Stories from Tuesday, June 9, 2020

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook School Board Monday night approved a contract for a math teacher at the high school, as well as a new policy concerning boundaries between students and teachers. By a unanimous vote, a contract for Patricia Dorschorst was approved at $66,412, MA (master’s degree)+36 , Step 11. Dorschorst has been working as a substitute teacher for McCook Schools for past few years after retiring from teaching in Oberlin, said McCook Schools Superintendent Grant Norgaard...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Thanks to generous donations of time, money, clothing, in-kind services and many other items, the Family Resource Center in McCook is able to provide important services to families who may not be able to obtain them anywhere else. And, the center is able to do it on a relatively tiny budget, according to figures that director Kathy Haas provided to the Red Willow County Commissioners Monday...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Red Willow County Commissioners approved a request from Jim Bowen of Southwest Weed Management for a letter of support for a grant application. This year, about three-fourths of a mile of Arikaree Creek was cleared of a heavy infestation of salt cedar and Russian olive trees. ...

Maintenance work set for N-89 near Danbury McCOOK, Neb. — Weather permitting, a chip seal project will begin June 15 on N-89, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation.  Chip seal is an application of an asphalt binder to the roadway surface followed by an application of aggregate...

LINCOLN, Neb. – With summer on the horizon the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is again distributing free fans and offering other cooling assistance programs through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). DHHS has partnered with organizations to distribute fans purchased with federal funds to Nebraskans in need. ...

It is an interesting world that we live in! Turn to a news channel and all you see and hear are riots in progress. Peaceful “demonstrations” in cities all over the country which turn to rioting and looting after dark. One can wonder what we are missing in the goings on of more productive people...

Sandra “Sandy” Kay (Johnson) Novak Dec. 15, 1944 - May 24, 2020 ST. PAUL, Neb. —Sandra “Sandy” Kay (Johnson) Novak, 75, formerly of McCook, Neb., passed away Sunday, May 24, 2020, at Brookefield Park in St. Paul.  Memorial service will be 1 p.m., Thursday, June 11, 2020, at Peace Lutheran Church in McCook. ...

Beverlee Joan Swanson July 5, 1931 - June 6, 2020 FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Beverlee Joan Swanson, 88, passed away of natural causes on June 6, 2020, in Fort Collins, surrounded by family. She was born July 5, 1931, to Glenn V. and Nellie (Bennett) Meyers at Holdrege, Neb. The family moved to McCook when she was four years old and she attended McCook schools until graduating in 1949...

Robert Wren “Bobcat” Trosper July 25, 1968 - June 7, 2020 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Robert Wren Trosper, age 51 years old, was born to Donna Doreen Mills and Wren Leo Trosper at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital on July 25, 1968. Bob graduated in 1987 with 17 classmates at Cambridge High School...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department (SWNPHD) has been notified of a COVID-19 death from SWNPHD’s health district. The death occurred earlier this week. Nineteen lab-confirmed cases have been reported in the health district as of June 9th. Three counties: Dundy, Hayes and Perkins have no reported cases, one case in each of Chase, Frontier and Hitchcock, two cases in Keith, five in Red Willow and nine cases in Furnas county...

Title Rainbow after the storm Photo taken outside of mccook of the double rainbow