Stories from Thursday, April 27, 2023

TRENTON, Neb. — Hitchcock County all--state linebacker Keegan Shuler (seated, second from right) signed to play football for the Doane College Tigers Wednesday morning in Trenton. Shuler helped power the Falcons to their historic first Class D-1 state football title last fall with an unforgettable finals win over Howells-Dodge at Memorial Stadium...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested a Washington man following a fatal crash in Furnas County, which claimed the lives of two people and critically injured three others. At approximately 12:15 p.m. Thursday a Hyundai Santa Fe was traveling northbound on Highway 283. ...

What do genies, pirates and musicians have in common? All will be featured on separate stages in three different locations this weekend in McCook. The McCook Concert Association is hosting Copper Street Brass on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Fox Theater in downtown McCook. Additionally, every music student and their parents are able to attend this final concert of the season at no charge. This is a great way to pack the historic theater and hear great live music...

McCOOK, Neb. – Following a successful annual meeting and member mixer, the McCook Chamber is looking forward to new initiatives coming up throughout the summer. Chamber President Molly Smith said plans are underway for two lunch-and-learn seminars, one dealing with computer training and the other one providing information on diversity and inclusion in the workplace. These seminars will take place in June and July...

COLUMBUS, Neb. – The McCook Community College softball team split a pair of games against Central Community College Wednesday, winning the first game 2-1, and losing the second game 10-2 in five innings. “We didn’t have that same fire we had this past weekend against Trinidad,” said MCC Coach Mike Mendenhall. “We tend to do that during our non-Region IX conference games. We need to keep that same intensity.”...

McCOOK, Neb. — Team scores and top top area placers from Monday’s McCook JV track-field meet. Girls Teams: 1. Chase County 93, 2. Holdrege 91, 3. McCook 86, 4. Gothenburg 65, 5. Perkins County 48, 6. Lexington 35, 7. North Platte St. Patrick 34, 8. Cambridge 27, 9. Ogallala 16, 10. Cozad 2...

ALMA, Neb. — McCook High JV golfers competed at Alma Golf Course on Tuesday and coach Ben Vetrovsky reported five Bison winning Top 10 medals. Kolton Koettter won the event with a score of 38. Ben Junker finished second with a score of 40. Jalen Collicott was eighth with a 42, Trenton Raile ninth with a 43 and Cason Waugh was 10th with a 43 as well...

TORRINGTON, Wyo. – The McCook Community College golf team has a seven-shot lead over Eastern Wyoming heading into the final round of Region IX play Thursday. MCC shot a five-under 283 on Wednesday, the Eastern Wyoming Lancers shot a two-over 290 and Northeastern Junior College is third with a 10-over 298...

HOLDREGE, Neb. — McCook High’s varsity golfers earned a top four team finish at Tuesday’s Holdrege Invitational and earned these remarks from coach Ben Vetrovsky: “Bison golfers compete at Holdrege Country Club yesterday for the Holdrege Invitational...

et ready to tumble”, the YMCA Fitness department is excited for the return of the YMCA tumbling program for the community in McCook. With the addition of tumbling, the YMCA of McCook welcomes Tumbling and Movement instructor- Tavio Hargrove. Tavio is currently teaching at the Northwest Kansas Gymnastics Academy and is excited to come onboard and lead the tumbling program along with future youth-oriented movement classes...

McCOOK, Neb. — On our farm, we raise Angus cattle to sell commercial beef. Some buyers have bought our heifers for potential breeding, and we do keep back heifers to replace old cows. Our family are beef eaters. We love our own beef. A funny story — we went on a cruise once and they were advertising on their menu Nebraska Black Angus steak. Some folks praised the meat as some of the best they ever had. In our opinion, it didn't even come close to our home-grown beef...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College Theater Department presents “Swashbuckling Scallywags at the Bilgewater Inn & Groggery” Saturday and Sunday at the Weeth Theater in Tipton Hall. Performances are set for Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday performances at 2 and 6 p.m. A freewill donation will be taken in support of MCC’s Phi Beta Lambda...