Stories from Thursday, February 12, 2015

Beverly Ann Huxoll April 7, 1934 - Feb. 10, 2015 ARAPAHOE, Neb. -- Beverly Ann Huxoll, 80, of Arapahoe, Nebraska, formerly of Holbrook, Nebraska, died Tuesday (Feb. 10, 2015), at Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge, Nebraska. She was born on April 7, 1934, at Merna, Nebraska, to Kenneth and Frieda (Leibert) Kennedy. ...

Roberta McLaughlin Feb. 8, 1924 - Feb. 9, 2015 HASTINGS, Neb. -- Roberta McLaughlin, 91, of Hastings, Nebraska, died Monday (Feb. 9, 2015), at Good Samaritan Village in Hastings. She was born Feb. 8, 1924, in Moorefield, Nebraska, toJames Robert and Maude May (Todd) McLaughlin. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A team of eight administrators and teachers from across the state are evaluating the McCook School district this week. This visit is required every five years for all public school districts in the state as part of the accreditation process, but the team itself does not award accreditation...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A McCook, Nebraska, company is participating in the latest installment of a six-year-old project called "Beefin' Up Our Heroes," an effort to demonstrate to American troops deployed overseas the support of Americans back home. Monday afternoon, Cappel Sales Inc. of rural McCook shipped out two of 15 boxes stuffed to the brim with homemade and locally-packaged beef jerky...

McCOOK, Neb. -- For homeschooling parents who don't regularly get out their dissection kits to check out an animal's insides on their kitchen tables (I think that's most of us), the next Enterprise Kids Academy's class is a great opportunity for your children...

McCOOK, Neb.. -- Traci Taylor the coordinator for the 2014 Salvation Army Bell Ringing has announced that a total of $15,900.00 was raised through the efforts of bell ringers this past Christmas season in McCook. Over 90 percent of these funds will return to the McCook community to assist people in need and fund projects such as the Salvation Army's back pack give away. ...

Bruce baker City Editor McCOOK, Neb. -- A bill intending to mandate meningitis vaccinations for Jr. High students in Nebraska may not be much more than another unnecessary government mandate, at least according to one state senator. "It's just another government mandate I don't think we need," said District 44 Sen. Dan Hughes this morning during his weekly legislative conference call with the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce...

Achieve immortality through social media? Some of our church page columnists might have another point of view, but thinking about Facebook and death isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Facebook for many of us fills a void that used to be filled by phone calls, letters and postcards -- postcards from the turn of the last century (1899-1900) seem eerily like the text messages, tweets and Facebook posts of today...

If I haven't already been nominated, go ahead and nominate me for "Worst Mom of the Year" award or at least add this to my "guilt" list and something I'm sure that my daughter will have to seek counseling for later in life. On Monday my middle daughter stayed home sick from school. ...