Stories from Friday, July 3, 2020

McCOOK, Neb. — Tears couldn’t escape Cam Berry’s eyes quite like he eluded tacklers while running all over Weiland Field. He blinked them away Wednesday morning with a realization his four McCook High School years were gone just about as quickly. “I want to thank everyone,” Berry told all the friends, family and fans gathered on his favorite football grass...

80th birthday The family of Beverley Grafel of Culbertson, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of her 80th birthday on Monday, July 13, 2020. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 70367 Driftwood Drive, Culbertson, NE 69024.

85th birthday The family of Norma Crocker of Kearney, Neb., formerly of McCook, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of her 85th birthday on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. She was born in McCook and married to Dale Crocker for 62 years, residing in the Indianola/McCook area. ...

You might have noticed in my articles that I use words like “presumed”, “highly likely”, and do not imply that anything historic is an absolute fact. History, even as it was created yesterday, is only a compilation of human interpretations of events that occurred, or, maybe even didn’t occur. It’s kind of like eyewitnesses at a crime scene, everyone saw something, but no one saw the whole...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Bison 12-and-under baseball team’s off to a fine 4-1 start despite Ord scoring four late runs to take its 9-5 victory Saturday afternoon. McCook pitched a no-hitter vs. Norton, Kan., one night earlier as Bryson Gullion and Gabe Roberts teamed to strike out 10 batters while permitting only one walk...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Heritage Hills Men’s League finished week six of its 2020 season with Community Hospital now controlling B League with a terrific performance: A League Golight 99.5 McCook Lettering 97.5 Old Sarge’s Bar 94.5...

McCOOK, Neb. — There are still 10 days to enroll but McCook Football League spots are filling fast in preparation for the 2020 season. “Registrations have been good especially since it was a last-minute decision to have the league this year,” director Joe Vetrovsky reported Wednesday morning...

Following Thursday’s rainouts of Pinnacle Bank Legion B and Felling Field games, McCook baseball action takes a nice Fourth of July break through the weekend. A glance at upcoming action starting Monday evening: Monday My Family Vision at Cappel Sales at Felling Field, 6:30 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — A McCook City Councilman would like to discuss parking concerns on a street near his residence, at the regular meeting Monday, 5:30 p.m., at the city council chambers at the City Municipal Building. Upon the request of Councilman Jerry Calvin, the council will discuss creating a no-parking designation on the north side of the 1500 block of West “H” Street, specifically the area of the north 1500 block of West “H” Street, west of the existing alley. ...

MCC’s ‘Bridge’ program has sophomore excited for college McCOOK, Neb. -- One year ago, McCook High School graduate Bria Simmons spent most of her summer dreading the thought of college. She just wanted to get out of McCook, and planned to start her academic life fresh in Omaha. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The retirement of a long-time county employee is among items on the agenda for Monday morning’s meeting of the Red Willow County Commissioners. The board will discuss Bill Elliott’s retirement as superintendent of the noxious weed program, as well as the future of the Household Hazardous Waste Program, which he administers...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Weather permitting, work will begin July 6, north of Oxford on N-46, from Reference Post 7.96 to Reference Post 11.91, and on US-136, east of Oxford, from Reference Post 10.16 to Reference Post 22.40, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation...

Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni. It was a pejorative song about unsophisticated, provincial Americans sung by pre-revolutionary British. You know how we reacted to it? We adopted it as our own. We owned it. We sang it back to them. How American is that?...

A memorable trip to New England Dear Editor, The summer of 1953 was an exciting time for me. I was working for the National Girl Scouts at Pleasantville, N.Y. 40 miles outside of New York City. Our plane was a United Airlines flight which took off at the old Stapleto Airport in Denver. A few minutes after 12 noon, our plane was over Cleveland, Ohio., when a tornado hit. It flipped the plane over. That was a frightening experience...