Stories from Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Doug Kolsky OBERLIN, Kansas -- Doug Kolsky died Tuesday (Oct. 1, 2013), at his home. Services are pending with Pauls Funeral Home in Oberlin.

Howard J. Baumbach June 1, 1918 - Oct. 2, 2013 INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Howard J. Baumbach, 95, died today (Oct. 2, 2013), at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. Services are Friday, 2 p.m. at St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Indianola with the Rev. Thomas McGuire officiating...

80th birthday The family of Joyce Remington of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of her 80th birthday. She was born Oct. 6, 1933, in Wausau, Nebraska. Her family includes Don and Mary Remington, Richard and Jacci Remington and Bob Remington, all of Danbury, Nebraska and Char and Dave Schnell of Lincoln, Nebraska. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 108 S. Cherokee Road, McCook, NE 69001...

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...

Accelerated readers at McCook Elementary reached their goals for the month of September, with 82 second and third graders and 17 first graders. A total of 5,854, 432 words have been read since the program began this year, with students passing tests on 2,983 books. Several students earned 25 or more points during September...

McCOOK/IMPERIAL Nebraska -- Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department (SWNPHD) is pleased to announce the winners of their National Preparedness Month disaster kit contest. Winners are Ashley Grassia, age 12, of Imperial and Lillie Schultz, age 11, of Danbury...

Photographer Roxy Lang of Wilsonville, Nebraska, opines that someone used the tail of this windmill for target practice. There are some tell-tale holes in the fan blades as well. The McCook Gazette would love to showcase your weather photos. Readers can contribute to our daily weather page, subject to space and color availability, by emailing photos to editor2@ocsmccook.com or bringing them into the Gazette offices at West First and E Streets. ...

McCook Senior High's Marching Bison Band wins first place overall in the 2013 McCook Heritage Days parade. In second place, was the Wallace Wildcat Junior/Senior High Band; in third was the Perkins County -- "Home of the Plainsmen" -- Band. By class, McCook won the Class B division, and Perkins County, Class C. ...

Drivers on Highway 83 north of McCook should add additional travel time to allow for traffic stops along an 8-mile construction project from McCook to the Willow Creek Bridge. The project includes milling the existing surface and applying new armor coating. Traffic control will be maintained with a pilot vehicle and reduced speed zones in the work area. Sta-Bilt Construction of Harlan, Iowa, is the contractor...

LINCOLN, Nebraska -- Officials with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday several state assistance programs would not be affected by the Federal Government shutdown and many other programs were funded into the near future...

When you do good, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Quite a few generous residents have evidently taken that advice to heart, quietly pledging $408,000 toward $500,000 needed locally by Dec. 31, 2015, to qualify for another $250,000 from the Sherwood Foundation to the McCook Community Foundation Fund...

Comet ISON has passed Mars on its million-year inward-bound journey from the outer solar system. It is already visible in small telescopes and in another two weeks or so it should become visible in binoculars. Last week I mentioned that ISON was a "sungrazer." This week I want to examine that term a little closer. It is basically what the term sounds like. A "sungrazer" is a comet that comes very close to the sun...

Howard J. Baumbach June 1, 1918 - Oct. 2, 2013 INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Howard Joseph Baumbach was born June 1, 1918, at home in the Ash Creek Community South West of Indianola, the son of William Frederick and Lillian Marie (Junker) Baumbach. He passed away Oct. 2, 2013, in the hospital at Cambridge, Nebraska, at the age of 95...