Stories from Tuesday, June 9, 2015

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...

Gladys Sickels Mues of Bartley, Nebraska, and Gene Witte of Cambridge, Nebraska, stand by the 1946 Harley Davidson "Knucklehead" motorcycle that Gene exhibited in the Bartley Days car show Saturday. The motorcycle is of a similar era to the motorcycles shown in the photograph of Gladys and other bikers on the main street of Sturgis, South Dakota, at the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally Aug., 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1953. ...

The late Mike Royko's book, "Boss," was a staple of political science classes back in the early 1970s, but its insight to Chicago politics is just as valid 40 years later. One story that comes to mind involves an alderman who asked the owner of a bar to put up a few signs and support him in the coming election...

Wonderful! Lots of money to spend. Business as usual for the City of McCook. Yes that was the result of the recent "special election" to keep the sales tax revenue rolling in. They didn't get it all. For one, there is that pesky requirement of a sunset. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Guidelines as to when and how the public is allowed to speak at school board meetings was discussed by the McCook Board of Education Monday night at its regular meeting. Citing the need for more clarification, board members pulled a policy on public participation that was up for approval on the consent agenda Monday night and later tabled it. ...

Shirley Lou Mousel Nov. 4, 1937 - June 8, 2015 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Shirley Lou Mousel, age 77, of Cambridge passed away at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital on Monday, June 8, 2015. She was born in Goodland, Kansas, on Nov. 4, 1937, to Richard and Violet (Rintermann) Musil. The family moved to Cambridge, where Shirley graduated from Cambridge High School in 1955...