martin Luther King Jr, and January 16th is a day devoted to his memory. Martin Luther King was born January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, GA.  On nobelprize.org they state that his name actually wa...