Stories from Monday, September 23, 2019

BEATRICE, Neb. — The Daum-inator was a perfect destination for Friday night’s final dramatic on-side kick. McCook senior Drew Daum had taken down everything else wearing orange during his marvelous 19-tackle performance at Beatrice. Ironically, the Orangemen had scored their final touchdown with — you guessed it — 19 seconds remaining...

Mary Margaret Miller Marshall Dec. 15, 1947 - Sept. 16, 2019 SMITHVILLE, Mo. — Mary Margaret Miller Marshall, 71, of Smithville, passed away at home surrounded by her family on Sept. 16, 2019. Funeral services will be on Sept. 23, 2019, at 1 p.m., at Northland Reformed Church in Kansas City, Mo. Private Interment will be in Indianola, Neb., at a later date...

Gordon Wesley John May 20, 1931 - Sept. 16, 2019 BEAVER CITY, Neb. — Gordon Wesley John, 88, of Beaver City, died Monday (Sept. 16, 2019), at CHI Bergan Mercy Hospital, Omaha, Neb. He was born on May 20, 1931, in Hendley, Neb., to Ed and Bessie Pauline (Bruening) John. He grew up in the Hendley area and was a farmer in the Hendley and Beaver City area. He married Geneva Wilderson in 2005...

STERLING, Colo. – The McCook Community College golf team shot a second-round 302 but that was not good enough to overtake Eastern Wyoming at the Northeastern Junior College tournament moved to Riverview Golf Club, because of weather damage and dead fairways at the Northeastern 18...

CHAPPELL, Neb. — A 40-point second quarter powered Six-Man No. 10 Creek Valley past No. 8 Maywood-Hayes Center, 54-34, Friday evening. The Wolves outscored their hosts, 20-0, in quarter four but trimmed only half of a 54-14 deficit at intermission. Junior Oakley Hodges’ 127 receiving yards and two TDs led a balanced attack for 4-0 Creek Valley...

CHAPPELL, Neb. — Senior Jaycee Widener’s 13 kills helped lead Maywood-Hayes Center to 12-0 with a 25-8, 25-10, 25-16 sweep over Creek Valley Friday night. Freshman Ashlin Broz served 17 points without missing on 21 attempts. Senior Avery Johnson and freshman Lexi Wood launched seven kills each through the Storm’s defense...

HASTINGS, Neb. — McCook High’s varsity softball team lost the lead late in a 6-3 defeat to Lincoln Pius X on Saturday while finishing 0-2 at a tough Hastings Tiger tournament. The game was tied 3-3 when Pius X homered in the fifth, scoring three runs...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Cambridge Trojans finished strong with a 30-28 win over Chase County which helped secure third place at Saturday’s McCook Bison Invitational. Cambridge won two of three tournament matches for the day. The Trojans topped a determined Decatur Community (Kan.) squad in three sets at McCook Junior High...

McCOOK, Neb. — A first-set defeat to Valentine only fired up the McCook Bison during Saturday’s home volleyball invitational. The Bison roared back to beat those Badgers 21-25, 25-23, 25-22 as they avoided a repeat of last year’s 0-3 performance. Yet McCook was far from finishing while tripling its win total for the season on Saturday...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Their season scoring average dropped below 80 points a game but few would complain about Cambridge’s 68-22 home win over Ansley-Litchfield Friday evening. Junior Deryk Huxoll delivered three touchdowns of 70 yards or more and classmate Clayton Sayer rumbled 66 yards to another score in this latest dynamite Trojan triumph...

BEATRICE, Neb. — All McCook High football leaders from Friday’s 21-17 victory over the Beatrice Orangement: TEAM STATS Rush yards: McCook 284, Beatrice 180. Pass yards: McCook 63, Beatrice 35. First downs: McCook 18, Beatrice 16. Total yards: McCook 347, Beatrice 215...

LEXINGTON, Neb. — McCook High won all four divisions and nearly doubled the nearest challenger while winning Friday’s Lexington Tennis Invitational. Top singles players Zion Moyer and Mason Michaelis only lost one game apiece all day in this eight-team tourney...

McCOOK, Neb. — A new mural by rural Indianola artist Roxann Owens is the centerpiece of the recently-renovated display of the career of McCook Gazette founder and publisher and reclamationist Harry Strunk at the Museum of the High Plains in downtown McCook...

McCOOK, Neb. — A very short agenda kept Red Willow County commissioners occupied for just 40 minutes Monday morning. As a board, commissioners Cayla Richards and Earl McNutt — Steve Downer was absent — had no objections or comments regarding an application to expand from 6,500 head of cattle to 8,000 head at Marshland Acres West, the concentrated animal feeding operation southeast of McCook formerly known as Heartland Cattle Co...

TRENTON, Neb. — The rescue truck purchased this summer by the Trenton Volunteer Fire Department is one that responded to the U.S. Pentagon following terrorist attacks on America on Sept. 11, 2001. Emblazoned on the truck's driver's side bumper is an official U.S. Government seal signifying its use in America's response to 9-11 terrorist attacks...

David Calease, National Register of Historic Places and Historic Markers Coordinator, goes through the nomination of Camp Indianola, a World War II prisoner of war camp, during Friday’s meeting of the Nebraska State Historic Preservation Board at the Keystone Business Center in McCook. ...

KEARNEY, Neb. — During the tri-annual "Children's Summit" of the Court Improvement Project (CIP) Sept. 11 and 12 in Kearney, "Team 11.3," representing Furnas, Hayes, Hitchcock, and Red Willow counties, won the "Through the Eyes of the Child Team Award for Excellence."...

In a way, the use of e-cigarettes is like the bump stock. After it was somehow made legal, it was only a matter of time before some lunatic used the bump stock, which converts a conventional, semi-automatic rifle into something resembling a fully automatic assault rifle, to commit mass murder, which is what happened Oct. 1, 2017, on the Las Vegas Strip...