Stories from Friday, October 17, 2025

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Exactly one half-second put Southern Valley freshman Addison Lozo into Class D along with Cambridge’s girls team following their D-5 district race Thursday. Rain showers to the west stayed away and allowed Lozo to mow down those 5,000 meters fast enough for 15th place overall...

MCCOOK, Neb. — A hearing was held yesterday, in Red Willow County District Court, with Judge Patrick Heng presiding. The plaintiffs in the hearing sought both a temporary restraining order and a temporary injunction to halt plans to convert the Work Ethic Camp in McCook into a state-operated immigration detention facility...

Georgia Lutzi, formerly of Lincoln, passed away early Friday morning, October 10, 2025 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 93 years of age. She was born on September 30, 1932 to Kenneth and Celia (Damm) Flory. She married Norman A. Lutzi on June 6, 1954...

Ricka Evans, age 74, has entered into the presence of the Lord on October 16, 2025, in Lincoln, NE. Services are pending at this time.

Philip Daniel performing on stage at the Fox Theatre on Friday morning during a live broadcast of Friday LIVE on Nebraska Public Media. The free event featured performances by singer-songwriter Rascal Martinez of Sutherland, Lincoln-based film composer and pianist Philip Daniel, and McCook poet Annabelle Wilson, a seventh grader selected for Opera Omaha’s Poetry & Music Project last year. ...

McCOOK, Neb. – The “Trick or Treat for the Pantry” program in McCook is being revived after being paused during the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally, local church youth groups divided the town into sections, went door-to-door collecting nonperishable food items and delivered them to the St. Alban’s pantry...

Every now and then, KICX spins an old Air Supply song from the early 1980s, “Making Love out of Nothing at All.” Lately, as coverage of the Work Ethic Camp’s (WEC) conversion to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility drifts by, I catch myself humming a variation: “Making news out of nothing at all.”...

A solid .750 winning average leaves Gazette scribbler Rumblin Bumbler Headley now 334-110 in his quest to pick 1,000 college football games correctly this fall. He’s not even on pace to be close despite 36-12 a week ago. Can the pace pick up with several Top 25 matchups this weekend?...

All results from RPAC tournament first two rounds on Thursday. East Bracket At Southwest #1 Southwest defeated #8 Medicine Valley – (3-0) 25-5, 25-11, 25-7 #4 Alma defeated #5 Hi-Line – (3-1) 19-15, 25-22, 25-17, 25-18 #5 Hi-Line defeated #8 Medicine Valley (2-0) 25-17, 25-16...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College volleyball team dropped a 3-0 match to No. 4 Northeastern Junior College Thursday night in the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. The Plainswomen won 25-13, 25-13 and 25-20. “I thought we came out in each set ready to play, but it seemed like when momentum wasn’t on our side, we started to break down a bit,” said MCC Assistant Coach Victoria Thomas...

BENKELMAN, Neb. — The Dundy County-Stratton Tigers finished their 8-0 regular season with a 65-13 home win against Southern Valley Thursday night. DC-S is No. 1 in Class D-1 state power points as those Eight-Man playoffs kick off next week. Southern Valley finished its Eight-Man season at 1-7...

McCOOK, Neb. — Strong North Platte hitting and some McCook mishits doomed the Bison through their 25-18, 25-18, 25-22 varsity home loss on Thursday. The Bison (15-12) were unbeaten at home on their home floor following a well-earned 3-1 win over Broken Bow two nights earlier...

OVERTON, Neb. — McCook senior Emma Cappel made her fourth consecutive state cross country meet with her Top 10 finish at Thursday’s B-3 district race. Cappel captured 10th after crossing the finish line in 20:19,01. She completed a four-for-four quest of making state meets, two Class C and now two in Class B...