Nebraska will soon be celebrating its 159th birthday!   To help celebrate the occasion - which is just around the corner (Saturday, February...

(Editor's Note :  Long-time Chadron area resident John Schleicher has passed away; John was a fellow 1961 classmate at Chadron High Scho...

  (Editor's Note:  One of the best-known student athletes at Chadron High School in the 1950s and 1960s has died.  Larry Matthesen was b...

A few of our "senior" readers will remember several of these folks.  We were taken aback by the clever humor they injected into th...

NOTE:  This is another in a series of area pioneer stories included in the Compendium & Biography of Western Nebraska published in 1909...

Ted Turechek grew up on a cattle ranch and went to school at Chadron High, where he graduated in 1953. One of 10 children, Ted pursued a ca...

by Larry Miller Most followers of Dawes County Journal are likely old enough to remember "Straight Arrow," a radio show that becam...