Stories from Wednesday, December 4, 2013

McCook, Nebraska--Community Hospital in conjunction with Safe Kids Platte Valley hosted the Buckle up Baby! car seat event on Nov. 9 at the McCook Fire Department. Community Hospital had five certified technicians who conducted the event including Tera Boyd, Jessica Johnson, Tim Monzon, Marilyn Wilson, and Teri Barnard...

Breanna Redl and Sam Backer,along with Morgan Bieker on the flute, McCook HIgh School band students, perform Feliz Navidad as part of the Christmas concert Monday night. Also performing were the sixth grade, junior high and jazz bands. There are a total of 141 band students this year, under the direction of Donita Priebe, with 61 in high school, 55 in seventh-eighth grade and 25 in sixth grade...

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...

McCook seems to be on the brink of exciting developments in its night life, with at least two -- and maybe more -- new clubs about to make their debut. We know for sure that Club Paradise, under development by Blaine Budke, is close to opening in the Ten Hundred block of West B Street in the former Tri-State Spas location, and we also know that Adam Siegfried and Tyler Loop, two of McCook's most successful club operators, have another night spot in the works for west McCook...

One of McCook's most outstanding citizens, Pete Graff, celebrated his 90th birthday Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Please join us in extending best wishes to Pete and his family for many years of dedicated service to our community. Since coming to McCook to join the staff of McCook National Bank, Pete has guided the home-owned bank from a capital position of $592,401 in 1957 to the place today where MNB has $ 41.762 million in net Tier 1 capital as of Sept. ...

It appears most of the snow will miss Southwest Nebraska, but we're in for some cold weather, with highs in the teen through the weekend. The City of McCook has put out a reminder that it is the responsibility of property owners to remove snow and sleet from sidewalks within 24 hours of the time the snow stops...

Astronomers around the world held their collective breath last week on Thanksgiving Day as Comet ISON took its turn around the Sun to head back out into the icy depths of the solar system, to the Oort Cloud, where it came from more than a million years ago...

To commemorate Dec. 7th 1941. would like to print the following remembrance of the two Red Willow county men, who were at Pearl Harbor, that horrible day. First was the late Leonard "Link" Sines of McCook U.S. Marine Corps. He and his unit were on the U.S.S. Tennessee. They were being sent for extensive training to another island. I do not have all of Link's story, but would hope some of his family will print his account of that day and just maybe it will help get a Veterans Memorial in McCook...

OBAMACARE -- Rightly named The Abominable Collectivist Act. The political elites responsible for allowing this Machiavellian monstrosity to continue should be called by that name they so richly deserve -- Marxists. A Democrat is supposedly one whose concern is the temporal needs of the people. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A local victim told investigators he was hugging, not arguing with his neighbor when the man stabbed him three times. The victim, Carlos Gutierrez, said he made a comment to his neighbor-turned-attacker, 25-year-old Carlos Manuel Arteta-Sanchez of Nicaragua, about not drinking and driving and pointed out he had damaged his car when he hit his trailer...

Doris Ruppert, a member of the board of directors of the High Plains Historical Society, vacuums pine needles Tuesday afternoon after she and fellow board members Lois Tiller and Connie Jo Discoe decorated the museum for the upcoming first appearance of Santa Claus. ...

From left, Derek Harris, Barry Hanslip, Leslie Peterson, Cindy Dame and Jim Stull represent Parker Hannifin of McCook with a $400 donation to McCook's "Feeding Our Flock" community supper hosted every Thursday evening by Memorial United Methodist Church. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- She's Miss Nebraska now, but in grade school, no one wanted JaCee Pilkington as a partner for classroom projects. That's because Pilkington, crowned Miss Nebraska in 2013 and who competed in the Miss America contest in September, never had a friend in elementary school...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- McCook, Nebraska, City Manager announced Monday the appointment of Beth Siegfried of McCook as the new director of McCook Senior Services and the Heritage Senior Center. Siegfried starts Jan. 2, replacing long-time director Sue Chipman...