Stories from Tuesday, February 16, 2010

July 11, 1932 - Feb. 15, 2010 HASTINGS -- Graveside services for Susie Steele will be conducted from the Prairie Home Cemetery in Holdrege Friday, 11 a.m., with Pastor Murray Jones, officiating. Susie Steele, 77 years of age, of Hastings (formerly of McCook and Loomis) passed away at her home in Hastings on Monday (Feb. ...

It will be an inconvenience for those of us used to cutting through the park on our way to northern McCook or to the southeast part of town, but closing the road through Kelley Park is a good idea. The City Council plans to vote on the issue at its next meeting...

Debt has value! Yes, large corporations buy and sell debt -- so this lawyer friend was trying to convince me. He further explained that when companies are bought and sold, sometimes divisions that are failing financially are siphoned off and set up as new companies. Someone is assigned to manage that failing portion and that was his job, CEO of a group of "failing" companies...

Last week, we began debate on priority bills. Senators have until this Friday to designate one bill as their priority for this session. This Friday is also the deadline to request speaker priority bill designations from Speaker Mike Flood. This week, I would like to discuss LR 292, introduced by Sen. Fulton, and LB 1102 introduced by Sen. Giese...

Students attending McCook Community College will benefit from the generosity of Helen L. Wolfe, who established an estate bequest of $445,000 to the McCook College Foundation. Mrs. Wolfe directed that the funds establish the Helen and Lester Wolfe Scholarship Program at McCook Community College...

By LORRI SUGHROUE City Editor After expressing their frustration, council members bit the bullet and approved 3-1 a motion for the city to cough up $42,400 for improvements done on J Street last year, improvements they had believed were covered by stimulus funds...

The second time was a charm for Southwest Nebraska Habitat for Humanity, which will receive discounted dumping fees for a house it is renovating on West Third. The McCook City Council unanimously approved Monday night at the regular City Council meeting that Habitat projects pay actual city costs, instead of regular fees, for unloading debris at the McCook Transfer Station...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor A fire at a McCook home Monday afternoon caused extensive damage to the exterior, but "the quick response" of the fire department kept the fire from spreading to the interior. McCook Fire Chief Marc Harpham said his firefighters reported heavy smoke and fire coming from the back of Debra and Fred Petsch's house at 810 West M when fire trucks arrived on the scene about 2:45 p.m. ...

One councilman was for it, while another remained unconvinced, about closing one end of the access road that runs in front of the lower shelter house at Kelley Park. During discussions about the road at the regular McCook City Council meeting Monday night, the council debated closing the road and will vote either aye or nay on it at an upcoming meeting...

June 17, 1921 - Feb. 12, 2010 Lloyd Ray Stretch, 88, died Friday (Feb. 12, 2010) at McCook Community Hospital in McCook. He was born June 17, 1921, at Wauneta, the son of the late Ira Mart and Flora Estella (Bennett) Stretch. Lloyd grew up at Wauneta where he graduated from Wauneta High School in 1941...