Stories from Tuesday, February 26, 2019

McCOOK, Neb. — There wasn’t enough room on the floor at one time for all Wauneta-Palisade Broncos who hit huge fourth-quarter shots Monday night. No fewer than six scored points during a final 14-4 flurry that sent W-P past Dundy County-Stratton, 36-33, and into next week’s Class D-1 state tournament...

Allan Nordhausen March 12, 1942 - Feb. 23, 2019 WAUNETA, Neb. — Allan LeRoy Nordhausen was born March 12, 1942, in Imperial, Neb., to Dietrich Fritz and Ora Minnie Sophia (Denker) Nordhausen. As a young man, Allan attended St. Paul’s Lutheran Parochial School and Wauneta Public Schools. He was inducted into the U.S. Army where he served for a short time because of an illness of his father...

Wayne Earl “Zip” Zade July 10, 1949 - Feb. 23, 2019 ORLEANS, Neb. — Wayne Earl “Zip” Zade, 69, of Orleans, died Saturday (Feb. 23, 2019), at Harlan County Health Systems in Alma, Neb. He was born on July 10, 1949, at Hood River, Ore., to Lester Floyd and Violet Irene (Mays) Zade. He graduated from Orleans High School in 1969. On Oct. 8, 1969, he was inducted into the United States Army. He served in Vietnam...

Michael Allan Rhoades March 16, 1943 - Feb. 10, 2019 RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — Michael Allan Rhoades, 75, entered Heaven’s Glory Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, in his long-time home of Rancho Cordova. Mike was born on March 16, 1943, in McCook, Neb., to Merle and Elma. ...

Lorri sughroue Associate Editor McCOOK, Neb. — A temporary easement requested by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad in 2005 for a drainage pipe to discharge treated groundwater is no longer needed and the McCook City Council on Feb. 18 approved a resolution to terminate it...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook/Red Willow County Visitors Committee has completed writing and revising the process and forms required of businesses and organizations applying for grants to promote events and offset facility rental costs. Visitors committee director Carol Schlegel told county commissioners at their weekly meeting Monday morning that the written guidelines will make grant awards less subjective than they have been in the past and indicate to grant applicants and recipients what is expected throughout the process and at the conclusion of an event.. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Fight off the winter doldrums, beat cabin fever, and shake off the cold weather woes. Get out of the house and learn about activities that will brighten your spring and summer and fall, and yes, even your winter next year, by attending the first-ever "Southwest Nebraska Community Links" activities fair Thursday from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m., in McCook's Memorial Auditorium at the corner of West Fifth and C...

McCook, Neb. —When Community Hospital leaders made the decision to join the Communities of Excellence 2026 program in 2018, they were also making the decision to serve as a backbone organization for McCook. Communities of Excellence 2026 is the “community side” of the Baldrige Performance Excellence program, a journey that Community Hospital has been on since 2009. The program was originally developed for businesses in the United States...

The McCook Chamber of Commerce’s goal to make our town a great place to “live, work and play,” and that’s definitely a worthwhile goal. Without a way to measure progress, however, that goal is only a matter of opinion, and too often, the squeaky wheel gets the grease while other equally important parts of the wagon are neglected...

Recently Nate Jackson commenting on the just finished meeting of senior Catholic Church officials offered the following: “The Bible is clear: Homosexual behavior is wrong and a sin. It’s not an acceptable alternative lifestyle, let alone a practice in which to take pride or a choice that others must celebrate. ...

Paul Theobald My wife and I have a small farm in Pierce County, Nebraska. The farm sits in Nebraska’s geographically large Third Congressional District, a stretch of territory the size of England and Scotland combined, now considered the most solidly Republican district outside the South. ...

LAMAR, Colo. – The McCook Community College baseball team split a pair of games Friday to open Empire League play. MCC slugged four home runs in winning the first game 14-8 and lost the second game 5-4 on a seventh-inning walk-off. “Obviously we swung the bat real well in game one, scoring 14 runs, we made a couple miscues defensively, and honestly we pitched pretty well in the first game, but the defense gave up some runs,” MCC coach Jon Olsen said...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Captain Jack Goering and the Island-based team simply didn’t bounce enough coconuts off their feet Monday night. “When you get behind a team like GI (Grand Island) CC (Central Catholic), it’s tough to come back,” Chase County coach Chris Bartels explained about the C1-7 district title game. “Because they just don’t make mistakes.”...