Stories from Friday, April 19, 2019

GOTHENBURG, Neb. — Wild winds led to weather delays but couldn’t halt the McCook Bison golfers from winning a Gothenburg Invite title on Tuesday. The Bison fired 343 and defeated North Platte along with nine other teams at Gothenburg’s Wildhorse Golf Course...

SURPRISE, Ariz. — The Ottawa (Ariz.) University men’s golf team made school history on Wednesday by winning the Golden Star Athletic Confernece Men’s Golf Championship held at the Catta Vedera Country Club this week. Leading wire-to-wire, the Spirit completed the title run with 906 strokes over the 54-hole event...

Twenty years or so ago, Mike O’Dell was putting together a weekly paper in McCook to compete with the Gazette and asked me to write a weekly column for it. In his introduction of me and my column, he described me as being “irascible.” That word is defined as having or showing a tendency to be easily angered which I disagreed with because that has never been my nature. But I do sometimes fit a secondary characterization of the word as being “edgy.”...

Walter Eugene Schwab June 29, 1940 - April 18, 2019 McCOOK, Neb. — Walter Eugene Schwab, age 78, passed away in his home surrounded by family, on April 18, 2019. He was born in Soldier, Kan., on June 29, 1940, to Emanuel and Bernice (Area) Schwab. He attended Norcatur grade school and graduated from Decatur Community High School with the Class of 1958...

50th anniversary The family of Tom and Myra Sattler is requesting a card shower in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary on Friday, April 19, 2019. They were married in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mapleton, Iowa. Their family includes children, Cindy and Travis Brumback of Baxter Spring, Kan., Daniel and Gigi Sattler of McCook, Neb., Angela and Matthew Haller of Phoenix, Ariz., and David and Sara Sattler of Norton, Kan.; 12 grandchildren, Renae and Andre Malan, Ryan Bruning, Jax and Aliscia Brumback, Sydney Brumback, Hannah Haller, Jackie Sattler, Kale Sattler, Lauren Sattler,Thomas Haller, Emily Haller, Ella Sattler, Ivy Sattler and four great-grandchildren, Aubrie, Daymond, Jameson, and Evelyn Malan. ...

45th annniversary The family of Paul and Debbie Dolan of Indianola, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of the couple’s 45th wedding anniversary on Saturday, April 20, 2019. They were married in 1974 at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Albion, Neb. ...

A source of information that I often omit writing about is the National Archives. If you go to www.archives.gov, you will find an enormous listing of available records, some of which are online. Just pulling from their genealogy section you find applications for enrollment in Native American Tribes, court records, fugitive slave cases, land records, military personnel records, naturalization records and federal employee records (historical)...

Latest results from TJ’s Family Fun Center in McCook: Men’s Major Burton Well Drillng 282-198 J&L Construction 271-204 Stockman’s Feed263.5-216.5 Five Loners 242-238 Diamond Vogel 240-240 TJ’s Family Fun 236-238 Family Issues 234-243...

McCOOK, Neb. — A look at all McCook Junior High girls’ top four placers and event champions in Tuesday’s track-field triangular. Lexington and Ogallala challenged the Bison. Boys’ results appeared on Wednesday. Seventh Grade 100 meters: 1. Abby Boner, MC, 14.0; 2. ...

NORFOLK, Neb. – The McCook Community College and Northeast Community College baseball teams continued a recent tradition of slugfests Wednesday as the Hawks pulled out a 10-9 win in the bottom of the ninth inning. A couple ninth-inning errors enabled the Hawks to score the tying and winning runs...

NORTH PLATTE – The McCook Community College softball team picked up a pair of wins Wednesday over North Platte in two distinctly different ways. Freshman Angel Valdez (West Jordan, Utah) tossed a complete game three-hitter in Game 1 to give MCC a 3-1 win and a seventh-inning grand slam off the bat of Hannah Jensen helped secure a 15-10 win in Game 2...

LEXINGTON, Neb. — Southern Valley freshman Brianna Russell won the high jump to lead all area athletes at Thursday’s Don Bader Invitational. Russell and Dundy County-Stratton sophomore Haylee Davis finished 1-2. Russell cleared 5’1” while Davis topped 4’11” for those two highest places just above Class A Kearney High’s Emma Skiles...

McCOOK, Neb. — Several local pool players were recently recognized for winning the Fall Session of the American Poolplayers Association (APA) 8-Ball, 9-Ball and Masters Pool Leagues. The Sunday 8-Ball titles were claimed by “Off in the Pocket” and “Rolling 8’s”, both out of Frank’s in Trenton...

LEXINGTON, Neb. — Senior Morgan Fawver actually broke his McCook High School long jump record twice at Tuesday’s Don Bader Invitational. Fawver surpassed 23’ by a quarter-inch, and his 23’ 1/4” clearly topped the 22’5” which made history during McCook’s Leroy Hoehner Invitational on April 1...

McCOOK, Neb. — The new tax plan proposed from the Nebraska Legislature’s revenue committee aimed at lowering property taxes is “absolutely” a tax shift, said State. Sen. Dan Hughes. “But that’s how we got into the predicament we’re in now,” Hughes said Thursday morning at the McCook Chamber of Commerce conference call, by shifting the burden of state revenue onto property taxes. The state has relied too long on property taxes and not enough in other areas, he said...

McCOOK, Neb. — At their meeting Monday morning, Red Willow County commissioners agreed to renew the county employees' existing health insurance coverage with Northwestern Mutual as broker, RCI as third party administrator and claims processor, and American National as insurance carrier...

The University of Nebraska Cornhusker volleyball team will play the Colorado State Rams on the McCook Community College campus Saturday on a floor used in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and installed this morning in MCC's Graff Events Center. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Emergency personnel responded Thursday afternoon near M Hill on Highway 83 south of McCook to a man bleeding from lacerations on his arm. Red Willow County Sheriff Alan Kotschwar said officers discovered the man was wanted on warrants out of Texas and he is now in the county jail awaiting extradition to Texas...

LINCOLN Neb. – Russ, Angela, and Cheyenne Sundstrom are the recipients of the 2019 Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award®. The Sundstroms own and operate Broken Box Ranch in Moorefield, Nebraska. The prestigious award, given in honor or renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, recognizes extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation and management of natural resources by American ranchers, farmers and foresters in 13 states...

Who will care from me when I am too old to care for myself, when I need skilled nursing care? The current Medicaid crisis in payments to Nebraska nursing homes may cause there to be no care home for me. The local facilities may be forced to close due to shortfalls of $35 to $50 per day in payments for Medicaid patients. ...