Stories from Wednesday, July 13, 2022

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College alumni and staff gathered prior to Saturday’s MCC alumni/community golf tournament held at Heritage Hills Golf Course. Team Nothnagel took the team title in the first flight, Team Samway second and Team Morell third...

Ashland Baca, a May 2022 McCook Community College graduate, has signed on to continue her softball career in the fall with Chadron State, an NCAA Division II school. Baca, from Strasburg High School in Colorado, set the single-season home run record of 23 this year as well as the career mark of 41...

DENVER — McCook High 2022 graduate Tucker Gillespie and soon-to-be senior Charlie Bortner have earned positions on the Nebraska state rodeo team and will be traveling with fellow teammates to Gillette, Wyo. to compete at the 74th annual National High School Finals Rodeo starting Sunday...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook National Bank Seniors' home games on Saturday and Sunday contests at Gering have been canceled, McCook Legion Post 203 officials announced this week. McCook (0-15 record) was originally scheduled to play Nebraska City and Alliance on Saturday at the Jaycees Complex. On Sunday, MNB planned for a final regular-season game at Gering...

McCOOK, Neb. — Financials are healthy at the McCook Public School District, said the school district’s business manager Monday night. Jeff Gross told the McCook School Board at its regular meeting that currently the school district is at 83% of its fiscal year and year-to-date revenue is at 101% . That’s due to taxpayers who paid their second half of property tax in May, Gross said. Year-to-date expenses are at 81%...

Dear Editor, Just as Washington D.C. has its political “royalty” – what Donald Trump calls “the swamp” – so too the Nebraska GOP. We have our sect of political elite who think themselves “nobility.” For them, Lincoln-Omaha is the kingdom of “just us” – the Republican aristocracy’s inner sanctum. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A number of area fire departments were called to a wildfire about eight miles north of McCook this afternoon. Video courtesy Kyle Rowe: https://youtube.com/shorts/skEEWUug8K4?feature=share