Stories from Thursday, May 17, 2018

LINCOLN, Neb. — McCook's Class B defending state champs have swept through their first matches at Woods Tennis Center today. senior Haley Potthoff’s first Class B state match was a huge success this morning. Potthoff swept through opening No. 2 singles foe Kyli Hanna of Omaha Gross Catholic, 6-0 and 6-2, as the Bison begin defense of their Class B state team title...

McCOOK, Neb. — Street repair, aging infrastructure and city facilities and the best way to use city sales tax revenue were discussed at a town hall meeting on May 10. It was the second town hall meeting scheduled by city staff to hear what the public has to say about future city improvements. ...

The McCook Area Chamber of Commerce passed a milestone recently in signing up their 200th member-partner. “I think that really promotes the success that the chamber board has had for the past few years in realigning the chamber,” said Bill Longnecker, a chamber board member...

McCook, Neb. — Administrators from Hillcrest Nursing Home, McCook Clinic and Community Hospital are finding quarterly collaboration meetings improve processes of care for area patients who use services between their organizations. Their goal is to provide better care for some in perhaps the most vulnerable stage of life...

Cellular phones used to be a safe haven for those who didn’t want to receive telemarketing calls. Those days are long over, to the point that many of us won’t answer a call from a number that’s not already in the contacts list on our smartphone. “If it’s important, they’ll leave a message” seems to be the mantra. Texting or SMS or Facebook messaging is more and more the connection of choice, and not just for millennials or younger...

I am writing you concerning the article in the McCook Gazette about Red Willow County Commissioner McNutt tossing a rake in front of a moving school bus. I find it hard to believe that Commissioner McNutt will not have any type of repercussion taken against him concerning this incident...

The writer of an article, “Bizarre World,” joins the Democrat Party in Ballyhooing and rehashing the weeping willow complaints of the unbelieving losing party in a national election for the Presidency. Get out your handkerchiefs while we quote a few of the tear-jerkers we were asked to wallow in sympathetically, all stemming from the Democratic Playbook, ad nauseam. ...

As a partner of Red Willow County, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (LFS) has served under the direction of Red Willow County for the Pretrial Juvenile Diversion program. This important program helps to keep an average of 80 youth per year from entering into the juvenile justice system...

LUBBOCK, Texas – The McCook Community College golf team finished a sloppy rain/hail-suspended first round Wednesday morning and turned around and completed the second round just one stroke better. After posting a 321 first round, MCC shot a 320 Wednesday and rank last among the 21 teams competing in the National Junior College championships. The four-round tournament continues Thursday at the Rawls Course at Texas Tech University...

MCCOOK, Neb. — They’ll never stop raising the bar on how much McCook’s three state-qualifying pole vaulters push each other. “We cheer for each other. But yeah, we want to go higher than the other,” sophomores Joel Carter, Landon Towne and junior Tyler Lytle greed. “It’s like that every day in practice.”...

With school out for the summer this week, you may think things will calm down, schedules will become more relaxed, and we will just coast through the next few months. But in reality, summer is when things really kick into gear. So hang onto your hat for a brief overview of just a few things happening at the YMCA over the next few months...