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bike
Metro Creative
National Bike to Work day is Friday, May 18, and tens of thousands of Missourians will be riding again this year — the first year Bike to Work Day has been an official part of the Missouri state holiday calendar.  ... Read more
Wide Awake Films’ newest release, “August Light: Wilson’s Creek and the Battle for Missouri,” will air on Kansas City Public Television at 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 17.  ... Read more
The 2012 summer movie season officially began this past weekend with all the iconic superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe assembling to save Earth from an alien invasion.  ... Read more
cancer
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
For Jene Ziegler, surviving cancer was a family affair. She said her entire family — husband, parents and children — provided a support.  ... Read more
motorcyle
Metro Creative
Motorists are encouraged to “Watch for Motorcycles” this May in observation of the national Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. All motorists are reminded to be alert to help keep motorcyclists safe, while motorcyclists are reminded to make themselves visible to other motorists.  ... Read more
wheelchair basketball
Contributed photo
Last week, Kearney senior Vanessa Erskine signed a letter of intent to play for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s national champion women’s wheelchair basketball team.  ... Read more
temple
Nancy Hull Rigdon/Liberty Tribune
The Mormon church has built a 32,000-square-foot edifice where “qualified” members can go to leave the world outside and be reminded of the promises of their faith.  ... Read more
American Reunion
events
The Kearney Courier file photo
Spring is here, and this season in Kearney is typically busy with activities. Here are a few upcoming events.  ... Read more
Carolyn Irwin of Holt was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008.  ... Read more
The Hunger Games
This extreme commentary on the invasiveness of Big Government and society’s bloodthirsty voyeuristic appetite for reality viewing has more than its share of glamour and pageantry.  ... Read more
Jesse James
Contributed photo/Jesse James Museum
When Lee Ward was a little boy growing up in the Chilhowee area, he didn’t want to be a cowboy, fireman or baseball player. He wanted to be an undertaker.  ... Read more
Joyce Bradley
Nurses can go into faith communities with the support of a program that focuses on prevention.  ... Read more
bionic
Peter Yankowsky/Liberty Tribune
Cliff Couch’s brand new bionic baby arrived Nov. 14 weighing in at 4.5 pounds.  ... Read more
This is a story about some cowboys.  ... Read more
bella vita
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
Bella Vita is leading the beautiful life. That’s the literal translation from Italian.  ... Read more
honor
Nancy Hull Rigdon/The Kearney Courier
More than 60 years have passed since Zoe and Rudy Ruechel met as students at Center High School in Kansas City. Yet they clearly remember those early days.  ... Read more
ordained
Nancy Hull Rigdon/The Kearney Courier
They shovel sidewalks for the elderly, visit those who are hospitalized and serve food during church meals.  ... Read more
lent
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
Renewal is perpetual at Church of Annunciation in Kearney.  ... Read more
robotics
Nancy Hull Rigdon/The Kearney Courier
Travis Stuart pointed to what looked a circuit board with a tangle of wires and cords on a Kearney High School classroom floor and declared, “This is the brain.”  ... Read more
As many celebrated another Valentine’s Day with their sweethearts, some took time to contemplate, “What is love?”  ... Read more
dollhouses
Nancy Hull Rigdon/The Kearney Courier
A three-story, gray dollhouse with red shutters stands a few steps inside Vivie Tison’s dollhouse room.  ... Read more
Alaska is the setting for another heartbreaking survival story revolving around the plight of three California gray whales in October of 1988.  ... Read more
athletes
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
Kearney R-1 School District sent nine students to a Special Olympics competition Jan. 7 in Belton.  ... Read more
MAN ON A LEDGE 3 stars • Rated PG-13  ... Read more
grand prix
Peter Yankowsky/The Kearney Courier
Some of the children at Northern Hills Baptist Church have a need. A need for speed.  ... Read more
Contraband
This action thriller set in New Orleans from director Baltasar Kormakur stars Mark Wahlberg and is a perfect fit for release during the first month of a new year when expectations are low.  ... Read more
Peter Yankowsky/The Kearney Courier
Visitors packed the Smithville Lake area Friday and Saturday, Jan. 7 and 8, to see bald eagles, snowy owls and other exhibits provided by the Clay County parks department, Missouri Department of Conservation, Osage Trails Master Naturalist Chapter and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  ... Read more
exercise
Peter Yankowsky/Special to The Kearney Courier
Repeat New Year’s resolution offenders, you know who you are.  ... Read more
Courtney Oxandale
Contributed photo
While many college students were hitting the road for vacations or starting internships for course credit in the summer, Courtney Oxandale was in Africa.  ... Read more
Academy Award winner Charlize Theron (“Monster”) stakes her claim for another Oscar nomination playing a 37-year-old ghostwriter of a fictitious teen literature series. Director Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air”) teams up again with former stripper-turned-Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (“Juno”) in this super dark dramedy about a woman in a state of arrested development trying to turn back the clock to her glory years in high school when she was prom queen.  ... Read more
hangout
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
When children who attended ABC Bear Daycare hit their teenage years, they may not recognize the place where they once spent many days.  ... Read more
lego league
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
Forty area school teams will descend on Kearney Junior High School, where Legos, robots and area students will seek to improve the quality of food.  ... Read more
thankful
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Descendants movie poster
Filmmaker Alexander Payne, who was born and lives in Omaha, Neb., has always been associated with quality films, including “About Schmidt,” “Sideways” and “Election.” His winning streak of bringing excellence to the screen continues with this engrossing dysfunctional family drama that hits all the emotional buttons. It is based on the sensitively-crafted debut novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.  ... Read more
Arthur Christmas movie poster
his joyful and charming movie addresses the question every child has asked since the 19th century: How does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?  ... Read more
My Week With Marilyn movie poster
At the height of her career, Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) made quite a splash across the pond when she went to London in 1956 to star in “The Prince and the Showgirl” opposite co-star and director Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). The movie-making experience, both on and off the set, was recorded for posterity in two memoirs by Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), “The Prince, the Showgirl and Me,” and a subsequent confessional volume that gives this film its title.  ... Read more
packages
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
It was only coincidence that it was the day after Veteran’s Day members of Community Covenant Church were preparing care packages for troops overseas.  ... Read more
I was thoroughly entertained by this first half of the final cinematic installment and found it to be faithful to the source material. Non-readers, including those who have only watched the prior three films, will lose their way and have trouble grasping the intricate details and the fragile relationships in play.  ... Read more
Besides the attention-grabbing opening and closing group medleys, the movie’s crowning glory occurs when Pink sings “Bridge of Light,” an emotionally hopeful ballad about how only love can build a bridge of light.  ... Read more
his disconnected biographical drama from director Clint Eastwood (“Hereafter”) is all over the map with a non-linear structure that never gives audiences a firm grasp of one of the most powerful, controversial and puzzling individuals in American history.  ... Read more
around town
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
Kearney may be a small town, but it stays busy throughout the day. The following is a snapshot of a day in the life of Kearney. This was Kearney on Thursday, Oct. 27.  ... Read more
musical
Mark Johnson/special to The Kearney Courier
New stars will shine at this fall’s Kearney High School musical, “Mame.”  ... Read more
honor
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
Kearney area veterans were honored Friday, Nov. 11, by the students at Dogwood Elementary School.  ... Read more
theater
Kevin M. Smith/The Kearney Courier
There’s been a murder at the café, and your help is needed, sort of.  ... Read more
Jesus Lopez-Gomez/special to The Kearney Courier
With October recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness month, people, business and organizations take a moment to raise money to fight the illness.  ... Read more
choir
Nancy Hull Rigdon/The Kearney Tribune
With temperatures in the 80s on Sunday, Oct. 9, the day was seemingly far removed from Christmas.  ... Read more
The Kearney Amphitheater didn’t finish out the year as financially successful as city officials had hoped, but they’re still optimistic the venue is doing well for the city.  ... Read more

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