Stories from Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Lois Loretta (Harrison) Bley July 2, 1930 - Oct. 31, 2015 WAUNETA, Neb. -- Lois Loretta (Harrison) Bley was born on July 2, 1930, and took up her residence in Heaven on Oct. 31, 2015. She was the third of four girls born to James and Anna Harrison in rural Dundy County, Nebraska. Lois attended grade school at the Eden grade school and graduated in 1947 from Stratton High School...

Albert L. "Bud" Kruger Aug. 2, 1948 - Nov. 3, 2015 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Albert L. "Bud" Kruger, age 67, of Cambridge, passed away Nov. 3, 2015, Cambridge Memorial Hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was born in St. Elmo, Illinois, to William B. and Betty L. (Scoles) Kruger on Aug. 2, 1948...

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. -- The KFC and Taco Bell portions of a McCook restaurant closed today, but the Pizza Hut will remain open, according to owner Dave Staab. "We want to thank our customers who have been with us since our opening in McCook, in 1972, and we look forward to serving you the best pizza in the community," Staab said...

McCOOK, Neb. -- In McCook, Nebraska in the year 2015, women are fulfilling an important role in law enforcement, holding key positions in the McCook Police Department, at the new Red Willow County Jail, with the Nebraska State Patrol, and at the Nebraska Department of Corrections' Work Ethic Camp...

BEAVER CITY, Neb. -- Four Southwest Nebraska irrigators have filed a second class action lawsuit seeking monetary compensation for damages suffered in 2014 when Nebraska ordered water to bypass Frenchman Cambridge Irrigation District's storage reservoirs and diversion dams...

McCook Central Elementary fifth graders Sierra Eschliman, left, and Gracelyn Wiemers study "Starwatcher Vlll" by Moebius and "Dream of the Cosmic Unity" by Salvador Dali, artwork in the Sheldon Museum of Art traveling exhibit on display at the Museum of the High Plains in downtown McCook. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- In 1975, only three people signed up for a genealogy course at McCook Community College. The class was cancelled but undeterred, the three women began to meet each week at the instructor's house 10 miles away in Indianola, Nebraska. A year later, the group became the Southwest Nebraska Genealogy Society and had grown to 14 members, still meeting faithfully once a week at Zolana Chinn's home...

An inquisitive goose occupies a pond in McCook's Barnett Park, wondering who has popcorn or bread to share.

McCOOK, Neb. -- Emergency responders, like anyone else, tire quickly when performing CPR but thanks to a well-known charitable trust new technology is already saving lives during cardiac arrest transports in Nebraska. State officials announced in April Nebraska received nearly $6 million from the Leona M. ...

By a two-to-one margin, Ohio voters turned down legalized marijuana for recreational and medical use, and if Willie Nelson lived in the Buckeye State, he might have voted with majority. That's because Nelson, who has his own brand of weed in legal states, wants to keep big business out of the marijuana trade...

Here we are, two months left in the year, and all the excitement of the end-of-year activities (Thanksgiving and Christmas if you missed the hint). But that also means there are grand things afoot in the sky. Specifically the southern area of the sky that we like to call, "The Celestial Ocean" because the constellations there all have to do with water or oceans...