Stories from Wednesday, May 8, 2019

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Midget Baseball Association kicked off its 2019 season with opening ceremonies at Felling Field Friday evening. McCook radio personality Rich Barnett was Emcee for the event featuring 366 boys and girls registered to play this season. They have been drafted into 36 teams and games are underway...

Dale B. Carter Feb. 25, 1931 - Jan. 1, 2019 SPOKANE, Wash. — Dale B. Carter, age 87, of Spokane, went to be with his Savior, Jesus Christ, and his beloved wife, LaVonne Elaine Carter, on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, in Spokane. Dale was born in McCook, Neb., on Feb. 25, 1931, to Elmer and Marie Carter. He married his high school sweetheart, LaVonne, in 1952 and they spent 66 wonderful years together, holding hands through every adventure, before her passing in 2017...

Janice Kay Kurth Oct. 3, 1945 - May 3, 2019 IMPERIAL, Neb. — Janice Kay (Scott) Kurth was born Oct. 3, 1945, in Oberlin, Kan., to Goldie Ola and Clara Elizabeth (Allacher) Scott. Janice grew up in Oberlin and attended Decatur Community High School...

Lorena Ems July 11, 1919, - May 6, 2019 ARAPAHOE, Neb. — Lorena Ems, 99, of Arapahoe, died Monday (May 6, 2019), at the Tabitha Journey House in Lincoln, Neb. She was born July 11, 1919, in Edison, Neb., to Louie and Josephine (Dawson) Roepke. She graduated from Arapahoe High School in 1936. She taught school at a country school north of Arapahoe. She married Morris Ems in 1938...

Darwin Pierson Nov. 23, 1927 - Jan 4, 2019 GENOA, Neb. — Darwin Pierson, 91, passed away Jan. 4, 2019, in Genoa. He was born Nov. 23, 1927, on a farm near Clarks, Neb., to William and Gladys Pierson. He started rural school near Clarks. The family moved to a farm near Genoa, where he attended the one-room grade school Dist. 13, and worked on the farm...

KEARNEY, Neb. — McCook High’s JV tennis girls won four of five before rain wiped out the remaining Kearney Invite matches on Monday. Senior Macy Hill toppled No. 1 players from Norfolk, 6-2, and Holdrege 6-0 to lead the brief but dominating Bison performance...

McCOOK, Neb. — Weather permitting, highway work will begin Monday south of Oxford and at Wilsonville. The work at Oxford will extend from Reference Post 0.02 to Reference Post 7.79, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation.   Vontz Paving, of Hastings, Nebraska, has the $4,265,306 contract.  Work includes bridge repair, culvert installation, milling, asphalt overlay, grading, guardrail replacement and seeding...

McCOOK, Neb. — It seems to be a problem for law enforcement agencies across the state, not just in Red Willow County. But locally, Red Willow County commissioners are going to have to figure out a budget that attracts and keeps quality employees in the sheriff's department and on the jail staff...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Climbing 110 stories … 1,100 stairs — in McCook, the equivalent is 60 Keystone Business Centers — is physically exhausting. But the hardest part of the climb lies at the end, back at the beginning … where a solemn firefighter in full dress uniform reads the name of a fellow firefighter killed in the New York City fire departments' response to the burning and crumbling Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on Nov. 11, 2001...

SCOTTSBLUFF – Because of weather concerns Thursday, the Region IX softball tournament has been pushed back a day and will start Friday and continue through Sunday if necessary. This is a double elimination tournament. Western Nebraska gained the top seed for the right to host the post season...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Mid-Plains Community College will send seven members of its rodeo team to the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo. June 9-15. The CNFR qualifiers are: Austin Madison, Whiting, Iowa; Clay Bauer, Arcadia; JD Draper, Oakley, Kan.; Koby Jacobson, Haiku, Hawaii; Marshall Still, Oconto; Wyatt Williams, Ord; and Chance Williams, Ord will serve as an alternate...

At the Nebraska Capital in Lincoln on "Vietnam War Veterans Day," March 29, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, left, honors Steve Butler of rural McCook for his service to America during the Vietnam War. Butler's last two years in the U.S. Army, 1974-1976, were served at Fort Myer in Arlington Cemetery, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., as a member of the cemetery honor guard and an escort to U.S. ...

100 meters 1. Adelaide Maxwell, Chase County, 12.83 2. Taylor Williams, Chase County, 13.0 3. Kamrie Dillan, Chase County, 13.02 4. Robin Grigg, McCook, 13.39 5. Liviya Wier, McCook, 13.43 100-meter hurdles 1. Jerzee Milner, Chase County, 16.52 2. Kass Kisker, Hitchcock County, 17.3...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Bison football team will be hosting the annual Championship Football Camp on June 3-6 directly behind McCook High School. This camp is designed to be for grades second through eighth entering this fall. Boys and girls are welcome...

McCOOK, Neb. — Portfolio works from McCook Community College graphic design and visual communication students is on display this week at the Wrightstone Fine Arts Gallery on campus. This exhibition includes works of sophomore students in a portfolio class as well as first-year students. In addition, students who have interned at local businesses and organization will have some of their design work on display...

A friend of one of the accused Highlands Ranch shooters in Colorado said he was shocked to see how much his friend had changed since they were buddies four years earlier. Devon Erickson, 18, was dressed in black, from head to toe, and told his former middle-school friend he owned guns...