Stories from Friday, January 3, 2014

Delma Faye (Keeney) Quaduor May 3, 1914 - Jan. 2, 2014 INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Delma Faye (Keeney) Quaduor, age 99, of Indianola, passed away at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska on Jan. 2, 2014. She was born May 3, 1914, in Belvedere, Nebraska, to William and Bulah May (House) Keeney...

Police activity Activity log These items are taken from reports filed by the McCook Police Department. The locations refer to block numbers, not specific addresses. If you have information about any of these reports, call the police department at (308) 345-3450...

Cameron Jack Koehn Nick and Lindsey Koehn of Lincoln, Nebraska, announce the birth of their son, Cameron Jack Koehn, who was born April 26, 2013, at Bryan LGH in Lincoln. He weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces and measured 21 inches long. He has one brother, Jalen Koehn. Grandparents are Bob and Kathy Haag of Indianola, Nebraska and Frank and Vickey Koehn of Johnson Lake, Nebraska. Great-grandparents are Doll Nielsen and Ethel Jones of Lexington, Nebraska...

Collicott, Brown Kelsey Collicott and Tyler Brown, both of McCook, Nebraska, announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the bride-to-be are Dick and Jeri Collicott of Culbertson, Nebraska. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Mark and Patty Brown of McCook...

Susan Doak SW Nebraska Genealogy Society Both the Mexican-American War and the Spanish American War had huge impacts on the United States and yet little is known about either. The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A McCook man was sentenced to jail time in Red Willow County Court after being cited with eight different offenses stemming from two unrelated incidents in January 2013 and March 2012. The offender, 23-year-old Christopher J. Mercer of 1208 W. Third Street Apt. A, was convicted on three of the eight offenses and ordered to serve a total of 180 days in county jail...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Auditions for SWNCTA's 2014 spring production will be Sunday, Jan. 12 from 2 to 4 p.m. and Monday, Jan. 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the music room at McCook Elementary 1500 West 3rd Street in McCook. The production dates are March 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16. Rehearsals may begin as early as Thursday Jan. 16, 2014 at 7 p.m...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A recent compliance check resulted in five McCook businesses being cited for selling alcohol to a minor. The Nebraska State Patrol conducted undercover compliance checks, last Friday, at 20 retail liquor establishments in Red Willow and Furnas County. Seven of the involved businesses sold alcohol to the undercover civilian informant, according to the North Platte state patrol office...

By Gene O. Morris McCook Gazette McCOOK, Nebraska -- When you see Shirley Gamble out-and-about these days, you will be impressed by her friendliness and good humor. But, however happy she might appear, her friends know that, deep inside, Shirley harbors lingering love and great sadness for her first husband, William Harvey Gamble...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Acacia Marie Frank of McCook is the apparent winner of the 2014 McCook Gazette New Year's Baby. Acacia was born Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, 8:36 a.m. at Community Hospital in McCook to Nathaniel and Sara Frank of McCook. She weighed 6 pounds, 9.4 ounces and measured 193⁄4 inches long...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The City of McCook received only one bid from contractors interested in constructing new restrooms at Kelley and Karrer Park and that bid exceeded the budgeted amount of the projects by $40,000. City staff is requesting approval from the McCook City Council, Monday evening, to accept the Kelley Park portion of the bid and place the Karrer Park restrooms on hold until others funds can be budgeted...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- McCook area construction activity continued a five year trend of declines and finished 2013 with less activity than was posted in 2009. After posting a growth trend during the first six months of the year, local construction activity fell and ended 2013 at $15,289,439. The mark represents a decease of more than $1.4 million from last year and is $144,054 less than construction activity numbers posted in 2009...

NEW BERLIN, Wisconsin -- Brandon Park, a 2005 graduate of McCook Senior High School and the son of Rusty and Jackie Park of McCook, has joined hunting companions at Over Yonder Outdoors to achieve the dream of creating a nationally televised hunting program...

Red Willow County Sheriff Gene Mahon today released for adoption dogs dumped in a county road ditch on the evening of Dec. 21. "The shelter needs the space, and we've got all the information we need for a prosecution," Mahon said Thursday afternoon. ...

Police academies have been teaching the sixth sense for decades now and it's still being written about in criminal justice textbooks. I, too, was exposed to it when I went through the Tulsa Police Academy. The sixth sense is suspicion and every good police officer develops a healthy dose of it early on in their career. ...

Flavor is a universal language. It's the common thread in family celebrations, friendly get-togethers and cultural gatherings around the world. It connects us across generations and geography and has the power to unite and define us. Growing up in an Italian household, Chef Donatella Arpaia can attest to the power of flavor. For her, flavor memories stem from her Italian family's traditional Sunday dinners...

The first city council story I wrote for the Gazette I used nearly every word in my thesauraus to describe their dialogue, in an attempt to avoid repetition. Council members commented, dictated, indicated, voiced, relayed, discussed, talked and added, all in one story...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A Colorado couple is scheduled for a hearing next month in Red Willow County District Court as they fight garnishments related to a laundry list of fraudulent real estate transactions the husband received federal prison time for...

Dardenella Irene Jeffers Weskamp Feb. 27, 1924 - Jan. 3, 2014 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Dardenella Irene Jeffers Weskamp, born Feb. 27, 1924, in McCook, Nebraska, passed away Jan. 3, 2014, at the Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was preceded in death by her parents, James and Cora (Schoenholtz) Jeffers; brother, Todd; sisters, Ruth Whaley and Mary Seeman; grandchild, Christopher; great-grandchild, John; and her husband and love of her life, Andrew C. Weskamp...