Stories from Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Kenneth Edmund Gansebom Feb. 24, 1928 - Oct. 4, 2015 CARROLL, Neb. -- Kenneth Edmund Gansebom, age 87, passed away Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, at his home in Carroll. He was born Feb. 24, 1928, in Osmond, Nebraska, to August and Emma (Dralle) Gansebom. He graduated from Osmond High School and received his masters in music education from Wayne State Teachers College. ...

Leroy Stratton May 26, 1923 - Sept. 27, 2015 ST. MARYS, Ga. -- Leroy Stratton, 92, formerly of Trenton, Nebraska, died Sept. 27, 2015, at St. Marys Senior Care Center at St. Marys. He was born May 26, 1923, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and grew up and graduated high school in Weeping Water, Nebraska. ...

Beverly June Alberts-Fahrenbruch July 17, 1938 - June 28, 2015 STOCKTON, Calif. -- Beverly June Alberts-Fahrenbruch, 76, died June 28, 2015, at Stockton. She was born July 17, 1938. She grew up in Culbertson and graduated from Culbertson High School in 1956. She married Floyd Langford...

Students in Clay Grizzle's McCook Community College acting class perform a skit written by freshman Joe Anderjaska, left, Hayes Center, and performed with Melissa Hall of Gladstone, Australia. The skit was performed Monday for first, second and third grade students at St. Patrick's Elementary School as part of fire prevention week. The skit will also be performed at McCook Elementary schools later this week...

This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The City of McCook is looking into software which could help modernize inventory and location records on everything from street signs to utility lines. The software, GIS Workshop, is already used by the Red Willow County assessor's office on its property search website...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The City of McCook is looking into software which could help modernize inventory and location records on everything from street signs to utility lines. The software, GIS Workshop, is already used by the Red Willow County assessor's office on its property search website...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners are viewing a "Livestock Friendly" designation as a way to support and promote the county and the state of Nebraska. During their weekly meeting Monday morning, commissioners and zoning administrator Darcy Eckhardt agreed to plan a public meeting to explain the designation. "Education is the key," said commission chairman Vesta Dack...

McCook Community College student-athletes spent part of their Saturday morning lending support to this year's "Walk-In-My-Shoes" event in McCook's Norris Park. At right, McKinley Earnest of Casper, Wyoming, and Mackenzie Bilger of Boise, Idaho, both MCC softball players, decorate the sidewalks before the event. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A graduate of and star wrestler for McCook, Nebraska, Senior High and his wife, a college track and cross country athlete, will be guests at a "Fifth Quarter" event sponsored by the MHS Fellowship of Christian Athletes after the MHS-Lexington football game Friday...

HAIGLER, Neb. -- It's October -- and that means Tumbleweed Festival Time again in Haigler. The 8th annual Haigler Fall Tumbleweed Festival will be Saturday, October 17 on the Haigler Museum grounds south of Golden Rod Highway 34 and Porter Avenue. ...

Many of us who grew up hearing World War II stories would give anything to hear them again, now that the tellers are gone. We lost another such national treasure Sunday with the death of Willis Jones, a B-17 co-pilot who spent 13 months in Stalag Luft 1 after being shot down on his 26th mission on April 13, 1944, targeting a U-boat engine factory in Augsburg, Germany...

Well somehow the young went away. Grannie and I just returned from a reunion of the air refueling tanker squadron that I served in from 1966 to 1969. Four years of duty flying the KC-135 -- same airplane that the Nebraska Air Guard operates yet today...