Stories from Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Geraldine R. Murray April 21, 1940 - Feb. 18, 2014 McCOOK,Nebraska -- Geraldine R. Murray, age 73, of McCook, died at Community Hospital in McCook 0n Feb. 18, 2014. She was born in McCook on April 21, 1940, to Kenneth and Nadine (Gragg) Cross. Geraldine attended school in McCook, graduating from McCook High School in 1958. On May 16, 1964, she was united in marriage to Charles Murray in Boone, Iowa. Charles preceded her in death on April 19, 2004...

Kendra Larae Guthrie MEDFORD, Massachusetts -- Kendra LaRae Guthrie, 30, of Medford, Massachusetts, passed away Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. She was preceded in death by her father, Kent Guthrie; her grandmother, Frances Waddell and grandparents, Laverne and Barbara Guthrie...

Glenn 'Buster' Schneider WAUNETA, Nebraska -- Glenn "Buster" Schneider, 63, died Monday (Feb. 17, 2014), at his home in Wauneta. Survivors include his mother, Dottie Cook of Atwood, Kansas; children, Star Elijah and husband, Jason, of Tallmadge, Ohio, Julie Stebbens and husband, Aaron of Kansas City, Missouri, and Melinda McBee of Archie, Missouri; brothers, Fred Schneider of Benkelman, Nebraska, Bradley Schneider and wife, Linda, of Bird City, Kansas and Kurt Schneider of North Platte, Nebraska; sisters, Alice Glasco and husband, Jim, of Bayard, Nebraska, Linda Ketzner of St. ...

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, Nebraska -- A canopy and landscaping on a city-owned parking lot are new proposals for a downtown revitalization grant, Eric Hellreigel of Miller and Associates told the McCook City Council Monday night Hellreigel said the canopy and landscaping are on the city-owned lot at East First Street and D, as well as a pedestrian walkway to Norris Avenue from the parking lot...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County will lose an unprecedented, at least in recent memory, amount of experience and leadership this election cycle as three veteran civil servants have chosen not to run for re-election. Clerk of District Court Beverly Dodge, Sheriff Gene Mahon and County Clerk Pauletta Gerver all allowed yesterday's incumbent filing deadline to pass without putting their name in the election hat...

Chili judges, from the left, Nick Nothnagel and Brian Rokusek, and, from the right, Kurt Vosburg and Susan Harris-Broomfield, taste-test one of the 12 roasters of chili entered in the annual Dick Driml Chili Cook-off at McCook Community College Saturday afternoon. ...

Amanda Baker could brighten up a room just by walking in, her friends and family say. She worked hard at her job, and was taking classes to get her credentials to become a nurse at the Torrington Correctional Facility to try to better provide for herself and her son, 6...

I'm writing to the Gazette to express my opinion about an article written about the Ben Nelson Regional Airport. It has trouble keeping carriers that will fly to different destinations. As we all know, the airports survive or die with numbers. Volume is what we look at today...

OK troops, time for another question. This one is not from the in-box, but rather is a question from a friend on my Facebook page. "Does the moon rotate?" He went on to say that he has noticed that we always see the same face of the moon and was wondering why it didn't rotate...

Randy R. Koetter Dec. 11, 1957 - Feb. 18, 2014 ELLSWORTH, Kansas -- Randy R. Koetter passed away Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, at the Ellsworth County Medical Center in Ellsworth, Kansas, at the age of 56. He was born Dec. 11, 1957, to Woodrow Raymond and Emma W. (Springer) Koetter in McCook, Nebraska...