Stories from Monday, September 9, 2019

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook’s softball girls scored two terrific wins and pushed North Platte throughout the Bison Invite championship game on Saturday. The Bison (4-9 overall) are 3-1 at home after shutting down Chadron, 7-1, and stopping traditional tourney power Grand Island Central Catholic, 6-4...

Shelly Avis Walker Aug. 19, 1941 - Sept. 6, 2019 BOISE, Idaho — Shelly Avis Walker, 78, died Sept. 6, 2019, at her home in Boise, Idaho. A memorial service will be at Payette Lake in McCall, Idaho, on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019, and at a later date, ashes will be placed in the columbarium at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in McCook, Neb...

Vonna Glyndean (Hardy) Ragan July 19, 1929 - Sept. 6, 2019 BENKELMAN, Neb. — Vonna Glyndean (Hardy) Ragan was born July 19, 1929, to Frank K. and Lola A. (Henderson) Hardy, at the home of her great-grandparents in Stratton, Neb. Vonna attended grade school at the Eden Country School, and graduated from Stratton High School in 1946. After graduation, Vonna, continued her education at the Barnes Business School in Denver, Colo...

Larry Edward Busking Jan. 23, 1953 - Sept. 5, 2019 NORMAN, Okla. — Larry Edward Busking of Norman, Oklahoma passed away unexpectedly on Sept.5, 2019. He was born to Eulene Brunkhorst Busking and Herbert Louis Busking in Imperial, Neb., on Jan. 23, 1953. ...

40th anniversary The family of Rocky and JoAnn Hock of Culbertson, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of the couple’s 40th wedding anniversary that was Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. They were married in 1979 in Lawrence, Neb., at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church. ...

ATWOOD, Kan. — Tall corn blocked visibility near the intersection of county roads northwest of Atwood where a Trenton man died Saturday afternoon in a collision of his pickup and a semi-truck. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that 50-year-old Derrick Bassnett died at the Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. The driver of the truck, 29-year-old Joshua Joe Friemel of Colby, Kan., was also transported to the Atwood hospital, but had no apparent injuries...

McCOOK, Neb. — Open auditions are tonight and Tuesday for McCook Community College Theater Department’s Dylan Thomas-inspired performance piece based on “A Welsh Christmas.” Auditions are at 7 p.m. each night at the Weeth Theatre in Tipton Hall. The production will run Dec. 6 and 7...

Bob Jones of Jennings, Kan., third-generation antiques appraiser and auctioneer, inspects "Yvonne," also known as "Child with Cherries," a framed halftone print of a painting by French artist William Adolphe Bouguereau in 1896, at a previous antiques appraisal fair in McCook. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — An uptick in passengers was seen last month flying Boutique Air at the McCook airpot. According the enplanement/deplanement numbers for August at the McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport, 240 passengers flew to Denver in August, a 9.59% increase from August 2018 at 219 passengers...

TORRINGTON, Wyo. – The McCook Community College golf team improved by one stroke Friday but could not make up enough ground to overtake the host school Eastern Wyoming. The Lancers shot a 296 Friday to win the two-day tournament with a 589. MCC posted a 304 Friday to finish second with a 609...

If you spend any time online, you probably saw the post over the weekend. An orange T-shirt with a scrawled “U.T.” accompanied a heartwarming story of a young boy who was bullied just because he wanted to support his college football team. Teacher Laura Snyder at Altamonte Elementary School in Florida said her unnamed student want to support his University of Tennessee Volunteers at a “College Colors Day,” but didn’t own an official T-shirt...

Freshman quarterback Kyler Cox went 7-for-7 passing with two touchdowns as the Maywood-Hayes Center Wolves smashed Silver Creek, 53-0, Friday evening. The Maywood-Hayes Center Wolves are a powerful 2-0 through two weeks. Cox’s perfect passing featured toudhdown strkes to senior Tyler Schleeman and sophomore Jett Sjeklocha...

WAUNETA, Neb. — A 62-0 finishing surge helped Dundy County-Stratton avenge last year’s home loss with their 82-34 victory over Wauneta-Palisade Friday evening. The Class D-1 No. 5 Tigers (2-0) featured junior Serbando Diaz’s four touchdowns but also scored with two punt returns and interception runback...

COZAD, Neb. — What a magnficient season debut for McCook High’s cross country girls as coach Tom Sughroue reported they won the 10-team Cozad Invitational on Saturday. Some comments from Sughroue: “It was a good start for the Lady Bison as they came away from the meet placing four people in the top 13 and as team champions!...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — All the McCook Bison leaders and team stats from Friday’s 20-3 football loss at Northwest Friday evening: TEAM STATS Rushing yards: Northwest 189, McCook 161 Passing yards: Northwest 48, McCook 25 Total yards: Northwest 237, McCook 186...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — The road to Bison victory was filled with stalled traffic and state patrol Reversed fumble calls and too many bad turns against a tough Northwest team. Yet moments following the 20-3 defeat, McCook coach Jeff Gross was seeing some light on this second football Friday night...

SALINA, Kan. – After going 2-2 over each of the previous two weekend tournaments, the McCook Community College volleyball team took three of four games in Kansas after sweeping a pair of Saturday games. MCC downed Friends University JV’s 3-0 and Kansas Wesleyan JVs 3-1...

A record number of non-profit organizations will be part of the fourth annual Big Give McCook on Thursday, Nov. 7. Since originating in 2016 with just over a dozen organizations participating, Big Give McCook has expanded ever year in the number of non-profits which will benefit from the one day fund-raiser...