Stories from Thursday, April 2, 2015

So my oldest daughter has been doing this Track thing starting on three years now and I've grown to love it! I liked all of my girls' elementary track meets when they were little but when junior high started and there were legitimate track meets with actual competition, I started to really to get into it. Now of course, the weather is a booger some days and the sitting for hours on end in steel bleachers can be quite a pain on one's backside but I still enjoy the season...

Local control is good. Local control is bad. We've been wrangling with the issue since before the United States was a country, but we're still trying to find the balance. The latest example is a bill to simplify the permit process for establishing or expanding large feedlots...

HAYES CENTER, Neb. -- Hayes Center and Maywood public schools have until June 1 to decide whether they will co-op sports for the next five years. The Hayes Center Times-Republican newspaper reports that if the two schools decide to coop, they would play the schedules already established for Maywood; home games played with teams from the east would be played in Maywood and home games played with teams from the west would be played in Hayes Center...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Nebraska's tax on motor fuel is already higher than all neighboring states and state legislators advanced legislation Wednesday to increase it even farther. District 44 Senator Dan Hughes said this morning he supported the bill, LB 610, which will add another 6 cents in state motor fuel excise tax over the next four years for roads and bridges...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A McCook High School student is using her passion for soccer to make sure kids have the right equipment to play the game. Although McCook High School does not offer soccer as a sport, that hasn't stopped Ashley Laurie. A senior at MHS, for the past two years she has raised money from the community to buy soccer goals for three outdoor spots in McCook -- at Elks Park, McCook Elementary and McCook Junior High -- as well as a soccer net for St. ...

Bob Golding of rural Stratton, Nebraska, weaves his tractor (Farmall red) and trailer in reverse between blue barrels during a tractor rodeo in downtown Stratton several years ago. Golding plans similar obstacles during a tractor rodeo in conjunction with the Heritage Antique Tractor Club's tractor show, rodeo and swap meet Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. ...

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...