Stories from Thursday, August 29, 2019

McCOOK, Neb. — Some run from danger while others embrace it. The best will be ready to give danger one big slobber-knocking hit. Hello! Not sure if you can see me with all that sod planted in your facemask. Football season is here and the McCook Bison won’t be starting slow when they see Hastings Tigers invade Weiland Field Friday night because:...

TRENTON, Neb. — Fall sports action hits full speed this week with another great Friday night football game matching Wauneta-Palisade and Hitchcock County. The Falcons won two games last year, but they seem really close to breaking through with top talent like senior Pierce Utterback, junior Dionte Perkins and sophomore Braydyn Hutto returning...

HASTINGS (0-0) vs. MCCOOK (0-0) At Weiland Field Projected starting lineups & top substitutes McCOOK Bison Offense WR 11 Mason Schmoker 5-10 160 Jr. Defense Special Teams HASTINGS Tigers Offense Defense...

McCOOK, Neb. — Heritage Hills Men’s League finished their second-half playoffs Wednesday night with these results: A League Championship flight: Old Sarge’s Bar 39.5, Samway/Michaelis 37, Gary Thompson Agency 31.5. First flight: McCook Lettering 38, Golight 37, Cublertson Bank 31...

McCOOK, Neb. — The dwindling numbers of Medicare residents is concerning to the administrator at Hillcrest Nursing Home. If numbers continue to decrease, it may necessitate a reduction in staff, said Hillcrest administrator Brad Cheek at the Hillcrest Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday morning. However, if Medicare numbers then start to increase, staff members may not be able to be recruited back, he added...

McCOOK, Neb. — Andy Long, director of the McCook Economic Development Corp., delivered a quarterly report, Monday, telling Red Willow County commissioners at their weekly meeting Monday morning that, while office space at the Keystone Business Center in downtown McCook is occupied, what is available is wonderful ground-floor space with a commercial kitchen...

Most of us don’t think much about the reason for Monday’s Labor Day holiday, but we should. Especially when we’re thinking about the type of labor tomorrow’s workforce will be expected to perform. Especially when it takes a serious commitment of time and often borrowed money to obtain those skills...

During my senior year of college, I toured Boston, Mass. It was filled with sights and sounds and intriguing places. I visited Paul Rever’s house that was built in the 1670s. My friends and I toured the Old North Church where two lanterns were hung, signaling Revere’s famous ride to warn the colonists that the British were coming...

McCook, Neb. — The Southwest Nebraska Genealogy Society announces it is now an affiliate library of the "Family History Library" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. With this new affiliation, researchers using the SWNGS library in downtown McCook are now able to access digital genealogical collections that are otherwise accessible only at the Salt Lake City library or at one of more than 5,000 FamilySearch family history centers worldwide...