McCook News

One homeowner contends that a nearby junkyard is affecting the valuation of her property.

Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning approved a $70,000 loan from the county's revolving loan program to Quality Urgent Care P.C., the emergency care walk-in clinic under construction on North U.S. Highway 83 in McCook.

The windows were old, the siding outdated and the walls showed more than a few years of use.

With a bronze of Sen. George Norris, father of the REA, looking over his shoulder, Jim Phinney shows the hard hat he wore on his first day on the job June 7, 1959.

Brendon Dame of McCook, checks out the cornucopia of fireworks with his father, Roger Dame.

The National Guard has a big impact on Nebraska's economy -- including a major investment in McCook -- but will soon be forced to cut back, according to officials.

Wanting to encourage neighboring counties to share expenses, Red Willow County commissioners cut their county's contribution, from $12,000 to $8,000, to the juvenile pre-trial diversion program run by Lutheran Family Services.

The daughter of a McCook businessman is Nebraska's newest "Miss Nebraska." Brittany Jeffers of Lincoln was crowned "Miss Nebraska" during the state pageant June 6 in North Platte.

The only structure in Nebraska designed by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Sutton House in McCook, is the subject of a new book that will be available in July.

A contract will be offered to an irrigation company to extend city water and sewer lines to the proposed Guard and Reserve Readiness Center by the airport.

BRAN friends from across Nebraska: Ronda, Peg, Michelle, Candy, Diane and Mark. For those who have been following the trials and tribulations on this year's BRAN ride, my riding partner, Candy Crosby, and I both made it home safe and sound Saturday evening.

The Museum of the High Plains board of directors voted unanimously at its board meeting Thursday morning to loan the museum's sculpture of a World War I soldier to Trenton Klimper, the McCook Boy Scout who wants to create a war memorial in Norris Park.

A Kansas judge has sentenced a southwest Nebraska man to nearly six years in Kansas prison for indecent acts with two young girls.

The McCook City Council will consider renaming the southwest Nebraska town's airport in honor of one of its native sons, U.S. Sen.

The first day of BRAN is over and there were enough memorable moments to fill a small notebook or at least a few pages, but we'll just hit the highlights.

Only the outline of the second-floor portico roof remains on the big yellow house at 301 E. First, McCook, after the roof, which was pulling away from the house's west wall, was removed in March.

I write this on the eve of Ann and my wedding anniversary, number fifty. I feel humbled at achieving this significant milestone that seems to be a decreasing achievement in today's society.

John McRae of McCook won $100,000 playing the $10 Scratch game Wild 10's from the Nebraska Lottery.

Several public transportation projects in Southwest Nebraska will receive federal stimulus money if Nebraska's application for nearly $5.3 million in transit projects in rural areas is approved by the Federal Transit Administration.

A deputy Nebraska state fire marshal investigator is assisting the McCook Fire Department investigate what McCook's fire chief is calling "suspicious circumstances" surrounding a fire that burned a house at 910 E. Fifth in McCook Thursday afternoon.