Stories from Wednesday, September 1, 2010

University of Nebraska-Kearney redshirt freshman Matt Berry (15), former McCook High School standout, sheds Wayne State defender Javal Jones (6) on this punt return during college football action Saturday night at Ron & Carol Cope Stadium at Foster Field in Kearney. The host Lopers dropped a 24-17 overtime decision...

Jan. 13, 1940-Aug. 25, 2010 IMPERIAL, Nebraska -- Roy Ulysses Cushing, 70, died Aug. 25, 2010, at the Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial. He was born Jan. 13, 1940, on a farm north of Stratton, Nebraska to George W. and Thelma B (Wilkinson) Cushing. As a youngster, he attended country school to the eighth grade and went on to graduate from Stratton High School in 1957...

Few of us would be surprised by a finding in research done by the University of California, San Diego, that the average person today consumes almost three times as much information as what the typical person consumed in 1960. There is a lot of talk about people being able to "multitask," but the truth is, it doesn't exist. Some of us are just faster at switching back and forth between different tasks...

In regard to Angie Burns Open Forum Letter of Aug. 31, the McCook Optimist Club would like to respond to some of the information Angie provided in her letter. We appreciate Angie's concern for animals and we thank the Gazette for letting us provide additional information on this subject...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Andela Taylor of rural Cambridge wrote in a report to Red Willow County commissioners and Steve Charleston of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development that progress continues on EarthBlooms eco-retreat southwest of Cambridge, in Red Willow County...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners declined Monday morning to add more money to the 2010-11 budget for the county fairgrounds, although the fair board must come up with about $7,000 to pay five years of sales taxes that it should have been collecting but didn't...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County Commissioners adopted resolutions Monday allocating final levy authority for these county subdivisions: High Plains Historical Society, tax dollars requested, $8,670; levy rate, $.001213. Lebanon Cemetery, tax dollars requested, $3,000; levy rate, $.02583...

The first thing I do when I get home from work is take off my shoes. I love being barefoot. I do slip on a pair of fuzzy slippers in the winter, but if the weather is warm, and I'm not required to wear shoes, my toes are out there wiggling for anyone to see...

The official softball season count reads Cozad 1, McCook 0, but the series is probably just getting started. The Bison girls dropped a 7-2 decision to Cozad in softball action at the Jaycees Sports Complex Tuesday, Aug. 31. Tuesday's game is likely the first of several meetings between the two squads this fall...