Stories from Tuesday, July 26, 2016

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. Activity log These items are taken from reports filed by the McCook Police Department. The locations refer to block numbers, not specific addresses. If you have information about any of these reports, call the police department at (308) 345-3450...

ATWOOD, Kan. -- Roland Eugene Lorimer passed away Thursday (July 14, 2016) at the Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood, Kansas, at the age of 82. He was born in Beardsley, Kansas, the son of Irving "Dewey" and Laura (Ohlson) Lorimer. Roland and his siblings were reared on a farm in the Beardsley area. He attended country school in Beardsley and graduated from Trenton High School in Trenton, Nebraska, in 1952...

HOXIE, Kan. -- Rochelle Ann Mather was born April 3, 1957, in Oberlin, Kansas, the daughter of Paul and Mary (Yeager) Carman. She passed away Saturday (July 16, 2016) near Hoxie, Kansas, at the age of 59. Rochelle grew up five miles north of Selden, attending school there until 1969. ...

CULBERTSON, Neb. -- Marlene Ann Holthus died Monday (July 25, 2016) at her home in Culbertson. Services are pending and will be announced by Carpenter Breland Funeral Home.

If you're tire of convention coverage, you might be tempted to binge watch those old episodes of "Orange is the New Black" or "House of Cards." You might want to go for a walk or play a round of golf instead, according to some studies. First there was a University of Texas at Austin study that found a connection between binge-watching and depression, lack of self-regulation or loneliness...

Your columnist received an urgent phone call last week. It was from a loooong time friend one of the foremost agri-business cheerleaders in Southwestern Nebraska. My friend was upset over the action of a small committee of folk who recently decided to brand McCook as "Capital of the Buffalo Commons.""...

McCOOK, Neb. --Cheryl Wild of Bellevue likes to go "hunting" at thrift stores. This January, Wild walked into a thrift store in Papillion and immediately spotted something in the display case she had to have. "The first thing I noticed was the MIA bracelet. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Fifty two years ago, when she was a senior at McCook High School, Sharon Kuhlmann was scared witless when one of those 'beautiful bad boys' from the college, Tony Vino, took her on a thrilling motorcycle ride, swerving in and out of traffic and driving more than a little too fast. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The summer tennis session came to a close July 20-21st. The camp participants learned fundamentals, scoring, and court strategy. They also had the opportunity to join the match play league, as campers were divided into two divisions, with four teams in each division. All participants were drafted onto teams by age, ability and playing experience, to compete in singles and doubles play...

Dorothy Dean White Sept. 15, 1923 - July 26, 2016 McCOOK, Neb. -- Dorothy Dean White, age 92, passed away Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. Dorothy was born on Sept. 15, 1923, to Roy Leslie Stewart and Hazel Leota (Bymer) on the family farm north of Culbertson, Neb. She was one of 12 siblings raised on the farm...