Loy Norrix graduate (1994) Tim Nordwind is bassist for the Grammy-winning band OK Go. The band won a Grammy for the "Here It Goes Again" video that they filmed on treadmills. He talks about KPS, music and helping teachers. Nordwind will do a meet and greet at 2 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library on Sunday, before performing at 7 p.m. at the State Theatre. | Kalamazoo Public Schools

The Mountains That Ate Hitler’s Army | Operation Nordwind 1945 On January 1st, 1945, while the world focused on the Battle of the Bulge, Nazi Germany launched a secret final offensive that almost nobody talks about today. Operation Nordwind was Hitler’s last gamble in the West—an attempt to shatter the U.S. 7th Army, retake Strasbourg, and prove the German war machine was still alive. What followed wasn’t just a battle. It was a brutal lesson in industrial warfare, logistics, geography, and the