Stories from Friday, January 10, 2014

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 -- Ashlee Minard, originally of Bartley, Nebraska, and Brian Springer, originally of Ogallala, Nebraska, were united in marriage Oct. 26, 2013, at Kelley Park Bolles Canyon in McCook, Nebraska, with William Reddinger officiating. Parents of the bride are Rusty and Penny (Park) Minard of Bartley. ...

Sewick, Hiatt Taylor Hannah Tresa Sewick of Bennington, Nebraska, and Colten Douglas Hiatt of Papillion, Nebraska, announce their engagement and upcoming wedding Parents of the bride-to-be are Thomas and Tresa Sewick of Fremont, Nebraska. Grandparents are Alfred Wayne and Hannah Cornelius of Fremont and Howard and Peggy Sewick of Leon, Iowa...

Brown, Moody Alicia Brown and Dawson Moody of Crawford, Nebraska, announce their engagement and upcoming marriage. Parents of the bride-to-be are Gary Brown and Karen Brown of Wilsonville, Nebraska. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Dave and Mary Moody of Crawford and Suzanne and Jim Swanson of Seattle, Washington...

Gavin Kristin and Reese Reann tenBensel Jan and Jodi tenBensel of Cambridge, Nebraska, announce the birth of their twins, Gavin Kristin tenBensel, top, and Reese Reann tenBensel, who were born Nov. 3, 2013, at Hastings Mary Lanning Hospital. Gavin weighed 4 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 16.5 inches long and Reese weighed 5 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 18 inches long. ...

By Susan Doak SW Nebraska Genealogy Society McCOOK, Nebraska -- Sometimes when I am researching people I knew in my childhood, I am hampered by the fact that in my parent's world, children did not address adults by their first name. Consequently, I knew large numbers of people only as: Mrs. Fagan or Mr. Christensen, etc. This becomes a problem if the people did not live until I reached adulthood and learned their first names or if they were distant friends of my parents...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- The Winter 2014 University of Nebraska Alumni magazine features essays by three writing contest winners, one of which was submitted by Cambridge resident, Sondra Jonson. The essay, which tied for second place, profiles her youngest son, Thomas McHale, and his life-changing semester studying Community Public Health in the African country of Botswana...

There's nothing quite like a hearty, homemade meal to help warm up those cold winter nights. And with a well-stocked pantry - or "Cantry" - delicious meals, like Turkey Green Bean Chili and Home-Style Chicken Pot Pie, are just a few cans away. Because cans lock in foods' freshness and nutrition, stocking up on staples like canned tomatoes, green beans, peas and canned chicken means that you have access to wholesome ingredients all winter long. ...

I had a wonderful time while I was in Arkansas over Christmas. I spent two days with Michael in Russellville, then two more days with Will in Bentonville. We shared gifts, ate out at new restaurants as well as some of our old haunts, went to movies that will be up for Oscars this year, and, most importantly, caught up on each other's lives. ...

Tom Osborne is one of the most successful and highly regarded college football coaches in history, but he's also one of the most humble. One of the things he should be proudest of has nothing to do with the gridiron. It does, however, reflect the formula that helped Osborne find success on and off the field and in Congress...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook School Board of Education will be asked to approve the resignations of two teachers, bids to replace bleachers at the high school gym and salary increases for teachers, at the regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the junior high conference room...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Documents that have recently been unsealed concerning a pair of grisly murders committed here in the 1970s, have shed new light on the crime for a writer who is working on a screenplay about it. The Harold Nokes murders of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt in 1973 is the kind of thing "you don't think could happen in a small Midwestern town like McCook," said Emmett Jones, who grew up here, graduated in 1979 and is writing a screenplay about the murders. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Booe Machinery & Salvage has broken ground at its new location in the industrial park just behind Valmont and a second business has already expressed interest in following suit. The company is the first tenant to setup shop in the park, more than a decade after the City of McCook entered into a joint development agreement with the McCook Economic Development Corp...

Darcie Leigh Zuck March 8, 1973 - Jan. 9, 2014 CULBERTSON, Nebraska -- Darcie Leigh Zuck of Culbertson passed away Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 40 years old. Darcie and her twin sister, Kristie, were born on March 8, 1973, in McCook to parents Herbert "Herb" E. Zuck and Pamela "Pam" R. (Myers) Fraker. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in Oberlin, Kansas, in 1992...