Stories from Wednesday, May 1, 2024

SUTHERLAND, Neb. — Team scores, all McCook and Gazette-area top six placers with more in Thursday's edition: GIRLS Top 10 teams of 25: 1. McCook 77, 2. Chase County 74, 3. Paxton 32, 4. Wallace 31, 5. Perkins County 30, 6. North Platte 29, 7. Dundy County-Stratton 28, 7. Overton 28, 9. Cambridge 26, 10. North Platte St. Patrick's 22; 14. Wauneta-Palisade 18; 15. Arapahoe 12; 16. Maywood-Hayes Center 11; 16. Medicine Valley 11; 24. Southwest 1...

SUTHERLAND, Neb. — Team scores and all McCook or area top six placers at Tuesday's Best of The West track and field meet. Teams

Caleb Shaw a senior at McCook High School was honored at halftime of the Husker spring game on Saturday April 27. Caleb received a $5,000 trade school scholarship from the TeamMates mentoring program. Caleb was treated as VIP at the spring game. He is pictured with Tom Osborne and scholarship donor Dennis Wells and got interviewed on the field sideline This is a huge accomplishment for Caleb and the McCook TeamMates Chapter...

CULBERTSON, Neb. — There will be a National Day of Prayer observance at the Hillside Perk in Culbertson on Thursday, May 2 at 7:00 a.m. A breakfast buffet can be purchased if you desire.  This year’s theme is “Lift up the Word, Light up the World.” Please feel free to come and go as work demands...

OMAHA, Neb. — The latest survey results from Creighton University's Mid-America Business Conditions Index reveal a mixed economic landscape for April, with modest growth tempered by persistent inflationary pressures across the region spanning from Minnesota to Arkansas...

On Thursday, April 18th, we hit day sixty of the Second Session of the 108th Legislature bringing the short session to the end. We passed some great legislation including protecting our farmland from potential foreign adversaries like China, strengthening of school security, investments in high-demand college programs, protections of religious freedom, and my personal priority bill, protections for minors from online pornography. ...