Stories from Thursday, December 31, 2015

LONGMONT, Colo. -- Richard James (Jim) McKee, formerly of Bartley, Nebraska, a longtime Boulder County resident, passed away on Saturday (Dec. 26, 2015) due to complications following heart surgery. Jim was born in Fairbury, Nebraska, to Ernest and Alvena (Grosch) McKee. ...

BEAVER CITY, Neb. -- Janet Clare McNerny, 73, of Bartley, Nebraska, died Tuesday (Dec. 29, 2015) at Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings, Nebraska. She was born May 2, 1942, in Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Willard and Joan (Miller) Hartley. She spent her childhood in Sherman County, Kansas and was a 1960 graduate of Brewster (Kansas) High School. She later studied nursing at McCook Junior College...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A 24-year-old McCook man who evaded arrest Sunday evening and later died of a gunshot wound had led area law enforcement officers on several pursuits in recent months. The man, Cody Alton Lienemann, failed to appear for sentencing in Red Willow County District Court earlier this month stemming from a high speed chase in July through several McCook streets and back alleys. ...

No ball drop in downtown McCook tonight, but a lot of us will be watching the big one descend in New York's Times Square via television. More than a million people flock there to watch the annual event, which has taken place every year since 1907, except for a couple during World War II...

Well, that was weird ... This was our first Christmas without the visit of the big man in the red suit. The jolly ol' elf has been sneaking into our house for the last 15 years but this year, he passed us by. Flew right over our address without even a glance below. Maybe he's had enough of our sarcastic attitudes and crabby holiday ways?...

McCOOK, Neb. -- An ordinance for the Quillan Courts Planned Development District will be considered on second reading at the McCook City Council's regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday. The consent agenda, approved on one vote unless items are pulled for separate discussion at the request of a council member, includes separate claims for damages by Daryl Banzet and Chris Wagner, to be referred to the city's insurance carrier, bid specifications for 20 sets of firefighter bunker gear, and a request from the Republican River Runners to use city streets and the hike/bike trail for a 34-mile road race Feb. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Despite a neighbors claim of threats and drainage issues the McCook City Council unanimously voted to clear the way for a housing development to proceed recently. The man, Craig Christner of McCook, owns vacant property in the North Pointe Properties development and lives in a home bordering the development to the north. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Innovative businessman and restaurateur Adam Seigfried will be featured speaker at the Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival's First Tuesday event, 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5 at the Bieroc Cafe. Participants are encouraged to share their stories of cooking successes and failures. The public is invited and welcome to attend...

McCook, Nebraska--Community Hospital entered into a hospital management agreement with Decatur Health Systems at the Oberlin, Kansas hospital's December 28 board meeting. During the meeting, DHS board members approved the agreement between the two hospitals which becomes effective Jan. 1, 2016...

Dean Haarberg Dec. 25, 1927 - Dec. 29, 2015 IMPERIAL, Neb. -- Edgar Haarberg was born Dec. 25, 1927, at home on a farm two miles southwest of Sharon Springs, Kansas. He was the third of four children born to John and Anna (Alsleben) Haarberg. Dean was baptized on Jan. 15, 1928, at the Dover school house in rural Wallace County, Kansas. In 1934, his family moved back to a farm in rural Chase County near Champion, Nebraska, due to drought and the Great Depression...