Stories from Wednesday, November 25, 2020

CURTIS, Neb. — The RPAC’s West Division volleyball first team features all Gazette-area players this fall. Maywood-Hayes Center tops the team following a 29-2, state semifinalist season. Senior Jaycee Widener and sophomore Olivia Hansen are both first-team middle hitters...

Before this was printed in an unknown newspaper in 1927, it was clipped and saved by John Irwin when printed in the Danbury news. It is attributed to G. T. Plumb of Marion noted as “one of our most interesting pioneers”. “Come, all you enterprising tenderfeet. If you will listen to my song, I will try and not be tedious, nor will I detain you long: while I tell you how we used to do, way back in seventy-three, when we wore buffalo hocks for moccasins, skill off above the knee...

In the early 2000s, my parents moved from McCook to a lakeside retirement community in Arkansas. Even at the time, it didn’t make sense because they had moved from Omaha to McCook just a few years earlier. Not because I lived in McCook but because of something much more persuasive: the grandkids...

Arthur J. Werner Jan. 16, 1961 - Nov. 22, 2020 PALISADE, Neb. — Arthur John Werner, age 59, of Palisade, passed peacefully, on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020, surrounded by family at his son’s home in Lincoln, Neb. John (as he was known) was born Jan. 16, 1961, in Sacramento, Calif. He graduated in 1979 from John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento, Calif. John moved to Tahlequah, Okla., and joined the U.S. Navy and was honorably discharged...

95th birthday The family of Carolyn Sytsma of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of her 95th birthday on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. She was born in Gothenburg, Neb. Carolyn and Milton (1919-2002) Sytsma moved from Brady to McCook, Neb., in 1978. ...

75th birthday The family of Betty Leibrandt of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of her 75th birthday on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. She moved to McCook as a little girl and attended McCook Public Schools, graduating in 1964. She raised her family on a farm southwest of McCook. ...

Results from Men’s Major League action at TJ’s Family Fun Center where Fullmomentum wasn’t losing any steam friom its overall lead: Men’s Major Fullmomentum 250.5-168.5 Quality Irrigation238.5-179.5 Diamond Vobel 237.5-181.5 Maris Gen Cons.221.5-198.5...

McCOOK, Neb. — Holiday events might looks shaky but the annual Cattle Trail basketball tournament will rumble full speed starting on Dec. 8. Full brackets with first-round matchups were released today. Games will be played at both McCook High and McCook Community College through the title games on Saturday, Dec. 12...

PAXTON, Neb. — Seniors Garrett Latimer from Southwest and Braxton McKinney of Wauneta-Palisade erned first-team spots while leading area football players among the 2020 D6-5 all-district selections. Latimer joins the first-team defensive line with McKinney claiming his place in the linebacker/defensive back position...

McCOOK, Neb. — It was looking like a grim Christmas for those who counted on the McCook Toy Box, the annual toy give away that provided free bikes, toys and other gifts for children whose parents otherwise couldn’t afford them. Supported entirely by local volunteers, community members and businesses, the donations were usually taken throughout November and crowds thronged the doors of the city auditorium for the afternoon event...

There was no masking the intensity of coach Jessica Bedore’s message during a close McCook eighth-grade girls basketball game against Gothenburg at McCook High on Tuesday. The Bison responded and delivered a 41-38 victory.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook Unified bowlers placed second overall at Saturday’s North Platte Invitational where 20 teams competed in four divisions. McCook’s Caleb Shaw, Ethan Graff and Dylan Rouse rolled a total pinfall of 1579 including 190 for “High Baker’s Game” on this day...

Residents urged to continue using TestNebraska drive-through events at Red Willow Fairgrounds McCOOK, Neb. -- Residents of Nebraska are encouraged to continue using the free TestNebraska program to test for COVID-19. Community Hospital has added drive-through TestNebraska events on Wednesdays in December and January from 8 to 10 AM at the Red Willow County Fairgrounds Merchant building. Dates are December 2, 16, 30 and January 13 and 27...