Emergency medical services (EMS) in rural America are in a state of crisis. Difficulty recruiting emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and the financial constraints of EMS agencies are the major causes of this crisis.

11-29-2021 Jayden B. Lyons, Possession of a controlled substance, Possession of paraphernalia, Possession of 1oz or less Marijuana, Preliminary Hearing January 10, 2022 @ 11:30 A.M.

It has been a miserable existence as a Huskers fan this fall. To find these tough of times in Husker football, you’ve got to hearken back to the Bill Jennings years. Listen kids, anytime you’re comparing to Bill Jennings, it is bad news.

Earlier this month, eight months after President Biden created a group to study “Supreme Court reform,” the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States finally released its report. The far left has been waiting eagerly for this moment for months.

Ardess J. Fisher Winder Cappel, 86, of McCook, passed away on Sunday December 12, 2021 at C.A. Mues Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home in Arapahoe, Nebraska. She was born on February 24, 1935 to J. George and Lorraine (Burrus) Fisher on the family farm in Red Willow County during a blizzard.

Shirley Ann Phillips age 89 of Cambridge, NE passed away at the CHI St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln, NE on December 3, 2021. She was born near Curtis, NE on August 7, 1932, to Donald and Violetta (Petersen) Wood. She attended high School at UNSA in Curtis graduating in 1950.

Jan McCarville (née Hix) unexpectedly went to meet her Savior on December 6, 2021 at McCook Community Hospital. Spending her life attending others, she herself was attended in death by her husband, James, and her four children.

Donald “Rusty” George Lepper, age 85, of Danbury, passed away at his home on November 16, 2021. Memorial services will be held at 3:00 PM, Thursday afternoon, December 16, 2021 at Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel in McCook with Jim Jones and Michael Simmonds providing words of comfort.

Steven “Pete” Hamel, age 63 of Arapahoe, Nebraska passed away o Wednesday December 8 2021, at the Cambridge Hospital. He was born on August 20, 1958, to Hollis and Darlene (Elston) Hamel at Cambridge, Nebraska.

Doris Irene (Reigle) Uphoff, age 81, of Elwood, Nebraska, passed away on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at her home. She was born August 7, 1940, to Ray and Myrtle (Shefneer) Reigle in Cherry County, Nebraska.