Stories from Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Michael Dan Adams Nov. 16, 1955 - Dec. 6, 2015 ARAPAHOE, Neb. -- Michael Dan Adams, 60, died Sunday (Dec. 6, 2015), at the Elwood Care Center in Elwood. He born Nov. 16, 1955, in McCook, Nebraska, to Donald D. and Lila V. (Helton) Adams. He grew up in Arapahoe, Nebraska, and graduated from Arapahoe High School in 1974...

Christos Fallis May 15, 1935 - Dec. 6, 2015 McCOOK, Neb. -- Christos Fallis of McCook passed away Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, at El Dorado Nursing Home in Trenton. He was 80 years old. Christos was born on May 15, 1935, at Vagu, Greece, to parents John and Maggie (Ghakuris) Fassoulis. ...

Deloris Juanita 'Babe' Marriner Carlson April 24, 1925 - Dec. 1, 2015 LEXINGTON, Neb. -- Deloris Juanita "Babe" Marriner Carlson, 90, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in Lexington. Babe was born April 24, 1925, to John Walker (J.W.) Marriner and Edna Ruth Jones Marriner, in Colby, Kansas. ...

McCook National Bank employees present $700 in donations to Community Hospital Health Foundation representative Terri Shipshock Monday morning. The memorial funds were collected in honor of the late Peter M. Graff and the second anniversary of his passing on Dec. 7, 2013...

McCOOK, Neb. -- At their weekly meeting Monday, Red Willow County commissioners hired Great Plains Communications to install a new phone system and associated cabling in the courthouse and jail/sheriff's office in McCook. On a motion by commissioner Steve Downer, the board unanimously accepted an option that Great Plains offered, to use some existing cabling in the two buildings, for $35,038.94. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Rotary Club presented dictionaries to third grade students at McCook Elementary, St. Patrick's Catholic School, Victory Christian Academy, and Southwest Elementary School. The dictionaries were given to the students to use at school or at home...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Gravel roads in the Calabria subdivision northeast of McCook would cost about $375,750, according to engineering studies presented to Red Willow County commissioners at their weekly meeting Monday morning. If commissioners approve the county road improvement district project, the county would have to sell bonds to finance it because there isn't money in the county budget to pay for a road project of this scale. ...

YOU may talk o' gin an' beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But if it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Water is the central issue in courtroom battles over the Republican River Compact, and while Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas seem to be on the path to resolving their conflict, about 150 farmers under the Frenchman Cambridge Irrigation District want to be compensated for water the state ordered to be released in 2013-14 to send downstream to Kansas.. ...

As you read this Grannie Annie and I will have been to El Paso, Texas to deliver Adopt A Chaplain "Christmas care packages." All those boxes, our SUV packed full to the roof, to Captain Ch. Saare, assigned Chaplain responsibilities for a unit deployed to Bogotá, Columbia in South America. Who knew we had troops in that part of the world? Evidently it is a contingent of troops that has been deployed to duties there for some twenty five years and counting...

Storybook character Mary Quite Contrary (Haley Potthoff) "waters" her flowers, "The Gingers," in "The Nutcracker" ballet to be presented by Spotlight Studios Friday, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, at 2 p.m., at Memorial Auditorium at West Fifth and C streets in McCook, Nebraska. ...

Luna, Red Willow County's K9 officer, models the latest in torso-fitting harness and bullet- and stab-resistant "ballistic protection" vest. Luna's handler, Deputy Lt. Justin Davis, said he greatly appreciates the support for fundraisers through the summer and fall and for donations that enabled him to purchase the vest for his partner. The Red Willow County Sheriff's Department's K9 Unit is not funded with county taxes, but with donations to pay for Luna's care, upkeep, training and equipment...

STRATTON, Neb. -- The Hitchcock County Pantry and Foodbank for the Heartland plan a "Mobile Pantry," 10 a.m. until noon Saturday at the VM Hall, 502 Bailey in Stratton. It is open to Hitchcock County residents, no income restrictions and no charge. Participants should bring their own boxes and bags. The goal of its Mobile Pantry program is to provide food where there is a high need, but limited resources...

McCOOK, Neb. -- If all goes as expected, Boutique Air will be the next commercial air service provider at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport, although when the airline takes over is still an unknown. The McCook City Council unanimously supported recommending Boutique Air receive the Essential Air Service contract during its regularly scheduled meeting Monday evening. ...