Stories from Thursday, December 24, 2015

Susan Doak Southwest Nebraska Genealogy Society I already have thought of what my New Year's resolution should be: No more old newspapers! Browsing through the McCook Tribune on www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov never seems to solve a mystery without bringing a new mystery to mind...

CHADRON, Neb. -- Chadron State College has announced that 387 students met requirements for the fall 2015 dean's list by earning at least a 3.5 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale. Students must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours of coursework during the semester to qualify. Local students on the list include:...

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...

Family Features Dazzle guests this holiday season with delicious dishes that only taste like you spent hours in the kitchen. These recipes, created in partnership with lifestyle and cooking expert Sandra Lee, show how using high-quality, like scratch ingredients such as Bob Evans' refrigerated side dishes lets you create perfectly prepared holiday recipes in minutes...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Betty Kenner wasn't able to keep coloring books in stock for the 2015 Christmas season. But the coloring books at the top of so many gift shopping lists this year are geared for adults -- they're sold as "stress relievers." Betty, the owner of "Accents Etc." in downtown McCook, said her first order of adult coloring books a couple months ago sold out right away. And she ordered more and sold more, and is looking at adding colors, colored markers and colored pencils...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A fire on West 10th Street Wednesday killed one pet and caused more than $25,000 in damage. The McCook Fire Department responded to a report at approximately 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning at 1508 West 10th Street, according to a press release. Fire department personnel encountered smoke coming from the structure upon arrival and quickly extinguished the fire after tracing it to the kitchen...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A relatively new concept which enlists paramedics to make basic healthcare house calls on residents is coming to McCook after receiving support from city leaders earlier this week. "Community Paramedicine" started gaining traction about five years ago in rural parts of Minnesota and Colorado, according to McCook Fire Chief Marc Harpham. "Areas where folks really can't get out to go see a doctor when they're ill," he said during Monday's regularly scheduled City Council meeting...

Christmas eve and Christmas Day traditionally have the best church attendance of the year, but even those numbers are dropping as Millennials see it more and more of a cultural event and less and less as a Christian holiday. According to Pew Research, 90 percent of Millennials say they they participate in Christmas, but only four in 10 say they do so mainly as a religious holiday, according to a 2013 holiday...

We think we know a lot more than we do. We think we know our best friends, our lovers, our boyfriends, our girlfriends, our husbands and our wives. And although we know them slightly, we never know them completely because there are parts of them they always keep hidden...