Stories from Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Corrine Ruth Ficken Dec. 21, 1929 - June 10, 2013 ELWOOD, Nebraska -- Corrine Ruth Ficken, 83, died Monday (June 10, 2013), at Elwood Care Center, in Elwood. She was born Dec.21, 1929, at Cheyenne County, Kansas, to Fred and Virginia (Trembly) Sass...

Mable Dewey TRENTON, Nebraska -- Mable Dewer, 85, died today (June 11, 2013), at the El Dorado Manor in Trenton. Services are 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Trenton. Burial is at the Trenton Cemetery, Hermann-Jones Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements...

Brent L. Cobb, McCook Community College News Bureau Coordinator McCOOK, Nebraska -- In the fall of 2005, McCook Community College launched its new graphic design program with then part-time instructor Becky Meyers. Now, eight years later, MCC graphic designers are not only keeping pace with students in four-year colleges and universities, they are regularly out-performing them...

CULBERTSTON, Nebraska -- Veronica Bair of Culbertson has been awarded a $2,500 nationwide scholarship from the Foundation for Rural Education and Development (FRED). Veronica is a student at McCook Senior High School. Great Plains Communications served as Veronica's official sponsor and recommended her for this scholarship. She is one of 9 students to win the $2,500 scholarship...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook School Board of Education will have a special meeting at 5 p.m. today at the McCook Junior High cafeteria, for a hearing on whether to continue or terminate the employment of a special education teacher at the high school, Lana Egle...

LORRI SUGHROUE McCook Daily Gazette McCOOK, Nebraska -- Almost a half million dollars worth of construction and improvement projects at the McCook School District are moving forward. Total construction/upgrade costs this summer, that include a new kitchen, new bus barn and high school track improvements, come to $440,758...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Marilyn Cuellar's mother's theory about preventing unwanted puppies involved never having female dogs. Marilyn, a board member of the McCook Humane Society who visited with Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning, chuckled, " 'course, that didn't help the neighbors."...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Consolidated Correctional Foodservice of Des Moines, Iowa, proposed to Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning that they be hired to provide food service for inmates in the county's new jail. Consolidated Management representatives Lori Petersen and Scott Garrett, both of Des Moines, and Jamie Mockry of McCook promised consistency, taste and quality, nutrition and prisoner satisfaction as they customize a food service program for the county's new 30-bed jail...

Cambridge, Nebraska's economic development director Ashley Rice-Gerlach and Dan Wilson of Rogge General Contractors of Lincoln stand among skid-loaders, workers and gravel trucks on the site of the new NCP Fuel Services LLC blender-pump fueling station, convenience store, truck wash and maintenance building in the new "Harvest Meadows" subdivision on the east edge of Cambridge. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook office of Community Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska has free fans available to low-income individuals and families. Barb Ostrum, community service coordinator of Mid-Nebraska's McCook office, said there is some paperwork involved. Call her office, (308) 345-1187, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., to make an appointment to participate in the fan program...

Yes, conquered the hearts of our congregation. Four years ago it was that Grannie Annie, her congregation and this southwestern Nebraska community sent a hundred plus flat-rate postal boxes to his soldiers in a far away world. Chaplain Vineyard Sunday presented pictures of his year long tour in Afghanistan and expressed thanks on behalf of "his" warriors...

Who was raised in an apartment above her family's grocery store in Lincolnshire County, England? Answer: Margaret (Roberts) Thatcher, prime minister of England, (1979-1990). Born Oct. 13, 1925, she dies ag age 87 on April 8, 2013. Her daughter, Carol, said she had a stroke...

On behalf of the McDonald Ryan Danbury American Legion Auxiliary No. 276, we wish to thank the Omaha World Herald and feature writer Henry J. Cordes and World Herald photographer Alyssa Schuker for the wonderful tribute they gave to the three young men from Danbury, all pilots, who were lost in Vietnam 40 years ago...

Ferris Lawayne Magee Nov. 11, 1927 - June 10, 2013 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Ferris Lawayne Magee, 85, of McCook, passed away at the Hillcrest Nursing Home on June 10, 2013. He was born south of Maxwell on Nov. 11, 1927, to Leroy and Olga (Hansen) Magee. Ferris attended a rural grade school then graduated from UNSA in 1945 in Curtis. He was baptized German Lutheran, but later preferred the Methodist Church...

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...