Stories from Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Gloria J. Warren passed away Saturday, February 28, 2026, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska, surrounded by her loving family...

oy Egle, 87, died Sunday, March 15, 2026, at Kinship Pointe in McCook, Nebraska...

Trenton Anthony Roskop, 19, of Arapahoe, Nebr., passed away on Wednesday, March 11, 2026...

Margaret F. (Trail) Nielsen Passed away March 7, 2026, at Bergan Mercy Hospital following a brief illness...

Lynn Edwin Riley passed away peacefully on March 12, 2026, at Great Plains Hospital in North Platte, Nebraska...

Dale Eugene Wicke, the oldest son of Henry and Leah (Sandman) Wicke, was born June 21, 1938...

Gloria May (Hardwick) Kautz passed away at her home in Culbertson, Nebraska, on March 15, 2026...

McCOOK, Neb. - A looming federal mandate to identify and replace lead water service lines could require years of work in McCook, as the McCook City Council met in regular session Monday evening at City Council Chambers to review funding options that could help offset costs and extend into the 2040s...

Over the past weekend, McCook hosted the quarterly meeting of the Nebraska Commission on Latino Americans. Although the commission is based in Lincoln, it holds its quarterly meetings throughout the state to stay connected with local communities and better understand regional concerns. On the Thursday prior to the meeting, the Gazette reached out to Executive Director Maria Arriaga for a conversation...

Your old columnist has been remembering life as it used to be as I was growing up here in southwest Nebraska. Sue Doak has a great weekly column in the Gazette about the early history of this area, but these are reflections from my personal memory. We lived on a farm a couple of miles south of McCook. I attended rural school District 8 through the 8th grade, then on to town school...

Gazette scribbler R.B.B. (Really Bad at Basketball) player Headley bounces out his entire NCAA men’s tournament bracket picks a minute after deadline. First Four UMBC over Howard, TEXAS over NC State, LEHIGH over Prairie View A&M and SMU over Miami Ohio...

LIBERAL, Kan. – The McCook Community College baseball team muscled up on Seward County Community College Monday winning 21-5. The Indians scored seven runs in the third inning and added nine runs in the eighth at Brent Gould Field. “We put a pretty good game together today, we had a couple big innings and our pitchers did a nice job of staying away from the big inning,” said MCC Coach Jon Olsen. ...

Steve Lytle Fishing Guide has found a path to the league leadership of Men’s Major league bowling this week though just narrowly over Git ’Em All. Men’s Major Steve Lytle Fishing 107-43 Git ’Em All 106-44 Maris General Con. 101-49 Fullmomentum 96-54...

FREMONT, Neb. — With a season that started in October, the McCook YMCA swim team is nearing the finish line, competing in the Nebraska YMCA State Championships on Saturday, March 14. Hosted at the Fremont YMCA, the statewide meet featured many of the swimmers who competed in the Nebraska state high school meet a few weeks ago in Lincoln. ...