Stories from Tuesday, June 5, 2018

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High School officials confirmed Joe Vetrovsky will be the Bison boys’ new golf coach Monday afternoon. Vetrovsky has assisted coach Rick Haney during these past four seasons along with teaching special education, assisting on McCook’s football team and directing MFL summer youth football...

Four hundred plus old cars at the fairgrounds this past Sunday noon. Near heaven for this old guy. Strolled by looked with envy and visited with many of the proud owners. Some like the rat rods tickled me — such innovation like the chain welded together to make a steering wheel—many hot rodded “just a little cam” they told me. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — A McCook citizen questioned a city ordinance that requires property owners to pay a fee for a home security system. At the McCook City Council meeting Monday night, Dave Gerih called the city’s annual $50 fee assessed to homeowners who have a third-party security system, wrong and outdated. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Results from the 30th John Mullen Pro-Am follow...

Della Fae “Peg” Ziebell Jan. 1, 1923 - May 28, 2018 ARAPAHOE, Neb. — Della Fae “Peg” Ziebell, 95, of Arapahoe, died Monday (May 28, 2018), at C.A. Mues Good Samaritan Center in Arapahoe. She was born Jan. 1, 1923, at Republican City, Neb., to John Oscar and Sophia (Buhler) Watts, but raised by her mother and Edward Bengston. ...

Sarah Henke March 8, 1926 - June 3, 2018 ARAPAHOE, Neb. — Sarah Henke, 92, of Arapahoe, died Sunday (June 3, 2018). She was born March 8, 1926, in Williford, Ark., to Robert and Laura Dickerson Higgenbottom. She graduated in 1944 from Williford High School. She was married in Lawton, Okla., in 1953. She worked on the family farm in Iowa and at the district court in Kearney, Neb...

McCook Community College graduate Kafani Williams has signed a national letter of intent to continue his basketball in the fall, in-state at York College. “It’s a great fit for him and the York basketball family,” MCC Basketball Coach Brandon Lenhart said. “Kafani’s best basketball is ahead of him.”...

MINDEN, Neb. —The Herrmann-Jones Bison 14-and-under baseball team sailed to an easy victory over Minden 11-2 on Monday A four-run third inning featured RBIs from from Peyton Dellevoet, Glenn Ruggles and Jacob Gomez-Wilson. Adam Dugger got the win for Herrmann-Jones Bison. He lasted three innings, allowing five hits and two runs while striking out two and walking one...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Royals stayed in it until the end, but the High Plains Podiatry Orioles pulled away late in a 12-10 victory on Tuesday. The Royals put up four runs in the second inning. Keegan Reece and Landon Kmoch powered the big inning with RBIs...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Class A Lincoln Northeast couldn’t keep pace with McCook’s First Central Bank Juniors as a 16-10 win on Sunday capped their weekend at the North Platte Legion Baseball Tournament. The Juniors jumped ahead, 6-0, then plated 10 runs in their final two at-bats to hold off a Northeast comeback...

McCOOK, Neb. — The city will begin the process to find out what it can and can’t do with a lot on West Fifth. By a unanimous vote, the McCook City Council approved Monday night to authorize the McCook Planning Commission to make a determination if a lot at 510 W. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — A 60-year-old Oxford man will spend up to 72 months in the Nebraska penitentiary following his sentencing Monday on a conviction of possession of child pornography. Brian J. Dusatko, Sr, 60, of Oxford, appeared in the Red Willow County district court room in McCook for a sentencing out of Furnas County District Court. Dusatko was sentenced to 48 to 72 months with the Nebraska Department of Corrections and was given credit for the 235 days he has served in the Furnas County Jail...

You can get in a lot of trouble on social media; just ask Roseanne Barr or hundreds of other public figures or private citizens who have lost their jobs or suffered other consequences of careless online statements. You’ve probably seen private family disputes played out on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, and if you’re like most of us, you don’t want to see any more...

Farming is the riskiest job in the world — my mother, the Chase County farmer’s daughter, would often say. With about a quarter of Nebraska jobs depending on agriculture, we are clearly a state made up of risk-takers. Since much of that risk is due to factors largely out of our control (markets, weather, natural resources, and climate) it is crucial that we make wise decisions about the things we can change...