Stories from Thursday, April 29, 2021

McCOOK, Neb. — The stock market shouts “buy-buy-buy!” McCook boys golf even as coach Joe Vetrovsky jams to some Florida-Georgia Line on another victory drive home. “We know coach is happy when he’s jamming out,” three Bison golf seniors proclaim about prospects that keep going up with another team championship at Holdrege on Tuesday...

McCook Junior High track-field top five placers at Friday’s Holdrege Invitational followed by the Lexington Quad on Tuesday. Boys’ results appear today on Page 10. GIRLS At Holdrege Team scores: 1. North Platte 96, 2. Broken Bow 91, 3. Gothenburg 81, 4. McCook 56, 5. Minden CL Jones 50, 6. Holdrege 41, 7. Cambridge 39, 8. Southern Valley 35, 9. Ogallala 6...

More questions than answers to improve our communities When I first moved to McCook, one of the first things that caught my eye was the Fox Theater. I was fascinated every time I saw the sign out front lit up on Norris Avenue. We aren’t the only community with a Fox Theater...actually, can someone please explain why Fox is such a common name for a theater?...

Hail up to 3 inches in diameter in the St. Francis, Kan. area wasn’t welcome, but the rain that accompanied it throughout Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas was a welcome reprieve from drought conditions. More rain is needed if precipitation is ever to be more common than the Red Flag warnings issued by the National Weather Service office in Goodland, Kan...

CHADRON, Neb. — While a majority of the Eagles did not compete this past weekend, several members of the Chadron State College men’s track and field team put its speed on display again Saturday at a pre-conference meet hosted by Colorado School of Mines in Golden...

McCook Junior High track-field top five placers at Friday’s Holdrege Invitational followed by the Lexington Quad on Tuesday. BOYS At Holdrege Team scores: 1. North Platte 109, 2. Holdrege 82.5, 3. Minden 71, 4. McCook 65, 5. Gothenburg 63.5, 6. Broken Bow 51, 7. Southern Valley 22, 8. Ogallala 20, 9. Cambridge 12...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival planning committee is pleased to announce that a 24 1/2th Festival will be held in June. To start celebrating a special First Tuesday with Job Vigil is scheduled for the Bieroc Cafe this Tuesday, May 4...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Since the mid-1980s McCook Community College’s Family and Consumer Sciences department (FACS) and the Child Development Center (CDC) have been educating infants through college students in the lower level of Walsh Brady Hall. That space is getting a complete remodel this summer...