Stories from Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Doris M. Oleson Jan. 2, 1920 - Sept. 27, 2014 KEARNEY, Neb. -- Doris M. Oleson, 94, of Kearney, died Saturday (Sept. 27, 2014), at Wel-Cov Assisted Living in Kearney. She was born Jan. 2, 1920, at Nora, Nebraska, in Nuckolls County to Charley and Bertha (Wilson) Hamel. She married Ole Oleson Jr. on Jan. 4, 1942. They farmed northwest of Holbrook, Nebraska, for the next 36 years. She lived in central Nebraska in various towns until moving in 2011 to Wel-Cov Assisted Living in Kearney...

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...

School consolidation has been a fact of life in rural Nebraska for decades, and while there are budgetary advantages, families pay the price through increased travel, whether by school bus or private car. Unfortunately, that travel can be dangerous and is getting worse in rural Nebraska, according to AAA Nebraska...

Early in 1943 I was living in Denver and was 10 going on 11. My coin purse had some money in it that I had earned. I hurried to the corner drugstore 11⁄2 blocks from my parents home. This business had a soda fountain and a well-stocked magazine stand. I ignored the temptations of the soda fountain. I wanted to buy a Superman comic book...

What do we stand for? What is the essence of what we Americans really believe is the true red white and blue? In an attempt to get a well rounded understanding of current world events this old guy looks to several sources. Traditionally it has been the printed word that I turned to for well rounded reporting. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The lure of family, good schools and business opportunities has brought a young couple back to McCook, to make it their home with their sons. Ryan Bradley, a 2001 graduate of McCook Senior High, opened "Bradley Machine and Pump Repair" this summer, after moving "back home" with his wife, Melanie (Bedore), also a 2001 MHS graduate, and their sons, Kycen, almost 7 years old, and Kreed, 3...

Liz Blaser and "Quincey" of rural Duncan, Nebraska, and other youth members of the Central Plains Reining Horse Association will accept non-perishable foods (and monetary donations) as admission to the Great Plains Futurity Saturday at the Kiplinger Arena in the 1500 block of West Fifth in McCook, Nebraska. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- While a broken leg or arm is par for the course for many kids growing up, 12-year-old Grace Rowe of McCook can't remember a time when she didn't have a broken bone. Grace, who has osteogenesis imperfecta, also called brittle bone disease, had a spinal compression fracture and a femur fracture before she was even born. A genetic bone disease, osteogenesis imperfecta is characterized by fragile bones that break easily...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Housing Agency was honored recently for innovative design and use of space at East Ward Village, the former school building converted to senior housing on East 5th Street. The award for Best Project Design was announced by the Nebraska Chapter of the National Association of Redevelopment Officials during its annual fall conference in Norfolk, Nebraska, on Sept. 16-18...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraskans who wonder what climate change could portend for the state have a recent reference point: the summer of 2012. The worst drought in the region's recorded history, it could be just a typical summer by century's end, University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists warn...