Stories from Monday, May 15, 2017

ase County athletes combined for more than 300 points while sweeping the team titles at Thursday’s C-11 district-track field meet. The Chase girls showed again why they have a great chance to repeat as Class C state champs this weekend in Omaha. They topped 200 points with numerous Longhorns delivering career-best efforts during this huge state-qualifying meet...

RIVERTON, Wyo. – The McCook Community College golf team finished their year, with a weather shorten tournament at the Central Wyoming Invite last week. The two-day tournament was cut to a one day 18-hole event in cold conditions. The Indian golfers battled through the weather to take 2nd place in the tournament led by Connor McCrea (77; fourth place) and Brady Rodgers (78; fifth place). Colton Zulkoskiand Kaleb Wonderly finished with an 83 and 90 to round out the scores for MCC...

OGALALLA, Neb. — McCook’s three medalists and 328 team scores shows Bison are going in the right direction as they travel to today’s B-6 district meet. McCook finished just four strokes behind Scottsbluff with only Sidney pulling comfortably ahead with a winning 304...

McCOOK, Neb. — The who’s who of McCook 100-match tennis winners added another name during Thursday’s dominating home finale. Who cares if the “j” is silent in her last name, because senior Katie Kjendal has certainly made her own “jolt” on this powerful Bison team...

Leslie Bennett Stretch June 3, 1923 - May 13, 2017 HAMLET, Neb. — Leslie Bennett Stretch of Hamlet, Neb., passed away Saturday, May 13, 2017, at Broken Bow Care and Rehabilitation Center in Broken Bow, Neb. He was 93 years old. Leslie was born on June 3, 1923, in Hayes County north of Wauneta, on the family farm to parents Ira “Mart” and Flora (Bennett) Stretch. He graduated from Wauneta High School with the Class of 1942...

McCook’s 24 state track and qualifiers will lead the region into Omaha this week with every school being represented. The Bison are sending 13 boys after “three-peating” as B-6 district champs while those McCook girls will feature 11 in Omaha’s Burke Stadium starting on Friday...

Betty L. Reichert June 24, 1937 - May 11, 2017 BENKELMAN, Neb. — Betty L. Reichert was born June 24, 1937, at Havelock, N.D., to Peter and Elizabeth(Wogh) Jung. Betty was the youngest of 12 children. As a young lady, she graduated from High School in New England, N.D.,, in 1957...

McCOOK, Neb. — Nebraska Public Power District repair crews blame a power outage late Sunday/early Monday in McCook on a metallic helium balloon that caught in a power structure at West Second and A in McCook. NPPD spokesman Jeff Peterson said this morning that they tracked the cause of the outage to a balloon. “We’re assuming graduation?” Peterson said...

DANBURY, Neb. — A Danbury man is hospitalized in Lincoln following a four-wheeler accident on a county road northwest of Danbury Saturday evening. The first call for medical help came to the City of McCook police dispatch center at 6:33 p.m. William “Billie” Haag, 56 years old, was injured when the four-wheeler he was riding to spray weeds backed over a cliff and fell into the county road ditch below, near the intersection of county roads 708 and 395...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Health Board is scheduled to conduct a half-dozen inspections on potential nuisance properties within city limits next week. The inspections will begin at 9 a.m. at 107 East 5th Street, followed by 1518 West 10th Street, 511 East 2nd Street, 412 East 3rd Street, 309 East 1st Street and concluding with 707 East C Street at approximately 11:30 a.m., according to the meeting agenda...

You’ve probably heard about the 22-year-old software engineer who became a hero by accidentally stopping the “WannaCry” cyber attack last week. The man, who lives with his parents in England, spent $10.69 to register and activate a website buried in the “ransomware” software, causing it to shut down...

(2017 marks the 100th Anniversary of the American entry into World War I, a war that eventually brought 1.2 million Americans into military service, in France, to aid the Allied Forces in their battle against the Central Powers (mostly Germany). In the coming weeks we will take a look back at that “mostly forgotten” war. Today we take a look at one of the true heroes of WW I, a fellow with ties to Nebraska, General John “Black Jack” Pershing.)...

McCOOK, Neb. — The 2017 McCook High School graduation proceeded without a hitch Sunday, as 121 seniors officially ended their 12 years of primary education. "It went very well. We had a great group of kids, actually a fairly large senior class and it was a beautiful facility to have the graduation," said MHS principal Jeff Gross. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — A firm but fair guiding hand is the driving force behind the recipient of the McCook Area Educator of the Year award. Shelly Sehnert, geometry and algebra teacher at McCook High School, was presented with the award Sunday at the MHS commencement ceremony...