Stories from Tuesday, July 22, 2025

McCOOK, Neb. — Da Raiders rule yet again! The Raiders stretched their win streak to five during these past two McCook Football League seasons at Weiland Field Monday evening. Bennett Weiss rumbled for three touchdowns in this seventh-eighth grade victory which raised the Raiders 2025 record to 2-0...

LINCOLN, Neb. — McCook’s Brooklynn Gillen made her final game as a high softball player one to never forget Monday evening. The Bison all-time leader in batting average delivered two more big hits during an always prestigious Nebraska Coaches Association All-Star contest...

McCOOK, Neb. - McCook School Bond ballots are coming to a mailbox near you. That’s the message from Red Willow County Clerk Penny Cooper, who told the Gazette that all ballots have been mailed. Cooper warns that the envelopes will be different from past elections, requiring the enclosure to be moistened in two places...

Ethyl Marie (Logan) Siegfried passed away peacefully on July 19, 2025, at the age of 89, surrounded by her loved ones. Known for her boundless compassion, quiet strength, and unwavering kindness, Ethyl touched the lives of all who had the privilege to know her...

MCOOK, Neb. - At Monday night’s meeting, city council members discussed the sports complex bond, nuisance property abatement and openly acknowledged the existence of a homelessness problem in McCook. The council convened in regular session at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers and all members were present except Councilman Darcy Rambali, who was noted as absent...

Patrick “Pat Joseph Kennedy, age 86, passed away on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in The Villages, Florida. Pat was born in Oberlin, KS on December 17, 1938, to parents Fred R. and Ellen M. (Fiala) Kennedy. Pat grew up in Bartley, Nebraska where he worked on the family farm and traveled with his father custom cutting wheat from Texas to Montana. ...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. - As Nebraska schools begin to show their age, it’s becoming increasingly common for local school boards to ask constituents to vote on bond proposals for improving, repairing and rebuilding school facilities. While McCook voters may feel alone in facing such decisions, Cambridge is currently engaged in a similar conversation. Cambridge Public Schools board members are asking residents to consider a $13.2 million bond in a special election on August 12...

I have driven through the Hill Country in Texas, where the flooding along the Guadalupe River took place recently. I don’t recall whether I passed through the town of Kerrville, where some 135 persons were victims of flooding. Incidentally, the latest count is three persons still missing, down from the 120-plus that were earlier listed as missing, but were since accounted for. Still, it was a disaster, familiar to us from our losses here in the 1935 Republican River flood...

Last week, we learned that a gentleman named Bill Dilworth had passed away at age 70. His name may not be familiar, but for nearly three decades, Dilworth was the caretaker of The New York Earth Room, a modern art installation by Walter De Maria that has quietly occupied a loft in SoHo since 1977...