Stories from Tuesday, February 6, 2018

McCook High School has qualified eight swimmers for the Nebraska State Championship meet in Lincoln later this month. From left, the front row features divers Spencer Reiners, Erik Graff and Syd Wier. In back are Laurel Schmidt, Mollie Tate, Becca Tietz, Shayne Coleman and Candace Coleman. The Bison are close to qualifying others and will get one final chance in GNAC competition this weekend...

Team scores and many top placers from Monday's swimming dual in McCook: Girls Team scores: North Platte 83, McCook 57. 50-freestyle: 1. Laurel Schmidt, MC, 26.51; 2. Izzy Eisenreich, NP, 26.65; 5. Becca Tietz, MC, 28.78. 100-breaststroke: 1. Mollie Tate, MC, 1:13.46; 2. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — The happy heave of Bison coaches into their home pool capped a fun and successful “Senior Day” finale for McCook High’s swim/dive team Monday. McCook made history one more time, though it’s almost become a weekly route when watching the Bison girls’ 200-medley relay...

Ah, the retired life. Without the constraint of having to be at work on time this “more mature couple” has adopted the habit of devotions following breakfast each new day. We do several, reading and discussing prepared ones and follow with a prescribed instruction of reading the Bible in 365 short bits that completes its entirety in one year. Grannie Annie and I find it a great way to start each day...

McCOOK, Neb. — With City Manager Nate Schneider citing a dramatic increase in enplanements, the McCook City Council voted unanimously to a four-year contract with Boutique Air. “Where we were two years ago is a night-and-day difference,” Schneider said...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Southwest Nebraska Community Theatre Association has begun practices for its upcoming spring production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Celebrating the 50th anniversary of this popular Broadway musical this year reflects on the fact that it is one of the most enduring and beloved musical of all times...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College Theater Department will present the play “And The Rain Came To Mayfield” Feb. 22-25 on campus in celebration of Black History Month. A finalist for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award for New American Plays, this story is a poetic family drama that takes place in a small gas station/luncheonette on a Mississippi highway in 1962...

McCOOK, Neb. — Potential projects the city needs to address and how to pay for them were discussed by the McCook City Council Monday night. Projects the council mulled for discussion purposes only included safety issues at Barnett Park, due to the large geese population, costs of renovating the city pool, turning Memorial Auditorium into an events center, and street maintenance...

GOODLAND, Kan. — The National Weather Service in Goodland and Red Willow County Emergency Management invite the public to attend a Storm Spotter Class in McCook. This year’s training will be 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 at at the Heritage Senior Center, 1312 W 5th Street...

McCOOK, Neb. — At their weekly meeting Monday, Red Willow county commissioners discussed a construction and operating permit issued by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality to what is known locally as “the east dairy” north of McCook. Commissioners will check with the county’s zoning administrator and planning board to ensure that the state’s permit and the county’s zoning regs are consistent in regard to changes proposed at Powerline Dairy LLC, owned by Ted Boersma of Cimarron, Kan...

Writing an editorial about the stock market is always hazardous, especially when it’s done the morning after a big “correction” and before the U.S. markets open. Stock markets around the world reacted predictably overnight, following Wall Street’s lead lower...

COZAD, Neb. — There were no Monday blahs for McCook seventh-grade boys as they swept through three basketball games with Cozad. Coach Dalton Pettera’s Bison “A” conquered a super tight test as only one point separated these teams after one, two and then three periods...

McCOOK, Neb. — Five local pool players earned cash prizes for their top performances in the American Poolplayers Association (APA) 8-Ball Singles Fun & Cash tournament held recently at TJ’s Family Fun Center. James Winder from Oberlin, Kan., finished in second place, Brenda Yeager from Hayes Center took third place while Lindsey Loomis (Hayes Center), Steve Clark (McCook) and Kirk Magee (Culbertson) finished fifth...