Stories from Monday, October 23, 2023

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College volleyball team swept Trinidad State Saturday at home in a key Region IX South match. MCC won 25-25, 25-21 and 25-23. “Trinidad’s a really good team, great players their libero is phenomenal and their middles are awesome,” said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza. “This was a good win.”...

LINCOLN, Neb. - The 1 vs. 2 battle between Wisconsin and Nebraska lived up to the hype with the second-ranked Huskers coming out on top against the top-ranked Badgers in five sets - 25-22, 17-25, 20-25, 26-24, 15-13 - on Saturday night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center...

CHADRON, Neb. — All the leaders and highlights from McCook's 28-21 season-ending loss at Chadron as Bison (4-5 record) just missed a Class C-1 state playoff spot. TEAM STATS Rushing yards: McCook 209, Chadron 198 Passing: McCook 208, Chadron 109 First downs: McCook 18, Chadron 16...

More details will come but here is the schedule of this week's state football games involving Gazette- area teams: THURSDAY Kansas Eight Man-1 playoffs Rawlins County-Atwood (7-1) hosts Lincoln (5-3), 6 p.m. FRIDAY Six-Man Southwest (6-2) hosts Stuart (6-2) in Bartley, 5 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Halloween spirit is spreading to our furry friends at Tractor Supply Company in McCook. On Saturday from 2 to 5:30 p.m., the store will host a pet photo event where customers are invited to bring their pets, costumed or not, for a special photoshoot with a local photographer...

LINCOLN, Neb. – Leland Gohlmann, a resident of Fremont, found himself $1 million richer after striking it big in the Powerball lottery. Gohlmann's life-changing win came courtesy of a ticket he purchased at Casey’s #1737, located at 401 W 23rd St. in Fremont. His single quick pick play for the October 14 drawing matched all five winning numbers - 14, 16, 42, 48, and 64 - but missed the Powerball number, which was 17...

McCOOK, Neb. — A new person to fill a position required by state law was appointed as part of the consent agenda at Monday’s meeting of the Red Willow County Commissioners. Sonya Prentice has agreed to accept the county’s Noxious Weed Superintendent position. A member of the Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department, she is familiar with hazardous materials and should be able to quickly obtain the required certification, Commissioner Randy Dean said...

LINCOLN, Neb. — They were the summits of 20,000-foot volcanoes. Amid the driest desert on Earth. Where temperatures never breached freezing, where less than half of sea-level oxygen quenched lungs, where gale-force winds scoured the hardscrabble rocks littering the peaks...