The Endorf family, Carreagan, Shelbey, Kyla, and Mike are close to adding one more to the family as they near adoption day. The Grand Island family is very excited to be one step closer on the long road to having a baby in the house again.
Ashland native Clayton Anderson spent five months at the International Space Station in 2007, returning there in 2010 on a resupply mission aboard space shuttle Discovery.
NASA
Jack Hoffman
The moment 7-year-old cancer patient Jack Hoffman ran 69 yards down the field for a touchdown during the red-white spring game in April 2013 will be forever remembered by Nebraskans.
MATT RYERSON, Journal Star fire photo
National champions
Nebraskans are proud to have had five national football championships: 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995 and 1997.
FRANCIS GARDLER, Journal Star file photo
Legislature unique
Nebraska became the only state in the U.S. with a one-house Legislature -- the unicameral -- after passage of an amendment in 1934. Nebraska's Legislature is also officially nonpartisan.
Journal Star file photo
Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser of Garland did the state proud when he became U.S. poet laureate in 2004 and won a Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2005.
TED KIRK, Journal Star file photo
Pilger cleanup
Nebraskans are proud to be good neighbors, with people coming from around the state to help pick up after a tornado destroyed much of the town of Pilger in 2014 (above) and after natural disasters in Hallam and elsewhere.
Journal Star file photo
Hannah Huston
“You are doing Nebraska so proud,” Pharrell Williams told Hannah Huston on "The Voice" in 2016. The Lincoln teacher and Grand Island native made it to the finals on the show.
NBC
150 years of statehood
Nebraskans celebrated 150 years as a state on March 1, 2017, with much hoopla in Lincoln and throughout the state. In this picture, Taylor Keen performs a monologue as Chief Standing Bear before an audience during the celebration in the Capitol rotunda.
KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star file photo
Jessica Votipka is the education reporter at the Grand Island Independent. She can be reached at 308-381-5420.
The Endorf family, Carreagan, Shelbey, Kyla, and Mike are close to adding one more to the family as they near adoption day. The Grand Island family is very excited to be one step closer on the long road to having a baby in the house again.
