Stories from Wednesday, October 2, 2019

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Parents Night and some good old-fashioned redemption fueled the Cambridge Trojans’ 25-17, 25-15 sweep of visiting McCook Tuesday evening. “When we last saw McCook, we played what I thought was our worst game all year,” coach Margo Kent said about the two-set Bison Invitational defeat just 10 days earlier on Sept. 21. “So I wanted this one bad.”...

Norma ‘Jodi’ Marie Jordan April 11, 1932 — Sept, 8, 2019 PORTLAND, Ore. — Norma ‘Jodi’ Marie Jordan passed away at the age of 87 on Sept. 8, 2019, at home under hospice care in Portland. She was born to Albert Henry and Elsie Gertrude Jordan on April 11, 1932, in Wausa, Neb. She was the third of four children...

KEARNEY, Neb. — The Chase County girls were 15th and Cambridge Trojans 14th among class fields of nearly 30 teams at Monday’s UNK Cross Country Invitational. Cambridge competed in Class D where North Platte St. Patrick’s ran away with top team honors, totaling just 93 points...

KEARNEY, Neb. — Cambridge High’s boys were all over the Class D Top 10 during Monday’s UNK Cross Country Invitational. Considered a mid-season potential state preview, senior Josh Paisley raised to ninth place (18:55.56) which was highest among all Gazette-area runners in this 5,000-meter race...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College golf team has cracked the National Junior College Athletic Association’s first top 20 rankings of the academic year. MCC ranks 19th in the poll for Division I schools. Central Alabama and Midland College (Texas) top the poll with 77 points each. Central Alabama is ranked first based on more first place votes. Region IX opponent Eastern Wyoming is ranked 16th with 25 points and MCC received eight points for 19th place...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — The McCook Bison served 11 aces and never lost control of a 25-12, 25-13 sweep over Cozad at Tuesday’s Cambridge volleyball triangular. Junior Elsa Wicox served five of those aces while sophomore Addison Randel sent four past the Haymakers...

OXFORD, Neb. — Sainthood was stronger than ever as Emma Joppa and Abby Cervera homered to lead Southern Valley-Alma’s 14-2 win over Minden on Monday. The Saints (16-8 record) needed only 2 1/2 innings to stop their recent three-game losing streak. They unleashed 10 runs in the first inning in a game where Janessa Kring, Cervera and Maddie Dubbs all touched home twice...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook’s Heritage Days Road Race blended several themes as part of the 5K run/walk. German polka music was playing at the start and the race featured lederhosen-themed t-shirts. At the starting line, veterans carried flags from all the military branches along with the U.S. flag...

McCOOK, Neb. — Estimated costs of new building, remodeling, plumbing and other projects in the city and Red Willow County topped out at $187,578 for the month of September, according to the City of McCook monthly building permit report. Building activity in September included: two garages, $58,300; eight residential remodels, one outside city limits, $56,178; six roofing/decks, $33,600; four fences, $13,600; and one carport, $900...

McCOOK, Neb. — One of McCook’s practice ball fields is hanging in the balance between a local landowner and the City of McCook. Bob Wilcox owns a portion of land southwest of McCook on river road that he’s leased to the city for practice ball fields. ...

STRATTON, Neb. — What are the odds of having two stylists with the same first name and similar last names, both graduates of the same beauty academy, both working in one two-chair shop, in a small community in rural Nebraska? The owner of "The Jewell" boutique in Stratton defied the odds, and is pleased with the serendipity of "the two Mya(h)s."...

COLUMBUS, Neb. – The next step towards the potential for a carbon capture operation at Nebraska Public Power District’s Gerald Gentleman Station is moving forward with the announcement of the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory’s funding for the study...

COLUMBUS, Neb. — Paige Wireless LLC., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paige Electric L.P., announced Saturday a partnership with Nebraska Public Power District to accelerate the deployment of interconnectivity across Nebraska for computing devices embedded in everyday objects via the Internet, enabling them to send and receive data...

McCOOK, Neb. - The McCook Farm, Ranch & Hemp Expo will return to the Red Willow County Fairgrounds on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 20-21, 2019. "We are excited to fill the fairgrounds. The McCook Farm, Ranch, & Hemp Expo is a great place to come see the newest and latest in farming and ranching technology practices," said Darren Dale, show owner. ...

Cab companies were justifiably offended when ride-sharing businesses Lyft and Uber came on the scene, and the upstarts didn’t face the same regulations they did. We hope you’ll indulge us for a moment as a traditional media if we feel less than sympathetic to social media for a recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruling that found it allowed discrimination through targeted advertising...