Stories from Monday, April 6, 2020

McCOOK, Neb. -- The City of McCook has closed playground equipment in all city parks and reserved a city RV park to medical personnel and first responders who are working and required to self-isolate. The steps are being taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. City parks themselves will remain open for citizens to use for walking and runnng...

OMAHA, Neb. — Benkelman to Trenton brought two of the best Class D-1 basketball players that Omaha World-Herald observers have seen for 10 years. Saturday’s edition confirmed this fact as Laramey Lewis of Hitchcock County and Dundy County-Stratton’s Aubrey Frederick were named to the OWH Class D-1 All-Decade Team...

Roselin Lee (Straub) Doss Dec. 10, 1929 - Feb. 4, 2020 LINCON, Neb. — Roselin Lee (Straub) Doss, 90, died Feb. 4, 2020, in Lincoln. She was born Dec. 10, 1929, to Clark and Clara (Heikens) Straub. She is survived by her children, Michael Doss of Austin, Texas, David (Sandra) Doss of Johnson Lake, Neb., Robert Doss of Lincoln, Richard Doss of Eugene, Ore., and Amy Hoff of Lincoln...

50th anniversary Eugene and Crystal Ward of Indianola, Neb., will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Monday, April 13, 2020. We, their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, would like to honor them with a card shower. Their address is 924 D Street, Indianola. NE 69034...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Huskers.com has unveiled a “Vote For The Greatest Moment in Nebraska Football History: with a bracket-style format where fans can vote for their favorites at twitter.com/HuskerFBNation. A true though sometimes toxic fan since coach Tom Osborne’s first season, Gazette scribbler R.B. (Red Bigfat) Headley offered his first-round eliminations last week...

Friday and Saturday were filled will all sorts of great success when looking back at April 5-6 of 2019, when Corona was known as a mountain in the Super Mario Sunshine video games. McCook High’s boys were blasting the Broken Bow track-field competition. They scored 143 points to blaze past Kearney Catholic’s Star (90) and Scottsbluff (83) for another team itle...

McCOOK, Neb. — New McCook YMCA executive director/CEO Mitch Gross sent a message to members as his family has settled into the new hometown. Gross accepted the offer to replace retired director Mike Gonzales last month. Mitch hadbeen Kansas’ Sunflower State Games director for the previous 14 years...

McCOOK, Neb. — Meals will be available for pick up from the McCook Public Schools food service program on Good Friday, April 10 and the Monday after Easter, April 13.  Also starting on Good Friday, April 10, weekend meals will be provided. Friday’s meal package will contain three breakfast meals and three lunches.  Weekend meals will continue on each Friday until the end of the program...

Few of us anticipated the disruption created by the COVID-19 outbreak, but even fewer could have anticipated the way we’ve been able to adapt, thanks to electronic systems already in place. Walmart’s new grocery pickup service was in place just in time to be operating smoothly when the coronavirus pandemic struck, and Gary’s Super Foods is offering a delivery service on Mondays and Thursdays...

McCOOK, Neb. —Students' belongings at the McCook Junior High will be bagged and ready for pick-up in the gymnasium beginning Tuesday, April 7. All students will enter and register at the north Sunset Road entrance (entry number 9) and will exit from the north gymnasium doors (entry 8). Only current junior-high students will be allowed to enter...

KEARNEY, Neb. — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) have arrested a York man following a pursuit on Interstate 80 that began near Lexington and ended near Kearney. At approximately 8:45 a.m. Sunday, NSP received a call from a motorist regarding a dangerous driver traveling eastbound on Interstate 80. A trooper was able to locate the vehicle, a Mercury Mystique, in Dawson County and observed it speeding at 102 miles per hour and passing another vehicle on the shoulder...

McCook Gazette McCOOK, Neb. — As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, Teresa Erickson’s sixth grade English students at McCook Junior High have been recording their own experiences as part of their e-learning assignments. Erickson said the first-person narratives are based on the “I Survived” series of children’s books that feature real children describing how they survived disasters, including recent events, like “I Survived the Joplin Tornado” and historical ones, such as the Blizzard of 1888. ...

Dorothy Gruhn, of Indianola, felt all cooped up after her son says she needs to stay home. Her son had the sign made so she can stay in “touch”.

McCOOK, Neb. -- Authorities are seeking the public’s help in connection with a burglary at McCook Senior High. Sometime Thursday or Friday, someone broke into the school, stole a bluetooth speaker and money from several locations, as well as damaging the building...