Stories from Wednesday, June 7, 2017

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- The darkness didn’t deter dozens of runners and walkers Saturday night at the Tri Valley Wellness Center’s Glow Run in Cambridge...

FELLING FIELD—The H & H Installation Mets stayed in it until the end but the O’Brien Electric Royals pulled away late in a 7-5 victory on Monday. The game was tied at 5-5 with O’Brien Electric batting in the top of the fifth. The Royals’ Jacob Gomez-Wilson was dancing off of second base after stealing it...

Betty Jean (Allen) Wicke Aug. 9, 1932 - June 1, 2017 ATWOOD, Neb. — Betty Jean (Allen) Wicke, 84, of Atwood, died Thursday, June 1, 2017. She was born Aug. 9, 1932, to Fred L. and Mary V. (Lilly) Allen, on a farm south of Stratton, Neb., or north of Beardsley in Rawlins County, Kan. The last of seven, she joined siblings Delbert Allen, Ruth Havel, John William, Everett Allen, Dorothy Brown and Ruby Downing Eggers...

Carsyn Haines’ two hits and two RBIs led the McCook Gray 14-and-under Rebels softball team to a 3-2 win over Central City Saturday. Analise Hernandez also had two hits while driving home another crucial Rebels run. McCook fell behind 1-0, took a 3-1 lead and then held off Central City’s final comeback attempt...

McCOOK, Neb. — Mother Nature brought the thunder and while the McCook National Bank Seniors supplied the lightning. The MNB Seniors flashed and splashed six runs in the third inning to take a 7-2 lead before Tuesday’s contest against Broken Bow was called due to inclement weather...

COZAD, Neb. — Rain delays didn’t arrive and Cozad could stop the Herrmann-Jones Junior B team from unleashing a 12-6 victory Tuesday evening. No other details were obtained. Herrmann-Jones is scheduled to play again at Broken Bow on Thursday with first pitch set for 8:15 p.m...

Basketball is filling McCook’s Peter & Dolores Graff Events Center as summer camps are taking place this week. McCook Community College women’s coach Kellen Fernetti was conducting a girls’ camp on Tuesday.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The racing was action-packed with three feature events finishing with green-white-checkered flag finishes at Lincoln County Raceway on Saturday evening in North Platte. Getting to the front and persevering through the caution flags that were scattered throughout the IMCA Stock Car feature was Casey Werkmeister of Maywood to win the race to the checkered flag...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Rural Futures Institute, University of Nebraska at Kearney and the community of McCook partnered up to offer a five week health, exercise, technology & aquaponics day camp over the coming weeks. The five-part summer camp series is geared towards middle school students, ages 10-14, and will take place weekly beginning Monday, June 12, and be ending the week of July 10. Camp hours are from 8 a.m. to noon at the 4-H Building on the Red Willow County Fairgrounds...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook City Council approved a request Monday evening to deem five residential properties as nuisance properties and authorize city staff to take abatement steps as necessary at each location. The properties are 107 East 5th Street, 1518 West 10th Street, 511 East 2nd Street, 412 East 3rd Street, and 309 East 1st Street...

Kearney, like McCook, requires dogs to be leashed when they’re outside, especially in parks. Ignoring the ordinance can turn into a tragedy, such as last winter when a dog died after falling through the ice in Barnett Park, despite rescue efforts. This week, a popular swan died after being attacked by a dog in Kearney’s Yanney Park...