Stories from Tuesday, January 15, 2019

McCOOK, Neb. — Potential future playoff foe Lexington arrives to take on both the McCook girls and boys tonight at McCook High School. Varsity basketball action should begin around 5:45 p.m. with boys following the girls’ game. The Minutemaids (2-13 record) are struggling along on a seven-game losing streak — except those foes include 14-0 Wahoo, 13-2 Sdney, 12-2 Wahoo Bishop Neumann and 11-3 Hastings Adams Central...

Slovakia? Never heard of it. Well, that is the common reaction. Now understand I grew up with neighboring farmers whose family had emigrated from Czechoslovakia. Brothers John and Joe bachelors. On clear and frosty mornings as we walked to school I could hear them yelling at their half broke team of horses as they were handpicking corn. ...

Years ago I was a political writer for a small, local newspaper and enjoyed it thoroughly, but this is not an email asking for a job; rather it is to compliment one of your local residents in her drive for the Chaplain Corps and the men and women we minister to abroad...

Accused of being “the enemy of the people” and threatened with overturning long-established law assuring freedom to openly criticize American leadership, journalists might be forgiven for forgetting that the same First Amendment protects religious beliefs that may go against current political correctness...

Mary Ann Downing-Schwerdt STRATTON, Neb. — Mary Ann Downing-Schwerdt, 89, died Sunday (Jan. 13, 2019), at the Sarah Ann Hester Home in Benkelman, Neb. Survivors include children, Doug Downing and wife, Margaret of McCook, Neb., and Jeanette Burkhalter and husband, Kevin of Bird City, Kan.; sister, Julia Diehl of Stratton; son-in-law, Larry Wilkens of Merida, Mexico; daughter-in-law, Geraldine Downing of Stratton; step-children, Michael Beck of Mesa, Ariz., and Marsha Martinez and husband, Eugene of Denver, Colo.; step-daughter-in-law, Janne Schwerdt of Wheat Ridge, Colo.; nine grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren.. ...

Dawn C. Salyer Aug. 27, 1982 - Jan. 10, 2019 KEARNEY, Neb. — Dawn C. Salyer, 36, of Kearney, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, at her home. Funeral services will be on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, at 10:30 a.m., at Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Pastor Chad Anderson will officiate and burial will be at Kearney Cemetery. ...

Lois G. May March 26, 1920 - Jan. 12, 2019 HAYES CENTER, Neb. — Lois G. May, 98, of Hayes Center, passed away Jan. 12, 2019, at St. Luke’s Care Center in Kearney. The oldest of six children, Lois was born on Good Friday, March 26, 1920, to Guy F. and Florence H. ...

TRIBUNE, Kan. — The Rawlins County (Kan.) Buffaloes broke from a 23-23 halftime tie and topped Greeley County 49-42, Friday evening. Jorge Chacon scored seven of his team-high 16 points in the final quarter to finish this Rawlins triumph. Teammate Brenan Dixson ignited the attack with another 16 points through those first three quarters...

McCOOK, Neb. — Cambridge’s recent surge and a strong Dundy County-Stratton team all season long are No. 1 seeds entering RPAC tournament play next week. The Tigers (12-1) lead a talented West Division that includes double-digit winners Hitchcock County and Maywood-Hayes Center...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Southwest Roughriders and familiar powerhouse Paxton have earned No. 1 seeds entering boys’ RPAC basketball tournament play. Both have earned byes through Saturday’s first round. The Paxton Tigers were undefeated entering last year’s title game at McCook Community College...

McCOOK, Neb. — Home wreckers and road warriors will be both McCook teams’ goals when the Southwest Conference basketball tournaments tip off next week. Official pairings were announced on Monday. The No. 5-seed Bison girls (5-7 record) have already beaten No. 4 Gothenburg (5-9) once this season during a 38-36 battle at McCook High...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook American Legion baseball Boosters, Inc., will be having their 2019 annual meeting and election of board members and officers. The meeting will be held on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the McCook High School office conference room. Please enter through the front doors into McCook High School...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College volleyball coach Hayley Kobza has signed two more players for the Lady Indians for this coming season – both Nebraska players and one from Kobza’s high school alma mater. Middle Blocker Emily Barr of Hershey and Mackenzie Anderson of Ogallala, an outside hitter, both signed letters of intent to play volleyball in the fall at MCC last week...

McCOOK, Neb. — Officers were elected and newly elected board members were sworn in, at the regular McCook Board of Education meeting Monday night. Taking the oath of office were recently elected members Mike Langan and Dennis Berry, as well as incumbent Loretta Hauxwell, who was re-elected...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Red Willow County's proposal to replace a wooden bridge west of Marion with culverts has been approved for funding from the county bridge match program of the Nebraska Department of Transportation. On Friday, the NDOT announced the approval of 66 bridge repair/replacement proposals at a total construction cost of $10.1 million, of which $4.12 million is from the county bridge match program that addresses deficient county bridges. ...