Stories from Thursday, November 7, 2013

By Randy Andrews Bison Alumni Newsletter Director McCOOK, Nebraska -- The 43rd edition of the Bison Alumni newsletter was assembled, folded and labeled Tuesday, Oct. 29 and mailed out the next day to 7, 296 alumni. The folding party went quickly with the help of more than 30 future alumni involved with Junior High Student Council and the TeamMates Mentoring Program...

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...

Outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has earned the moniker "The Nanny" for his many efforts to force Big Apple residents to adopt healthier lifestyles. You've probably heard comedians poking fun of his ban of the "Big Gulp," although the regulation actually limits sugary soda sizes when served with meals, not when purchased from convenience stores...

A harbinger of winter, this shot, taken Feb. 26, 2013, by photographer Roxy Lang of Wilsonville, Nebraska, shows icy-cold seedheads on a sunflower plant south of Wilsonville. Lang used these settings: f/20. 1/400, iso100, 92 mm. The McCook Gazette would love to showcase your weather photos. ...

So I realized that when my girls are super big trouble, not just petty stuff, and I ask them to tell the truth as to what happened and offer them three separate chances to come clean, at the end I only get about 85 percent of the truth and the rest is exaggerated to cover their fannies. They think they've fooled me but like I've stressed to them over the years, a mama ALWAYS knows and I know when I've gotten the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth, so help me .....

McCOOK, Nebraska -- When combat veterans Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson strolled into the lobby of the Day's Inn in McCook, I was initially relieved I had asked them to meet in the lobby, instead of accepting their offer to conduct the interview in their room. Both are burly men several inches taller than me, sporting beards any veteran lumberjack would be envious of, and they walked with a patient consistency that seemed to indicate neither was a stranger to physical labor...

NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Paul M. Wood has been selected as the 2013 Mid-Plains Community College Alumnus of the Year. He was presented with the award during the Nebraska Community College Association's Annual Meeting held Nov. 4-5 in North Platte...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Active and former Marines are invited to a celebration of the U.S. Marine Corps' 238th birthday Sunday at the Pizza Hut on North Highway 83 in McCook. Social time will be 5:30 p.m., and order off the menu at 6 p.m. The evening will also include a birthday cake-cutting ritual and reading of the Commandant's annual U.S.M.C. birthday message...

Mary Ellen Goodenberger Aug. 4, 1923 -- Nov. 6, 2013 TRENTON, Nebraska -- Mary Ellen went to join her beloved Marvin E. on Nov. 6, 2013. He had waited long enough and called her to him. She left from her own room, surrounded by her rogue's gallery of pictures, on the farmstead that had been their home from 1954...