Stories from Wednesday, July 5, 2017

CULBERTSON, Neb. – Nearly perfect weather enticed a record number of people to sign-up at the last minute for the Freedom Run 5K/10K in Culbertson on Tuesday...

al deadline to register for most sports in the 2017 Cornhusker State Games is today. This year’s Games, the 33rdannual, take place July 21-30 and offer competition in 60+ sports with divisions for all ages and abilities. Officials reported that entries are on pace to exceed the 2017 goal of 12,000. More than 6,000 participants from 235 different Nebraska towns had signed up as of Sunday...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Football League will be conducting equipment checkouts Monday evening at Weiland Field from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Checkouts will be on the north side of Weiland Field. The league is also still accepting registrations for its 2017 football season...

McCook’s only half as good as Shelton-Gibbon? Numbers don’t lie when checking current American Leagion baseball win streaks. Shelton-Gibbon’s current 10-0 surge doubles what the McCook National Bank Seniors achieved during a historic Wild West Fest tournament title run last weekend in Hays, Kan...

ATWOOD, Kan. — A 14-year-old rural Atwood boy died July 4 of injuries he sustained in an ATV accident near his home June 28. According to the Rawlins County Square Deal newspaper, Ben Crouse was flown by helicopter to Wesley Hospital in Wichita, where he died of trauma to his brain and vital organs in the hospital’s intensive care unit. Ben is the son of Jan and Sam Crouse...

The community of Arapahoe celebrates the Fourth of July — Independence Day and Prairie Pioneer Days — with a red-white-and-blue packed parade Tuesday morning. Darrell Paulson of Edison and other American Legion motorcycle riders saluted the American flag during the opening of the parade, and Brandon Yeager tossed candy from a Holbrook-Edison-Arapahoe fire truck. ...

A tiny passenger peers out of one of the classic cars, at Culbertson’s Fourth of July parade Tuesday. The parade was one of the many activities going on in Culbertson, starting off with a “Freedom Run” 5k and 10k races, water slide and bounce house, sand volleyball and horse shoe tournament and a community-wide fire works display. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook area construction activity shot up during the past three months after starting the year with sharp declines when compared to recent years. Through six months, construction activity is ahead of prior year by more than $9.7 million and represents the most reported activity during the first half of a year since 2010...

On the Fourth of July, the Chris and Paula Sandberg children checked corn between Trenton and Culbertson to see if the corn was “knee high by the Fourth of July.” Turns out it depends on whose knee you compare it to! They are, from left, Ian, Alaina, Olivia and Emmaline...

On Jan. 29, 1886, patent number 37435 was issued to Carl Benz for a “vehicle powered by a gas engine.” The tw0-seat vehicle was powered by a single-cylinder four-stroke engine, powering two rear wheels through a differential, with an electrical ignition and water cooling...

Red-white-and-blue in the sky — over McCook on the evening of July 4. And along the sidewalks and on the streets during the Fourth of July and Prairie Pioneer Days celebration in Arapahoe.

McCOOK, Neb. — The load on city streets from relocating a West 2nd Street house to West R Street will be slightly less than two semi-tractors passing each other in opposite directions, according to an engineering review. The assessment came from Greg Wolford with W Design Associates and was presented to City Council Monday evening just prior to city leaders unanimously approving the relocation plan...