Stories from Thursday, January 11, 2018

About a month ago, I was on the hunt for a dirty uniform so I could get it washed before the game since my daughter couldn’t seem to remember to get it out herself. When I searched the backpack, I found quite a treasure trove in there. There was a couple missing portable chargers, the match to a single sock that’s been hanging out alone in the laundry room for a month or so, the newest and nicest water bottle we own, the missing lunch tote from a few weeks ago, my favorite lip balm I just bought, and one of my necklaces all tangled up in a metal ball. ...

The Affordable Care Act was the major accomplishment of the Obama administration, and dismantling it has been the focus of the Trump administration so far. The federal government issued a 10-page memo Thursday with guidelines to allow states to test programs to require some Medicaid enrollees to work as a condition for coverage...

Results from TJ’s Family Fun Center for the week of Dec. 28...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Lincoln County N-CORPE water augmentation project, intended to help Nebraska comply with the 1943 Republican River Compact and blamed by some neighbors for causing erosion damage along Medicine Creek, isn’t expected to pump water this year...

A new industrial and commercial repair company was welcomed to McCook this morning during ribbon-cutting ceremonies at the Keystone Business Center. The new business, McCook Mechanical Services LLC, is owned by Mark Griffin, center with scissors, and his wife, Catherine, an archeologist with the U.S. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Andy Heck is Mid-Plains Community College’s Alumni of the Year. Heck, now retired and living in South Carolina, is a former junior college All-American running back, professional football player and president of a major lighting manufacturer who also earned two Purple Hearts for his service in Vietnam...

BREWSTER, Kan. — Rawlins County’s Amy Crouse and Kristen Beckman both scored 18 points in a 58-38 Buffaloes’ win over Triplains-Brewster Tuesday evening. Junior Angela Singhateh talled another 10 points to help the Buffaloes reach 5-4 this season. Junior Taryn Sattler sent another six points through the nets as Rawlins County hit almost 50 percent of its shots...

Just keep moving. That is great advice for life in general…especially when you consider the alternative. But the advice is even more applicable when it comes to fitness classes at the YMCA, including the newest offering, Strong by Zumba. While you may not be able to keep up with the instructors step for step or lunge for lunge, participants will still benefit as long as there is movement...

Southwest Nebraskans showed their football knowledge again when asked opinions about three popular topics this week: Who’s going to the Super Bowl and winning it? How many football teams should really be included in the college football playoff? How quick will national Coach Of The Year Scott Frost turn those Cornhuskers back into title contenders?...

GOODLAND, Kan. – Another close game for the McCook Community College Lady Indians Wednesday but a key 3-pointer down the stretch and Northwest Kansas Technical College was able to outlast MCC 83-72. Down 51-31 at the half, MCC cut the gap to 76-70 with 90 seconds left in the game...

Services are pending with Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel of McCook.