Stories from Friday, January 6, 2023

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Planning Commission will take up a minor subdivision request and other requests related to property north of West J, at its meeting Monday, 5:15 p.m. at the city council chambers at the City Municipal Building. Jerry Gohl has filed a subdivision application for a tract of land to be known as Heritage Pointe Addition No. 3. Gohl filed similar requests in 2019 and 2022...

There is a process in nature that I have always found absolutely fascinating and it bears the catchy name, “toxoplasma gondii.” You may have heard of toxoplasmosis, which is a parasitic disease that infects nearly all mammals and can cause flu-like symptoms in adults. You may also have heard that pregnant women shouldn’t come in contact with used kitty litter. That’s because toxoplasmosis is spread through the excrement of cats and can cause serious complications in pregnancies...

Melody Lynn Crawford Feb. 5, 1956 - Jan. 1, 2023 BEAVER CITY, Neb. — Melody Lynn Crawford, 66, died Sunday (Jan. 1, 2023), at Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings. She was born to Paul and Gertrude (Hutson) Smith on Feb. 5, 1956, in Oxford, Neb. She married Tim Crawford on April 30, 1977...

McCook has always provided the citizens with a large choice of houses of worship to choose from, so many that one might say that religion has been the backbone of our community. The first to be built, as I have mentioned before, was by the Congregational members with Methodist and Catholic following closely behind...

McCOOK, Neb. — New and re-elected board members of the McCook School Board will be sworn in and a president will be elected, at the regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the junior high conference room. The board will also be asked to accept a resignation and three donations. After the regular meeting, the board will convene in a closed, executive session to discuss the superintendent’s evaluation...

McCOOK, Neb. — No sooner will Red Willow County’s new commissioners take office than they will be dealing with a major, controversial issue. Ted Gans and Charles Fritsche will join incumbent Randy Dean for their first commissioners’ meeting at 9 a.m. Monday on the third floor of the courthouse...

McCOOK, Neb. — Consider it wasn’t even officially winter when McCook last played varsity basketball on Saturday, Dec. 17. The Minnesota Vikings delivered an all-time greatest NFL comeback that day and then flamed out miserably in hideous Green Bay cheesehead Lambeau Field...

OGALLALA, Neb. — Bonus point machines best describe McCook High’s boys wrestling team because they “tilted” every victory Thursday night. Tilt was an old pinball term when players scored extra points, and the Bison were all about pins in this triangular...

OGALLALA, Neb. — McCook girls scored pins in half their matches while winning both wrestling duals at Ogallala Thursday evening. There were a lot of forfeits and even some double forfeits throughout this triangular. Yet freshman phenom Peyton Cock pinned both her 120-pound opponents which raised her season record to 15-0...

Boy, that sure wasn’t the start to 2023 that we were hoping for! Publishing and distributing the first issue of 2023 on Tuesday, January 3rd proved to be a combination of obstructions from Mother Nature, frustrations with technology, disappointment in human errors, but ultimately, pride in the incredible cooperation displayed by the Gazette team...

Are you one of the many people that ponder and select a “Word of the Year,” which will stand for the mantra that your year will hopefully turn out to be? I have never really been good at New Year’s Resolutions - *dieting (I don’t love food), *working out (what does that even mean?), *reading a book a week (when would I have time to binge my shows?!). ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Weather permitting, a crack seal project will begin January 12, on N-61, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Crack sealing is a process of cleaning and filling open joints and cracks in the surface with sealant to prevent entry of moisture and debris...

A look at all available Gazette-area basketball scores along with familiar McCook Bison foes Friday evening. BOYS Maywood-Hayes Center 55, Paxton 20 Cambridge 60, Southwest 32 Arapahoe 61, Medicine Valley 60 Dundy County-Stratton 69, Alliance 66 Southern Valley 46, Bertrand 41...