Stories from Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Oneata May 'Sis' Fisher July 21, 1926 - July 21, 1926 McCOOK, Neb. -- Oneata May "Sis" Fisher passed away Monday, May 2, 2016, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was 89 years old. Sis was born on July 21, 1926, at Decatur County, Kan., to parents, Julian and Bernice (Crook) Copley. She attended Danbury Schools...

HASTINGS, Neb.-- Jayde Behlke, a student at Central Community College-Hastings, originally of Benkelman, Neb., placed first in a culinary competition. Students from the SkillsUSA chapter at Central Community College-Hastings competed in state competition April 20-22 in Omaha...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Barb Helberg, RN, Director of Nursing at Cambridge Manor in Cambridge, received the 2016 Nurse Advancement Scholarship from the Nebraska Health Care Foundation (NHCF) April 27. The scholarship was presented to Helberg at the association's Spring Convention in Kearney, Neb...

SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA -- Ag Valley Coop has awarded 40, $500 scholarships to deserving high school seniors in the area. The Board of Directors and Management of Ag Valley Coop feel by awarding these scholarships they are making an investment in the future of these students and also in the economic future of our trade territory...

Rhiannon Tallent, center, a senior at McCook Senior High, signs to Midland University, the first McCook HIgh School senior to sign for dance, according to her dance instructor, Lauren Phillips. Also present at the signing were her parents, Sheila Tallent-Boone, first row, from left and Scott Boone, back row, center; band instructor, Donita Priebe, back row; and dance instructor, Lauren Phillips, first row, third from left...

TRENTON, Neb. -- The Hitchcock County Sheriff's Department's investigation into a murder-suicide in Trenton on April 27 reveals that the shooter committed the crime with a stolen .22 caliber handgun. In a press release dated May 2, Sheriff D. Bryan Leggott indicates that his officers were dispatched at 3:36 a.m., Wednesday, April 27, to a Trenton home at 223 W. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- City leaders approved a planned development district for the Quillan Courts housing project Monday evening. The move brings the McCook Economic Development Corp. closer to increasing its property management responsibilities as Director Kirk Dixon wraps up his second week on the job and voters consider whether to renew the city's economic development program next week...

McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook Community College Spring Commencement is set for Friday at 10 a.m. at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. Donald E. Jackson, President of Hastings College and McCook College graduate will deliver the commencement address while MCC sophomore Lucile Archuleta will give the student address...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Economic Development has a new local face with the recent naming of Kirk Dixon as the Director for the McCook Economic Development Corp. Dixon has an impressive professional background and hopes his experience with bringing groups together proves invaluable in unifying the community toward specific economic goals...

As a member of the Many Moccasins Dance Troupe of Winnebago, Garan Coons danced the "men's fancy dance" at the Grand Duke Alexis buffalo hunt rendezvous recreation in Hayes County in 2004. Coons, a professional Native American dancer, singer, flute player and storyteller, will perform Saturday, at noon MDT, at the Cornerstone Center for Community Service in Haigler. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The quick actions of a city parks department employee might have saved the life of a teenager trapped under a van recently. The McCook Fire Department presented the local hero, Matt Coulter, with its Life Saving Award during Monday's meeting of the McCook City Council...

Heads up. Thursday is this year's National Day of Prayer. You probably have your own venue but a group of us are gathering at Hillside Perks that day for a morning of coffee, breakfast, and prayer. Good combination. Your columnist has been "volunteered" to do the appellation to God on behalf of the media and the military. Fertile ground that for sowing the seeds of hope...