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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Catching up with corgis with law degrees, shots in arms, boring photos and other Lincoln stories
- May 4, 2021
- May 4, 2021 Updated Jun 8, 2021
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A photo of the Smith Carriage House near St. Edward, framed by Matt Steinhausen with maple flooring that came out of the Rokeby Town Hall Gymnasium.
- COURTESY PHOTO, Matt Steinhausen

Atticus “Attie” Finch Weeks, the corgi that Andrew Weeks memorialized in a Facebook ode in March. Shortly after a column about the post ran, the UNL Law College presented Attie with an honorary "jurisdogtor."
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Tom Bothwell, who was saved and then befriended by Jamie Granquist after he was hit by a car in October, is back to walking and even golfing after more than three months at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Shortly after a column about a Facebook ode written by Andrew Weeks to memorialize the corgi Atticus “Attie” Finch Weeks ran, the UNL Law College presented Attie with an honorary "jurisdogtor."
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Sue Hill visiting the ocean, one of her favorite places. The mother of four daughters died last July and her youngest has kept her memory alive with a weekly Facebook post, MYOM -- Missing You on Monday (and every other day.)
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: A Lincoln pediatrician looking for — and finding — the helpers
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Lincoln woman dreams up a club worth joining, the Kind Neighbor Society
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Missing You on Mondays (and every other day), a 'final project' for her mom
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Lincoln photographer creates Art Bus LNK, a mobile creativity studio for youth
Sarah Rogers-Arellano remembered when Letura Idigima came up with the idea of free mobile art classes in 2018, when the pair were working together as paraeducators at Lincoln High. “And the next thing I know, she got the bus.”
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: A 13-year-old Lincoln boy and his newspaper, The Schulte Daily
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Devoted volunteers endeavor to place headstones on graves for children at Wyuka
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Lincoln native remembered as trailblazing California lawyer, good man
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Remembering Attie, the corgi that grew old with its Lincoln family
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: The Angel in Room 255 saved a life and gained a friend in Lincoln
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Friends solve Seward woman's mangle tangle
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Mother-daughter nurse duo get a shot in the arm and a glimmer of hope
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: 'If they’ve never been in the situation we are in they don’t know how bad it is'
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'Humbling and heart-wrenching:' Columnist on telling the stories of Lincoln's COVID victims
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Five Cindy Lange-Kubick columns from an upside-down year
Columns from an upside-down year: Soups and scones
This story is about nostalgia -- so many of us, packed so close together in the pursuit of good soup and scones. It gives me hope that those days will return.
Local News
Cindy Lange-Kubick: The cult of Grateful Bread and its unwavering devotion
Columns from an upside-down year: Remembering Chuck E. Cheese
Sometimes it's the little things that put a lump in your throat, like not knowing that the last time you took your sweet grandson to the germ-infested arcade parlor he loved would be the last time.
Lifestyles
Cindy Lange-Kubick: Something I never dreamed I'd say — Going to miss you, Chuck E. Cheese
Columns from an upside-down year: Dying alone
So much pain during the pandemic, but none worse than the grief of families and health care workers as so many die alone in the hospital.
Lifestyles
Dying alone: 'It’s so hard not to be there, to hold their hand, to hug them,' July 19, 2020
Columns from an upside-down year: An ugly baby?
Who doesn't love an ugly baby story?
News
Cindy Lange-Kubick: 'This baby is living in a van down by the river!'
Columns from an upside-down year: The Angel in Room 255
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