Stories from Thursday, August 9, 2018

Trying something new and different can be daunting, but the next two weeks will include two vastly different events that will test nerves, stamina and will-power…and that is just the participants. The first event is the movie, “Jaws,” which will be shown on Friday at the YMCA...

Ethel E. Meyers Feb. 3, 1925 - Aug. 7, 2018 COZAD, NEB. — Ethel E. Meyers of Cozad passed away Aug. 7, 2018, at Cozad Community Hospital at the age of 93. Ethel was born Feb. 3, 1925, in Frontier County, Neb., to Charles and Louise (Silberman) Rader. She attended rural grade schools in Gosper County and graduated from Arapahoe High School with the Class of 1943. Ethel achieved her teaching degree and taught in Frontier and Gosper counties for a few years...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Heritage Hills Ladies League played a back nine 4-Lady “Sandy Beaches” Scramble Tuesday evening Low scores: Deb Walter, Colleen Olson, Natalie Alred and Alicia Berry all scored 34. Flag prize winners: Longest putt on No. 18: Natalie Alred...

McCook’s businesswoman named 2018 Nebraska Retail Champion McCOOK, Neb. - VK Electronics owner Linda Taylor of McCook has been named the 2018 Nebraska Retail Champion for the Third Congressional District by the Nebraska Retail Federation. The award was presented at the McCook store by State Senator Dan Hughes and Nebraska Retail Federation President Jim Otto. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — After spending the first part of the summer photographing and inventorying every artifact in the Museum of the High Plains in downtown McCook, two Rural Futures Institute interns went to work imagining and designing displays that can enhance the museum's collections...

OBERLIN, KS - Up and down … 'round in circles … faster and faster… upside down even. The carnival rides of Decatur County's home-grown carnival attract hundreds of kids — and adults young-at-heart — to the county fair in Oberlin Wednesday evening. Thunderheads building in the southeast didn't discourage riders of those rides that take you up higher and higher, drop you down fast, and suspend you in mid-air — hang on tight to your cellphone...

McCOOK, Neb. — A nearly $1 million project at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport will begin in 2019. Airside concrete pavement, concrete panel replacements on runways and taxiways, crack sealing and painting is estimated to cost $953,295,with 90 percent funded through a federal grant and 10 percent, or $95,330, funded by the city...