Stories from Tuesday, April 10, 2018

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Chase County was a class above the competition at Monday’s Don Stine Invitational in Cambridge...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College baseball team came up short Monday in a 6-4 loss to Colby Community College. The Indians got on the scoreboard in the fourth. Jason Hill (Surrey, British Columbia) doubled to lead off the inningand scored on a wild pitch...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — The Mid-Plains Community College Rodeo Team is off to a good start following the first of its spring competitions on Friday and Saturday. Mykelsi Schnose, of Oelrichs, S.D., stole the show by taking home three championships: breakaway roping, team roping and women’s all-around. Her achievements propelled MPCC to a second place finish at the rodeo in the women’s team standings...

McCOOK, Neb. —Hauxwell Motors found just enough spark and edged Webb Body Shop, 25-23, to clinch top honors with Messinger in YMCA Women’s Adult Volleyball League. Webb could have dented Hauxwell’s plans beyond repair as the underdog 3-7 team pushed through two tough sets...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook High School Student Council has selected the 2017-18 Alumni Wall of Fame inductee, Christine Messinger Loshbaugh from the Class of 1967. Loshbaugh attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for two years, then the University of Connecticut for a bachelor’s of art and a microbiology degree with high distinction, graduating in 1972. She earned her MBA from Pepperdine University in 1982...

McCOOK, Neb. — While the McCook YMCA winter swim team wrapped up its season at the 2018 Nebraska YMCA State Championship meet last monthin Fremont, the season unofficially came to end Saturday with the year-end party at the YMCA. Coach Keagan Blau distributed dozens of medals and ribbons from the final meet of the season to the swimmers who placed in the top 16...

McCOOK, Neb. — From fixing the restrooms at Felling Field to using the former landfill area east of Walmart, McCook residents shared their ideas with the McCook City Council Monday night at a special town hall meeting. The meeting, for public input on future projects, generated much discussion for city staff and the council to consider, with much of it centered on the city pool and street maintenance...

McCOOK, Neb. — No society has been successful without a thriving countryside, and increased funding for education and healthcare are key, said Paul Theobald, candidate for the Democratic nomination to represent Nebraska’s 3rd District in Congress. Speaking to the Gazette this morning, Theobald said our 19th-century model for funding education works well enough in the wealthy suburbs but is inadequate for less affluent school districts...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Senior High speech students and Thespians entertained members of the public schools’ board of education during their meeting Monday evening. A couple students debated between themselves which was best — “Phantom” or “Aladdin” — while Rachell Jones examined school violence in a serious poem and Victoria Norgaard (Superintendent Grant Norgaard’s daughter) portrayed Mary Katherine Gallagher, Saturday Night Live’s favorite awkward Catholic schoolgirl, in a humorous prose monologue. ...

I was minding my own business just working in my hangar. My cell phone, rang. “Hi Dick. This is Ronnie Mitchel. We are in McCook.” “Well, Ronnie I am at my hangar. Come on down” my reply. It was a beautiful day at the McCook Airport last week, light winds near 70 degrees. ...

It’s no secret that exercise makes you feel better, and prevention is always better than a cure. Two unrelated studies — one actually a compilation of 23 existing studies — offer helpful advice for adults as well as the future generation. The University of Michigan review of other studies found that as little as 10 minutes of physical activity per week not only helped decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety but actually provided a significant boost to a person mood...