Stories from Wednesday, April 18, 2018

McCOOK, Neb. -- Steady winds and a brisk morning didn’t deter from Tuesday’s Ron Coleman Invitational at Heritage Hills Golf Course...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- The McCook Lady Bison made quick work of two area foes Tuesday in North Platte...

ALMA, Neb. -- Cambridge junior Preston Carbaugh rallied in the second round to win Tuesday’s Alma golf invitational...

PAXTON, Neb. -- The Maywood-Hayes Center Lady Wolves finished third at Tuesday’s Paxton Invite. MHC scored 68 points to take bronze...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Community College Indian baseball team came back from a 5-0 deficit in the third inning and a 13-12 ninth inning deficit to beat Southeast Community College 14-13...

Henry Lee “Hank” Hartman Oct. 28, 1947 - April 11, 2018 HAYS, Kan. — Henry Lee "Hank" Hartman, 70, of Hays, died Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at his home. He was born in McCook, Neb., on Oct. 28, 1947, to Harold V. Hartman and Bertha A. Pettera.  He lived most of his life in Herndon, Kan., and later in Hays. ...

PARKVILLE, Mo. -- Southeast Community College’s Noah Hofman had the highlight of Monday and Tuesday’s Virginia McCoy Intercollegiate Tournament in Parkville, Mo, as he dropped a hole-in-one...

McCOOK, Neb. — Nowadays, water quality issues in the city water are no big deal but 12 years ago, it was a different story. Without discussion, the McCook City Council received and filed the annual Water Quality Report for the McCook Public Water System at the regular council meeting Monday night as a consent agenda item, a far cry from 2005 when the mere mention of city water meant money and lots of it...

CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor McCOOK, Neb. — The ink was barely dry on their certificates of completed training when two of the newest CASA volunteers were immediately assigned to cases in Furnas County. Cathy McDowell of McCook, CASA director, said the program is always seeking new volunteers, and particularly in the six Southwest Nebraska counties around Red Willow. She was thrilled Tuesday morning that two of the newest volunteers will serve children in Furnas County...

McCOOK, Neb. — Photograph submission and voting starts now for the Cat Pack’s annual “Cats and Dogs of McCook” fund-raising calendar for the McCook Humane Society. The top dog and top cat at the end of the voting will be declared “Cover Critters” and grace the cover of the new 2019 calendar. Other photo submissions will be scattered throughout the calendar months...

McCOOK, Neb. — Weather permitting, work is scheduled to begin April 30 on US-83 at the BNSF Viaduct in McCook, Reference Post 14.16 to Reference Post 14.42, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation.  Bridges Inc., of Newton, Kan., has the $1,378,430 contract.  Work includes bridge repair, sidewalk repair, asphalt overlay and pavement markings...

The United States will always be vulnerable to manipulation as long as we’re a free and open society, governed, at the most basic level, by public opinion. That’s not lost on Russia, which uses every tool available to meddle in foreign affairs to its own advantage...