Stories from Friday, September 11, 2015

While burgers and brats are the traditional tailgating fare and have their place on the menu, sometimes you need to mix things up when preparing that game day spread. For easy, delicious entertaining, add Sabra Hummus to the tailgate menu. Available in more than a dozen appetizing flavors and made with fresh chickpeas and a touch of garlic and tahini, hummus is the perfect smooth and creamy accompaniment for chips, crackers, veggies and even tailgating favorites like chicken wings and burgers...

Hazel Jo Purvis Aaron and Jill Purvis of Central City, Nebraska, announce the birth of their daughter, Hazel Jo Purvis, born Aug. 4, 2015, in Grand Island, Nebraska. She weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 21 inches long. She has two brothers, Landen, 6, and Dawson, 2. ...

Alexis Rose Chancellor Ted and Megan Chancellor of Gastonia, North Carolina, announce the birth of their daughter, Alexis Rose Chancellor, born May 2, 2015, at CMC Pineville Hospital in North Carolina. She weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 19.5 inches long. Grandparents are Marty and Teresa Gonshor of Oxford, Alabama, and Ken and Rose Chancellor of Sioux City, Iowa. Great-grandparents are Mary Lewis of Grand Island, Nebraska, and Evelyn Meitl of Oberlin, Kansas...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Katie Latta and Christian Farrell, both of McCook, Nebraska, were united in marriage Jan. 3, 2015, at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska. Parents of the bride are Mark and Kathy Latta of McCook. Grandparents are Phillip and Marilyn Goodenberger and Arda Latta of McCook and the late Bill Latta...

Susan Doak Southwest Nebraska Genealogy Society Frontier County was organized on Jan. 17, 1872, and its boundaries were redefined by an act approved on March 3, 1873. The following persons were instrumental in its organization: Henry (Hank) C. Clifford, John Bratt, Mortimer (Monte) H. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- One of the more successful housing programs in McCook could be facing a lack of funds in the near future. The McCook Economic Development Corp. has been involved or at least assisted with the majority of local housing initiatives occurring in the area since its inception in 1985. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook School District property tax levy for the 2015-16 budget year will drop by almost four cents under a proposed budget presented to the McCook School Board Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the junior high conference room. Board members will be asked Monday night to approve the 2015-16 McCook Public School District budget with the tax levy at 1.034109 per $100 valuation, a 3.740 decrease from last year's levy at 1.071849...

Every adult reading this column remembers where they were and what they were doing fourteen years ago today. I was with the woman I was seeing at the time and we didn't have the television on. When she left for work, I started getting ready to go to the college. A few minutes later she called me. She was at the Student Center with the television on and she told me that two planes had crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and that we were obviously under attack from somebody...

We'd experienced terrorism before, bombings, hijackings, kidnappings. Fourteen years ago, however, it came home -- even Nebraskans considered New York City, Washington D.C. and Shanksvill, Pennsylvania as "home" after September 11, 2001. We pulled together as a nation, then, and began to get serious about defending ourselves from future attacks...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Tenielle's and Barto's love story isn't your typical romance novel of girl and boy meet, they fall in love and get married. Their story involves a missionary, a young man from a culture half-way around the world, an orphanage. It has a car accident ... typhoid fever ... separations and reunions ... government red tape and passports and visas...

The Sports Shoppe in downtown McCook, Nebraska, remains open, through its back door in the alley, while its facade undergoes renovation. Bob Elder said that Darren Morgan's crew from Morgan Construction and Inspection Service will align the now-inset front door with the sidewalk and install new and bigger display windows and new lighting. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska--The numbers are in and McCook Clinic's Accountable Care Organization (ACO), South East Rural Physician Alliance (SERPA), is very pleased with their quality measures score. SERPA-ACO has performed well in the first three years of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The 2014 quality measures data is now available on the Medicare website. Medicare measures ACOs in this program on quality of care in 33 areas...

Bill Weiss and his wife, Connie, place American flags into the ground at McCook Community College, at a memorial tribute Friday on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks. Flags lined the walkways near McMillan Hall, as MCC music students and the MCC choir performed "Songs for the Unsong Heros" and the poem, "Firefighter's Legacy," was read by choir student, Helen Solberg. ...