Stories from Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Edna Louise (Holloman) Nealeigh June 23, 1938 - Jan. 20, 2025 LOVELAND, Colo. - Edna Louise (Holloman) Nealeigh passed from this world Jan. 20, 2025 at 86 years of age. She disliked her first name and always went by Louise. She was born to Ellen Louise (Gubser) and Clarence Ceril Holloman in Denver, Colo. ...

McCOOK, Neb. - The 2025 McCook High School Color Day Royalty was crowned Friday. Ruby Stone is the daughter of Constance and Jason Stone. She is active in One-Act, Spring Play, Haunted House Committee and is the President of Thespians. Ruby is employed by The Station...

McCOOK, Neb. – Volunteers are the backbone of home-delivered meals from the McCook Senior Center. Yet the need for additional volunteers has recently become evident, as some are taking on extra days or being called in more often. “We’ve noticed the need increase the past six months,” said Donna Blake, coordinator of home-delivered meals at the senior center...

McCOOK, Neb. - Seats were warm at Monday morning’s meeting of the Red Willow County Commissioners. County leadership faced an uncomfortable level of scrutiny as commissioners considered reappointments and renewals of annual contracts. First on the hot seat was Carol Schlegel, who presented her annual report highlighting two projects undertaken that involve the development of internet applications (apps). ...

On Friday, we gave some thought to the Unicam’s effort to exclude school boards from access to special elections, but we also referenced the use of general elections to allow workers to vote raises and benefits for themselves. Interestingly, a couple of efforts are underway to counteract some of the unintended (or ill-considered) consequences of those measures...

One can meet the most interesting people in the world of civilian aviation. Last Sunday, this old flight instructor arranged to check out a gentleman from Omaha in an old Aeronca Champ, 1946(?) model, at the Oberlin Airport. The flight went well and I cleared him to return to the Omaha area. It turned out that Mike is a former Army Black Hawk Helicopter pilot now serving on the battle staff of the E-4B’s stationed at Offutt as an active duty Lt. Col...

LEXINGTON, Neb. — McCook High’s four girls teamed for 63.5 points and finished 11th overall at the tough Higgins Wrestling Invitational last weekend. 120 Peyton Cock (36-9) placed 4th and scored 15.5 team points. Quarterfinal - Peyton Cock (McCook Girls) 36-9 won by fall over Jadyn Lee (Sidney Girls) 22-6 (Fall 1:24)...

LEXINGTON, Neb. — Freshman John White’s 106-pound championship highlighted a tough McCook boys 12th-place finish at the John Higgins Invite on Saturday. The Bison totaled 65.5 points with White scoring 24 during three big wins. He improved to 26-5 this season when he won a 6-2 finale over 25-14 Lane Weichert from big Class B school Bennington...

McCOOK, Neb. — A familiar McCook name returned to cause too much trouble for the Bison girls basketball team Friday night. Abbey Kaminski scored a game-high 16 points while continuing her fine high school career with former McCook hoops great Matt Kaminski...

McCOOK, Neb. —An always anticipated Girls-Boys halftime dance perfectly showed how McCook Bison shared the spotlight Friday night. Consider how four Bison boys delivered three assists each with two being guards — Tripp Raile and Brody Graham — while those other two being posts — seniors Jon Patel and Andrew Pochop...

The door opened to a new RPAC girls’ basketball champ when Alma rallied to beat super Southern Valley, 65-62, in double overtime Monday night. Harper Fennel’s three-pointer showed that 30-plus seconds of solid, foul-free defense did not pay off for those East No. 3/defending champion Eagles...

Wayne Baumann CULBERTSON, Neb. - Wayne Baumann, 53, of Culbertson, passed away Tuesday morning, Jan. 28, 2025 at his home in Culbertson. Cremation was chosen and services are pending at this time. Online condolences may be left at herrmannfh.com. Arrangements have been entrusted to Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel of McCook...