Stories from Friday, November 25, 2022

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I don’t have a great deal of regard for people who insist that their vote doesn’t matter. Voter participation isn’t mandatory in our system, but good people vote their convictions and if enough other people share those convictions, changes are made. History is made. The future is made, and every single vote counts...

Last year at this time, McCook and the McCook Community Foundation Fund was still basking in the glow of Night on the Bricks. In 2021 as part of the Nebraska Community Foundation’s annual training and celebration, McCook hosted Night on the Bricks as a replacement for the traditional sit-down banquet...

Pamela Jane Esslinger Aug. 2, 1949 - Nov. 22, 2022 McCOOK, Neb. — Pamela Jane Esslinger, age 73, of McCook, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, at the Community Hospital in McCook. She was born on Aug. 2, 1949, at Denver, Colo., to Alfred and Ellen Jane (Meyers) DeSaire, the oldest of six children...

Ronald LeRoy Barnett April 28, 1938 - Nov. 23, 2022 HOLBROOK, Neb. —Ronald LeRoy Barnett, age 84, of Holbrook, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, at Kearney Regional Hospital at Kearney, Neb. He was born to Harold and Lela (Newcomb) Barnett at the home of his grandparents, Ross and Ollie Newcomb, on April 28, 1938. He was the eldest of seven children...

75th birthday The family of Kenneth Solko of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of his 75th birthday on Friday, Dec. 2, 2023. He was a farmer in Herndon, Kan., with the Solko Brothers until 1998. After that, he worked at Valmont in McCook for 22 years, from March 2000-March 2022. ...

Today I am thankful for the service of a man that our community lost on Veteran’s Day. It was an appropriate day for Val Fuller to be called home, but it marked the end of a lifetime of giving that needs to be noted. Val was not an ostentatious giver, there were no big news articles, no awards, no flowery speeches…at least not here on earth. ...

IMPERIAL, Neb. — One teen is dead and another faces charges after a fatal shooting overnight Friday in Imperial. The Imperial Police Department and Chase County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a shooting overnight at a residence in the 100 block of 12th street in Imperial. A victim was located with a gunshot wound. The victim, identified as Jesse Krausnick, 19, was transported to the hospital in Imperial but passed away shortly after arrival...