Stories from Wednesday, October 29, 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...

A contingent of Republican officers and candidates visits McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport Tuesday morning as part of a statewide campaign swing in advance of next week's General Election. McCook was among nine stops the group scheduled. From left, Nebraska State Senator and candidate for Auditor of Public Accounts Charlie Janssen, Auditor of Public Accounts and Lt. ...

McCook Community College baseball team members and coaches join eight members of the McCook Optimists Club for a cleanup of two miles of U.S.Highway 83 Monday.

Eight-year-old Abigail Gross of McCook, Nebraska, delivers her and her brother Ashley's outgrown winter clothes and coats Tuesday afternoon to the annual "Coat Closet and Winter Clothing Giveaway" in McCook. Abigail supports the Coat Closet because she said she knows it's important to share what she's outgrown. ...

"Wesson," a young Lab/hound who waits at the McCook Humane Society animal shelter for his forever home, needs ear surgery as soon as possible. Shelter director Lorie Prestes says Wesson is in pain, and is becoming depressed and "hangdog." The surgery will cost $400. ...

Public schools get more than their share of criticism, what with "common core" and other "innovations" raising the hackles of parents who prefer traditional subjects taught in traditional ways. But we recently heard of an innovation that we think many parents will embrace with open arms, especially those with experience battling with kids to do their homework...

As much as the good folks who print greeting cards would like for us to believe it, there is not always a full moon on Halloween. Take a stroll through any greeting card aisle -- as I did recently -- and you will see depictions of smiling witches riding their brooms across the face of a full moon...