Stories from Monday, August 29, 2016

IMPERIAL, Neb. -- Two years of cooperation and negotiations among the three states party to the Republican River Compact have resulted in a landmark agreement that provides Nebraska more flexibility in meeting Compact obligations while assuring water users of supplies they are entitled to under the 74-year old interstate water agreement...

Lynn Roger Officer March 27, 1943 -Aug. 25, 2016 MCDONALD, Kan. -- Lynn Roger Officer, 73, died Thursday (Aug. 25, 2016), at Life Care Center in Aurora, Colo. He was born March 27, 1943, in Englewood, Colo. He was a farmer. Survivors include wife, Rita (Dewey) Officer of McDonald; children, Mike and Erin Officer of Broken Arrow, Okla, Mark and Leslie Officer of Tulsa, Okla., Melissa and Randy Regier of Jasper, Mo., and Marilee and Mark Gundlach of Mingo, Kan.; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.. ...

Chris Martin Jensen Jan. 6, 1929 - Aug. 27, 2016 BIRD CITY, Kan. -- Chris Martin Jensen, 87, died Saturday (Aug. 27, 2016), at Cheyenne County Hospital in St. Francis, Kan. He was born Jan. 6, 1929, in Sherman County, Kan. He was a wholesale lumber salesman/farmer...

Betty Joyce Dorothy Jan. 26, 1931 - Aug. 27, 2016 KEARNEY, Neb. -- Betty Joyce Dorothy, 85, Pleasanton, died Aug. 27, 2016, at Kearney Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, at Horner Lieske McBride and Kuhl Funeral Chapel with Pastor Dean Pofahl officiating. Burial will be at the Kearney Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the family to be designated later...

Despite narrowly missing out on the individual title, Kacee Samway and Hannah Kohl paved the way for McCook to win its own invite Friday at Heritage Hills Golf Course...

An aerialist flies toward the net in one of the acts at the Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday. The fair continues through Sept. 5. More information is available at: http://www.statefair.org/

The McCook tennis team capped off a successful weekend for Bison athletics by winning their own invite on Saturday at Bison Tennis Courts.

Outscoring three foes 39-9 showed just how dominant the McCook High softball girls were during Saturday's Holdrege Invitational...

A recap of area football games Friday night...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The chainsaw artist so impressed Paul Schneider, back in 2004 during the Red Willow County Fair in McCook, that he paid $1,500 at auction for the artist's carved wooden Indian. Schneider said recently that he bought the sculpture as a 53rd-year anniversary gift to his wife, Delores, and they installed him as a focal point in the flower gardens growing at their rural McCook home...

BURLINGTON, Colo. -- Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska have reached a new agreement in a long conflict over water in the Republican River basin, the states announced Friday. State leaders signed resolutions following monthly negotiations that stretched over two years. The resolutions are intended to provide greater flexibility and certainty for all water users in the region...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The annual membership drive for the upcoming McCook Concert Association season is underway. Volunteers are accepting new and renewing prior memberships through Sept. 19. The 2016-17 season includes four performances at the Fox Theater on Norris Avenue in McCook, as well as admission to approximately 10 reciprocity concerts in North Platte, Cozad and Holyoke, Colo...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook City Council is scheduled to consider an amendment tonight to the redevelopment contract with developers aiming to construct a Holiday Inn Express on U.S. Highway 83 in McCook. The developers, McCook Lodging LLC, have secured financing as part of the project and require the amendment to meet obligations of involved parties, according to the meeting agenda. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A plea agreement was reached in Red Willow County District Court earlier this month with a McCook man facing a pair of felony charges stemming from the theft of a local car and unrelated theft of a motorized wheelchair. The man, 18-year-old Keaton S. ...

Our thanks to the Upper Republican Natural Resources District staff for shedding some light on the new agreement signed by Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska that everyone hopes will put an end to the conflict over the river's water supply. While officials like Gov. ...

At least part of the EpiPen controversy has turned out the way pharmaceutical pariah Martin Shkreli predicted. Shkreli, despised for raising the price of a specialty drug, was one of the few defenders of Mylan NV, which, in the course of a few years, raised the price of the emergency allergy treatment device from $94 to $608 for a two-pack...

Note: In 2016 McCook College, Nebraska's first two year college, is celebrating its 90th year. We are looking back at some of the important leaders and events that have figured into the success of McCook College over the years. Today, we remember one of those leaders, Dr. Henry Weeth...

Dorothy J. Johnson May 25, 1928 - Aug 29, 2016 LINCOLN, Neb. -- Dorothy J. Johnson, age 88, passed away peacefully on Aug 29, 2016, at The Monarch in Lincoln. She was born May 25, 1928, in Polk, Neb., to Gustav Emil and Helen (Erikson) Ehn and was the youngest of five children. She was confirmed in the Evangelical Free Church as a youth. She graduated from Polk High in 1945...

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...