Stories from Thursday, January 27, 2005

The McCook Junior High School eighth grade boys hosted the Chase County Shorthorns Wednesday night and ended the night with three wins. In the A game, McCook got the win 39-31 and were led by Seth Schaeffer who scored 10 points and had 8 rebounds. Mike Grabowski scored 7 points, Dillon Goltl 7, Zach Weiser 4, Austin Larson 3, Ryan Hardin 3, Jeff Lorentz 2, Joe Vetrosfsky 2 and Matt Berry 1...

Places like the city of McCook will not be the forgotten step-child under the new leadership of Gov. Dave Heinemann. "The McCook's of Nebraska are just as important as any community in the eastern part of the state," Gov. Heineman told a group of more than 100 McCook residents Wednesday afternoon at the McCook Regional Airport terminal...

Very quickly after becoming Nebraska's 39th governor, Dave Heineman made it a point to reach out to all parts of the state.The effort started on his first full day on the job. After taking the oath of office, Heineman embarked on a flight to Scottsbluff and Gering, where he met well-wishers at the end of a long day. It added up to a 19-hour first day, but the governor said it was worth it to show the importance of statewide unity...

Since we are now middle-aged "empty-nesters," Brad and I have chosen to fill our house with critters. Four of them have come to us by choice --Max the golden retriever, Gizmo the Pekingese, Chewey the mutt and Mikey the iguana have been enjoying our hospitality for some time...

Red Willow County fair board members refused, during an emergency meeting Wednesday, to change the offer they felt on Sunday could put an end to a fiasco over the bleachers in the Kiplinger Arena on the fairgrounds in McCook. On Monday, county commissioners echoed the fair board's motion -- to offer the bleacher company a fee "not to exceed $6,000" to provide, by March 1, bleacher plans, designs and calculations that would meet or exceed international building codes...

Three men eating their lunches in Barnett Park Wednesday afternoon rescued a McCook woman, "cold and scared," but unharmed, after she fell through the ice on the park's big pond trying to reach her dog. Devin Allen of Culbertson said he threw a tow rope from his pickup to the woman, and with help from Richard Gardner of Wauneta and Eugene Cheney of McCook, pulled her to the bank...