Stories from Friday, May 7, 2021

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. —McCook capturing five of the top eight shot put places showed just what the Bison unleashed at Thursday’s GNAC track/field meet. The Bison won all three relays, four other races and both power throws. Yet it was many other high places plus plenty of personal bests that powered the McCook girls to their first GNAC team title since 2010...

KEARNEY, Neb. — McCook’s tennis girls conquered one of their best tourney tests all season, 71-65, over Grand Island Central Catholic at Thursday’s Kearney Catholic Invite. The Bison fought off this perennial Class B contender thanks to four undefeated efforts again...

Terry Dean Schleeman May 5, 1945 - April 13, 2021 McCOOK, Neb. — Terry Dean Schleeman, age 75, of McCook, passed away at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook April 13, 2021.  He was born in McCook on May 5, 1945, to George J. and Wilma E. (Ahrens) Schleeman.  Terry attended school in McCook. ...

Keith Lock Arterburn Feb. 5, 1925 - Dec. 26, 2020 McCOOK, Neb. — Keith Lock Arterburn was born in Holyoke, Colorado on Feb. 5, 1925 to Roley and Ruby (Lock) Arterburn. He died Dec. 26, 2020, at the home of his grandson, Chris and wife, Molly, in Ft. Collins, Colo., where he lived since July 15, 2020...

McCook firefighters didn't have far to go about noon today when a fire was reported in one of the patrol cars parked at the police station next door. The "fire" turned out to be leaking antifreeze, however.

LINCOLN, Neb. — The University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis announced the university has received a gift of 2,147 acres of ranchland in northeast Hayes County. David Scholz and his late wife, Sandra “Sande” Scholz, made the gift valued at nearly $1.5 million through the University of Nebraska Foundation for education and research purposes...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Property tax relief for unequalized school districts is probably dead for the year according to Sen. Dan Hughes. In an update to constituents on the past week’s activity in the Nebraska Unicameral, Sen. Hughes spoke via Zoom at the chamber’s weekly update and said that several bills designed to change how Nebraska funds education had failed to advance or were in the process of being filibustered...

McCOOK, Neb. — Curriculum purchases costing slightly over $80,000 is one of the items the McCook School Board will be asked to approve Monday night at its regular meeting, 6:30 p.m. at the junior high conference room. The curriculum is for social studies K-5 and social studies 6th through 8th grade, for both online and in-classroom material. The curriculum purchase proposal the board will be asked to approve is for $82,054.14 to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

McCOOK, Neb. — On Saturday, May 22, 2021, the City of McCook Transfer Station be accepting CRT TVs, monitors, and other electronics for recycling between the hours of 8 a.m. - noon, or until the event has reached its maximum amount allowed. Electronics will be accepted for free with a limit of two TVs or monitors per participant. ...

Even though Valentine’s Day is named after a Saint and has historical significance, it’s popular to make fun of the holiday. It is widely seen as a conspiracy between florists, candy, and greeting card companies. The history of Mother’s Day is quite the opposite...

“Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.” ~R. Tagore I do not have a green thumb. It’s not exactly black, but it is a dark moldy grey. Yet, every spring I vow that this will be the year I do something with the small strip of land on the east side of my house. ...

The Republican River 4-H trap team brought back the third-place trophy won at the 51st Cornhsker Trap Shoot April 29 in Doniphan, breaking 416 of 500 blue rocks. They are, from left, Maverick Webb, Hudson Werkmeiste, Beckett Hewlett, Zach Hinze, Coach Rob Hinze and Micaiah Barber. Zach won a shoot-off with Kahne Packer of 5 Clovers 4-H to win the junior high individual championship, hitting all 25 targets while Packer missed one. Eight-hundred thirty-five junior high shooters competed Thursday...

BELOW LEFT: Laura Nokes and sons Trevor and Parker accept the McCook Community College’s President’s Award from Mid-Plains President Ryan Purdy on behalf of their late husband and father, Garrett, at this morning’s MCC Commencement Ceremonies. “He loved the sport of rodeo,” Laura said, “and he was passionate about it. ...

Southern Valley’s 333 golf team score won the Kipping Invitational Thursday with seniors Colton Burgeson and Brody Yant firing rounds of 81. The RPAC champion Eagles rolled past Loomis (344) and Alma (370) even though those teams took top two individual spots...

McCOOK, Neb. -- English teacher Lisa Beans was named the 2021 winner of the McCook Community College Gene Budig Award for Outstanding Faculty. The announcement came at the college’s Commencement activities Friday in the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center...

McCOOK, Neb. — League standings through one week of Ladies' Golf League action at Heritage Hills: A League Jennifer Baker/Mindy Haag 10 Staci Chitwood/Kristy Nickel 9 Deb Walter/Colleen Olson 8 Karmon Coleman/Helen Reiners 8 JoHanna Scott/Michelle Terry 8...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — A typical great day from the McCook Bison boys put them second behind only powerful North Platte at Thursday’s GNAC track/field meet. One North Platte coach called it a “special year” for those Bulldogs with senior Kymani Sterling winning three races...

GOTHENBURG, Neb. — McCook High golfed to two of the top three spots and a Southwest Conference team championship at Wildhorse Golf Course Thursday. Coach Joe Vetrovsky provided these comments as senior Brady Esch won the SWC title with his 75 and classmate Payton Craw carded 76...