Stories from Friday, February 21, 2020

OMAHA, Neb. — Awesome McCook junior Alec Langan's mission for a state title shot needed one more reversal as he lost 6-5 to Fairbury Jeff Seth Firmanik in their Class 195-pound semifinal Friday evening. Langan suffered just his third defeat this season (40-3) after pinning two state opponents on Thursday. He appeared ready for a late win Friday night, but Firmanik (46-3) countered with enough points to secure the victory...

Shirley J. Rotter April 19, 1937 - Feb 19, 2020 NORFOLK, Neb. — A Celebration of Life for Shirley J. Rotter, 82, of Madison, will be 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, at the Home for Funerals Chapel, 708 Georgia Avenue in Norfolk. Inurnment will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Home for Funerals is in charge of arrangements...

Colton Joesph Rust Katie Douglas and Ryan Rust of Lincoln, Neb., announce the birth of their son, Colton Joesph Rust, who was born Jan. 28, 2020, at Bryan Medical Center East. He weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 20.5 inches long. Grandparents are Ed and Debbie Douglas of McCook, Neb., and Jim and Sue Rust of Lincoln, Neb...

80th birthday The family of twins, Calvin Brown of Eugene, Ore., and Cermit Brown of Culbertson, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of their 80th birthdays on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. They were born on the family farm south of Trenton, Neb. Cards of congratulations will reach Calvin at 33436 Bloomberg Rd, Eugene, Ore., and Cermit at 36973 US Highway 6, Culbertson, NE 69024...

I’m going to digress a bit from genealogy for a moment. When I was growing up, my mother saved bacon grease in a holder that sat on the back of the stove and yes, she used that grease to cook fried potatoes, hominy or other wonderful foods. A spoon full was always added to the pancake batter to make them richly brown. ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Thanks to citizen reports, two dogs have been rescued and one man has been charged with felony animal cruelty in Red Willow County. On Wednesday afternoon, February 19, the Nebraska State Patrol was alerted to a severely injured dog in northwest Red Willow County. Troopers discovered that the dog had several stab wounds and transported it to the Red Willow Animal Clinic, where it underwent emergency surgery. The dog had more than 15 stab wounds...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A nominating committee has been appointed by the board of directors for the McCook Chamber of Commerce to seek individuals willing to serve on the chamber board for the upcoming year. The committee consists of Bryan Loker of High Plains Radio, Jade Lesko with Citta’ Deli, and Terri Skolout with MNB Bank...

This week, the Boy Scouts of America filed a Chapter 11 petition in the Delaware bankruptcy court under the saddest of circumstances. The bankruptcy applies to the national organization and not to local councils, and although official statements from the organization insist that they intend to continue operations, national recruitment numbers have been down...

Dear Editor, A recently-published Yale study found Medicare for All would save more than $450 billion and prevent 68,000 deaths every year. Gosh! Think about that! We could cut out the profit-motivated insurance companies in a broken system where THEY, not doctors, have the power to decide what medical care we get when we cannot afford to pay what they won't cover...

OMAHA, Neb. — The Dundy County-Stratton Tigers ran into three strong wrestlers while going winless in Class D state matches Thursday afternoon. Blake Webb, Serbando Diaz and Delton Haines all start consolations today. D120 Blake Webb (16-20) place is unknown and scored 0.0 team points...

OMAHA, Neb. — Friday’s always a welcome day of the week and Cambridge wrestlers couldn’t agree more following their first day in Class D state matches. Thursday was more like a Monday for the Trojan trio as he all three dropped their openers at Omaha’s CHI Health Center...

OMAHA, Neb. — Southern Valley’s James Hargett was ready to attack his state tournament match and show why season numbers only go so far once all wrestlers arrive in CHI Health Center. Hemingford’s Jake Sellman brought more wins (29) along with more matches this season (45) — but it didn’t matter during this Class D 195-pound match...

OMAHA, Neb. — Hitchcock County’s Remington Hodges delivered a little revenge for three area football schools during the Nebraska State Wrestling tournament Thursday. Hodges trailed Burwell’s Jacob Busch into the third period of their 220-pound match at HCI Health Center...

OMAHA, Neb. — Arapahoe sophmore Levi Kerner and Chase County’s Trevor Peterson both stormed into the state semifinals. Arapahoe D285 Levi Kerner (37-3)scored 11.0 team points. Champ. Round 1 - Levi Kerner (Arapahoe) 37-3 won by fall over Bryson Shoemaker (Southwest) 24-11 (Fall 5:22)...

OMAHA, Neb. — Southwest wrestler Matt Van Pelt’s awesome season continued with both dominant and thrilling state tournament triumphs at the CHI Health Center Thursday. Van Pelt (47-3 record) took down a terrific RPAC foe Jaden Henderson (32-13) with a 17-0 major decision to start his Class D 145-pound action...

McCOOK, Neb. — Cambridge moved within one of a state tournament spot thanks to the girls’ 49-34 victory over Dundy County-Stratton in the D1-11 girls’ subdistrict final Thursday night. Even better for the area was DC-S (17-6 record) will also play for a state spot next week...

Today, the McCook Community College women’s basketball team will honor six sophomores before the 5 p.m. game against Lamar Community College. Sophomores include Kali Kelly (Windsor, Colo.), Paula Roselo Mateu (Barcelona, Spain), Sydney Sandford (Missouri City Texas), Nicola Cross (Melbourne, Australia), Jessika Espinoza (El Paso, Texas) and Makenna Bodette (Colorado Springs)...

COZAD, Neb. — McCook High’s boys unleashed their season-best defensive effort while using a balanced attack to blast Cozad, 61-18, Thursday evening. According to available information, the Bison (12-10 record) featured three double-figure scoring efforts from senior Cam Berry (12 points), junior Mark Arp (11) and senior Jordan Chauncy (10)...

OMAHA, Neb. — Forget about Mission Impossible because this feels more like Mission Unstoppable to McCook coach Nick Umscheid. N.U. marveled at junior Alec Langan’s focus and prophetic talents entering the Class B state wrestling meet on Thursday. “Alec said I want to get two pins today, and I said ‘go get it’,” Umscheid recalled during his chat with Bison radio man Rich Barnett. “That’s exactly what he did.”...