Stories from Thursday, August 24, 2017

AURORA, Neb. — Oxymorons have never suited up for football games, but clearly an entertaining contrast enters Friday’s season opener. On one grass-stained hand, McCook Bison will be facing “great unknowns” when they visit the Aurora Huskies. “There’s no film to watch with so many new (varsity) guys,” coach Jeff Gross admitted. “I’m not going to watch JV tape.”...

A preview of the Gazette area's Week 1 football games...

CONCORDIA, Kan. -- The McCook Community College Indians opened their 2017 volleyball season with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-22) loss at Cloud Community College Wednesday night in Concordia, Kan...

Latest standings from the Heritage Men’s Golf League after play on Wednesday. A League McCook Lettering 195.5 Culbertson Bank 195 Samway/Barnett’s 193...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Mid-Plains Community College board of governors approved the purchase of a McCook property for student housing, released a proposed budget calling for more than a $236,000 increase in the general fund budget, and approved a long-range Facilities Master Plan...

McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow County commissioners have turned over their preliminary 2017-18 budget to the county’s budget preparer Dan Miller, and are waiting to hear back from him how close they are to a finished budget. The final budget must be turned in to the state by Sept. 20...

McCOOK, Neb. — City leaders advanced a measure earlier this week that will allow McCook bars to serve alcohol until 2 a.m., extending the permissible time an additional hour. The McCook City Council unanimously approved the ordinance on second reading, with third and final reading likely considered during the Sept. 4 regularly scheduled meeting...

ATWOOD, Kan. — A 23-year-old Atwood man died in a pickup accident Monday evening. The Rawlins County Square Deal reports that Demetrius Edward Tomlin died when the pickup he was driving on County Road 19 three miles west of Highway K25 left the roadway, entered into the east ditch and then rolled into the west ditch...

McCOOK, Neb. — Hillcrest Nursing Home is accepting additional bids to be the prescription provider for the facility. At Tuesday’s Board of Trustee meeting, the board voted to authorize interim administrator Janet Lytton to review a contract that is anticipated to be submitted by U-Save Pharmacy...

McCOOK, Neb. — A McCook man received state prison time recently in Red Willow County District Court following a conviction for attempting to distribute methamphetamine. The man, 34-year-old Levi J. Nichols of 209 East 2nd Street, was sentenced to 24 months with the Nebraska Department of Corrections and ordered to serve 9 months post-release supervision during a July 31, 2017, sentencing hearing. He was also given credit for 20 days already served...

We set out to write a school bus safety editorial today, concentrating on the need for other drivers to stop when they see a bus with flashing lights and extended stop sign. Bus drivers can tell many stories of careless or ignorant drivers rolling by at full speed while young children are waiting to cross the street or road...

I know we live in the world of constant communication with phones and iPads, blah, blah, blah but this is getting ridiculous! And I’m just as guilty of it as anyone else. I basically don’t go anywhere without my phone. It doesn’t hang in the shower with me and sometimes I leave it in the house when I mow, but that’s only if I don’t want to listen to music. ...