Stories from Thursday, March 29, 2018

McCOOK, Neb. – McCook’s talented and deep boys team only needed two meets to reach where they almost always finish: In first place. The Bison easily outscored Holdrege and doubled Lexington, 189-94, entering Wednesday’s grand finale of this LeRoy Hoehner Invitational...

So last week I confessed that I was slacker parent by missing Grandparents Day at my 5th grader's school and how I am probably qualifying for the Super Parent Award sorta early this year. And as if that wasn’t enough, the next evening I pulled an even better one. In two days I managed to secure my award for 2018...

William Bud McMullen Scott Jan. 20, 1953 - Feb. 19, 2018  LOVELAND, Colo. —Bud Scott, 65, of Loveland, was born in Nebraska on Jan. 20, 1953, the day President Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated and died due to an extended illness on President’s Day, Feb.19, 2018...

Ilene LaVon Powell McCOOK, Neb. — Ilene LaVon Powell, 98, of McCook, died Jan. 25, 2018, at Community Hospital in McCook. The family honored Ilene’s wishes to be cremated. A graveside service is at Riverview Cemetery in McCook on Saturday, March 31, 2018,, 10:30 a.m. with Dave Davidson officiating...

Ronald DeWester BENKELMAN, Neb. — Ronald DeWester, 89, of Benkelman, died Wednesday (March 28, 2018), at the Hester Home in Benkelman. Survivors include children, Mary Jo Howard and husband, Dean of Palisade, Neb., Barbara Jean Blecha of Omaha, Neb., Gay DeWester and husband, John Knape of Lincoln, Neb., Richard DeWester and wife, Julie of Benkelman; sister-in-law, Wynona Springer of Benkelman; six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren...

Paul Henry Roesener Feb. 17, 1917 - March 28, 2018 BIRD CITY, Kan.— Paul Henry Roesener, 101, of Bird City, died Tuesday (March 28, 2018), at Good Samaritan Society in St. Francis, Kan. He was born Feb. 17, 1917, at Cheyenne County, Kan. He was a farmer/rancher...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Preston Carbaugh was the hometown hero, as the Cambridge junior fired a 79 to win Wednesday's Trojan Invite at Cross Links Golf Course...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Gun Club is preparing for its 2018 Spring Trap Shooting League, which starts Monday evening...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College softball team was looking strong for its 20th win of the season, Wednesday leading 13-0 after two innings, but then the winds and the Northeastern Junior College offense picked up to salvage a split with MCC winning 20-19...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Junior Kassidy Michaelis went 5-0 through No. 1 singles while McCook’s tennis girls placed second among 12 North Platte Invitational teams. The Bison scored 56 points which edged a tough Holdrege team (54) and finished behind only Class A Kearney (62)...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High’s girls won two titles while earning second as a team during the LeRoy Hoehner Invitational on Wednesday. The Bison finished behind Lexington while outscoring teams from Holdrege, Cambridge and Dundy County-Stratton. More details along with comments from coach Brent May will be included in Friday’s Gazette...

McCOOK, Neb. — Boys' champions and all top six area placers at the LeRoy Hoehner Invite on Wednesday: 100 meters: 1. D. Schumacher, Lex, 11.46; 2. Wyatt Lemon, DCS, 11.61; 2. Corban Jernigan, MC, 11.61; 4. Drew Harvie, MC, 11.62. 200: 1. Ethan Wilcox, MC, 23.36; 3. ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The Mid Plains Board of Governors approves raises for academic and vocational instructors Wednesday night. Meeting in North Platte, the board approved negotiated salary increases of 2.5 percent for the Mid-Plains Education Association, and 2.25 percent for the Mid-Plains Vocational Education Association...

McCOOK, Neb. — Don’t depend on the government to sell American agriculture to the world, Sen. Deb Fischer told producers Wednesday. At a round table discussion in McCook, Dave Dahlgren of Holdrege, representing corn producers, asked “How can we go to our critics and sell ourselves as the infrastructure of America?...

TRENTON, Neb. — No one was injured and no hydrochloric acid spilled in a semi-truck accident on the river road five miles east of Trenton in the dark Wednesday morning. Trenton fire chief Tom Honey said this morning that the truck driver, from Wichita, turned a corner on a country gravel road at the corner of Roads 714 and 369, the trailer dropped off a culvert and both semi and trailer ended up on their sides...

McCOOK, Neb. — Area youth will be featured at the Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival First Tuesday event scheduled April 3 from 7 - 8 p.m. at the Bieroc Cafe. Original stories will be shared by members of the McCook High School creative writing club, and the MHS speech team will contribute poetry out loud and interpretation of both serious and humorous prose to the agenda...

McCOOK, Neb. — Southwest Area Family Advocates have partnered with Walmart and Schmick’s Market in McCook to order three “Caroline’s Carts,” shopping carts specially designed to help parents and caregivers shop with older children or adults with special needs...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High School, Dundy County/Stratton and Eustis-Farnam claimed the top academic team honors Wednesday among the 19 schools that competed in McCook Community College’s Inter-High Day. McCook High School was tops in the large school division. Southern Valley was second and Southwest High School was third...

There are two things you need to know about newspapers. Newspapers are important to community life and democracy. Always have been. We at the National Newspaper Association think it is important for all sorts of newspapers to survive for the sake of a free society—the very large and the very small ones, the liberal ones, the conservative ones, the middle-of-the-road ones, the ones with no viewpoint but just important news, all of them. ...

Services are pending with Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel in McCook.