Stories from Monday, April 15, 2019

Nebraska returning first-team quarterback Adrian Martinez (right) eludes linebacker David Alston (45) while throwing for more than 100 yards in Saturday’s annual Red-White Game. More details about the contest can be seen in today's McCook Gazette.

Kieth Alan Alstrom April 23, 1928 - April 11, 2019 OBERLIN, Kan. —Kieth Alan Alstrom, 90, died Thursday (April 11, 2019), at Decatur Health in Oberlin. He was born April 23, 1928, in Summit Township to Carl Hjalmer and Bessie Carr (Huff) Alstrom.He graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1946. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951 and served until 1953 as a PFC during the Korean War. He married Dorothy Lorentz at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Herndon, Kan., on Dec. 25, 1953...

McCOOK, Neb. —McCook Community College sophomore Shaun Hickey has become the first baseball player from this year’s team to sign on to a four-year school. Hickey, a Summerville, New Brunswick native has committed to play at Division I Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College softball team dropped a pair of games Sunday to Western Nebraska losing the first game 6-4 in 10 innings, and dropping the second game 9-0. Western Nebraska improves to 21-17 on the season and 13-5 in Region IX. MCC falls to 20-20 on the season and falls three games back of Western in third place with an 11-9 record...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College baseball team came out flat Sunday, trailed early, and lost a 9-1 decision to Empire-League leading Northeastern Junior College. The Plainsmen scored four first inning runs on four MCC walks, an error, two wild pitches and a two-run single by the eighth place hitter to lead 4-0...

McCOOK, Neb. — Have faith, spring sports fans, because Easter Sunday might just complete a week of no weather postponements or cancellations. No tiny sleet pellets bouncing off ears too big to hide under the ballcap? No storms blowing through with delightful wind and showers — only to reveal a pretty rainbow as you wipe goop off the glasses?...

We all hear the mantra about diet and exercise leading to longer life, but how about our zip code? That can make a difference, according to a University of Nebraska Medical Center team that is unveiling a new Life Expectancy Calculator and Mapping for Nebraskans website...

In [reference] to the Feb. 12, 2019 article: “McCook Public Schools tightening belt”. The Atlantic’s January 30, 2015 article, “It Takes a Village: The Rise of Community-Driven Infrastructure” written by Greta Byrum, urban planner and a senior field analyst at the Open Technology Institute; “Thinking local—and integrating social engagement into systems planning—means reimagining infrastructure as we know it.”. Who’s on the ‘team’ in educating our children?...