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This Medicaid situation for nursing homes grows with every Nebraska facility. McCook and all area communities are welcome to the nursing home crisis meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 in McCook's Fox Theater. It is the same story for any community with a care facility. The informational program is expected to last not more than one and a half hours...

LINCOLN Neb. – Russ, Angela, and Cheyenne Sundstrom are the recipients of the 2019 Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award®. The Sundstroms own and operate Broken Box Ranch in Moorefield, Nebraska. The prestigious award, given in honor or renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, recognizes extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation and management of natural resources by American ranchers, farmers and foresters in 13 states...

McCOOK, Neb. — Emergency personnel responded Thursday afternoon near M Hill on Highway 83 south of McCook to a man bleeding from lacerations on his arm. Red Willow County Sheriff Alan Kotschwar said officers discovered the man was wanted on warrants out of Texas and he is now in the county jail awaiting extradition to Texas...

The University of Nebraska Cornhusker volleyball team will play the Colorado State Rams on the McCook Community College campus Saturday on a floor used in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and installed this morning in MCC's Graff Events Center. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — At their meeting Monday morning, Red Willow County commissioners agreed to renew the county employees' existing health insurance coverage with Northwestern Mutual as broker, RCI as third party administrator and claims processor, and American National as insurance carrier...

McCOOK, Neb. — The new tax plan proposed from the Nebraska Legislature’s revenue committee aimed at lowering property taxes is “absolutely” a tax shift, said State. Sen. Dan Hughes. “But that’s how we got into the predicament we’re in now,” Hughes said Thursday morning at the McCook Chamber of Commerce conference call, by shifting the burden of state revenue onto property taxes. The state has relied too long on property taxes and not enough in other areas, he said...

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McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook City Council accepted Monday night a $61,424.55 insurance dividend refund Monday night from EMC Insurance Co., the insurance provider for the city’s capital equipment and facilities. The city has received a dividend refund from EMC before, mostly recently around $40,000 last year. Denise Broomfield, MNB Insurance Services agent, commended the city on the lack of losses that resulted in the dividend check...

McCOOK, Neb. — Many complain that McCook is the community that country music artist Dylan Scott was referring to in his recent single titled “Nothin’-To-Do Town”. The McCook Area Chamber of Commerce would like to disagree. The chamber is partner ing with the McCook High School Thespians to present a murder mystery at Sehnert’s Bieroc Café on Thursday, April 25. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Before every game, the McCook Cardinals 11 & Under traveling baseball team prays for absent team mate Calvin Corbett. Calvin missed most of last summer's baseball season, and probably won't be able to play this summer. "Calvin plays second base and outfield, and he does some pitching," says Coach Chad Graham. "He's super fast."...

Ninety high school rodeo competitors are expected for the two-day Southwest Nebraska High School Rodeo Friday and Saturday in the Kiplinger Arena on the Red Willow County Fairgrounds in the 1500 block of West Fifth in McCook. Rodeo events start at 9 a.m. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Seven finalists have been selected to present their business plan and a chance at $25,000 to help infuse area business startups and expansion in the 2019 Ben Hormel Business Plan Competition through McCook Community College’s Business and Community Education...

McCOOK, Neb. — A farmer south of McCook is hoping the City Council will be willing to address a long-time drainage problem he alleges is caused by a drainage ditch owned by the city. Bob Wilcox, who’s owned his property since 1976, told the McCook City Council Monday night that a city drainage ditch, that directly abuts his property, does not allow water to drain properly and is causing a backflow of river water onto his land. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Police Department receives over 4,000 emergency 911 calls per year. There are also innumerable calls for other service, McCook City Police Chief Ike Brown told the McCook City Council Monday night at the regular meeting. The council approved the proclamation of April 14-20 as “National Public Safety Telecommunications Week,” with Brown commending the dispatching staff for their work...

IMPERIAL Nebraska -- Chase County residents will vote on a $20.5 million Hospital expansion on May 14 in a mail-in only ballot election. County Commissioners approved the bond to be put on the ballot. All registered voters with-in the County will receive their ballot beginning on April 22. All ballots must be returned to the County Clerk by 5 p.m. May 14...

McCOOK, Nebraska — The Nebraska vs. Colorado State spring volleyball match will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at the McCook Community College Graff Events Center, 401 E. M St., in McCook. Tickets for the event are sold out.  Both the southeast and southwest entry doors will open at 11:30 a.m. Seating is general admission only. Attendees must have a ticket to enter and no one, other than event staff, will be allowed in early...

McCOOK, Neb. — Jeffrey Weintz, 29, never found a puzzle he didn’t like. In fact, there’s 145 of them glued and hanging up in his apartment in McCook and more propped up against the walls in his bedroom. At a puzzle party Saturday at his apartment, the last puzzle was found glued together and hanging in the only available place left - behind the television...

McCOOK, Neb. — A local nonprofit that will soon be homeless asked city leaders for help in finding a new location. Kathy Haas, director of more than 20 years of the Family Resource Center, asked the McCook City Council at its regular meeting Monday night if the center could use the former safety center, located behind Pinnacle Bank by the railroad...

McCOOK, Neb. — Last year, a “Safewise” survey put McCook as the ninth safest city in Nebraska. This year, the city jumped three spots in the survey to sixth safest, City of McCook Police Chief Ike Brown said. Speaking to the McCook City Council Monday night at the regular meeting, Brown said the crime rate in the city is “well below” state and national averages and he commended citizens and the police department for these low numbers. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — At their weekly meeting Monday morning, the Red Willow County commissioners unanimously accepted a recommendation from the planning board and will add the words "and private" to their zoning regulations for airports. The county's zoning book will now state that the intent of Section 4.09.01 is "to protect the safe use of public and private airports and their airport hazard area, in the county, by limiting the location and height of structures within the operation, approach, transition and turning zones around airports, as designated on the official zoning maps of Red willow County.". ...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook City Council will start off its regular meeting Monday night by accepting more than $60,000 in a safety dividend check from the city’s insurance company. The council will meet 6:30 p.m., at city council chambers in the Municipal Building...

McCOOK, Neb. — The director of the Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department encourages more homeowners to test for lead and radon levels in their homes. SWNPHD director Myra Stoney, of McCook, told Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning that of the 233 homes tested for lead within the department's 9-county area between July 2017 and June 2018, 15-20 homes had lead levels alarming by federal standards. Stoney was explaining to commissioners the "2018 County Health Rankings Report."...

City of McCook crews clear a very heavy, wet snow off streets early this morning; most crews started between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m., Kyle Potthoff, director of public works, said. Equipment tackling the snow included two salt trucks and truck/plows, three loaders, a maintainer and several pickup/plows; various crews cleared city sidewalks. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Like lots of nine-year-old kids, Calvin Corbett loves swimming and plays many sports. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to do much of either since being diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of cancer that forms in the soft tissues, in June 2018...