Stories from Wednesday, September 28, 2016

McCOOK, Neb. -- Former Mayor Dennis Berry was voted in Monday evening to replace Jim Ulrich as the President of the McCook Economic Development Corp. Board of Directors. Berry was previously one of eight elected directors for the MEDC Board. Ulrich announced earlier this month he was relocating to York, Nebraska...

With four top-seven finishers, Ogallala's golf team cruised to a team title at Tuesday's Dundy County-Stratton Invite...

No sweat might be too strong of words to describe the McCook Bison considering temperatures topped 80 degrees again during Tuesday's Oberlin Cross Country Invitational...

Connor McRea fired rounds of 73 and 75 to tie for second place while leading the McCook Community College golfers to fourth overall at last weekend's Eastern Wyoming College Invitational...

95th birthday The family of Margaret Dutcher Amann of Cambridge, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of her 95th birthday on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Cards of congratulations will reach her at P.O. Box 126, Cambridge, NE 69022.

McCOOK, Neb. -- Red Willow County commission chairman Earl McNutt said this morning he thinks that the rejection of the Hillcrest Nursing Home ballot question is more a vote against more taxes than against the home. The 1,296-1,136 failure of the request to raise $254,480 for roof repairs at the county-owned nursing home surprised McNutt, but it also didn't, he said. ...

BEAVER CITY, Neb. -- A McCook man was airlifted to Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney and then transferred to a Lincoln hospital after his car was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on Highway 6&34 east of Arapahoe about 7:30 a.m., Tuesday. Claude Cappel, 78 years old, of McCook was treated at the Kearney hospital and then moved to the Lincoln hospital. His wife, Delores, 75, was in stable condition at Cambridge Memorial Hospital Tuesday afternoon...

EDITOR'S NOTE -- This is the first installment of three detailing the destruction and death caused by the emerald ash borer to billions of ash trees across North America. In McCook in early September, Dr. Mark Harrell of the Nebraska Forest Service visited with arborist Bruce Hoffman...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Community Hospital President Jim Ulrich leaves some big shoes to fill with a recent announcement he will be relocating with his family to York, Nebraska. The McCook Economic Development Board of Directors is looking to the city's longest serving Mayor to continue Ulrich's work as the MEDC board president...

McCOOK, Neb. -- If firefighters know smoke, and barbecuers know smoke, then a barbecuing firefighter just might produce the absolute best smoked food on the planet. Come find out for sure, when Red Willow Western rural firefighters challenge each other to their first-ever "Smoke-Off" on Sunday, Oct 16, at the fire station south of McCook on Federal Avenue and a quarter-mile west on River Road...

Sheila Werkmeister of McCook was the winner of a Chevy Silverado pickup truck given away by KRVN Radio of Lexington, which delivered it to her rural home Tuesday. She registered for the "Keep On Trucking" pickup at the Frontier County Fair in Stockville. She says she has never won a major prize before...

McCOOK, Neb. -- More than 40 high school juniors from McCook and Southwest public schools will take part in George W. Norris Government Day activities scheduled Oct. 19 at McCook Community College. Jointly sponsored by the American Legion, McCook Community College and the George W. Norris Foundation, the event is designed to inspire youth to take an active role in government throughout their lives...

One hundred sixty more people opposed than favored giving Red Willow County power to levy taxes for Hillcrest Nursing Home, according to unofficial results from the mail-in ballot. The ballot question, which would have raised Red Willow County's tax levy slightly to target the nursing home's roof repair needs, was rejected by 1,292-1,136, according to Tuesday night's count...

Now that we have past the autumnal equinox things have settled down, well not quite. The temperatures are assuming fall proportions and are dropping rather precipitously in the evenings. Equinox means equal day and equal night and supposedly on the day of either the autumnal or the vernal equinox (spring) daylight and dark will be equal. However, such is not the case. Due to that pesky 23.5 degree tilt of Earth's axis there are slight differences according to where you live...

Owner Dan Booe and office manager Monica Conroy cut the ribbon as McCook Area Chamber of Commerce members and Cordials welcome the Booe Machinery & Salvage scrap metal recycling business to the chamber this morning. Booe and his father, Ross, own the business's two facilities, in Atlanta, Neb., and McCook. The company exports and imports obsolete farm machinery that still has value, as well as preparing iron and nonferrous metals to send to mills for recycling...