Stories from Tuesday, February 17, 2004

CAMBRIDGE -- The Republican Valley Mustang girls advanced to the Nebraska Class D1-10 sub-district basketball tournament with a 45-41 victory over Bertrand Monday. The Mustangs (14-7) will play Elwood in the semifinals at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Cambridge High School gymnasium...

To put it succinctly, last week really sucked. It was seven days filled with dread, horror, dashed hopes, unbelief and numbing grief. I pray that myself, my family, my friends, and my community never have to go through another ordeal like the one we just experienced...

**Dear Editor, On Friday, the village of Danbury lost our mayor and friend, Merle Berry. He was responsible for so many good things that happened in our town. Because of him, the plans were made and carried out to convert our old bank building into the beautiful community hall we are all enjoying now. (He was so skillful at getting all of us to serve on committees and do our share, that we didn't know what was happening until we were consenting to serve!)...

**Dear Editor, I want to take this opportunity to inform the farmers, ranchers and persons interested in agriculture and eating fine food that Initiative 300 is again under attack. LB1086, supported by Gov. Johanns and the chair of the Unicameral Agriculture Committee, LB1086, would create a governor-appointed task force that would be required to propose changes in I-300, including the possibility of repealing I-300, Nebraska's constitutional amendment that restricts corporate farming...

Someone once said, inside of every reporter, there's a novel. And it should stay there. But sometimes the inspiration is just too much. Take for instance, last Saturday, as we were working on an overdue homework assignment. Asked to come up with a sentence using a particular word, my son wrote:...

Three months short of his 99th birthday, former Nebraska Gov. Frank B. Morrison is proposing an idea which he hopes will capture the imagination of both of America's major political parties. What Frank wants is for the 2004 Republican and Democratic nominees to hold a Presidential Debate at the Arch...

Three trucks loaded with wind generator blades for a wind site in southeast Minnesota inch westward up West B Street early Monday morning, bound for a wind site at Adams, Minn. The owner of the trucks, Al Johnson of Clintonville, Wis., said the left-hand turn from Highway 83 onto B Street at East Sixth in McCook is one of the trucks' toughest on the Houston-Minnesota route. ...

35 other area grapplers headed to Lincoln LINCOLN -- McCook High School will be represented at the Class B state wrestling tournament Thursday through Saturday by two grapplers -- 119-pounder Dallas Korus and 215-pounder Richard Smock. Korus, a junior, finished second at the Class B-4 district tournament at Cozad last Saturday and Smock placed third...

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The McCook City Council approved further testing on three additional water well sites south of McCook, Monday evening during a regular City Council meeting. All five council members approved the testing for an expansive look at the nitrate, arsenic and uranium levels at and near the sites. The land has been offered for testing by the landowners Ervain and Nadine Friehe, Marshell and Tracey Sis and Hancock Gravel and Ready Mix...