Stories from Thursday, October 29, 2020

LINCOLN, Neb. Wauneta-Palisade still advanced into Saturday’s district finals as a wildcard after battling unbeaten Maywood-Hayes Center a fourth time Tuesday night, according to the latest nsaahome.org information. The Broncos are seeded 15th in Class D-2 and play district finals match at Minden against No. 2-seed CWC. They're 16-11 with four matches against those 27-0 Wolves, who beat W-P in Tuesday's subdistrict final at Hayes Center...

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. — The McCook Bison plan on turning into lions when they see a certain Christian Friday evening. They’ll need that ferocius attitude against Plattsmouth junior Christian Meneses, who leads all of Class B with 1, 397 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns...

Helen Portenier Bosley Oct. 29, 1912 - Oct. 27, 2020 HASTINGS, Neb. — Hastings resident Helen Portenier Bosley, 107 and 12 months, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, at Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings. Services will be 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2, at Butler Volland Chapel in Hastings, with Pastor Greg Lindenberger officiating. ...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Matt & Shelly Sehnert of Sehnert’s Bakery and Bieroc Cafe will be honored at the Governor’s Arts Awards virtual banquet online at 7 p.m. tonight. The Sehnerts and NET Radio Friday Live | Lincoln NET, Nebraska’s PBS & NPR Stations, will receive the Thomas C. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Thanks to federal stimulus funding, Hillcrest Nursing Home is weathering the COVID-19 pandemic despite a drop in census. The nursing home received $1.3 million in federal CARES stimulus funding and in PPE (personal protective equipment) forgivable loans, said Randy Dean, Hillcrest Board of Trustee. Of that, $77,000 has been spent on PPE, such as testing kits, masks and gowns, he told the Gazette...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Mid Plains Community College governors selected an architect for McCook Community College’s East Campus and North Platte Community College’s Health and Science Center. Meeting in McCook Wednesday, the board awarded the contracts to ADP Wilkens of Kearney...

Preliminary construction is underway on a major addition to N-Stant Convenience on West B in McCook. The station will have eight pumps with diesel as well as gasoline, provided by Shell.

Baby boomers have always had more than their share of influence on society, and still do as they move into retirement age, but in a good way. Although people over 50 made up just 34% of Nebraska’s population in 2018, they contributed 39% to the state’s gross domestic product, according to research released by the AARP...

TRUE HALL – McCook Community College won its 14th straight volleyball match Monday with a pair of three-set wins over Southeast Community College (Fairbury) and Nebraska Western (Scottsbluff). McCook Daily Gazette Sports Editor Paul Mowry wrote that “MCC Coach Stan Garretson consistently exercises a liberal substitution policy that might get another coach into trouble. The reason? Garretson has a talented bench full of reserves who can give almost anyone else’s varsity a tough match.”...

Make an impact by voting and donating To say next week is important is an understatement. The 2020 elections are finally here, thank goodness. And as if that wasn’t enough, Big Give McCook is next Thursday, Nov. 5. Add on top of that the fact we’ll have just wrapped up Halloween, still adjusting to the time change and wondering about the never-ending threat of quarantine from Covid...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — The Cambridge Trojans won’t travel too far to play for a state tournament spot after their D1-11 subdistrict sweep of Southwest Tuesday night. Cambridge (15-7 record) will play in Hayes Center’s gymnasium on Saturday against No. 5-seed South Loup at 6 p.m. CDT or 5 p.m. mountain...

McCook High volleyball players stood together to the finish as senior Bree Janousek (6) was among those who capped her career at Tuesday’s B-7 subdistrict tournament in Lexington. Senior Tiara Matson (below) smashes a volleyball just over Hastings Tiger fingertips. The Bison lost a tough four-set battle to those No. 2-seed Tigers, who defeated Lexington for the B-7 championship Wednesday evening. More about McCook’s final match of 2020 will be included in Friday’s Gazette...

McCook’s Logan Bunger (89) helped lead a 26-6 Class B quarterfinal win over Plattsmouth in 2015. The Blue Devils brought their perfect 10-0 record into this huge contest, but McCook improved to 10-1 and advanced into Class B semifinals against No. 1-seed Aurora. Now the Bison and Blue Devils collide again at Plattsmouth for a first-round playoff game on Friday — only their second meeting ever on a football field. Kickoff is set for 5:30 p.m.