Stories from Friday, June 9, 2017

Tatum Radel winds up for a serve during intramural volleyball play at Sports Bar & Grill Sunday afternoon. Weather forecasters predict a hot upcoming weekend, with a high of 98 degrees on Saturday topped by 99 degrees on Sunday.

I’ve never really been a big fan of professional basketball. I’ve watched it off and on throughout my life but not regularly and certainly not to the point of having a favorite team. The game tends to be dominated by size rather than skill and the officials let the players get away with too many rules violations. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Cupcakes — baked fresh throughout the day — are now available Tuesday through Sunday at McCook’s newest business place. JHCupcakes, the creative business idea of Jody Klahr and Heather Fielder, opened for business Wednesday, June 7, on the southwest corner of the Norris Avenue and A Street intersection, catty-corner across the street from the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad depot...

McCOOK, Neb. — City leaders suspended the three reading rule and approved an ordinance change to require one member of the Board of Zoning Adjustment to reside within McCook’s 2-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction. The change was described as stemming from a desire to align with state statute...

McCOOK, Neb. — City ordinances require all Memorial Day decorations must be removed from Memorial Park and Riverview cemeteries by Monday, June 12. After June 12, such decorations will be considered abandoned and will be removed by the Public Works Cemetery Department...

Ellie Senseng, 5, is busy putting together giant foam ‘“tinker toys” Thursday at the Children’s Mobile Museum in McCook. The traveling museum opened Thursday in McCook with 329 people visiting by mid-afternoon, according to Sharon Bohling, one of the local volunteers. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — A music teacher is expected to be hired at Central Elementary, if approved by the McCook Board of Education Monday night at its regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the junior high conference room. The board discussed briefly at its May meeting the recent influx of music students among fourth and fifth graders. The school district currently has a band teacher and a choir teacher, for both the high school and junior high...

Good families know their story — good and bad — and McCook is a good family, headline storyteller Kim Weitkamp, top left, told a packed Bieroc Cafe during a Buffalo Commons preview Thursday evening. The humorist, singer, songwriter and entrepreneur will be featured throughout the weekend of activities. ...

MINDEN, Neb. — The McCook First Central Bank Juniors stretched this week’s road record to 5-1 with a 10-7 win over Minden Thursday. McCook’s now 8-5 after an 0-2 start. No other details were obtained. The Herrmann Jones Junior B scored an 8-5 victory at Broken Bow...

FELLING FIELD – The High Plains Podiatry Clippers took the lead late and defeated the Tigers Muckdogs 8-6 on Thursday. The game was tied 5-5 with the High Plains Podiatry Clippers batting in the bottom of the fourth when the Clippers’ Kaden Wilhelmson singled to left field scoring Wyatt McKillip...

Area residents at Schmick’s Market in McCook Wednesday to show support, meet Mid-Plains Community College rodeo team members and enjoy grilled steak sandwiches, sides and sodas. The MPCC rodeo team travels to Casper, Wyo. starting Sunday though June 17 to compete in the College National Finals Rodeo. MPCC enters the CNFR as the number one men’s team in the Great Plains Region...

All these all-star football games can’t help but make a true pigskin couch potato crave for games that will count again soon. Who wouldn’t love to see the Kansas City Chiefs go into New England and spoil that Patriots’ Super Bowl celebration on Sept. 7? Even Denver Bronco fans might send Andy Reid pizza coupons if his team pulls off that upset...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — They forged a trail of football carnage through the Nebraska Panhandle last fall. Now three McCook Bison alums join many of that region’s best players to try for one more gridiron victory Saturday evening. McCook’s Cade Cappel, Dunncan Rogers and Eric Langan have been selected to play in the West Nebraska All-Star Game at Scottsbluff’s Bearcat Stadium...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — He may be number one, but the fame hasn’t gone to his head. Mid-Plains Community College’s Chandler Comfort will enter the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo. next week as the top team roping heeler in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s Great Plains Region...