Stories from Monday, November 13, 2017

CALLAWAY, Neb. -- Enjoy the moment...

Robert James Broomfield June 8, 1944 - Nov. 9, 2017 LINCOLN, Neb. — Robert James Broomfield (Bob), 73, passed away on Nov. 9, 2017, unexpectedly, yet peacefully, at his home in Lincoln. The son of James and Geneva (Ruggles) Broomfield, he was born June 8, 1944, in McCook, Neb. He had two older siblings, Elda and Bill. They were raised on a farm in Red Willow County...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- McCook head coach Matt Wiemers and Bison tennis players Kassidy Michaelis and Sam Knoll were recognized at the Nebraska Tennis Association awards dinner at the Windsor Stables Sunday night in Lincoln...

e McCook Community College men’s basketball team responded from its first loss of the season Thursday to come back in the Gillette Classic with wins Friday and Saturday in which the Indians topped the century mark offensively. MCC downed Midwest Elite Friday 104-98 and came back with a 111-77 win Saturday over Little Big Horn...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Air Force Prep Women’s basketball team overcame an early 13-point deficit Friday night to down McCook Community College 71-58 in the home opener at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. “For us we’re going to have to get better defensively,” MCC Coach Kellen Fernetti said. “Whether it’s doing a better job of defensive rotations, staying in front of the ball or communicating, we just have to be more consistent.”...

A pair of McCook High School seniors and American Legion baseball players have signed their letter of intent to play for McCook Community College next year. Clayton Stevens and Kaleb Taylor, teammates on the McCook American legion Post 203 team, will continue as teammates in MCC blue...

Warren Alfson, of Wisner was a great example of the homegrown athlete that made up some of the great football teams that Nebraska has produced. Though he was certainly a success as a cattle feeder, his chosen profession, he will ever be identified as a member of the Nebraska Rose Bowl team of 1940. ...

The economy today is strong, unemployment is at a record low, 4.1 percent and corporate profits are at an all-time high. The recently released Paradise Papers show that US corporations have stashed billions of dollars in offshore tax havens. The Republican tax bill will create new loopholes allowing corporations to stockpile trillions of more dollars for their CEOs and stockholders...

TRENTON, Neb. — A Trenton woman and three passengers were injured in a single-vehicle accident at 1:16 p.m., Sunday, 5 1/2 miles east and 7 1/2 miles south of Trenton on Hitchcock County Road 370. Hitchcock County Sheriff D. Bryan Leggott reported this morning that a 2004 Mercury Mountaineer driven by 32-year-old Kacey Carlson left the roadway and rolled. Carlson and three passengers were injured and transported to Community Hospital in McCook by Culbertson and Trenton ambulance personnel...

Susan Yates seeks comments and reactions from Patty Eisenach’s McCook Elementary first graders to the “Meet Your Match” exhibit now hanging at the Museum of the High Plains at 413 Norris Ave. in downtown McCook. The students studied, from left, “Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama, 1956” by Gordon Parks; “Untitled (Woman and Store Window)” by Enrico Sarsini; “Self Portrait” by Dwight Kirsch; and “Jackson,” by Robert Arneson. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Plea agreements were reached last week in Red Willow County District Court with four of the five suspects arrested during an early morning raid of an alleged meth lab on West 15th Street this summer. Three of the offenders will face sentencing on felony charges for attempting to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of meth. ...

McCOOK, Neb. —  Debt associated with the City of McCook’s Municipal Center isn’t the only financial commitment city leaders will be looking forward to ending next year. The Keystone Business Center on Norris Avenue is also on pace to make the final payment on its sales tax bond, freeing up approximately $135,000 in sales tax revenue annually...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Planning Commission will meet tonight to consider an amendment to the Clary Village Redevelopment Plan. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 5:15 p.m. in City Council Chambers at the Municipal Center. The scheduled resolution would exclude property on the southeast corner of the redevelopment area, already sold by the McCook Economic Development Corp. to Jay and Susan Hancock, from Tax Increment Financing previously approved for the rest of the development...

At 4:03 p.m., Thursday, the Cat Pack makes a donation to the McCook Humane Society during McCook’s second annual community-wide “Big Give” event. Cat Pack members Deanne Crocker, left, and Lainie Allen, right, looked on as Lillian Allen filled out the paperwork to make the group’s $700 donation, with the potential of it being doubled with matching funds during the fund-raising event’s four o’clock “Power Hour” at the Great Western Bank giving station. ...