Stories from Tuesday, August 5, 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. Police activity Activity log...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A McCook man arrested in 2012 on multiple charges, including resisting arrest and driving with a blood alcohol content nearly triple the legal limit, had the subsequent DUI (.14) conviction vacated from his record recently. The conviction against the former DUI offender, 22-year-old Brandon J. Storrs of 39117 County Road 712 in McCook, was "vacated and set aside" during a June 24 hearing in Red Willow County Court...

Eggs are bad for you. Tropical oils are terrible. Stick to a low-fat diet. Don't eat any carbohydrates. Eat a lot of protein. Try this special cabbage soup, three times a day. Eggs are good for you. Tropical oils are wonderful. It's tempting to lump the current "gluten free" trend with other fad diets, but it is a very serious issue for those with a particular autoimmune disorder, celiac disease, who have to avoid the tiniest amount of gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye...

Residents, staff and visitors at El Dorado Manor in Trenton were able to tune out the news media's bombardment of remarks about religious intolerance, racial profiling and political battles recently. Father Pius, a young priest from Uganda, came to help with Friday bingo. He accompanied volunteers from St. James Catholic Church in Trenton...

"How can you have church in a school?" was Ray's comment. Good question in today's more politically correct America but it wasn't always that way. Small rural communities throughout our western area came together to first build school buildings which were multi-purposed as church meeting places until a more religious structure could be built by the small congregations. ...

Cydney Boyle of Kensington, Kan., helps to hang Dave Olson's "barn quilt" in the open class division of the Decatur County, Kansas, fair in Oberlin this morning. Cydney's grandmother, Sharleen Wurm of Oberlin, entered her barn quilt -- a pattern called "Old Maid's Puzzle," or, as Sharleen said, with a laugh, "It was called 'easy.' Two colors -- I can do that!" Sharleen said she took a barn quilt class in the Decatur County Museum's Bohemian Hall. ...

Axe, the Dalmatian that belongs to the City of McCook, Nebraska, fire department, poses for a photograph that may appear in the 2015 "Cats and Dogs of McCook" calendar, a fund-raiser coordinated by the "Cat Pack" for the McCook Humane Society and Animal Shelter. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners took an early look Monday morning at the county's 2014-15 budget, pondering the purchase of a new road grader and the costs of armor-coated county roads and tax foreclosures. In the preliminary road and bridge budget, commissioners Earl McNutt, Vesta Dack and Steve Downer penciled in a new road grader at $250,000...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Industrial Park welcomed flagship tenant Booe Machinery and Salvage Monday, triggering a paving project at the business park likely to entice additional tenants. The new scrap-metal recycling facility is equipped for a wide base of customers, including individuals and businesses. It will accept anything from aluminum cans to car bodies, industrial and automotive scrap and even larger obsolete farm equipment...