Stories from Monday, October 22, 2018

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Every once in 16 tries a great football program will likely have its night. Make it two-for-17 as the Scottsbluff Bearcats rumbled past McCook, 23-13, at Bearcat Stadium Friday evening. The Bearcats (9-0 record) scored 16 unanswered points behind a star named Chris Busby who brought plenty of “bus” to go with his state track champion speed...

Carrie Helena Cole Oct. 4, 1930 - Oct. 19, 2018 TRENTON, Neb. — Carrie Helena Cole, age 88, of Trenton, passed away at El Dorado Manor in Trenton on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. She was born on Oct. 4, 1930, to Clarence and Maggie O. (Baker) Baker on the family farm in Hitchcock County, Neb. Helena attended school in Trenton and graduated from Trenton High School in 1949...

LEYTON, Neb. — Wauneta-Palisade built a 54-0 halftime lead and left no doubts being playoff ready with the 60-24 win over Banner County-Leyton Friday evening. Senior Dalton Harchelroad scored three touchdowns with only eight carries covering 70 yards while senior Dennis Cavanaugh averaged 22 yards a rush (four for 88) and tallied two more TDs...

KEARNEY, Neb. — While state powerhouse Ainsworth dominated, several Gazette-area boys earned their places among Class D’s top half of the cross country state championship meet on Friday. Chase County’s Kalen Wallin set this pace when he earned a top 25 place with his time of 18:17.2...

KEARNEY, Neb. —Junior Sable Lambley nearly broke six minutes in her opening mile while racing to a Class D top three finish for the Dundy County-Stratton Tigers on Friday. Lambley was only five seconds behind Ainsworth superstar Rylee Rice and Pender’s Page Steinman (both 5:58) through that opening stretch at Kearney Country Club...

KEARNEY, Neb. – She’d never finished short of the top 10 all season, so why would anything change for Elsi Rodewald at Friday’s Nebraska State Cross Country meet? The McCook junior was more than ready to cap her season in fine style with Class B’s best...

LINCOLN, Neb. —A super six area football teams have earned spots in the Nebraska state playoffs starting this week. The McCook Bison (8-1) are fourth in Class B and host No. 13 Hastings (4-5) Friday night. Thursday is where area teams will really be busy...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — All McCook Bison leaders from the battle with Class B unbeaten Scottsbuff Friday night: TEAM STATS Rushing yards: Scottsbluff 286, McCook 165. Passing: Scottsbluff 62, McCook 60 First downs: Scottsbluff 18, McCook 10 Total yards: Scottbluff 346, McCook 227...

McCOOK, Neb. — New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks’ visit to McCook and other points in Greater Nebraska has been postponed. Part of Weave: The Social Fabric Project, his rescheduled tour will include stops in McCook and North Central Nebraska communities including Stuart, Ainsworth, Bassett, Atkinson and O’Neill to conduct interviews with local community builders and see firsthand the accomplishments of these extraordinary hometowns...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Furnas County Sheriff Kurt Kapperman appreciates the help of the school, citizens and the fire department of Cambridge in locating a lost child on Oct. 18. Sheriff Kapperman reports that at 4:13 p.m., the little boy’s mother told deputies that the five-year-old wandered away from her and was last seen on the east side of Cambridge Public School...

McCOOK, Neb. — The public is invited to join the Hillcrest Nursing Home Foundation in their annual fundraiser “Night On the Hill” on Saturday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. at Hillcrest Nursing Home. A dynamic steering committee has created a lovely event that will include a musical performance by local musicians, decadent desserts, fabulous appetizers, a fall bread grab, raffle, and a silent auction...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Sears Hometown and Outlet Store in the Westview Plaza of McCook is not part of the bankruptcy filing by Sears Holdings Corp. Sears Hometown store owners Jay and Susan Hancock of McCook say that although Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc. has business relationships with Sears Holdings, it is a publicly-owned company that separated from Sears Holdings in 2012...

The headline was sure to raise the ire of patriotic fans of the Second Amendment. “Vietnam War veteran sentenced to 7 years in prison for buying ‘rare’ gun in the 1980s”. A television station reported that a Plano, Texas, man, Alfred Pick, 70, was sentenced to seven years in prison for buying a rifle like one he carried before briefly being taken as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Silver Star...

In 1946 the McCook football team was receiving rave reviews all across Nebraska. In that day McCook High competed as a Class A school, in the West Big Ten, with perhaps the smallest enrollment in Class A. McCook’s school population was dwarfed by the Omaha and Lincoln schools, as well as by Kearney, Grand Island and Fremont. ...