Monthly Archive: April 2017

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LES: Powering 50 Years

Without a doubt, 2016 was a remarkable year for Lincoln Electric System. The public power utility celebrated its 50th year of powering Lincoln and surrounding communities. Feb. 1, 1966, the city of Lincoln purchased the...

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Is This Your Neighborhood?

All kinds of people live in Lincoln—young families, college students, new Americans, workers, professionals and entrepreneurs—and there is a neighborhood for everyone. Whether you’re visiting Lincoln or living here full time, each neighborhood offers another...

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The Performing Arts in Lincoln

The performing arts community in Lincoln includes some of the region’s most talented musicians, actors, and dancers. Here is a look at some of Lincoln’s treasured creative outlets.   Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra The symphony was...

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Shopping in the Star City

Can you believe the first retailer in Lincoln was a general store? They sold everything from wagon wheels to cooking utensils, shoes to foodstuffs. That is not the case today. Lincoln has an abundance of...

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Nebraska Innovation Campus

Nebraska Innovation Campus is dramatically altering the landscape north of downtown Lincoln. This new research campus, focused on interfacing private business with university programs, aims to change the city itself. From all appearances, this change...

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Lincoln’s New Centennial Mall

by Charlyne Berens   As Nebraska celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2017, its people can also celebrate and enjoy the total renovation of one of the state’s shining jewels: Nebraska’s Centennial Mall. The ‘new’ mall,...

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Lincoln’s Culture Centers

by Sriyani Tidball   In The Middle of Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come to Our Town, Lincoln resident and best-selling author Mary Pipher, “Now we’re one of the top twenty cities in America for new...

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Good Health, Good Care

Lincoln hospitals do more than care for the sick and injured. The hospitals serve in emergencies, welcome new babies into the world, perform life-enhancement procedures and provide rehabilitation for patients from across the nation. Bryan...