Stories from Tuesday, April 23, 2019

McCook American Legion Baseball is looking for a head coach in 2019 for the Junior B team. Position starts right away and season will finish by July 4. For more information contact Greg Larson at 308-350-1049.

McCOOK, Neb. — Check out the Gazette area’s five best Nebraska boys in every varsity area track and field event through Hershey Invitational competiton on Thursday. All results were verified through athletic.net. BOYS 100 dash 110 hurdles 200 meters...

Penny Jean Soderlund Feb. 1, 1963 - April 21, 2019 OBERLIN, Kan. — Penny Jean Soderlund, 56, died Sunday (April 21, 2019), at Great Plains Health in North Platte, Neb. She was born Feb. 1, 1963, in Oberlin to Clarence and Karen (Nielsen) Fisher. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1981 and attended Colby Community College. She married Jim Soderlund on Sept. 4, 1982, at the United Methodist Church in Oberlin. She was an administrative assistant at the Decatur COOP...

McCOOK, Neb. — Jeri and Dick Collicott of McCook have purchased Lisa Wilcox's "New Life Christian Book Store" in downtown McCook, and as of April 1, it became known as "New Life Christian Store and So Much More." As the new name implies, the Collicotts are enhancing the store's amenities to include a "man cave" of men's gifts and a "book nook" for readers, and Dick is designing and building a new counter with room for two registers. ...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. – The McCook Community College softball team made it to the fourth inning of Game 1 Sunday before wet weather forced the postponement of the doubleheader with Western Nebraska Community College. Those games will be made up April 29, (time to be announced.) MCC was leading 4-3 and that is where the two teams will resume...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Now they’re just getting greedy. Mid-Plains Community College Rodeo Team members swept the top three spots in the team roping Saturday during the Will Lantis Yellow Jacket Stampede in Spearfish, S.D. Current MPCC student Danielle Wray, of Ord, joined forces with Mid-Plains alum Chandler Comfort, of Elwood, to win the team roping. Brothers Wyatt and Chance Williams, of Ord, came in second. Reed Murray, of Belvue, Kan., and Wyatt Killion, of Ainsworth, were third...

McCOOK, Neb. — The start times for both the MCC softball games and the MCC baseball game today have been pushed back. The softball doubleheader with Otero Junior College will begin at 1 p.m. today and the baseball game with Colby Community College will start at 4 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — Area members of the APA Pool Leagues will travel to Las Vegas in early May to compete in the $700,000 APA Poolplayer Championship events, held annually at Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino. laying in the $175,000 9-Ball Shootout Singles Championships are Kathy Haddix from Culbertson and Marshall Tucker from McCook, while Rick Haddix from Culbertson will be shooting in the $360,000 8-Ball Classic Singles Championship. (see attached photos)...

McCOOK, Neb. — The area’s top five area girls’ athletes in every track and field event entering action this week, according to athletic.net. 100 meters 1. Adelaide Maxwell, Chase County, 12.83 2. Taylor Williams, Chase County, 13.0 3. Kamrie Dillan, Chase County, 13.02...

McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow County's new zoning administrator will be in Kearney. After the resignation of county assessor Kristi Korell as the county's zoning administrator effective April 15, commission chairman Earl McNutt went looking for a replacement who could provide services within the courthouse or at least within the county...

McCOOK, Neb. — At their regular weekly meeting Monday morning, Red Willow County commissioners finalized plans for 14 miles of armor-coating projects to be completed this summer. Tyson Bardsley, the county's roads superintendent, estimates the per-mile cost at $15,333, compared to $14,772 per mile in 2018. The summer 2019 AC projects are expected to cost about $214,662, although commissioners have not yet set a date to accept bids...

McCOOK, Neb. — Mid-Plains Community College governors will consider a proposal for interior demolition of the former Elks Club at a meeting Wednesday in McCook. The building, 905 E. Seventh in McCook, is now called McCook Community College East Campus...

CAMBRIDGE – The Tri Valley Medical Foundation donated six cell phone boosters for the Arapahoe, Beaver City, and Cambridge EMS departments last week. The cell phone boosters were installed in the ambulances last Friday by Prairie States Communication. These wireless boosters will aid the departments in holding up wireless calls they need to make when signal is limited in the area...

Curiosity got the best of ye ole scribe so I went to look. Crossing the Platte River on I-80 between Lincoln and Omaha recently it all looked pretty normal. We could see that the water had perhaps been about three feet higher than at present but no damage in sight. ...