Stories from Thursday, November 14, 2019

McCOOK, Neb. — Three McCook Community College baseball players signed letters of intent Wednesday to continue their athletic careers at four-year schools. Wednesday was National Signing Day, the first day student/athletes can sign a contract to play at the junior college level or sign with an NAIA school...

Tuesday night was ESPN-worthy in Benkelman as the Dundy County-Stratton Tigers rallied to take down Arcadia-Loup City, 42-30, in their Class D-1 state quarterfinal playoff game. Striv.tv student announcers (left had some fun with their homemade ESPN sign while broadcasting and video streaming the game to just about anyone with internett access. ...

COLUMBUS, Neb. – Officials from Nebraska Public Power District are warning customers, particularly in the McCook area, that an individual is contacting customers about tree trimming that NPPD is requiring the work to be done and asking for cash payment...

The family of Kenneth and Myrna Albert of Culbertson is requesting a card shower in honor of the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. The couple were married in 1959 at the United Methodist Church in Culbertson. Their family includes children, Kimberly (Larry) Lorenzen of Kansas City, Mo.; Kyle (Paula) Albert of Washington, D.C.; and Korey (Barbara) Albert of Ft. ...

Latest results from TJ’s Family Fun Center in McCook with J&L Construction suddenly building a lead over all rival teams: Men’s Major J&L Construction 212-147 TJ’s Family Fun 206.5-153.5 Wagner’s Ford 206-153 Lickity Splits 205-151...

McCOOK, Neb. — Members of McCook Community College's international club experienced a truly "American experience" Sunday afternoon when they visited Darrell Meister's herd of American bison pasturing north of McCook. No one in the club had ever seen an American bison "up-close and personal" until Sunday when Meister and his herd of 31 animals hosted "show-n-tell" in tall grass pastures near Red Willow Lake...

Gazette scribbler R.B. (Reeling Badly) Headley must recover from his worst week of picking (24-16) this year which didn’t even include a usual Husker miss. His season record remains respectable at 345-116 (.748) and dropping below 500 seems unlikely with R.B. (Round Belly) enjoying all these leftover Halloween mini-candy bars...

You know the tune, you’ve probably heard a thousand times without thinking about it much: “Once I was seven years old my momma told me “Go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely “Once I was seven years old...” The lyrics of the 2015 song by Lukas Graham progress through life’s milestones -- friends, a wife and children -- ending with hopes at age 60 that his children will visit a couple of times a month...

Dear Editor, I find myself to be in an uncomfortable position--- If you are concerned and worried and fearful and scared of the secret right-wing conspiracy (led by the Kochs) to one day abolish all of the federal government social programs (especially Social Security) that help people, then you have to worry about who the President will be now and in the future. If s/he agrees with these extreme conservatives, the lower and middle classes will be at-risk and in danger...