Stories from Wednesday, October 22, 2014

ATWOOD, Kan. -- Citizens Medical Center and Rawlins County Health Center will soon be collaborating in order to meet the needs of their communities. On Oct. 17, Kevan Trenkle, CEO, Citizens Medical Center Inc. of Colby, Kansas, and Sharon K. Cox, CEO, Rawlins County Health Center signed an agreement to partner together and to provide RCHC some physician services including medical leadership for their hospital & clinic. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Democratic candidate for Congress Mark Sullivan believes it's time for some of our politicians in D.C. to return to their state of origin and make way for others more capable of getting the job done. "When a farmer and a cattlemen realizes that nothings gonna get done, sometimes they have to step in," said Sullivan during the High Plains Radio Candidate's Forum at the Bieroc Cafe last week...

In a private and personal ceremony of closure, a soldier has left his desert-sand combat boots on the steps of the historic Stone Church on Highway 17 south of Culbertson, Nebraska. This is the second pair of boots that the soldier has left on the church steps. ...

Chuckwagon driver David Pabst, Colby, Kansas, will recount his journey along the Great Western Cattle Trail when the Great Western Cattle Trail Association of Nebraska meets Wednesday, Oct. 29 at North Shore between Stratton and Trenton. David and his sidekick, Ken, have a long-range plan to drive their chuckwagon and team along the entire Great Western Trail. ...

City of McCook, Nebraska, police, fire and rescue personnel respond to a two-vehicle accident about 4 p.m., Monday, at the north end of West Third adjacent to the Henton Addition. The driver of a pickup was transported to Community Hospital of McCook; EMT's and paramedics helped a handicapped man get out of his van. More information will be available after McCook police officers complete their investigation of the accident...

Diseases have been prominent on the Gazette's front page in recent days, from Tuesday's story about Community Hospital's preparations to deal with Ebola, to the confirmation of the enterovirus to a death associated with the West Nile virus. Ebola victims die a horrible death, and while there officially have been about 5,000 deaths among fewer than 10,000 cases, worldwide, the vast majority of them in Africa, some believe the actual numbers are much higher...

Remember when -- what now seems like ages ago -- I suggested that you keep track of the Nebraska Primary Elections by using a large sheet of paper, a pencil and an eraser to write the names of the gubernatorial and senate candidates and keep track of them?...

As the autumnal season has now fully taken hold of our surroundings on Earth, let's consider what our autumnal sky looks like. As ancient people looked at the night sky they began to connect the dots to make pictures of the characters in their myths. One such group of characters can be located in the early evening in the northeastern sky...

The second annual "Junktoberfest: A Vintage and Artisan Market," a celebration of all that is old and unusual, is scheduled on the Red Willow County fairgrounds in the 1500 block of West Fifth in McCook, Nebraska, on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- City Manager Nate Schneider joined McCook police officers during a casual visit with citizens Tuesday morning. Schneider offered updates on several local housing developments, efforts to expand the Work Ethic Camp and his hope to find ways to make building and plumbing code less cumbersome...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The City of McCook Public Works Department announced Tuesday a pair of intersections will be closed for at least a few days, as part of the East Seventh Street and Seminole street repair project. The intersections of North Cherokee and Seminole, as well as East Seventh Street and East I Street, will be closed while concrete valley drains are installed...

McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook police officers are giving extra attention to seat belts after noticing a trend primarily involving high school aged drivers. Senior Sgt. Kevin Darling said officers were keeping an eye out for unbuckled drivers during their regular school patrols and issuing friendly reminders when applicable...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Large cities are not the only place with skyscrapers. We have them in small towns, too. Here, they're called grain elevators. This fact -- which is apparent when you travel through the Tri-State Region -- is a major reason for the success of Doak Construction, a millwright, construction, sales and service company which has been serving the grain storage and handling needs of a wide region of Southwest Nebraska, Northwest Kansas and Northeast Colorado for 54 years...

John Moreno IMPERIAL, Neb. -- John "Lil' John" Moreno, 61, died Sunday (Oct. 12, 2014), at the Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial, Nebraska. Survivors include his children, Chantel Bishop and friend, Sam Malleck of McCook, Nebraska, and Josh Moreno and wife, Tricia of Imperial; sister, Olga Kimble and husband, Rick of Imperial; brothers, Roy Moreno and wife, Cindy of Holyoke, Colorado, Mario Moreno and wife, Mary Lou of San Antonio, Texas, Isidro Moreno and wife, Jo Ann of North Platte, Nebraska and Tony Moreno and wife, Evonne of Sterling, Colorado; sisters, Dora Jackson and husband, Robin of Windsor, Colorado, and Erma Greene of Fort Collins, Colorado; brother-in-law, Russ Chambers and wife, Erica of Yuma, Colorado; and four grandchildren.. ...

Clara 'Lucille' Fowler April 18, 1930 - Oct. 22, 2014 OBERLIN, Kan. -- Clara "Lucille" Fowler, 84, died Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, at Decatur County Good Samaritan Society in Oberlin. She was born April 18, 1930, on a farm north of McCook, Nebraska. She was a homemaker...