Stories from Monday, June 11, 2018

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. – While the Tri Valley Health System’s Glow Run started Saturday night with a bit of daylight left, the runners and walkers finished after the sun had set, using streetlights, headlamps and flashlights to light the way. Zach Sickels led the entire field, as well as the 19 and under men’s division, with a time of 20:39...

Frank M. Langley Jan. 31, 1953 - June 4, 2018 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Frank M. Langley, age 65, passed away at his home on Monday, June 4, 2018. He was born in Cambridge on Jan. 31, 1953, to Vernon “Fritz” and Maxine (Foster) Langley. Frank attended and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1971...

Sage Francis Day CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Sage Francis Day was born on Sunday, June 3, 2018, to parents, David and Katelyn Day at Tri Valley Hospital in Cambridge. He weighed four pounds, one ounce and was 18 inches long with a full head of hair. Sage is deeply loved by his Mommy and Daddy; grandparents, Wil and Sheri Sughroue of Bartley Neb., Tom and Jamie Day of Worland, Wyo., Dawn and Paul Conard of Sidney, Mont.; and great-grandparents, Bob and Connie Quaduor of Indianola, Neb., Minnie Sughroue of Bartley, Rose Day of Danbury, Neb., and numerous uncles, aunts and cousins.. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — The spirits spoke during the “Cemetery Tour” Sunday afternoon of McCook’s annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival weekend. “Blind Sam,” McCook’s well-known downtown minstrel, sang “You Are My Sunshine” to a group gathered at his gravestone in Riverview Cemetery. “I played the violin as well, but most folks complained it was a bit screechy,” Blind Sam (portrayed by Gabe Sehnert) said...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Schmick’s Market Blue Rocks watched the game slip away early and couldn’t recover in a 3-2 loss to the Community Hospital Timber Rattlers on Friday. The Community Hospital Timber Rattlers took the lead in the first inning. The pitching was strong on both sides...

McCOOK, Neb. — Cameron Werkmeister and Carson Garcia allowed just two hits in two impressive McCook Pinnacle Bank baseball home wins last week. Workmeister threw three no-hit innings during a 10-0 trouncing of Broken Bow. He walked two and struck out three...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook National Bank’s 3-2 comeback win over Kearney Jersey Sports Grill on Saturday highlighted an otherwise tough weekend for the Seniors Legion baseball team. The Seniors finished 1-3 with a narrow defeat to host North Platte followed by losses against Omaha South and district foe Holdrege...

Basketball action kept Peter & Dolores Graff Events Center busy on Saturday with a summer tournament featuring several area teams. Morgan Fawver and one of McCook’s teams ran into some real traffic against North Platte. Cambridge, Hitchcock County, Arapahoe and Maywood-Hayes Center were among the other teams competing at McCook Community College...

Tourists at Friday’s McCook Community College History’s Mysteries bus tour of “The Watering Hole” get up close with a herd of 24 bison at one of the stops of the natural resources tour held in conjunction with the Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival. ...

Attendance was up at nearly all events for the 22nd annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival, according to organizers. The Fox Theatre was full for Saturday night’s finale, and headliners joined with regular performers in singing praises of the nourishing, welcoming atmosphere that permeates the spring event, named in defiance of those who would depopulate our corner of the nation...

Note: We celebrate Flag Day this week on June 14th. One of the really stirring displays of American Flags in this area is at the hillside cemetery in Culbertson along Highway 6&34. Of course, those flags fly proudly on Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July, but on other special occasions as well. I never pass that cemetery without remembering the time when those flags welcomed “home” a hometown hero, General Charles Eisenhart...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — On Friday, June 8, Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol Troop C and officers from the Grand Island Police Department conducted an undercover operation to target and identify individuals soliciting prostitution in the Grand Island area...