Stories from Friday, February 9, 2018

GERING, Neb. -- Hunter Potthoff has been there and done that for the McCook Bison...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The 3-ball was in Gering’s favor Thursday night...

BARTLEY, Neb. — From 0-21 to oh my, we got another great win! The Rawlins County, Kan., Buffaloes celebrated another brilliant moment in its three-year turnaround from that winless 2014-15 season. Seniors Nick Withington and Braden Leitner both netted 17 points as the Buffaloes prevailed 42-40 on Southwest’s “Seniors Night.”...

SEWARD, Neb. -- It’s no secret that the Concordia University women’s basketball program ranks as one of the best in NAIA...

President Trump has declared opioid abuse a national emergency, and as usual, the lawyers were quick to get involved. More than 100 states and cities have filed more than 250 federal lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and distributors of the opioid epidemic...

I think every generation looks back on their lives and decides the time they were young to be the best and the baby boomer generation is no different. Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn’t post on Facebook how good the 50’s were and how we all survived without hardly any of the rules and regulations we have today...

CURTIS, Neb. — The Medicine Valley Raiders are 9-8 following their 55-29 trouncing of Maxwell Thursday evening. Coach Jason Maier’s team has actually won two straight by more than 25 points after a 68-41 victory over Bertrand last weekend. No individual scoring was obtained from this latest success...

BARTLEY, Neb. — Southwest fans saw four senior girls hit shots on “Seniors Night” but Rawlins County (Kan.) still shook free to a 43-25 victory Thursday evening. Junior Amy Crouse and sophomore Kristen Beckman proved to be the stronger combination with 15 points each for 8-8 Rawlins County...

McCOOK, Neb. — A Husker “insider” plans to give local Nebraska football fans an in-depth look at the NU program and the 2018 Husker recruiting class during a special presentation in McCook on Monday, Feb. 26. Sean Callahan will speak to fans at the The Coppermill Steakhouse...

INDIANOLA, Neb.. — Southwest Public School1s will have Kindergarten registration on Monday, March 12, 2018, at the elementary school in Indianola. For your convenience, there are two different times to register, 1 p.m. or 6 p.m. Each presentation will lost approximately one hour. Call the school to...

McCOOK, Neb. — When it comes to changing water law, Dist. 44 State Sen. Dan Hughes doesn’t want to go too fast. “I want to know all the implications,” before committing to a new law, he said this morning on LB 1123, via a teleconference call at the McCook Chamber of Commerce. “We can’t afford to jeopardize augmentation....N-Corpe is working as designed: use it when we do need the water and leave (the property) idle when we don’t.”...

McCOOK, Neb. — The purchase of 550 Chromebooks for the high school and a contract for a new business manager will be up for approval at the regular McCook Board of Education meeting Monday, night, 6:30 p.m., at the McCook Junior High conference room...

McCOOK, Neb. — Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department (SWNPHD) has confirmed the first positive rabies case in Southwest Nebraska for the year. The rabies exposure is with a skunk in Hayes County. “With high occurrences of rabies in the health district in the last few years, we want to send early notification to the public, “explains Melissa Propp, Disease Surveillance Coordinator...

McCOOK, Neb. — Gene Weedin, McCook City Councilman is asking local gas customers to consider choosing ACE Energy, the non-for-profit natural gas supplier, in the upcoming Choice Gas program. Weedin, who is McCook’s representative on the ACE board, notes that the supplier has returned more than $109,600 to McCook for community betterment in the 20 years it has been in operation...

I think every generation looks back on their lives and decides the time they were young to be the best and the baby boomer generation is no different. Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn’t post on Facebook how good the 50’s were and how we all survived without hardly any of the rules and regulations we have today...

McCOOK, Neb. — Nationally known speaker Nate Larkin will be featured speaker at the “No Bull Brotherhood” annual Spring Training, Saturday, Feb. 24, at the McCook Evangelical Free Church. Larkin and a group of friends founded the Samson Society, a group of men deeply committed to community who pray for one another and talk about sin in the present tense...

McCOOK, Neb. — Southwest Prairie Quail Forever Chapter had its third annual banquet on Jan. 27, where they had approximately 160 people attend, of those 27 were children. The Chapter had games and raffle where several guns were won. They had a youth table that Nathan Kollmorgen won a 20 Gauge (sponsored by Chapter) from the game, and brother Dylan Kollmorgen won the free drawing for the Ne Lifetime hunting/fish Permit (sponsored by Ellinger and Chappel LLC CPA)...