Stories from Thursday, April 5, 2012

All too often, people in our rural communities prefer to believe that child abuse is something that happens in other places and to other children. Tragically, this is not the case. Since opening in 2007, the Bridge of Hope Child Advocacy Center has served 1,350 children. ...

Carol M. Borgman Dec. 4, 1920 - March 20, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Carol M. Borgman, 91, of McCook died March 20, 2012, at Community Hospital. Carol was born to Merle Edgar and Ruth (Daugherty) Masters on Dec. 4, 1920. She graduated from Republican Valley High School in the class of 1938. ...

Leon Pinkerton BENKELMAN, Nebraska -- Leon Pinkerton,88, died Sunday (April 1, 2012), at his home in Fot Collins, Colorado. Graveside Services will be Saturday, April 7, 2012, at 11:30 a.m.. (MT) at the Benkelman Cemetery with Pastor Brian Fong officiating...

This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...

The McCook Chamber of Commerce chose Valmont Industries as the Honor Business of the Month and presented a banner and recognition plaque to the company Wednesday morning. Plant manager Russ DeLong, shown holding the banner from the back row, said the plant had a record sales last year and production is looking even better this year, with 30 machines a day produced last month. ...

Employees of Farm Credit Services of America in McCook, Nebraska, present ceremonial cash-back dividend checks to eligible customer-owners in the five counties served by the McCook office. FCSAmerica is a financial cooperative serving rural America in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. ...

Crabgrass Control -- There is always the urge to apply pre-emergence herbicides too early for crabgrass and other annual grasses. This is even more the case this year with the warm days that we've been experiencing. Crabgrass germinates when soil temperatures reach and remain at 60F which usually occurs sometime in May. Pre-emergence herbicides only work when seeds are beginning to germinate and absorbing a lot of soil moisture. If the moisture contains pre-emergence herbicide, seedlings die...

There are so many times when I am reminded that I have a household full of daughters and not sons. For instance, I'm sure all-boy households don't have a separate load of laundry dedicated to just pink clothes, or a full video library of Barbie movies...

All the celestial excitement is about over for a while. What with all the planetary and lunar conjunctions it has been quite busy. There are a few scattered celestial events left for April, but it will be mostly quite until the partial solar eclipse (yes, we will see it from Southwest Nebraska) on May 20, and an even bigger event on the fifth of June when an extremely rare event will occur. Venus will cross -- transit -- the face of the sun...

A new explanation for America's obesity problem.

High Plains Museum board member Mary Poore directs Brad Hershberger, left, and Keith Jarmin of Hershberger Music Co. as they unload and move McCook's historic O. Y. Bartholomew popcorn popper and peanut roaster wagon into the museum in downtown McCook, Nebraska. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Drop-off times for donations to the McCook, Nebraska, Humane Society's annual yard sale begin Monday. The garage sale, in the 4-H Building on the Red Willow County fairgrounds, in the 1500 block of West Fifth, is the humane society's largest yearly fund-raiser. All proceeds are used to help support the society's animal shelter...

LINCOLN- The Nebraska Main Street program invites community leaders and citizens from across the state to come and learn more about comprehensive downtown revitalization and how they can benefit from the information, resources and technical assistance available to communities in Nebraska through the Main Street program as they work to make their ideas become reality...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The new director at the McCook Humane Society is a "perfect fit," according to somone who would know - the previous director. "If I had to pass the baton on to anyone, it would be Amber," said Lorie Prestes. Amber Husted took over in February at the Humane Society after Prestes resigned due to allergies...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A McCook man that was already serving probation stemming from the 2010 burglary of the McCook JC Penney's, among other crimes, was sentenced to additional probation and completion of the Work Ethic Camp program after he admitted to his involvement in the recent burglary of Huegal's Hutch Antiques in McCook...

The public fracas around the now-surrendered R rating for a documentary called "Bully" has resurrected the argument about what some people deem the deepest flaw in the U.S. motion picture rating system. It's a fact that many movies are (and have been and will be) rated R because of the repeated use of a few choice words, ones that are unprintable here. ...