Stories from Thursday, November 7, 2019

BURWELL, Neb. — The Cambridge Trojans and Burwell Longhorns will kickoff their D-1 state football quarterfinal at 4 p.m. on Tuesday in Burwell. Official start time was announced this morning. The Longhorns (8-2 record) earned a home game by routing No. 4 Elm Creek, 50-13...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Cambridge defenders caught nearly as many Neligh-Oakdale passes as Warrior receivers on Wednesday while showing the Trojans are a complete Class D-1 football force. The 62 points were “just another day” considering these unbeatens have topped 60 six times in 10 games this season...

Auto workers have seen their jobs taken over by robots. Some fast-food restaurants have done away with order-takers at the counter, replacing them with touch screens. Truck drivers will soon be replaced by self-driving semis, as scary as that sounds...

McCOOK, Neb. — With the McCook City Council approval Monday night, the city’s transfer station will now have four semi tractors to haul trash. The new 2020 Western Star 4700SF Semi Tractor will be purchased from Wick's Sterling Trucks, Inc. of Omaha, Neb., using the State of Nebraska bid of $127,395. Funds set aside in the transfer station’s reserve account will be used to pay cash for this purchase...

McCOOK, Neb. -- It’s official. McCook did not win as “Nicest Place in America.” But McCook can still be proud it received Nebraska’s nomination from Reader’s Digest in the annual contest to determine who has the nicest place in the country. Columbiania, Ohio, was named “Nicest Place in America” from the national magazine. The town of 6,000 has focused its efforts on its Main St. Theater, which allows everyone to be a star and symbolizes that no one is left behind...

McCOOK, Neb. — The simple act of Uncle Harry walking solemnly, routinely, into his barn near Norfolk, Neb., was captured on black-and-white film by his nephew, Wright Morris, in 1947. Morris's photography and writing career define him as one of Nebraska' best authors and one of its best photographers. Wright was a true native of the Great American prairie who documented it during some of its most trying periods in time, the Depression and dry years...

Latest results from TJ’s Family Fun Center in McCook with TJ’s Family Fun maintaining its league lead over Wagner’s Ford: Men’s Major TJ’s Family Fun 197.5-132.5 Wagner’s Ford 186.5-142.5 J&L Construction 183-132 Maris Gen Cons.180.5-149.5 Five Loners 168-162...

STERLING, Colo. – The McCook Community College volleyball team opened the Region IX Tournament with a 3-1 win over Casper in a win-or-go home play-in game. MCC beat Casper 25-22, 25-16, 21-25, 25-19. “It wasn’t our best match, but it was a match where we got to work out our nerves,” MCC Coach Hayley Kobza said...

STERLING, Colo. -- The McCook Community College volleyball team lost in straight sets to Western Wyoming Wednesday in the second game of the Region IX Tournament and now are relegated to the contender’s round starting Thursday. After beating Casper 3-1 in the play-in round Wednesday, MCC dropped the first set to Western Wyoming 25-16, and led 20-19 in the second set before the Mustangs went on a 6-0 to win 25-20, and took the finale 25-12...

The Fullerton and Dundy County-Stratton clash was billed by many as the premier matchup in Eight-Man 1 football Wednesday night and it certainly didn’t disappoint. It looked like an offensive matchup of Dundy County/Stratton’s lightning fast, quick strike ground attack versus Fullerton’s excellent passing attack, featuring some QB Hunter Haughton to Isaac Gleason hookups...