George Ayoub and Scott Kingsley have spent a year and a half asking people in the community to tell their stories of cancer survival. Thirty-two stories later, the series has now come to an end. I highly recommend visiting the website and reading these amazing stories. And if you have a story of your own [...]
This year for area prep teams we’ve been working hard to bring you one place that you can go to for rosters, scores, win/loss ratios, schedules and more. That place is up and running and you can find it at gipreps.com and we’re covering more than just football – we’ve got volleyball, softball and all [...]
Music Madness is sadly over.”I Walk the Line” Beat out 255 other songs to be chosen as Central Nebraska’s Favorite Song and to celebrate this occasion, The Independent will be hosting a free showing of the movie, “Walk the Line” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon at the Grand Theater in lovely downtown GI. The [...]
Head over to our Music Madness Tournament and get your votes in for the final bracket – 1988 – Now! Help determine who moves on and who’s a big loser Voting for Round One ends Wednesday at noon. Round Two voting begins on Thursday! George Ayoub, Jack Sheard, Pete Letheby, and Mark Coddington will once [...]
Voting is under way and going strong in the first day of Music Madness! As of this writing we are closing in on 150 voters which is pretty darn cool! So far it seems like the top seeds are performing as expected. Some of the stranger matchups include a close race between Chubby Checker’s “The [...]
We’re at it again! We’re starting off with a 256-song bracket covering four time periods on July 17th, and by September 4th, we will have discovered Central Nebraska’s favorite song. There will be coverage in print and here online so watch both! You might be asking how we came up with the songs in the [...]