Stories from Thursday, September 18, 2003

McCook High School football coach Jeff Gross and Gary Hartman, his counterpart with Scottsbluff, know each other well. The players from both sides know what their opponents are going to do offensively and defensively. Friday night at Scottsbluff's Bearcat Stadium, the difference could very well be which team out-executes the other. ...

Now that the main lanes of the mid-town highway construction project have been put in place, the merchants of McCook can start planning a major coming-out party. Yes -- at long last -- it's time for a "Retail Revival" in McCook. Hit hard by the drought, the post 9-11 slowdown and the dollar drain to the Wal-Mart Superstore, McCook retailers have been in a holding pattern for the past few years. ...

Dear Editor, The removal of the stone with the Ten Commandments from the court house has a lot more ramifications than just the separation of church and state. The Ten Commandments are more than the law. They are instructions for a set of ethics and morality. We can remove the stone with the Ten Commandments from the courthouse, but if we remove ethics and morality from the courthouse, then we will never be able to pass enough laws to maintain any semblance of civility within our country...

McCook's Heritage Days celebration with kick off with a splash at McCook National Bank on Wednesday with the annual mixer. During the mixer, honor presentations will be made and the honor family, Heritage Days Royalty, grand marshall and the parade marshall will be announced. The tennis ball auction will also be conducted. The mixer begins at 5:30 p.m...

HAYES CENTER -- Storytellers will relive the buffalo-hunting exploits of Buffalo Bill Cody and the Russian grand duke, Alexis, during the fourth annual "Grand Duke Alexis Rendezvous" at Camp Hayes Sept. 26, 27 and 28. Weekend activities recreate the 1872 buffalo hunt hosted for Alexis by the American government and U.S. ...

A McCook mother who would want someone to help her son if he were in the same situation wants to send "care packages" to a team of American Army Reserve soldiers who lost all their belongings in a tent fire in the deserts of Iraq. Sue Beebe's son, Jeromy, serves with the soldiers victimized by the fire in early September, and her heart goes out to the soldiers thousands of miles from home, sifting through the smoldering remains of the rifles and body armor that protected them from the enemy and the personal belongings that connected them to life back home.. ...

McCOOK--The McCook Indians volleyball team wrapped up three nights of volleyball with a 30-15, 30-27, 30-25 loss at home to Central Community College Wednesday night. The game marked a homecoming for McCook native Jessica Allberry, a freshman outside hitter for Central CC-Columbus. Allberry's Raiders didn't give McCook a chance by jumping out to a 10- point lead in the first game and never looking back. McCook only trailed 25-23 in the second set, but couldn't get over the hump...

McCook High School football coach Jeff Gross and Gary Hartman, his counterpart with Scottsbluff, know each other well. The players from both sides know what their opponents are going to do offensively and defensively. Friday night at Scottsbluff's Bearcat Stadium, the difference could very well be which team out-executes the other. ...

Dear Editor, The removal of the stone with the Ten Commandments from the court house has a lot more ramifications than just the separation of church and state. The Ten Commandments are more than the law. They are instructions for a set of ethics and morality. We can remove the stone with the Ten Commandments from the courthouse, but if we remove ethics and morality from the courthouse, then we will never be able to pass enough laws to maintain any semblance of civility within our country...

Now that the main lanes of the mid-town highway construction project have been put in place, the merchants of McCook can start planning a major coming-out party. Yes -- at long last -- it's time for a "Retail Revival" in McCook. Hit hard by the drought, the post 9-11 slowdown and the dollar drain to the Wal-Mart Superstore, McCook retailers have been in a holding pattern for the past few years. ...

Last night my step-daughter and I were discussing the joy of shopping. But not just any shopping, the kind were you can find good bargains and buy even more with what you have in your pocket. There are a lot of us out there. Some are closet shoppers who wouldn't admit buying something off the sales rack if their life depended on it. Then there are the people like Tisha and I who proudly proclaim the price of their newly purchased treasure...