Stories from Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Ralph Dahlstedt Sept. 9, 1942 - June 4, 2012 KEARNEY, Nebraska -- Ralph F. Dahlstedt, 69 of Kearney, died, Monday, June 4, 2012, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. A memorial service will be 11 a.m., Friday, June 8, 2012, at First Lutheran Church in Kearney. ...

This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...

Courtesy photos Margie Huxoll, above left, enjoys the annual spring tea at Willow Ridge in McCook, Nebraska, with her parents, Mildred and Roy Mustion. An array of treats was served at the spring tea in late May. Some of the finger foods included petit fours, lemon fudge, raspberry sorbet, pinwheels and key lime cupcakes. Willow Ridge Concierge Val Pollmann and Life Enrichment Director Mindy Schmitz, above right, from left, helped serve the residents and their guests at the Spring Tea...

40th anniversary The family of Dennis and Charlene (Leibrandt) Chancellor of McCook, Nebraska, is hosting a reception in honor of the couple's 40th wedding anniversary, They were married June 10, 1972, at First Church of God in McCook. The reception is June 9, 2012, 2-4 p.m. ...

The family of Russell Dowling of McCook and Roger Dowling of Squim, Washington, is requesting a card shower in honor of their birthdays. Russell was born June 8, 1915, and will be 97 and Roger was born June 12, 1948, and will be 64. Cards of congratulations will reach them both at 907 E. Fifth, McCook, NE 69001...

McCook Daily Gazette 55 years in McCook and counting Staff and owners of Sehnert's Bakery and Bieroc Cafe celebrate 55 years of business in McCook with the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce and McCook Cordials. The Chamber recognized Sehnert's as a Chamber member and also for the recent remodeling. ...

Courtesy photo Hayes Center, Nebraska, Schools is the proud recipient of a $5,000 grant. This competitive grant was awarded to Hayes Center Schools from the Great Plains Communications Company. District manager, Jason Grigg presented the check to the first grade students at a presentation on Wednesday, May 9 at the elementary school. ...

CURTIS, Nebraska -- Medicine Valley Public Schools releases fourth quarter and second semester honor rolls. The asterisk denotes all A's. Seventh Grade Fourth quarter: Abbie Ellermeier, Korinne Hansen, Brice Hodson, Kassandra Jorgensen, Elle Martin, *Layne Meyers, MiKayla Niemoth and R.J. Tutlam...

KEARNEY, Nebraska -- UNK- Scholarship support for students in the University of Nebraska at Kearney College of Business and Technology has set an all-time record, according to Dr. Timothy Burkink, CBT dean. "Thanks to the generosity of many donors," Dean Burkink said, "the College of Business and Technology was able to award nearly $210,000 in scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year. ...

CHADRON, Nebraska -- Chadron State College has announced the names of 570 students who qualified for the institution's fall 2011 academic honors lists. Local students on the President's List are: Cambridge: Jennifer Evans Elwood: Christopher Schwarz...

Parker Hannifin announces the selection of Lisa Schoup as their 2012 scholarship winner. She is a 2012 graduate of McCook High School and was selected from applicants of Parker employee's children. She is the daughter of Mike and Nadia Schoup of McCook. Lisa plans to attend MCC this fall, and then transfer to UNL to get her teaching degree...

NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Below is a list of Mid-Plains Community College students (from all campus locations) who maintain an overall 3.9 or greater (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average (GPA), which qualifies them for the President's List for the Spring 2012 Term...

NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Stephanie Finnell, daughter of Todd and Denise Finnell of Brady, was named North Platte Community College's Business Student of the Month for May. Fennell graduated from Brady Public School in 2011. During her time at NPCC, she has focused on accounting...

COLBY, Kansas -- Colby Community College has announced the Spring 2012 Honor Roll recipients. To earn a place on a CCC honor roll, students must earn 15 ormore credit hours and have no failing grades. The Dean's Honor Roll includes students with grade point averages of 3.75-3.99. The President's Honor Roll includes only students with a perfect 4.0 GPA.**...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is inviting the Legislature over for burgers, brats and beer, but it will take more than a cookout to heal the wounds from Tuesday's recall election. Walker became the first governor to survive a recall election -- two others were thrown out of office -- after he took away union rights from most public employees and required them to pay more for their health insurance pension benefits...

There is now a national conversation under way in every state in the country -- a renewed attention on the question of collective bargaining for public employees. In fact, part of this national conversation is whether public employees should have the right to form unions at all...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Cinema 3 is going digital. And fast. The Westview Plaza-located movie theater's complete conversion to digital projection is scheduled to get under way on Monday, June 11, and be finished just in time for the moviegoing crowd on Friday, June 15, according to Alison Meyer, the district manager of Cinema 3's Des Moines, Iowa-based parent company, Fridley Theatres. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Nebraska offices of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Grand Island and McCook are being consolidated into one in McCook. Aaron Thompson, area manager for the Nebraska-Kansas Area, said the process was about halfway toward completion...

WEST FARGO, North Dakota -- Titan Machinery Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Curly Olney's Inc., which comprises two Case IH dealerships, in McCook and Imperial, Nebraska. The acquisition is expected to close about July 2...

JIGGS, Nevada -- Get ready McCook, Nebraska. Waddie Mitchell is on his way. The famed cowboy poet -- just back from a two-month stint in Australia -- is driving cross-country from his home in Jiggs, Nevada to McCook, where he is booked as the headliner for the 16th annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival...

Pollen collects on the hairy legs of a bumblebee frequenting hollyhocks growing in McCook, Nebraska.

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook Post Office is asking for the public's support in keeping their dogs restrained year-round; for the safety of letter carriers and the community. Nationwide 5,577 mail carriers were attacked by dogs last year, including 26 in Nebraska...

LINCOLN -- If it ain't one thing ... U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson decided to retire in the face of what would have been the toughest and undoubtedly the ugliest campaign of his political career. The two-term Democrat was already the subject of vilification for his votes on revising federal healthcare policy, and anything else he'd ever done that was even vaguely in line with the Obama administration...