Stories from Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Community Hospital is celebrating National Nurse Practitioner Week by honoring the two Nurse Practitioners on its medical staff. Alyssa Curl, APRN is a nurse practitioner with McCook Clinic and also sees patients in Community Hospital's emergency department. Theresa Langan, APRN, MSN was recently hired to work with patients at the new Radiation Oncology Center when it is completed in the Spring of 2014...

Jani Little of McCook, Nebraska, shares the view "out my back door." 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. Include the photographer's name and where and when the photo was taken and the camera settings used to get the shot (optional)...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- An increase in general funds is not as high as portrayed in a recent audit of McCook Public School accounts. Although general funds shows an increase of $783,983, that amount included about $250,000 from federal funds that were received in 2013, instead of 2012, Haney told Board of Education members at the regular meeting Monday night...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook Community College Theatre's production of "Leaving Iowa" appears on stage this weekend at the Weeth Theater on campus. Performances are set for 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday. Cast members include: Joseph McCarty, Dorothy Schneider, Allison Priddy, Daniel Jordan, Katie Brawdy and David Sandman...

Brilliant autumn-red sumac leaves highlight a copper-colored statue in a front yard in Wauneta, while, more playfully, scarecrows and goose decoys decorate a front yard in Hamlet. Fall colors seem to be hanging on -- at least until the first rain/snow and strong north winter winds...

What do horse-drawn farming and the Internet have in common? For a young couple operating a Martell, Nebraska, vegetable farm, a lot. The Columbus Telegram published a story about Alex McKiernan and his wife, Chloe Diegel, who launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise $22,000 to convert their 40-acre truck patch from tractor to horse power -- make that two 13-year-old Belgian workhorse power, that is...

LINCOLN, Nebraska -- A couple months ago I suggested how you might make a list to keep track of who is running for what in the 2014 primary election, or at least the race for governor and U.S. senator. So, if you followed my suggestion and took a large sheet of paper divided into grids with a wide column for Governor and one for U.S. ...

Did you have success finding the elusive planet Neptune last week? I was able to get a quick view of it from my location here in Denver -- even with the light-polluted skies. Caught it in my 10x50 binoculars at about 8:30 in the evening. It looked like a very small blue dot just below the moon, since I have seen it before I knew what to look for...

Meredith R. Knutson Jan. 16, 1929 - Nov. 12, 2013 - WILSONVILLE, Nebraska -- Meredith R. Knutson, age 93, formerly of Wilsonville, died at the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Facility on Nov. 12, 2013. He was born on the family farm near Wilsonville on Jan. 16, 1920, to Elmer John and Helen Marie (Vise). He went to country school with his sister, Merle, through the sixth grade, then to school and high school in Wilsonville. He rode his horse to school...

Veterans were honored Monday at St. Patrick School for Veteran's Day, with music, student speakers and about 29 vets attending. All the veterans had children or grandchildren at the school or were related to staff at St. Pat's. Top left, Andrew Graff, who is usually on the saxophone, plays the cymbals for the opening music; top right, veterans Laverne Bieker, from left, Densel O'Dea and Andrew Meyerle during the program; above left, Pete Graff and Martha Pennington, both veterans of the U.S. ...