Stories from Friday, November 7, 2014

Delphyn Biggs June 10, 1931 - Nov. 6, 2014 OBERLIN, Kan -- Delphyn Biggs, 83, died Thursday Nov. 6, 2014 at Decatur Health Systems in Oberlin.' Services are pending with Pauls Funeral Home in Oberlin.

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, Nebraska--Community Hospital Health Foundation and Community Hospital join partners with Team Abby and Team Darin to help collect and distribute Prizes for Pokes. Working with the mothers of the two children, the foundation promoted and collected prizes to fill more than three-18 gallon tote from hospital employees. Those items are added to prizes collected from McCook Elementary, McCook National Bank, KRD Credit Union and friends and family...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A Wauneta, Nebraska, man has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography. In U.S. District Court in Lincoln Thursday, Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Richard E. Cooley, 61, to a 70-month imprisonment as well as a seven-year term of supervised release after he gets out of prison. There is no parole in the federal prison system...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Several McCook businesses are coordinating promotions in the coming days in honor of area military Veterans. El Puerto Mexican Restaurant, Studio 205, Jen's Nail Gallery and GK Photograph & Videography are among those offering free goods or services to Veterans...

Seventy-four St. Patrick School students collected 5, 341 diapers for a diaper drive sponsored by the Lincoln Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. The diapers will be donated to the local ABC Pregnancy Crisis Center and other pregnancy crisis centers across the dioceses. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Overall, the McCook School District outpaced the state average in Nebraska State accountability testing, although grades 3 through 5 fell below in writing. The McCook School Board will discuss the spring 2014 NeSA results at its regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the Junior High Conference room...

I should have put Meg's name in the title of this week's column because I'm sure SHE was certainly surprised. Meg (last name unknown) was some kind of operative for the Chuck Hassebrook gubernatorial campaign and wrote a letter of protest to this newspaper's editor, Bruce Crosby, after a column I wrote appeared. In that column, I said that a poll taken by CBS/New York Times showed Hassebrook losing the election by 20 percentage points. Meg wrote a pretty pithy letter in response...

Gay marriage and legalized marijuana are the wave of the future, right? Well, maybe or maybe not. And it's not just because of the results of Tuesday's mid-term election. Since the Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, a number of state bans on gay marriage have been struck down...

90th birthday The family of Grace Hanthorn of McCook is hosting a reception in honor of her 90th birthday. The reception is Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, from 2-4 p.m. at the Highland Park Retirement Community, 610 East 14th in McCook. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 610 East 14th, Apt. C-1, McCook, NE 69001...

Judd Douglas Brooks Jeffery and Brooke Brooks of Indianola, Nebraska, announce the birth of their son, Judd Douglas Brooks, born Oct. 4, 2014, at Community Hospital in McCook. He weighed 7 pounds, 9.8 ounces and measured 20 inches long. He has two sisters Atleigh, 7, and Ansyn, 2. ...

Owen Lane Phillips Jason and Megan Phillips of North Platte, Nebraska, announce the birth of their son, Owen Lane Phillips, born Aug. 14, 2014, at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. He weighed 8 pounds and measured 21 inches long. ...

Susan Doak SW Nebraska Genealogy Society McCOOK, Neb. -- George Davison is trying to tell me a story about his life and I would really like to be able to understand his clues: Scotland, Ireland, Ulster Presbyterians and indenture. He has, like all 200-year-old ancestors, led me down a merry path, which fits very well with his heritage of mistrusting government and needing to have "space" from the cities and society in general...

McCook, Neb. -- A plea for help last week for a hurting hound dog at the McCook, Nebraska, Animal Shelter has resulted in donations of $5,500. The surgery that the a portion of the donations paid for went well, and "Wesson" is recovering at a foster home, waiting for his new "furever home."...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- During the past four years, it has been exciting to watch the flurry of activity at the Quality Irrigation store on north U.S. Highway 83 in McCook. Since opening in February of 2010, the irrigation sales and service company has more than quintupled in size, going from four employees in the beginning to 22 employees in the summer of 2014...