Stories from Wednesday, March 20, 2019

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook’s tennis girls certainly earned ice cream to go with all the sprinkles, snow-rain mix and more rain showers that struck their season opener Tuesday. “Quite an array of weather today,” coach Matt Wiemers proclaimed as matches were eventually cut short...

MIDLAND, Texas – The McCook Community College softball team lost a pair of games Tuesday to Midland College. The Lady Indians lost the first game 8-0 and the second game 5-2, and finish the spring break Texas trip 0-4. “It was a tough trip overall,” MCC coach Josh Barnes said. “We didn’t hit well but pitching was a bright spot.”...

McCOOK, Neb. — All-Southwest Conference players will be voted on later today, but the McCook Bison have already garnered other honors for their 2018-19 basketball season. Greater Nebraska Activities Conference coaches selected top players even though December snow forced the annual tournament to be canceled...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — An 8-0 win over Lexington helped the McCook JV tennis team shake off its opening loss to Hershey on Tuesday. The Bison split their squad since Hershey’s roster was limited due to injuries, illness and other problems. However, those Pathers who played did deliver a 7-1 dual victory...

The MCC baseball team was scheduled to play Colby, Kan., but will now play Northeast Community College (Norfolk) instead, at 4:30 p.m. today in Colby. N.E. coached by McCook High grad Marcus Clapp.

McCOOK, Neb. -- Being a journalist, even a nationally-known one, can sometimes lead to an isolated existence. New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks shared his experience with the McCook Rotary Club Tuesday. “We (journalists) don’t actually do anything. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Costs of repairing the curtains at Memorial Auditorium came in much higher than expected. The $30,000 the city council had approved in this year’s budget to repair the curtains will not be enough to fix them. That number was based on the assumption that city personnel would complete the repair work. ...

By and large, Nebraskans are an independent lot, and don’t like asking for help. Sen. Ben Sasse, visiting flooded areas with Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday, noted that Nebraskans who had lost everything in the flood were standing in line at shelters, but it was to volunteer to help their neighbors, not help for themselves...

Ben Sasse, our senator and former president of Midland College, has written a book outlining the evolvement of a situation in which adolescence seems to be a destination instead of a journey to adulthood. His book is called “The Vanishing American Adult and How to Build a Culture of Self-Reliance.”...