Stories from Friday, January 10, 2020

The McCook High School swim and dive team returns to competition for the first time since the start of the new year Saturday at the Kearney Invite. MHS swimmers and divers last competed at their Dec. 19 home meet in McCook. MHS divers take to the boards Saturday at Kearney High School at 8:30 a.m. with the swimming events scheduled to start around 12 p.m...

McCook High cheerleaders fired up Bison fans while their girls' basketball team scored a big road win over the 6-3 Gothenburg Swedes Friday night in Gothenburg. More details about this game and all weekend area sports action is set to appear on Monday's Gazette sports pages...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Cambridge High School has made two major mid-season basketball coaching adjustments this week. Jarod Albers has returned to be head coach of the Trojan girls’ basketball team, while school superintendent Greg Shepard will now direct the Cambridge High boys’ basketball team...

A dark and disturbing mass circled around McCook’s High School track, trying to walk off the recent holiday season feasting. Many serious questions hovered about UFO (Unstoppable Food Obliterator) Headley such like did he drop his keys again when suddenly the Gazette scribbler looked up to see:...

Alan P. Brecht Aug. 2, 1945 - Jan. 8, 2020 KEARNEY, Neb. — Alan P. Brecht, 74, of Kearney, joined his heavenly family on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, at St. Luke’s – Good Samaritan Society in Kearney. Funeral services will be Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, at 1 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Kearney. Rev. Melody Adams will officiate and burial will be at Prairie Center Cemetery at Havens Chapel...

Charles Richard Russ Aug. 3, 1930 - Jan. 4, 2020 OBERLIN, Kan. — Charles Richard Russ, 89, died Saturday (Jan. 4, 2020). He was born Aug. 3, 1930, in Lenora, Kan. He graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1949. He graduated from Colby Community College. He married Clara Belle Vernon on Aug. 3, 1955, at Oberlin...

Eloise Summers IMPERIAL, Neb. — Eloise Summers, 81 of Impe- rial, died Saturday (Jan. 4, 2020), at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial. Services are pending with Carpenter Breland Fu- neral Home of McCook, Neb.

Corporal punishment didn’t even have a name when I was in school. It was known as being sent to the principal for a swat, but it actually existed in many classrooms, no need for the principal to be bothered. Our classrooms were crowded by today’s standards because the “baby boom” of the 1950’s was in full swing. ...

Latest results from TJ’s Family Fun Center in McCook with Burton Well Drilling a spot in first place just above Five Loners: Men’s Major Burton Well Drilling 47-13 J&L Construction 36-24 Maris General Const. 29-31 Diamond Vogel 29-31...

FRANKLIN, Neb. — Southern Valley’s boys shut out Franklin, 16-0, in the first quarter en route to a 63-37 victory Tuesday night. Junior Clayton Berry made seven of eight shots while scoring 18 game-high points. Juniors Carter Bose and Brody Yant tallied 12 points each as the Eagles (8-1 record) finished at 64 percent from two-point range (25 for 39)...

BENKELMAN, Neb. — Getting too high or too low was clearly not an issue for coach Chris Bartels this morning. After all, he’d just seen his Chase County Longhorns control both ends of the spectrum during a standout area basketball win. “We knew if we just do what we do best,” Bartels remarked about Tuesday night at Dundy County-Stratton. “We’d have a good chance.”...

Today concludes some of the fine area forecasters’ 2020 vision about Clemson-LSU, mysterious drones and whether certain NFL franchises who see Super Bowl trophies as unidentified shiny objects can finally end their franchise-long voodoo. Only three participants remain after Thursday’s rambling blabberation which included Gazette sports scribbler R.B. (Rumblin’ Bumblin’) Headley:...

BARTLEY, Neb. — Sophomore Aimee Merrill’s 17 points and nine rebounds led the Hitchcock County girls’ 51-32 victory over Southwest Tuesday evening. Senior Kass Kisker contributed a double double of 15 points-10 rebounds for the 6-3 Falcons. Classmate Neliegh Hauxwell added another nine points and sophomore Lindsay Rippen added six during this RPAC road win...

McCOOK, Neb. — After a 37-day layoff over the winter break, the McCook Community College women’s basketball team is back in action Tuesday when they travel to Scottsbluff to take on Western Nebraska, 15-1 and ranked eighth in the latest National Junior College Athletic Association Top 25 poll...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Board of Education will be asked to approve two resignations and accept a $5,000 donation, at the regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the conference room at the junior high, The board will also be asked to approve a contract with Katy Snyder for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year, to teach biology at the high school...

McCOOK, Neb. — Eisa Mondragon, defensive specialist from Washburn Rural High School in Kansas, is the latest volleyball player to commit to McCook Community College. She signed her national letter of intent Thursday. “She was actually my first commitment for my 2020 class and I just know she will come in and push not only herself, but her teammates as well,” said MCC Volleyball Coach Hayley Kobza. “I am so excited to have Eisa be a part of our MCC volleyball family.”...

McCOOK, Neb. – Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska opened it newest store and donation drop off Thursday in McCook. It is in the former Sears building at the intersection of Highways 6-34 and 83 in Westview Plaza. The store’s sales floor offers 7,200 square feet to allow for donations of clothing, housewares, electronics, books and other items that will be sold at bargain prices.  Store hours are Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook’s Santa Claus Lane may have as many variations of its’ origins and its’ long history as there are signs which line Norris Avenue in McCook every December. But as the signs were packed up and put away for the season earlier this week, one thing remains true: there is a passion for the Christmas-themed signs which are more than 70 years old...

A westbound semi-truck with a trailer-load of dry cornmeal overturned on Highway 6&34 at the Perry elevator intersection west of McCook about 6 p.m., Thursday, after it clipped the rear end of a trailer pulled by a westbound pickup that was stopped on 6&34 to turn south off the highway. ...

Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Truman administration once famously said that “Politics stops at the water’s edge.” If recent events are any indication, those words deserve to be inscribed on the side of a mountain, right next to bigfoot and the Easter Bunny...