Stories from Monday, May 19, 2014

WEDNESDAY 1:54 a.m., 1100 block of E. Third Street -- subject arrested for driving while intoxicated 7:49 a.m., 1300 block of East H Street -- dispatched fire personnel 8:03 a.m., Cleek Drive -- parking complaint 10:10 a.m., E. Sixth Street and F Street -- dog at large...

Margaret Loretta (Sullivan) Pianalto Aug. 19, 1940 - May 6, 2014 ATWOOD, Kansas -- Margaret Loretta (Sullivan) Pianalto died May 6, 2014 at Atwood. She was born Aug. 19, 1940, to Justin and Loretta (Burns) Sullivan. She attended St. Peter's Catholic School in Mercier, Kansas and graduated from Mount St. Scholastica Academy in Atchison, Kansas, in 1958...

Ronnie G. Cooper May 1, 1941 - May 18, 2014 SELDEN, Kansas -- Ronnie G. Cooper, 73, died Sunday (May 18, 2014), at his home in Selden. He was born May 1, 1941, to John and Rosa (Zimmer) Cooper in Selden. He graduated from Selden Rural High School in 1959. He was in the U.S. Air Force...

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. Activity log These items are taken from reports filed by the McCook Police Department. The locations refer to block numbers, not specific addresses. If you have information about any of these reports, call the police department at (308) 345-3450...

Rather than divide his time and attention between Hancock Gravel and CTE Construction, Jay Hancock has decided to close his gravel business southwest of McCook, Nebraska. "I'm putting all my efforts into CTE Construction," Jay said, after officially closing the sand pit Friday, May 9. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Alicia Haugen, Senior Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship at the University of Nebraska Foundation, has announced that the 2014 Col. Delbert L. Townsend Scholarship recipients are Wesley Burkert and Rebecca Sehnert of McCook High School and Kaylee Potthoff and Miranda Wordekemper of Southwest High School. Parents of the recipients are Korey and Stacey Burkert, Matthew and Shelly Sehnert, Kevin and Tami Potthoff and Jeff and Sharon Wordekemper...

CULBERTSON, Neb. -- Mark Sullivan, candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, will greet the public at the home of Duffy Keller, 202 Tate in Culbertson, at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 31, for coffee, cookies and a question-answer conversation.

Everybody and their dogs appear to have been at the 32nd annual Atwood, Kansas, Early Rod Run "show-and-shine" Saturday morning. Doug Mann of Windsor, Colorado, pulled into town with the 1959 el Camino that sat in a cornfield for 17 years before he rescued it a couple years ago. ...

Patty Keene of McCook, Nebraska, a native of Chile, will teach conversational classes in Spanish for beginners each Thursday morning in June, July and August, at the historic Carnegie Library in downtown McCook. She plans two classes: one from 11 a.m. ...

School's out for summer -- almost; just ask a kid who hasn't graduated yet and may be counting down the hours until the final dismissal of the year. It's time to enjoy the outdoors, take part in baseball, softball and soccer, plan a family vacation or head to the lake. There are summertime jobs for older kids, and all of us adjust our daily activities in tune with the calendar...

Like most Nebraska sports fans, I have been generally pleased with the Huskers aligning themselves with the Big 10 Athletic Conference. Yet, I'm sure that I am not alone in missing the "Love/Hate" relationships that we enjoyed with the schools of the old Big 8 Conference, especially the University of Oklahoma -- relationships that stemmed back to the old Missouri Valley Conference, which began in 1907 -- then to the Big 6, Big 7 and finally the Big 8. ...

OBERLIN, Kan. -- Auditions for "King Kong: The Puppet Show" a one-act, comedic retelling of the classic monster movie that combines live-action and puppetry, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Fellowship Hall (basement) of St. John's Lutheran Church located at 501 North Wilson in Oberlin...

James 'Jim' Austerman March 25, 1959 - May 18, 2014 CLAYTON, Kansas -- James "Jim" Austerman, 55, died Sunday (May 18, 2014), at his home. He was born March 25, 1959, in Norton, Kansas, to Reynold Rex and Caroline (Gasper) Austerman. He attended Lenora High School and North Central Kansas Technical College in Beloit...