HASTINGS — Nearly 65 boats made from empty Kool-Aid Jammers pouches and Burst bottles floated along the Lazy River at the Hastings Aquacourt Friday. The Jammers boat races officially kicked off the ...

HASTINGS — The winner of Friday’s Jammers Boat Races in Hastings attributed her victory to misfortune. “I have to thank my boat for falling apart, because it gave it more speed,” said 11-year-old ...

For the rest of the world it’s Friday the 13th, but in Hastings, Neb., it’s National Kool-Aid Day. It was there in 1927 that local legend Edwin Perkins invented the powdered, sugary beverage now owned ...