McCOOK, Neb. - A simplified schedule of swimming pool admission fees has been approved by the McCook City Council. An ordinance amending the city code was introduced, and City Manager Nate Schneider ...

I felt great joy when I read the announcement by our President that the GIB had been rescued in Iran. Great memories from my days flying air refueling tankers in the Vietnam conflict. Actually, it ...

As children of the Cold War, we Boomers grew up with a clear, if over-simplified, understanding of the world. The nations of the Eastern Bloc possessed the capacity to destroy us, and that fact alone ...

KEARNEY, Neb. — Craig “Pat” Sides, age 72, passed away at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, NE on April 4, 2026. Memorial contributions are suggested in Craig’s name to be designated at a later date ...

Korrine Jane Rowland (Clark), age 81, of McCook, Nebraska, passed away peacefully at her home on Sunday, April 5, ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Joan Marie Robison Stevenson, age 96, of McCook, Nebraska, passed away peacefully on April 4, 2026, after a long and full life. Joan was born on January 7, 1930, in Grand Island, ...

Evaline Joyce Hershberger was born in Sedalia, Colorado, on May 20, 1931, to Joseph Scott Miller and Evaline Dorothy Fredrick Miller, in a snowstorm so bad the doctor had to stay with them over night ...

Slow and steady wins the race--or in this case, the pastry race. Three months in, Lucy's Bakery and Cafe of McCook has been banking on that philosophy with the confidence that this post-Sehnert's era ...

A perennial editorial ritual of mine, usually at the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, is to rant about the value of shopping locally. I like to remind readers of the economic power that ...

Passenger traffic continued to trend upward during the first quarter of 2026 at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport, with notable gains in both monthly and year-over-year comparisons. Inbound flights ...

McCOOK, Neb. - The themes of renovation and expansion will likely dominate any headlines about Community Hospital in the weeks, months and years ahead. They should. The institution is as much an ...

By the time this column appears, McCook and Southwest Nebraska may have received some rain. But I'm not holding my breath because the clouds appear, yet nothing falls from the sky. The lack of ...