Stories from Tuesday, July 16, 2019

BROKEN BOW, Neb. — McCook’s First Central Bank Juniors weren’t ready to go home without a B-6 title shot as they blanked Minden, 11-0, Monday night. The No. 1 Juniors made a great recovery from their 11-2 loss to host Broken Bow on Sunday. Now McCook (15-12 record) meets No. 4 O’Neill at 5:30 p.m. today to determine who will battle Bow in tonight’s grand tournament finale...

Carrol Sue (Goddard) Clapp June 30, 1954 - July 14, 2019 KEARNEY, Neb. — Carrol Sue (Goddard) Clapp, 65, formerly of Culbertson, Neb., died Sunday (July 14, 2019) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born June 30, 1954, in Cambridge, Neb., to Joe and Iona (Schaffert) Goddard. She received her GED and attended McCook Community College. She married Terry Duane Clapp on Oct. 8, 1971. She was a homemaker and worked at Hillcrest Nursing Home for a number of years...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The racing was very competitive throughout the night as action heated up and the temperature simmered down at Lincoln County Raceway on Saturday evening in North Platte. Earning the bragging rights to walk away as victors with their trip to the winners circle was David Murray, Jr.; Jamey Kennicutt, Casey Woken, Nate Refior and Kaden Dady...

McCOOK (23-13) Beat Gering 11-6 AB R H RBI Berry 4 0 1 1 Harvie 2 3 1 1 Mockry 3 1 2 1 Dugger 2 1 1 1 Bredvick 3 1 1 2 Carter 3 2 3 2 Barenberg 4 0 1 0 Koetter 4 2 2 1...

McCOOK, Neb. — The shiny sunshades coolly disguised Joel Carter’s reason for a super game two Monday afternoon. “I was seeing it (a Gering pitch) really well,” Carter explained about his three-for-three hitting. Drew Harvie offered no secrets about a sizzling double to the outfield fence capping his four-run doubleheader...

McCOOK, Neb. — A McCook City councilman wanted clarification in an application to install an underground fiber optic cable. Specifically, Councilman Jerry Calvin wanted to know the dimensions of an above-ground control cabinet that Great Plains Communications will establish as part of its installation of underground cable for high speed internet for downtown businesses...

McCOOK, Neb. — It couldn’t have happened at a worse time: A rendering truck spilled refuse on B Street Friday night, right before the Crazy Days Cruise Night. The accident occurred on the 600 block of B Street and city employees were quickly on the scene, diverting traffic and cleaning up the offal...

INDIANOLA, Neb. — A helicopter flew a Cambridge woman to a hospital in Kearney Monday following a two-vehicle accident at 3:30 p.m. approximately a mile east of Indianola on Highway 6&34. Indianola's ambulance transported the drivers of the two vehicles from the accident scene to Community Hospital in McCook...

WASHINGTON —The FCC authorized nearly $41 million in funding over the next decade to expand broadband to 8,768 unserved rural Nebraska homes and businesses, stemming from last year’s successful Connect America Fund Phase II auction.  Providers will begin receiving funding this month...

Joe E. Ballinger of Norton, Kan., Major USAF Retired, has donated to the Museum of the High Plains in McCook a small collection of 1940's-era 8x10-inch black-and-white photographs of and taken by his uncle, Don Gibson. Ballinger indicates to museum staff that after Gibson was rated 4F (not suitable for military service due to medical or other reason), he volunteered to the U.S. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Not a moment of hesitation. Not one single player, nor family from the 11-and-under McCook Cardinals’ baseball team showed any hesitation when the idea was proposed to attend a one-day baseball tournament in Memphis, Tennessee, over Easter...

In the pursuit of aviation one meets some really interesting friends. To earn a private license a student is required to spend a minimum of twenty hours with a certified flight instructor. That’s me. Twenty hours sitting close side by side with another human pushing you to do things that normal people rarely experience things like the experience of pulling g’s where one’s body will weigh two or three times normal. ...

We’ve made, and heard, all the arguments for legalization of marijuana, medical or otherwise. It’s useful for relief of pain and anxiety. It’s no worse than, and probably less harmful than alcohol. It’s a relatively harmless drug that doesn’t justify the dollars we spend to prosecute or imprison offenders, nor the stigma that comes with a felony conviction...