Stories from Tuesday, June 12, 2018

West up through the Frenchman River Valley to the shore of Enders Reservoir. A host of camping trailers, tents people enjoying the beach, water and sunshine. On to Imperial. Well-kept homes and yards then north through Grant and Ogallala. Then parallel to Lake McConaughy and on westward up the North Platte River Valley. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Bradley Machine and Pump Storm defeated the R & S Water Well Muckdogs on Monday after taking the lead late in the game Monday evening. The game was tied 4-4 with the R & S Water Well Muckdogs batting in the top of the fifth when Tyler Davis singled on a 1-1 count, scoring one run...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Cardinals 10-and-under baseball team defeated Cozad 3-0 on Monday. Two pitchers combined to throw a shutout. Cason Waugh striking out Cozad’s final batter. The pitching was strong on both sides. McCook Cardinals pitchers struck out 12, while Cozad fanned four...

McCOOK, Neb. — The latest marvelous McCook High tennis season was capped with six varsity players earning all-state recognition recently. Nebraska Coaches Association named seniors Sydney Thompson, Cassiddy Beeby, Haley Potthoff and junior Kassidy Michaelis to the Class B all-state second team...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Gazette-area basketball players were a big part of the winning teams in Friday’s 12th annual Mid-Plains All-tar Basketball Games on Friday. The girls’ gold team dominated throughout a 54-31 victory over their Black team opponents...

A group of seven Gazette-area players joined game MVP Alex Horky from Twin Loop in leading the East’s 21-13 win at Saturday night’s West Nebraska All-Star Football Game. Horky rushed for 142 yards. Winning area players were Medicine Valley all-state running back Landon Lenz, quarterback Ryan Klintworth, Arapahoe record-setting tackler Jacob Pruitt and Warrior alum Spencer Watson; Cambridge’s Taten Benson, Tyler Borland and Wauneta-Palisade’s Cash Yearous...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — McCook Bison alum Riley Sis ripped four kills to help power a super five-set comeback for the West at Saturday’s 34th annual West Nebraska All-Star Volleyball Match. After spotting the East a 2-0 set lead, West players furiously rallied for the 13-25, 19-25, 25-21, 25-12, 25-13 victory at Western Nebraska Community College’s Cougar Palace...

McCOOK, Neb. — In the 60-some Nebraska counties that Barb Otto has visited in the last three years, not a single courthouse had the National Motto, "In God We Trust," displayed anywhere. After Barb's visit, most of them have either installed signs or have approved a project to hang signs. Red Willow County commissioners will vote on the issue at an upcoming meeting...

McCOOK, Neb. — A staff member of Nebraska Third District Rep. Adrian Smith assured owners of trailers houses on three Southwest Nebraska lakes that, by staying in touch with Smith's office, they've done what they need to do in their effort to keep their trailers at the lakes...