Stories from Tuesday, August 19, 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...

Several road side signs within Red Willow County are continuously becoming part of someone's target practice. Person or persons are shooting up the signs on county roads and this activity could have disastrous consequences for unsuspecting motorists. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook City Council will likely increase its annual financial commitment to the McCook Humane Society in response to rising expenses at the operation. Representatives from the animal shelter attended Monday's regularly scheduled meeting and said utilities had increased higher than the funding the city provided for them, primarily related to their electricity bill and in part due to the space they provided for the police department to house stray dogs and cats...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry, in cooperation with local chambers of commerce across the state, is preparing for its annual legislative forums. In total, State Chamber staff will visit 29 communities this fall. In McCook, the Chamber's forum will be held on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at Weeth Theater in Tipton Hall on the MCC campus beginning at 7:30 a.m...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Red Willow County's highway superintendent had an answer Monday morning for Calabria residents wondering if and when they need to move bushes, sprinklers or trees before county crews start road work in their subdivision northeast of McCook...

McCOOK, Neb. -- With a "huge, huge" increase in the county's valuation, Red Willow County commissioners will be able to drop the county's tax levy from 41 cents to 31 cents per $100 of tax valuation in the new 2014-15 budget. The county's valuation jumps from $931,795,554 in 2013-14 to $1,128,594,832 in 2014-15, mainly because of increases in the tax valuation of agricultural land. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- When McCook Community College students move into Brooks Hall Saturday, college officials are hoping to debut a group of community volunteers to welcome new students and help move them in. The first appearance of "Friends of the College" will gather when students check-in to Brooks Hall between 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and help students carry boxes, luggage, and dorm living items to their new rooms...

Recently your columnist lost a childhood playmate and lifelong friend. His name was Gary Mills. Our families farmed in the Stone Church neighborhood a definitely rural area some 15 miles south of Culbertson, Nebraska. As is my sometimes practice, I wrote a letter of my memories of the deceased to his family. Gary's daughter-in law Michelle Lytle responded with a pleased thank you and urged a future column to include those memories...

Christopher Jon Bauer July 4, 1972 - August 13, 2014 LINCOLN, Neb. -- Christopher John Bauer, age 42, of Lincoln, formerly of Culbertson, Nebraska, died at Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, after a long battle with cancer...

Kenneth S. Dow Sept. 5, 1961 -Aug. 23, 2014 McCOOK, Neb. -- Graveside services for Kenneth S. Dow will be conducted from the Indianola Cemetery at Indianola, Nebraska, on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, at 10 a.m. with Pastor DeWane Dow officiating. A celebration of life service will be held immediately afterwards at the Community Building in Indianola...