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It would take a considerable amount of courage for a seasoned politician with statewide name recognition and a substantial war chest to challenge a sitting governor, but Sheila Korth-Focken has none of those advantages, yet she is running for the Republican nomination for Governor of the State of Nebraska...

McCook, Neb. - Bill Lesko is a man with a palate designed for greatness. He zigs and zags through culinary styles with ease, finding new ways to refresh classics and inventing new dishes to please the palate. He is the culinary scientist behind the dishes at Citta’ Deli, which he began 11 years ago with his wife, Jade...

McCOOK, Neb. - After being away from government for over a decade, Dennis Berry of McCook filed for a seat on the city council on Monday. “I really love McCook, and I think that McCook is on the right path. There’s been a lot of progress in the last four years, and I’d like to see that it continues,” Berry said. “And I do feel I have a lot of experience, being a past mayor and in a lot of other different organizations and leadership posts.”...

LINCOLN, Neb. — No varsity basketball girl in Nebraska made more field goals this basketball season than Dundy County-Stratton sophomore Abi Spargo, according to maxpreps. However, nobody was closer than Maywood-Hayes Center junior Caylie Softley. Spargo sank 232 shots during the Tigers’ Class D-1 state championship run featuring 28 runs in 29 games...

One of my high school classmates, MHS Class of 1955, shared the following story, concerning her family, with me: In the time frame of about 1945/46, LaVern Edwards, Goldie’s older sister, was working at Cudahy Cheese Factory in Culbertson. She was walking on the street, and a soldier from the McCook Army Air Base stopped to talk to her. ...

A McCook man, Glenn Morgan III, was recently arrested in Dawson County sting operation on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution as part of an ongoing prostitution ring investigation. A case status hearing is set for April 27. Morgan III, 51, was arrested on November 7, 2025, at Overton, Nebraska. He pled not guilty to the charge of Solicitation of Prostitution - Second Offense, a Class IV felony, and signed a waiver of preliminary hearing...

Most people in McCook know that the YMCA has been under construction for the past year, as part of a $17 million renovation and expansion project. The first phase of the long-overdue project is to renovate the pool. So on the day after the McCook High School swim and dive left for the state championship meet in Lincoln in February 2025, the YMCA pool was drained and demolition began...

McCOOK, Neb. - Yesterday was the last day for candidates to file for the May 12 primary election. The two most contested fields in Southwest Nebraska’s upcoming elections are those in the McCook City Council and in the Nebraska Legislature’s 38th District...

McCOOK, Neb. - It was a relatively short evening for the McCook City Council as it met in regular session Monday night. Mayor Linda Taylor called the meeting to order and noted that all members were present. During the announcements and recognitions portion of the meeting, City Manager Nate Schneider reminded council members of a planning committee meeting scheduled for Monday, March 9, at 5:15 p.m. ...

McCOOK, Neb. - The deadline to file as an incumbent for the primary election in May has come and gone, and there is an expected name that won’t be found on the ballot. Red Willow County Sheriff Kevin Darling has decided that after serving in law enforcement for over 40 years, he’s ready to spend some much-needed time with his wife of 42 years, Tami, and their family...

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...

The McCook Gazette is pleased to welcome a new print customer this week, The Sheridan Sentinel of Hoxie, Kansas. Last month, Publisher Viktorija Briggs, office manager Rachel Farber and Lori Cressler, who handles advertising, visited McCook and toured the Gazette’s production plant. During the visit, they saw the press in action and met with several of the Gazette’s 24 employees...