Stories from Tuesday, October 23, 2018

LINCOLN, Neb. — Area football fans will be treated to state playoff games as the official kick times were announced on Monday. Both the Wauneta-Palisade Broncos and Arapahoe Warriors will be playing 3 p.m. CST games (2 p.m. MST) Thursday afternoon. The Broncos (7-1 record) are hosting No. 11 Lawrence-Nelson (5-3) as a No. 6 seed in Class D-2’s West bracket...

McCOOK, Neb. — No softees will be permitted to play on “Pink Out Night” and the McCook High volleyball team wouldn’t want it any other way tonight. The Bison are fired up to take on Southwest Conference champ Minden (19-10 record) one more time before meeting talented area foe Chase County (16-12)...

McCOOK, Neb. — Twenty-five thousand dollars is up for grabs for local business startup or expansion in this year’s Hormel Entrepreneurship Competition, but the application deadline is Nov. 30. Through a partnership with McCook Community College and Southwest Nebraska area business sponsors, the Hormel Entrepreneurship Competition helps local business startups or expansion using business plan writing and a business grant...

McCOOK, Neb. — According to the story told Friday by Gary Kraisinger, author of two books on Western Trail history, a cattle herd coming up from Texas came to a large pond near Buffalo Park, Kan., and was met by a man charging five cents per head to cross...

HAIGLER, Neb. — Haigler’s 11th annual Fall Tumbleweed Festival really lucked out on the weather this year with a bright, sunshiny, warm, and no wind autumn day. People tumbled in throughout the day from our tri-state area. Volunteers had decorated the museum grounds with cornstalks, pumpkins, tumbleweeds, straw bales, and colorful fall décor. Blue and red canopies could be seen from the Golden Rod Hi-Way 34 with tables of food, door prizes, Halloween costumes, and hay bale banners...

CULBERTSON, Neb. — The family of Alexandria Murillo of McCook plans a fundraiser haunted house and chili and cinnamon roll cook-off Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and Oct. 27, to help finance Alexandria’s appearance in the “National American Miss” pageant in California in November...

Lincoln, Neb. – Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerrey openly admit that they didn’t always agree while serving as U.S. senators for Nebraska. Yet the two were able to set their differences aside to serve the interests of the people. That kind of compromise is lacking in Washington today, they told an overflow crowd during the first Heuermann Lecture of the season Oct. ...

If you’re like most cell phone owners, you’re probably aware that a good percentage of the calls you receive are junk calls at best, outright scams at worst. Tonight’s record $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot presents an opportunity for crooks to steal money from hopeful, vulnerable people...

As McCook’s community leaders search for a way to create a convention center, is it possible they are overlooking a very obvious solution? I believe they are. The obvious solution, I believe, is to transform an asset the community already possesses — the Keystone Business Center — into a gathering place that showcases the history and heartfelt hometown spirit of a town and a region which, I believe, reflect the best qualities of the greatest nation in the world...

IMPERIAL, Neb. — Chase County captured a 7-6 win over the visiting Ogallala Indians to cap the Longhorns’ 4-5 football season Friday evening. Though participation numbers were down this fall, Chase County still scored some tough impressive victories which included 12-8 at Chadron and 45-7 against the Holdrege Dusters...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College volleyball team lost for the first time at home this season Friday losing a four-set match to No. 19 ranked Western Nebraska Community College. MCC came out and won the first set 25-17 but the Cougars won the next three by the scores of 25-19, 25-23 and 28-26...

TRENTON, Neb. — Hitchcock County brought the brooms to Monday’s home matches with impressive wins over Wallace and Maywood-Hayes Center. The Falcons (16-12) were double-digit winners in both sets against Wallace, 25-13 and 25-15. Maywood-Hayes Center (15-11) would have loved to avenge last week’s RPAC tourney defeat in Hayes Center. The Wolves were aiming for a repeat trip into those semifinal matches at McCook Community Colllege...

OXFORD, Neb. — One match all week might just spark another Southern Valley Eagles flight to the state volleyball tournament. “We look forward to only one night of games this week and getting a much-needed break before subdistricts start,” coach Jessi Thalheim said as her Eagles are visiting the Franklin Flyers tonight...

Great timing! The McCook City Manager presented the Council with a new scheme to tax (fees=taxes) the residents for additional money to spend. The idea is to charge for running underground cables, and other utility connections, whenever they cross city “property”. Oh, but the council members were all on it like ducks on a June bug! Great timing. Ever more reason to vote no on any council member running for reelection...