Stories from Friday, December 14, 2018

The North Platte Bulldogs were a feisty problem all night for McCook basketball teams as senior Seth Dugger tried to finish this driving shot Friday night in North Platte. Senior Kiya Kramer (33) delivered this hustling defense while also sparking North Platte's offensive attack.Those Bulldogs won both games over the boys, 51-32; and girls 55-33 in varsity action. Both McCook teams play again on Saturday at Holdrege. Watch for more details from all these games in Monday's McCook Gazette...

Yes, the Gazette’s own Steve Towery was in Minneapolis Thursday night to capture both elation and relief of Nebraska’s five-set national semifinal comeback win over Big Ten rival Illinois. The Huskers can repeat as national champs Saturday. Nebraska faces No. 1-ranked Stanford at 8 p.m. on ESPN2 in a showdown of the last two national voleyball champs...

Daniel E. Foster Feb. 12, 1992 - Dec. 11, 2018 WAHOO, Neb. — Daniel E. Foster, age 26, of Wahoo, died Dec. 11, 2018. He was born Feb. 12, 1992, in Lincoln, Neb. He grew up in Wahoo and graduated from Wahoo High School in 2010. He worked in residential construction as a framer and was attending Southeast Community College...

Robert Wayne Miller March 19, 1934 - Dec. 13, 2018 SCOTT CITY, Kan. — Robert Wayne Miller, age 84, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City. He was born on March 19, 1934, in Stamford, Texas, the son of Lewis Oliver and Ila Lynn Corley Miller. A resident of Scott City since February of 2018, moving from Oberlin, Kan., he was retired from the motion picture industry...

CURTIS, Neb. – Aggie Ranch Horse Team riders ended their fall competitions with the WinterFest Championship of the Colorado-Wyoming-Nebraska (CoWN) Stock Horse Association in Loveland, Colorado. Six students from the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture team competed in cow horse work, trail class, western pleasure and reining, said Joanna Hergenreder, coach and assistant professor of animal science...

LIMON, Colo. — Cyrus Green scored two pins and earned a fourth-place medal for the Rawlins County (Kan.) wrestlers at Saturday’s Limon Invitational. Green pinned Antonio Reza from Peyton, Colo., with 12 ticks left in their first period. He also stuck Chance Weining from Trinidad, Colo., in 4:35 to reach the 195-pound consolation final...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — A 28-point Cozad first quarter helped withstand the 26-point barrage from Cambridge’s Paxton Ross Thursday night. The Haymakers prevailed 75-58 to reach 6-0 this season. Senior Preston Carbaugh added 16 points for the Trojans, who slipped to 1-4. Junior Zion Moyer added seven points while Kyle Borland Kyle Eubanks finished with four each...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Cozad’s winning trek through southwest Nebraska this week didn’t stretch from McCook to Cambridge Thursday night. The Trojans stopped those Haymakers, 56-34, while earning their fourth consecutive win. Cambridge (4-1) took 21 steals from a Cozad team that picked off McCook’s final two passes in the 38-35 victory on Tuesday...

BENKELMAN, Neb. — McCook’s freshman boys had a blast going into Christmas break with their 63-50 victory over Dundy County-Stratton’s reserves Monday evening. Brendan Gillen shot a blazing five-for-eight (63 percent) from three-point distance while scoring 17 points...

McCOOK, Neb. — Reid Steinbeck’s heayvwieght championship highlighted the McCook wrestling effort at Thursday’s Bison JV Open. The tournament featured wrestlers from several area schools like North Platte, Lexington, Holdrege, Cambrige, Chase County, Southwest, Wauneta-Palisade and a strong group from Colby, Kan...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook City Council will be asked to make it a crime to enter a person’s vehicle without consent and to discuss vacating or selling a piece of land on East 11th Street, at its regular meeting Monday night, 6:30, at city council chambers at the McCook Municipal Building...

CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor McCOOK, Neb. — Nine head of bred cows were killed or had to be euthanized when a semi-trailer overturned in an accident on North Highway 83 just south of West J Street about noon Thursday. The trailer was hauling 42 head of black, black-whiteface, red and Charolais cows, believed to be headed to a ranch in Kansas. The truck was southbound on the highway...

We’ve already celebrated Thanksgiving, but Thursday’s events provide more reasons to be thankful. Gratitude that kids were safe despite being evacuated from our elementary school, as well as thankful we have the right people in place to respond to emergencies like the collision that tied up a major intersection all afternoon...

I was very honored to be recognized by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum recently for the work on the Norris Institute's Prairie Arboretum. There were many agencies and Norris Board members who put countless hours into this project that need to be publicly thanked. The problem is not offending someone by overlooking them. Please forgive me if I have forgotten anyone...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol arrested a drunk driver following a pursuit on Interstate 80 that covered nearly 20 miles in eastern Nebraska Thursday afternoon. At approximately, 4:45 p.m. Thursday, December 13, NSP dispatchers received a report of a reckless driver traveling eastbound on I-80 in Seward County. Troopers located the vehicle at mile marker 381, near the Milford interchange. The vehicle was observed speeding at 93 miles per hour in a 75 miles per hour zone...