Stories from Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Dennis R. Walters Nov. 9, 1955 - Dec. 28, 2014 DANBURY, Neb. -- Dennis R. Walters, age 59, passed away Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014, at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Dennis was born in McCook on Nov. 9, 1955, to Veryl and Eleanor (Kircher) Walters. He graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1973...

Cecelia Felker Nov. 23, 1927 - Dec. 29, 2014 McCOOK, Neb. -- Cecelia Felker, age 87, died at Hillcrest Nursing Home on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. She was born in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 23, 1927, to Fred and Matilda (Deutsch) McConnell. The family moved to Oconto, Nebraska, when Cecelia was five years old. She attended and graduated from Oconto High School. She went to Kearney State Teachers College, earning her degree. Ceceila taught in Merna and Culbertson, Nebraska...

Dr. Robert L. Haag LINCOLN, Neb. -- Dr. Robert L. Haag, 80, of Lincoln died Friday (Dec. 26, 2014). He was a retired physician at Lincoln East Internal Medicine, a former Chief of Staff at St. Elizabeth Community Health Center and a U.S. Navy veteran...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A local farm bureau representative hopes jail time is handed down in a Red Willow County felony case involving the killing and butchering of a heifer. Richard Neel with the Red Willow County Farm Bureau issued an open letter to Red Willow Count Attorney Paul Wood last week stating his position...

Residents break from routine activities to adapt to the snowstorm that rolled through Southwest Nebraska over the weekend and continuing today. A Great Lakes airliner gets a de-icing treatment at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport,

The Nebraska State Patrol felt compelled to issue a news release about a speeding ticket on Interstate 80 on Christmas eve. What made it newsworthy? According to the release, Brandon P. Vasquez of Scottsdale, Arizona, was clocked at 127 m.p.h. in a 75-m.p.h. zone...

Grannie and your humble correspondent spent the few days before Christmas visiting a granddaughter who lives on the giant west coast Camp Pendleton Installation. She and her Marine husband, when he is not deployed, reside in military family housing built on a high bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It has been an idyllic respite from the rigors of icy roads, wind and snow the norm for Southwestern Nebraska at the moment...

Most of us think about the Fourth of July when it comes to fireworks, but Brandon Hutto, 11, is up to his elbows in them at his father Eric's stand at 306 W. Fourth in McCook, Nebraska. Laws were changed a few years ago to allow fireworks to be sold and discharged for New Year's celebrations...

MAYWOOD, Neb. . -- Micheal R. Evans, age 64, of Maywood, Nebraska, passed away Friday, Dec. 26, 2014, at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Nebraska. Mike was born July 12, 1950, in McCook, Nebraska, to parents Hershel R. and Shirley E. ...

Rosetta Lynn Clark Dec. 22, 1951 - Dec. 30, 2014 HAYES CENTER, Neb. -- Rosetta Lynn Clark, 63, died Tuesday (Dec. 30, 2014) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born in McCook on Dec. 22, 1951, to Floyd Edward and Bertha Leona (Williams) Witt...