Stories from Friday, August 29, 2025

A quick rundown of how Gazette-area football teams, upcoming McCook opponents and other familiar foes fared on this first full Friday night for football in 2025: Area teams McCook (1-0) 41, Beatrice 15 Cambridge (1-0) 68, Arapahoe (0-1) 16 Hitchcock County (1-0) 54, Brady 6...

The McCook Community College volleyball team picked up its first win of the season Friday splitting two matches in the MCC Labor Day weekend Tournament. MCC fell 3-1 to Hutchinson Community College in the early game then came back to sweep Cloud County Community College in the final game...

Christopher Prinz, an Omaha-based artist, visited McCook last week. He brought with him hundreds of pounds of steel that he had meticulously formed into crinkled sculptures using a large brake press. Some of his work has been featured at the Louis Vuitton flagship store in Paris...

TRENTON, Neb. - A recent legal opinion from Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers has prompted action from the Hitchcock County Planning Commission. In Opinion No. 25-003, Hilgers established that county tax assessors are not exempt from general trespass laws and may be held liable if they enter private property without consent or a warrant. The opinion affirms that such entry constitutes an unreasonable search under both the U.S. and Nebraska Constitutions...

BOYS GIRLS Medicine Valley CURTIS, Neb. — Medicine Valley state track champion Kael Garrett led area runners at Thursday’s Med Valley Cross Country Invitational where Southern Valley also competed. Hil-Line and Bertrand won team championships. BOYS GIRLS...

FRANKLIN, Neb. — Emma Strand’s 11 kills led the Arapahoe Warriors to their season-opening volleyball win over Franklin in four sets Thursday. Strand, a senior, got great support from juniors Desi Farner and Clara Hilker with nine kills apiece. Sophomore Suttyn Shafer served four of 10 Warrior aces besides hustling for 20 digs...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The McCook cross country athletes were eager to run at Thursday’s North Platte Invitation and coach Tom Sughroue provided these insights: GIRLS “I thought the girls ran well. Emma Cappel was our highest finisher finishing second running over two minutes faster than she ran on that same course a year ago...

or Dante Horner threw four touchdown passes during a 40-0 first half and Dundy County-Stratton never looked back through its 46-16 win at Perkins County Thursday night. The Plainsmen have been a problem for area teams in recent years, but DC-S literally needed barely one minute to take their lead...

BARTLEY, Neb. — The Southwest Roughriders ruled from start to finish of their season-opening 25-12, 25-10, 25-18 victory over visiting Bertrand Thursday evening. Sophomore setter Aspen Billeter’s 27 assists fueled the double-trouble twin-hitting machine of seniors Kyra Nelms and Anikka Nelms...

LEXINGTON, Neb. — The McCook Bison had to feel good about their 25-21, 25-19, 25-19 opening road sweep of district foe Lexington Thursday evening... Just not TOO good. “Felt comfortable with how we played, but definitely areas that we can improve on,” coach Trevor Hoins commented. “But always excited to get a win.”...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College volleyball team lost the opening match of the home schedule Thursday, falling to Indian Hills Community College of Iowa 3-0. The loss came in the opening game of the MCC Labor Day Tournament which continues Friday and Saturday...