Stories from Monday, March 2, 2015

Edward 'Ed' T. Purinton, Jr. Dec. 12, 1920 - Feb. 28, 2015 CAMBRIDGE,  Neb. -- Edward "Ed" T. Purinton, Jr., age 94, of Cambridge, passed away at the Cambridge Manor on Feb. 28, 2015. He was born at Pueblo, Colorado, on Dec. 12, 1920, to Edward T. and Grace (Hutchison) Purinton. His family moved to the farm east of Cambridge in 1921, where Ed continued to live until 2009, when he and his wife moved to Heritage Plaza...

Joan Evans July 30, 1945 - March 1, 2015 OBERLIN, Kan. -- Joan Evans, 69, died Sunday March 1, 2015, at Dectur County Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin. Services are pending with Pauls Funeral Home in Oberlin.

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, Neb. -- Community Friday Lenten gatherings, sponsored by the Red Willow County and McCook Area Ministerial Association will continue each Friday though Lent at St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 509 West 1st Street in McCook at 12:05 p.m., just after noon...

McCOOK, Neb. -- City leaders coordinated the third and final town hall meeting this weekend and will continue efforts in the coming weeks to solicit support for renewal of McCook's local option sales tax. The meetings have provided an opportunity for city department heads to recap sales tax expenditures in recent years, as well as for citizens to provide input on the approximate $2.6 million revenue stream...

We have looked at how McCook got first water service to its citizens. But producing water is just one half of what it takes to make a Waterworks. It also takes a sewage system to make the system work. In 1882, before backhoes, and other mechanized digging machines, the work of creating ditches for water and sewer lines was all done by hand -- difficult, back breaking, hard work. ...

Jerry Dean Kotschwar Dec. 17, 1942 - Feb. 28, 2015 CULBERTSON, Neb. -- Jerry Dean Kotschwar, age 72, of Culbertson, passed away peacefully at home Feb. 28, 2015. He was born Dec. 17, 1942, in North Platte, Nebraska, to Chester James and Arline Louise (Phelps) Kotschwar. ...