Stories from Tuesday, April 14, 2020

McCOOK, Neb. — Three McCook Community College men’s basketball players have received more post-season honors. Over the weekend freshman Le-Tre Darthard was selected to the Omaha World Herald’s All-Midlands college men’s junior college basketball team...

Welcome back fellow columnist Ronda Graff. We started out almost together years ago but she stepped out to have babies. Good to have you. So the country is going to get back to work putting the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. Still this skeptical old gent is surprised at how many Americans cooperated. ...

Twice in the last two months, I’ve heard the concept of simple, complicated, and complex problems. A simple problem usually has a series of steps you can follow to solve the problem. Baking a cake with cake mix using instructions is a simple problem. ...

Willie Sutton denied saying it, but he usually gets credit for coining a popular phrase. Sutton, who stole $2 million from banks and spent half his adult life in prison, despite escaping twice, was supposedly asked why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money is,” was the reply...

LINCOLN, Neb. — The University of Nebraska is planning game action on Saturday with this huskers.com announcement: “While you remain safe and healthy at home, we invite you to join your Husker Family in celebrating a variety of activities leading up to “Game Day.” On Saturday, Nebraska athletics will stream a video game simulation of a Red-White Nebraska Football Spring Game in Memorial Stadium, featuring rosters comprised of Husker football legends...

Lorri Sughroue Associated Editor McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Public Schools, as well as other public schools and colleges across the nation, will receive federal money as part of the $2 trillion stimulus bill passed by Congress to help the economy pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College sophomore Makenna Bodette, Colorado Springs, has been named to the first-team Omaha World-Herald’s All-Midlands college women’s junior college basketball team. Paula Rosello Mateu and Carla Torrubia Cano were selected to the second team. The teams were announced over the weekend...

McCOOK, Neb. — A familiar face will be teaching band next year at McCook High School. Former MHS band director and dance team sponsor Donita Priebe will return to the district to teach band. She left the school district in 2016 to teach at Medicine Valley. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The League of Women Voters of Nebraska is offering an online voters guideline to all candidates, whether their campaigns are well-funded or not. “It is a great way for candidates to inform voters about their ideas and values, especially in this time of social distancing due to the novel coronavirus,” according to a release signed by Linda Duckworth, of Omaha of Dianne Bystrom of Plattsmouth, co-presidents of the League of Women Voters of Nebraska...

LINCOLN, Neb. – For those who watch NET, Nebraska’s PBS & NPR Stations, over-the-air in the Culbertson/McCook area, installation of a new transmitter and broadcast antenna is planned today through Friday. During installation of the transmitter and antenna systems, there will be a radio and television broadcast outage. Removal of the old and installation of the new system should be completed by the end of the day April 17...

No dog or human Easter Egg hunts have Gazette scribbler R.B. (Rotund Bunny) Headley wondering if we really are sliding off the tracks of sanity during this odd spring break. Yet Robbed Blind of Easter candy because the neighbor kids were all just too dang fast isn’t leaving Round Belly pouting like his days as an eight-year-old chub...