Stories from Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Tax day today. Wait until tomorrow and it will cost you more to file. Sure it hurts to share our income with the government but pause to think how privileged we are to live in this wonderful country. Government could be much more efficient yet we are blessed with good roads, police and fire protection plus national security. ...

As a person who enjoys eating mushrooms in soups and gravies, or breaded and fried, I read “Mushroom Popularity” in the March 2018 National Geographic Magazine with great interest. Mushrooms grow on the floors of forests, in gardens and in the shade of trees. They grow well in manure, too...

Due to future forecast, the Lexington Track Invite scheduled for Friday has been moved to Thursday with a 12 p.m. start time. The Hitchcock County Invite has also been moved up one day to Wednesday and has a 10 a.m. start time. Results of both track meets will be featured in the McCook Gazette later this week...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Community College Lady Indian softball team wrapped its home schedule Monday with a split against Western Nebraska. The Cougars won the first game 7-5 and the Indians came back to win in “walk-off” fashion in the eighth-inning, 8-7 with a bases-loaded walk...

McCOOK, Neb. — The City of McCook will borrow money from a local bank to pay for firefighting equipment. As with the rest of the consent agenda items slated for Monday night’s meeting, the McCook City Council approved without discussion a seven-year loan with Horizon Bank at 3.99 percent interest, to purchase 20 self-contained breathing apparatus. The equipment is used by rescue workers to provide breathable air in firefighting situations...

WILSONVILLE, Neb. — Wilsonville High School graduating classes ending in “3” and “8” will be honored during the annual meeting Sunday, May 27, in the Wilsonville Community Building (the former Methodist Church). Students who attended school in Wilsonville are encouraged to attend, contact classmates and invite former teachers...

McCOOK, Neb. — The directorial debuts of two McCook Community College sophomore theater majors are set for this weekend when a pair of one-act plays will be staged at the Weeth Theater in Tipton Hall on campus. Luis Guardado will direct “The Actor’s Nightmare” and Brandon Molcyk directs “Trifles,” in three performances Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — At their weekly meeting Monday morning, Red Willow County commissioners approved a conditional use permit for an irrigator to use waste water from a dairy northeast of McCook. Brad Randel of rural Indianola, representing Randel Family Ltd. and Randel Family Trust, sought the county’s permission to pump waste water from Kingdom Dairy to irrigation pivots (an existing system and a system to be installed) in Section 34, Township 4, Range 29...

BEAVER CITY, Neb. — Stopped for having a headlight out, an Iowa man admitted to Furnas County sheriff’s deputies that he had drugs and drug paraphernalia in his car. On April 14, at approximately 11:30 p.m., a deputy stopped a 2010 Mazda M3S for lack of a headlight, on Highway 6 & 34 at mile marker 113, near Cambridge...

OBERLIN, Kan. — Officers of three Northwest Kansas sheriff’s departments and the Oberlin Police Department arrested two people in Oberlin on Friday, April 13, after finding illegal drugs in a house in Oberlin. According to a release from Decatur County Sheriff Ken Badsky, the search of a house in the 200 block of South Cass Avenue in Oberlin turned up a large number of illegal drugs, drug paraphernalia and other items believed to be used in the sale of illegal drugs...

McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow County District Court cases from April 2 include: — Jack V. Thayer, 46, of 708 E. Fifth, McCook. Pleaded guilty to one charge of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and possession of a deadly weapon (a knife) in the commission of a felony. ...

Barbara Bush has always been known to speak her mind, a breath of fresh air in the years before the current administration when every utterance was vetted and scripted. From her doubts about President Clinton failing to remember encounters with a certain intern to expressing her doubts about another member of the Bush family in the White House, she was always good for an honest perspective on current events...