Stories from Tuesday, February 25, 2014

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. 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...

Mildred Mae Bathrick Tomlin ROCK HILL, South Carolina -- Mrs. Mildred Mae Bathrick Tomlin, 89, passed away Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at the Wayne T. Patrick Hospice House, Rock Hill, South Carolina. Mildred Mae Bathrick was the third of three children of Martin and Alpha Bathrick. At the age of three, her family moved to Cambridge, Nebraska, where she attended school, graduating high school in 1943. She married Bryce Dwayne Tomlin and they had two daughters, Linda Joan and Debra Sue...

Stephen Earl Potthoff April 3, 1953 - Feb. 23, 2014 MCCOOK, Nebraska -- Stephen Earl Potthoff age 60, passed away on Feb. 23, 2014, at the Wedgewood Nursing Home in Grand Island, Nebraska. He was born in McCook on April 3, 1953, the son of Lloyd and Elvira (Walker) Potthoff. ...

McCook National Bank representative, Tom Bredvick, right, presents Alaini Priebe, a junior at McCook High School, with the "MNB Student of the Month Award" for the 2013-2014 school year. Also pictured is Jason Cochran, left, Alaini's nominating teacher. ...

LINCOLN, Nebraska --The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced its fall semester 2014 Deans' List for its eight colleges and the honor roll for undeclared students in the Explore Center. Area students who qualified included: Arapahoe: Alexandra Lee Henry, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, economics major; Rachel Ann Koller, junior, College of Education and Human Sciences, pre-elementary education major; Jordan Anthony Spaulding, senior, College of Engineering, construction management major.. ...

LINCOLN, Nebraska -- The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced the winners of the 17th annual Nebraska Young Artist awards, with two from McCook, Nebraska The awards recognize 11th-grade students from Nebraska who are gifted and talented in the areas of visual art, dance, music, theatre, and film and new media. These students exemplify the pinnacles of creativity in one of the fine and performing arts...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- McCook's First Assembly of God wants to provide for those who need a little help, and starting Saturday, March 1, the church will begin offering a monthly program to do just that. Breaking Bread Ministries is designed to help those that are needing some financial or stress relief by providing a free meal on the first Saturday of each month. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- McCook's First Assembly of God wants to provide for those who need a little help, and starting Saturday, March 1, the church will begin offering a monthly program to do just that. Breaking Bread Ministries is designed to help those that are needing some...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners, selected the food service company with the local contact when they decided at their weekly meeting Monday morning who would run the kitchen in the county's new jail. While Consolidated Management's main offices are located in Des Moines, Iowa, the company manages the cafeteria at McCook Community College, and the MCC manager is Jamie Mockry of McCook. ...

Remember the "peace dividend"? Military cuts at the end of the Cold War helped President Clinton preside over an expanding economy and become the last president, so far, to submit a balanced budget to Congress. Then came the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and America's descent, following Britain and the Soviet Union, into the quagmire that is Afghanistan...

This is a tale of practically unimaginable waste and bad sense. No, we're not talking about federal government spending. For this also is a tale of extreme environmental -- and long-term economic -- folly. The tale starts with irrigation farming on the High Plains, where the vast and rich underground water resource called the Ogallala Aquifer was for farmers like a seemingly endless gold strike for a prospector. ...

"Big snow coming!" exclaimed the lady on TV. Confirmed it with aviation weather sources. It was time to skedaddle out of McCook the night before the storm and head for Omaha. A chance to cheer for grandson T.J. at the State High School Wrestling Meet. He did well by winning one and losing two matches. It has been his senior year long goal to go to State as he did in his sophomore year. We grandparents are so proud that he made it there, injured shoulder and all...

Recently I sent you information about Dallas McMurtrey, son of Brett and Brenda McMurtrey. They are former residents of McCook. She served on the Water Advisory Committee. Brent was superintendent of schools at Republican Valley. He is now a supervisor and principal at Rock Springs, Wyoming. Brenda is getting her degree to become a special education teacher...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- In an ideal world, counties are divided into townships and townships are divided into 36 "nice, pretty squares." However, Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners learned Monday morning, that something happened many years ago in the northwest corner of Red Willow County -- and the sections in Township 4, Range 30 W are not 36 "nice, pretty squares."...

Mark Allan Kennedy June 27, 1958 - Feb. 23, 2014 DANURY, Nebraska -- Mark Allan Kennedy, age 55, of Danbury, died at his home on Feb. 23, 2014. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, on June 27, 1958, to Jerry and Imogene (Scott) Kennedy. Mark graduated from Lenora High School in 1976. While in high school he worked in Norton, Kansas, as a welder for New Age Welding...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- By Easter, a new 50-foot-tall cross will shine from a promontory point along U.S. Highways 6-34 west of Cambridge, Nebraska. The cross will enhance the billboard sign already there -- the sign that declares to all who pass through the Republican River Valley "JESUS SAVES."...