Stories from Monday, May 7, 2012

The Grove Cemetery board will meet at 2 p.m., Sunday at the cemetery.

Mabel Lowren Carstens Dec. 31, 1918 - May 5, 2012 BIRD CITY, Kansas -- Mabel Lowren Carstens, 93, died Saturday, May 5, 2012, at Good Samaratian Society in St. Francis, Kansas. She was born Dec. 31, 1918, in Peabody, Kansas. She was a homemaker. She is preceded in death by her husband, Maynard Carstens, in 1996...

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...

NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Individuals who have completed their General Educational Development (GED) testing will receive graduation certificates in a ceremony at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in the McDonald-Belton Theater on the South Campus of North Platte Community College...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Classes at the George W. Norris Home in McCook will be offered throughout the summer, including a parade, crafts and making ice cream. The classes will be tied to Sen. George Norris and give kids a chance to get re-acquanited with the famous senator from McCook, said Dawna Bates, site coordinator...

There's been a rumor going around that says the Senate has now gone about 1,000 days since passing a budget resolution. What the rumor mongers aren't aware of or are not telling people is that last year, instead of a budget resolution, the Senate and the House passed, and the President signed, a budget control law...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners and McCook city council members may work out an agreement that would allow the county to use the city's 96-hour jail cells until the county is ready to move into a new jail in late 2013...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Graduating seniors at McCook Senior High School learned that life is full of choices from the Rev. Jason VanPelt, associate pastor at McCook Christian Church; and that the prophet Micah simplified those choices from the Rev. Lance Clay, pastor at Memorial United Methodist Church...

Agriculture is Nebraska's biggest industry, with $8.5 billion worth of crops produced in 2010, and with the exception of corn that goes into ethanol and a few other non-food products, it finds its way onto the dinner table. That includes 1.5 billion bushels of corn and 258 million bushels of soybeans...

Never underestimate the job skills required of a mother. Since Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney, was attacked as a "stay-at-home-mom," many people have come to her defense. Responsibility connected with motherhood goes back to Genesis 3:20. Eve's name means "mother of all living."...

It was with great interest that I read Eldon Moore's letter in the Open Forum on Friday. It certainly is good to have someone with his many years of experience as a county commissioner weigh in on the jail issue. He has properly evaluated the situation and given us a "thumbs up" to proceed with the present commissioners plan to build it on the north side of the court house...

In the 1870s, from 1873 to 1877, Nebraska, along with a wide section of middle America, from Canada to Texas was hit, and hit hard, by yearly invasions of the Rocky Mountain Locusts (grasshoppers). Mary Loomis McDonald, an early settler in our area wrote about the scourge of hoppers hitting Red Willow County Nebraska, particularly the year 1874...

Lee Ora Mockry Dec. 24, 1917 - May 6, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Lee Ora Mockry, 94, died Sunday (May 6, 2012), at Hillcrest Nursing Home. Services are pending with Carpenter Breland Funeral Home in McCook.