Stories from Monday, November 27, 2017

McCook Bison tennis coach Matt Wiemers has been selected as the 2017 high school coach of the year by the USTA (United States Tennis Association) Missouri Valley Awards Committee...

McCOOK, Neb. — About 20 people turned out Sunday afternoon to learn more about a grassroots movement designed to ensure the government follows its original purpose “purpose … to secure our rights, not to run our lives.” Host Ernie C. Sears, who retired as an engineer with the Omaha Public Power District, said most are familiar with the Declaration of Independence's statement that governments “are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” but most aren't aware of the next sentences:. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow County's elected officials will get a 10 percent raise in the first year of the four-year 2019-2022 electoral period following action this morning by county commissioners. Officials will then receive a 2 1/2 percent increase for each of the following three years...

McCOOK, Neb. — A plea agreement was reached earlier this month in Red Willow County District Court with a Cambridge woman facing felony charges in three separate criminal cases, as well as probation violations stemming from a previous conviction. The woman, 47-year-old Lisa D. Kershaw, was subsequently scheduled for sentencing at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 8, 2018...

You’ll find reasonable people taking either side of the legalized marijuana question, and as a state bordering Colorado, Nebraska is on the front lines of the political debate. Federal law still outlaws marijuana, but politics, as they say, makes strange bedfellows...

The other day I was visiting with a lady who had recently visited our nation’s Capital and was thrilled with her tour. “We really had the complete tour. I believe we saw absolutely everything there was to see.” “Did you see the White House jail?” I asked...

THANK YOU, THANK YOU for all of your support in my Adopt-a-Chaplain ministry. I have been blessed by so many in receiving wonderful items (many sneaked into my box on the porch), Christmas cards to put in our boxes, bake sales, beautiful notes and drawings from school children and money. My cup runneth over with gratitude...

Bonnie Jean (McLeland) Scheidt LINCOLN, Neb. — Bonnie Jean (McLeland) Scheidt, 69, of Lincoln, died Nov. 21, 2017. She was born in McCook, Neb., to Lester and Esther McLeland. She married John E. Scheidt Jr. in 1968. She graduated from McCook High School and McCook Community College. She worked at Bryan Hospital 22 years as a claims specialist and retired in 2013...

Karen Ann Stapleton April 10, 1949 - Nov. 23, 2017 WAUNETA, Neb. — Karen Ann Stapleton, 68, of Wauneta, died unexpectedly on Nov. 23, 2017, in Imperial, Neb. She was born April 10, 1949, in Denver, Colo., to Richard and Winifred Herburger. She graduated from Alameda High School in Denver in 1967. She spent most of her adult life in Aurora, Colo., where she worked part-time as a housekeeper. She moved to Wauneta in 1999...

Michael Loukota THORNTON, Colo. — Michael Loukota, 59, died Saturday (Nov. 25, 2017), in Thornton. He was born to Richard and Charlene Loukota. He was injured in a motorcycle accident at the age of 19. He was preceded in death by his father, Richard Loukota, in March 2017...