Stories from Thursday, April 14, 2022

McCOOK, Neb. — A Kansas high school basketball player who thought she was done with the sport when her senior year concluded two years ago, has signed a letter of intent to continue her college career at a four-year school. McCook Community College sophomore Alyssa Van Vleet will play basketball next season at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, Mich...

Richard “Dick” Quinn Nov. 7, 1939 - Dec. 28, 2021 McCOOK, Neb. — Richard “Dick” Quinn, 82, of McCook, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, at Community Hospital in McCook. He was born in Oxford, Neb., on Nov. 7, 1939, to parents, Eugene R. Quinn and E. Maxine (Schroder) Quinn...

Men’s Major Maris General 262.5-187.5 TJ’s Family Fun 258-192 Fullmomentum 246-204 Diamond Vogel 245-204 Stockman’s Feed 238-211 Five Loners 233-217 Deveny Motors 227-221 Burton Well Drng 221.5-227.5...

Six games played for the Junior B teams over the weekend and finished 3-3. Pinnacle Bank Game 1 North Platte 8 Pinnacle Bank 2 Game 2 North Platte 5 Pinnacle Bank 4 Battle of Borders Game 1 Herrmann Jones Funeral Chapel 5, Iowa Bluehawks 4 Game 2 Iowa Linn Marr 9...

LEXINGTON, Neb. — McCook coach Matt Wiemers mixed up his tennis lineup at Tuesday’s Lexington Invitational and uncovered mostly Easter eggs filled with awesome chocolate. Nothing was better than the No. 3 doubles team where Laci Stewart joined Rowen Wiemers to become undefeated champions at 7-0...

IMPERIAL, Neb. — Chase County golfers were seeing too much red with Perkins County and McCook going 1-2 during Monday’s Chase County Invitational at Enders Golf Course. Yet the Longhorns still finished a solid fourth place among nine teams, just two strokes behind third-place Sutherland...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska announced today it has created the Nebraska Huskers Marketplace, one of the first licensed school NIL marketplaces in college sports. The Opendorse-powered marketplace will maximize NIL support for Husker student-athletes. Nebraska is among the first programs nationwide to provide a single marketplace platform to send supporters to access student-athletes and offer NIL opportunities...

LEXINGTON, Neb. —They could howl louder than any wind after McCook’s golfers unleashed a season-best 324 to win the Lexington Invitational Tuesday. “It was a great day for our program,” coach Ben Ventrovsky proclaimed about firing 12 strokes lower than any other of 12 teams competing. “It’s nice to some of our practice efforts translate into a tournament.”...

Shary Skiles Publisher Bruce Crosby Editor McCOOK, Neb. — A collection of candidates cited motivations ranging from a simple desire to serve their communities to more personal reasons such as wanting to spend more time with their families at a candidate’s forum hosted by McCook radio stations KICX and KBRL Tuesday night at the Bieroc Cafe...

McCOOK, Neb. — The active shooter drill April 7 that involved all of the buildings in the McCook School District took about a years’ worth of planning. “We learned what we did well and where we did not do so well,” McCook Public Schools Superintendent Grant Norgaard told the McCook Board of Education Monday at the regular meeting...

McCOOK, Neb. — Boutique Airline enplanements at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport dropped by 47.09 percent in March compared to last year and deplanements didn’t do much better, dropping by 41.04% compared to March 2021. Boutique Airline is the federally subsidized Essential Air Service airline at the McCook airport. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — A total of $1 million in new construction was completed in McCook in March. Total year-to-date of new construction, plumbing and mechanical is $2.07 million, according to the City of McCook’s monthly permit report. Leading new construction last month was $409,000 for one commercial building, followed by $350,000 for a residential structure, one/two-family, built outside city limits...

The tax reform bill, LB 873, which I discussed at length last week, will provide over 900 million dollars in reduced taxes for the citizens of the state of Nebraska over a 5 year period. You may see other articles criticizing this tax change, saying that there was no tax break for middle or low income taxpayers, but this is absolutely not true. ...

Over 40,000 acres. At this writing, that is the amount of pasture and cropland that has burned in Gosper and Furnas counties, as well as just south of the border in northern Kansas. At least eight families have lost their homes. Dozens of other structures were also destroyed. ...