Stories from Thursday, July 3, 2025

BROKEN BOW, Neb. — Broken Bow’s greeting to eight games-in-seven days for McCook National Bank had all the friendliness of an old lit firecracker down your pant legs trick! The Bow seniors blasted 16 hits through Wednesday’s opening 13-8 win, then took a 2-1 nightcap to finish this surprising doubleheader sweep...

HASTINGS, Neb. — McCook High’s Tysen Baker and Trev Wiemers teamed up to compete in the Hastings Open doubles tournament last weekend. They opened play defeating Maverick Day and Brohdy Mackey 6-0, 6-0. They then won the championship match 6-1, 6-0, defeating Zack Schram and Griff Baack...

MCCOOK, Neb. - The Chamber promised a day packed with fun, food, music, and classic cars, and they delivered. On Saturday, the McCook Chamber of Commerce, Cruisin’ the Bricks Car Show and Tour de Nebraska came together to give the community an event to remember...

McCOOK, Neb. – Community Hospital has announced the difficult decision to close Curtis Medical Center, located in Curtis, Nebraska. An exact date for the closure is yet to be determined. Inflation over the past few years combined with the current uncertainty of future federal funding has led to this decision...

Among the many grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence, few are as often overlooked today as the complaint about quartering troops: “For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” Yet in the years before the American Revolution, this practice was one of the most visceral examples of British overreach — one that brought the presence of imperial power directly into colonists’ homes, often with frightening consequences...

A trio of McCook Pinnacle Bank Juniors made the South Central Nebraska Baseball League All-Star team following their tournament title Monday night. Justin Chancellor, Kohyn Cock and Bryant Edwards were all big parts of a 10-3 finals victory over the Gothenburg Killer Bees...