Stories from Monday, April 6, 2015

Violet Irene Schissler Feb. 14, 1919 - April 2, 2015 OBERLIN, Kan. -- Violet Irene Schissler was born Feb. 14, 1919, in Rawlins County, Kansas, to Charles and Mary (Hokenson) Henningson. She passed away Thursday, April 2, 2015, at the Good Samaritan Society-Decatur County in Oberlin, Kansas, at the age of 96...

Velda Jean Hill Aug. 24, 1928 - April 3, 2015 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Velda Jean Hill, formerly of Wilsonville, passed away at Cambridge Manor in Cambridge on April 3, 2015. She was born near Wilsonville, Nebraska, to Simon and Frieda (Ruhs) Wolzen on Aug. 24, 1928, the oldest of six children...

Emergency personnel and law enforcement officers respond to a single-vehicle accident at 2 p.m. Easter Sunday, on Highway 6&34 at the corner of the old Republican Valley High School between Indianola and McCook, Nebraska. Forty-five minutes later, still working to extract the driver, a second accident -- this one involving two cars and a pickup -- happened on the highway west of the first accident, east of the crest of the hill where traffic was stopped because of the first accident. ...

City officials removed four mature trees last week from the Kelley Park site soon to be home to a new McCook skatepark. Public Works Director Kyle Potthoff said trees located within the footprint of the skatepark plan were removed and at this time the city didn't have plans to remove additional trees, at least until they had a clearer picture of what the landscaping plan for the park would look like...

McCook, Neb. -- The public is invited to a two-day wellness fair hosted by Community Hospital, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14 and 15 from 7-9 a.m. each day in Community Hospital's Prairie View meeting rooms at 1301 East H Street in McCook. The health fair will highlight Community Hospital's services, offer continental breakfast, and a variety of health screenings at a free or reduced rate. Other health-related businesses will also provide screenings and exhibits...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Representatives from the nonprofit organization which began setting up shop in the former Public Safety Center last week couldn't be happier with the pool of local applicants showing interest in two new construction manager positions...

Getting tough on crime is a popular campaign issue, drawing votes from people who have been victimized, or who don't like the way they see the country going. The "War on Drugs," plus mandatory minimums and other resulting laws have helped put more Americans per capita behind bars than any other developed nation...

(Honoring TR and the 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal, recently we were privileged to join a Cruise through the Panama Canal, sponsored by the Medora, N.D. Foundation.) For many centuries man looked upon the Isthmus of Panama as an ideal place to create a water-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean...