Stories from Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Superintendent of McCook Public Schools Grant Norgaard recognizes Ashley Laurie Monday night at the McCook School Board meeting, for her recent donation of soccer goals at the high school. Laurie, senior at McCook High School, has taken it upon herself to raise money to buy goals for all the schools in the district, with many local businesses and groups donating. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- St. Patrick Catholic Church, 409 East F, plans its 40th annual Fall Festival Saturday and Sunday. An ice cream social is set for the church basement at 6 p.m., plus pulled pork sandwiches, German sausages, hot dogs, sloppy joes, baked beans, loaded baked potatoes and pie. Bingo will follow from 7:30 to 9 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners juggled some figures Monday morning as they and budget clerk Dan Miller transferred some funds before finalizing the county's 2014-15 budget. Commissioners scheduled a public budget hearing during their next weekly meeting, Monday, Sept. 15, at 9:30 a.m...

McCOOk, Neb. -- The community of McCook, Nebraska, and its school system and graduates have been saddened by the death of popular teacher and coach Daryl Bonow. "Coach Bonow" died Monday at his home in McCook. He was 75 years old. Bonow and his young family moved to McCook in 1964, and he taught history in the junior high and coached in both junior and senior high schools until his retirement in 1999. He won a state cross country title in the late 1970s and a state track title in 1982...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A local family with 12 children, all of whom graduated from McCook High School, and one a long-time teacher in McCook, was recognized for a liberal donation that paid for the purchase and installation of the new electronic sign at the high school...

The latest phase of the walking trail nears completion as concrete is poured at East H Street, winding southeast until it meets East 11th. The city intends for the trail to eventually reach Karrer Park on U.S. Highway 6-34. (

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook School Board is down to the wire on the evaluation of the school superintendent. At the end of Monday's night regular Board of Education meeting, Board president Tom Bredvick tabled until next month the closed session scheduled on the agenda for the superintendent's evaluation...

There's good news and bad news from Lincoln, if you have political ambitions. The good news is, there's an opening in the statehouse. The bad news is, it's the office of Nebraska Lieutenant Governor. Lavon Heidemann took that post only 18 months ago, after the Omaha World Herald discovered that Rick Sheehy had been using the state cell phone to make thousands of personal phone calls to four women other than his wife. They had since divorced...

Well, what exactly is up? The changing of the seasons is upon us, and so is the changing of the constellations. The spring group is exiting stage right over the western horizon and the summer crew is high overhead with the autumn team rising over the eastern horizon...

The underdog Democrat and the millionaire Republican took to the stage of the State Fair to make their cases why they should be the next Nebraska Governor during an hour-long debate. As expected, the answers to the questions sounded well - scripted and partisan...