Stories from Friday, January 22, 2016

This holiday season don't let a main dish hog all the glory. Instead let guests feast on a festive spread of small plates and sides. Snack-size portions of a wide range of deli­cious dishes are the perfect solution for entertaining. A large, heavy meal can leave guests feeling lethargic. ...

Mary Frances Lott Oct. 22, 1927 - Jan. 21, 2015 McCOOK, Neb. -- Mary Frances Lott, age 88, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2015 at her home in McCook. Services are pending and will be announced by Carpenter Breland Funeral Home in McCook.

McCOOK, Neb. -- Merit and honor roll students for the first semester at McCook Junior High include: First semester merit roll, 4.0 -- 3.5, No grade lower than 2.0/C 6th grade GRIGER, ISAAC HAMMOND, JOSLYN HAVLICEK, LOGAN HAZEN, XANDER HINZE, ISAAC JENKINS, JENTRY...

AMES, Iowa -- More than 8,370 Iowa State University undergraduates have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the 2015 fall semester Dean's List. Students from Southwest Nebraska who qualified for the dean's list include:...

HAYS, Kan. -- Nebraska students are among the 1,239 named by Fort Hays State University to the deans honor roll for the fall 2015 semester. The list includes undergraduate students only. To be eligible, students must have enrolled in 12 or more credit hours and have a minimum grade point average of 3.60 for the semester. Full-time on-campus and FHSU Virtual College students are eligible...

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...

BEAVER CITY, Neb. -- The parents of a Cambridge Public Schools student whose son is accused of "immature conduct" has sued the school district. The Cambridge Clarion newspaper reports that Randy and Marla Hoelscher filed the lawsuit in Furnas County District Court in Beaver City on Dec. ...

BRUCE BAKER City Editor McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook residents play more keno than any other community in the state on a per-capita basis, at least according to one official. City leaders hope a third outlet will increase city revenue from the game even more...

85th birthday The family of Betty (Burkholder) Dorothy of Pleasanton, Nebraska, is requesting a card shower in honor of her 85th birthday Tuesday, Jan. 26. She was born in Trenton, Nebraska and graduated from Trenton schools. She taught country schools in Hitchcock County and taught kindergarten and first grade in McCook, Nebraska at Northward and Eastward. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Community College Indian Boosters plan their 16th annual Dick Driml Memorial Chili Cook-off on Saturday, Feb. 6, in the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center on the McCook Community College campus. Coordinators are looking for chili chefs to compete for trophies and bragging rights of the "Best Chili."...

Edith Mary Goodenberger Wade and McKinsey Goodenberger of Rochester, Minnesota, announce the birth of their daughter, Edith Mary Goodenberger, born Dec. 5, 2015, in Rochester. She weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 20 inches long. Grandparents are Warren and Lin Peterson of Milaca, Minnesota and Gene and Deb Goodenberger of McCook, Nebraska. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Let's face it: sunglasses are used to look cool and are not always about protection, said McCook eye doctor, Rob Stamm. But a few months ago, Stamm took a good hard look at some statistics about the lack of sun protection for children who wear glasses and found the results startling...

Five-year-old chatterbox Lacie Houser of Bartley, Neb., grins as Erin Schwing of Colorado Springs, Colo., formerly of McCook, signs her "My 100 Day Autograph Book" McCook Sunday afternoon. Lacie is a kindergartner at Southwest Public Schools, and her class is studying the number 100; she was nearing 100 autographs. She asked shoppers at Walmart to sign her autograph book as she and her grandpa Rick Kerst and great-grandma Carol Kerst waited for her grandma to finish her shopping...

Most of us who spend much of our day staring at screens have heard of the 20-20-20 rule. It's a simple formula; every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. While you're at it, blink often, stand up and walk around and adjust your computer screen so the words are as easy to read as possible...

I'm writing this column at three in the morning because of the constant pain I'm in as a result of a medical procedure I had done a week ago. It is not an indictment of a particular doctor, a particular hospital or a particular city so those things won't be mentioned. ...