Stories from Tuesday, April 7, 2026

McCOOK, Neb. — Korrine Jane Rowland (Clark), age 81, of McCook, Nebraska, passed away peacefully at her home on Sunday, April 5, 2026,...

McCOOK, Neb. — Joan Marie Robison Stevenson, age 96, of McCook, Nebraska, passed away peacefully on April 4, 2026,..

I felt great joy when I read the announcement by our President that the GIB had been rescued in Iran. Great memories from my days flying air refueling tankers in the Vietnam conflict. Actually, it happened all too often when one of our fighters had suffered combat damage over North Vietnam and had to punch out over enemy-held territory. ...

As children of the Cold War, we Boomers grew up with a clear, if over-simplified, understanding of the world. The nations of the Eastern Bloc possessed the capacity to destroy us, and that fact alone was enough to command attention. Yet the deeper lesson, repeated in classrooms and public discourse alike, was that those societies had not yet embraced the 17th-century Enlightenment philosophies that shaped our own system. In short, they lacked what Americans broadly understood as freedom...

KEARNEY, Neb. — Craig “Pat” Sides, age 72, passed away at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, NE on April 4, 2026...

McCOOK, Neb. — Evaline Joyce Hershberger was born in Sedalia, Colorado, on May 20, 1931,...

McCOOK, Neb. - A simplified schedule of swimming pool admission fees has been approved by the McCook City Council. An ordinance amending the city code was introduced, and City Manager Nate Schneider explained that while the rates were discussed at length last year, the city saw a need to streamline the fee schedule...