Stories from Friday, June 8, 2018

EUGENE, Ore. — Oklahoma State track and field’s Sinclaire Johnson and Molly Sughroue earned All-America honors in the final race of OSU’s season in the NCAA 1,500-meter semifinal on Thursday. Their appearances mark the first time in Cowgirl history two women have earned All-America nods in the event in the same year...

They say things happen in threes, but there’s no reason the superstition has to prove true in this case. We remember reading an interview with celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who said his job, traveling the world in search of culinary adventure, was actually a lonely one...

65th anniversary The family of Phillip and Marilyn Fornoff of Hayes Center, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of the couple’s 65th wedding anniversary on Saturday, June 16, 2018. They were married in 1953 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, southeast of Hayes Center. ...

80th birthday The family of Owen Elmer of Indianola, Neb., is hosting an open house in honor of his 80th birthday. The open house is Sunday, June 17, 2018, from 2 to 4 p.m., at St. Catherine’s Church Hall, 815  D Street, in Indianola. He was a local business owner and Nebraska state senator. ...

Last week I wrote briefly about searching news items for R.F.D Route personal items in the McCook Tribune. Prior to R.F.D., persons living outside of a settlement that had a post office had to either travel to a post office or pay a private carrier to bring their mail to them. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — An agreement approved between the City of McCook and a local engineering firm has paved the way for the reconstruction of Park Avenue. The McCook City Council approved unanimously Monday night at the regular meeting an agreement between the City of McCook and W Design Associates, for design and construction engineering services concerning Park Avenue. The repair will start from Kelley Park Drive to Norris Avenue and Sioux from Park Avenue to 175 feet east...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Board of Education will be asked to increase breakfast and lunch prices by 10 cents, at the regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the junior high conference room. The increase is part of the ongoing process of the school district to catch up with federal guidelines for federal reimbursement rates, said McCook Schools Superintendent Grant Norgaard...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — As a caterpillar goes through a metamorphosis to become a butterfly, so “Hair Company” in downtown Cambridge has morphed into “Flyaway Market: Home, Heart, Hair.” Nine years ago, Linda Jones opened Hair Company, offering her services as a hair stylist in a building that her husband, Patrick, remodeled over three months...

Tickets go on sale Monday for the 2018 Mid-Plains Community College raffle car. This year’s car is a 1932 Ford Roadster. It was built by students in MPCC’s Classic Car Restoration, Automotive Technology and Auto Body Technology programs and is the result of a partnership with Lincoln-based Speedway Motors. ...

FELLING FIELD — The Royals watched the game slip away early and couldn’t recover in a 9-3 loss to the Carpenter Breland Funeral Home Phillies on Thursday. The Carpenter Breland Funeral Home Phillies scored on a single by Kaiden Porter and a single by DeAndre Berry in the first inning...

McCOOK, Neb. — Through a collaboration with a McCook business, the McCook office of Community Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska is able to offer 130 box fans to help fight the summer heat. Barb Ostrum, community services coordinator of Mid-Nebraska’s office in downtown McCook, said she purchased the fans at D&S Hardware, which offered the fans at “a great price” that enables Mid-Nebraska to help as many people as possible with the $2,500 budgeted for its annual summer cooling/fan project...

McCOOK, Neb. — Rich Barnett of KICX in McCook will be honored as the 2018 Media Person of the Year at the Nebraska State Wrestling Coaches Association banquet tonight in Grand Island.

I’ve been enamored by knowledge for as long as I can remember. My uncle, who was a wise old man in his own right, told me when I was very young that the more you knew, the more control you were of your own life and I’ve never forgotten that. On top of that, learning for me was fun. ...

Mid-Plains Community College national rodeo qualifiers include Garrett Wickett, Norfolk; Mykelsi Schnose, Oelrichs, S.D.; Reed Murray, of Belvue, Kan.; Lane Kennedy, Orleans; Chandler Comfort, Elwood and Wyatt Killion, Ainsworth; Sawyer Strand, Harrisburg, S.D.; Tyler Murray, McCook; and Riley Weehler, Maloy, Iowa. ...

We have been hearing, and having, a lot of discussions about property taxes over the past several years. Nebraska taxes real estate and improvements on those properties at a higher rate than our neighboring states. There are several reasons why that is the case, but I would like to examine why we tax real estate in the first place...

R.B. Headley Gazette Sports Editor McCOOK, Neb. — The week of impressive carnage continued as McCook’s sizzling First Central Bank Juniors blasted Imperial, 21-4, on Thursday. Coach Kaden Sitzman has seen his team outscore three foes 61-7 this week which has included two no-hit pitching efforts...

McCOOK, Neb. — Oops, they did it again! Despite seven errors and eight walks issued, McCook’s National Bank Seniors scored their second straight walkoff win with a 14-13 decision over Imperial Thursday evening. Coaches Scott Smalley and Jeff Holthus are “seasoned” enough to remember Britney Spear’s forgettable bubble-gum tune mentioned in that opening “oops” sentence...