Stories from Thursday, September 10, 2015

Juanita Dee 'Nita' Brown June 9, 1959 - Sept. 8, 2015 ARAPAHOE, Neb. -- Juanita Dee "Nita" Brown, 56, of Holbrook, Nebraska, died Tuesday (Sept. 8, 2015), at her home. She was born June 9, 1959, at Lincoln, Nebraska to Charles "Jerry" and Iva (Michel) Behnke...

Most weeks I sit down and type up another one of my mom stories, with the hopes of turning it into some sort of humor piece. However, some weeks I just don't feel like being funny and this just happens to be one of those weeks. Ya see, this week, my mind has been on another young mama that I know, that just lost her sweet baby boy...

In the 2002 movie "Minority Report," Tom Cruise uses hand gestures to control holographic computers and and receives personal advertising messages, as he walks through public spaces, identified by biometric eye scans. While those technologies are close to common reality 13 years later, is the main plot of the film -- predicting criminal acts before they happen -- that gets Cruise's character into trouble...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A Lincoln, Nebraska-based inmate training program, Prairie Gold Homes, opened a home construction facility in McCook earlier this year and was provided a city-owned building to operate out of virtually rent-free. Prairie Gold Homes brought years of experience in Eastern Nebraska and broke ground on its first McCook home in mid-August, overcoming several challenges...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Construction began on a new skatepark near Bolles Canyon in Kelley Park earlier this week. Contractors with Dreamland Skateparks began excavation at the skatepark site Wednesday morning and said they anticipate completion in 6-7 weeks...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Throughout her cancer treatment, pretty, dark-eyed Aliyah Siddiqui reassured her family, "I'm strong. I'm a strong girl." Aliyah's grandmother, Barbara Tines of Bartley, Nebraska, says, "She was a fighter." Aliyah's fight against leukemia started when she was six years old. She turned 12 years old in June 2010, and passed away in July...

McCOOK, Neb. -- To commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States in 2001, McCook Community College music education students (National Association for Music Education), along with the help of the MCC Choir, will present a special 9/11 program and memorial Friday on campus at 12:15 p.m...

As in the past, above, bargain hunters can come shop at a super-sized garage sale and support the McCook Humane Society and animal shelter. Garage sale coordinators (and avid shelter supporters)Andrea O'Dea and Levina Fritsche will donate proceeds from their sales Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. ...