Stories from Wednesday, April 27, 2005

For the final time of Jared Muehlenkamp's American Legion baseball career, he paces down the sidewalk as a salesman for the evening. Selling gold cards has been a requirement of McCook American Legion baseball players for the past 12 years. It gives the players a chance to associate with citizens around town, and tackle the majority of their fundraising...

Bison golfers place second HOLDREGE -- Brandon Crick won his third straight individual title, and the McCook High School boys gold team placed second at Tuesday's Holdrege Invitational. It was another spring like day at the Holdrege Country Club, with the wind gusting into the 30 to 40 mile an hour range...

KEARNEY -- The McCook High School varsity girls tennis team swept duals from Kearney and Kearney Catholic Tuesday at Kearney. The Bison defeated Kearney Catholic 5-4 and Kearney 8-1. McCook 5, Kearney Catholic 4 Singles 1 Kim Serbousek lost to K. Messbarger, 8-5...

Indians will make trip to nationals Heritage Hills was the site for this years' National Junior College District III Championship and national qualifier. This 54-hole event featured teams form Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming. Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kan., collected the team championship and three overall individual medals...

The McCook Junior High and St Patrick's eighth grade boys and girls place well in their home meet Tuesday at the McCook High School track. MJH girls Danielle Cappel-100, Tara Powell-High Jump, Shelby Woitaszewski-195 Hurdles, and Ashley Palic, Danielle Cappel, Megan Skiles, and Kali Lyons in the 4x100 Relay all placed first...

HOLDREGE -- The McCook Junior High School 8th grade boys and girls competed at the Holdrege Relays last Friday. The boys team won 8 out of the 15 relays and the girls won 5 out 10 of their relays. BOYS RESULTS SHOT PUT RELAY Team 1-First Place Taylor Garcia 39-1.0...

June 14, 1916-April 24, 2005 HERNDON -- Harvey P. Stoney, 88, died Sunday (April 24, 2005) at the Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. He was born June 14, 1916, to Stephen and Elizabeth (Barenberg) Stoney in Herndon. On Jan. 18, 1944, he married Roseanna Eby in Atwood, Kan. ...

CULBERTSON -- The majority of Culbertson school district patrons who cast ballots in an advisory vote Tuesday want the Culbertson-Trenton-Stratton unified school district to continue. The vote -- not a legally-binding election -- was 179 for the unification and 153 for a merger with McCook Public Schools...

Seventy years ago the Republican River valley and its citizens were hammered with the worst flood in Nebraska history. This natural disaster was the result of a perfect storm -- a high pressure system from the Great Lakes colliding with a low pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico. The collision took place over the headwaters of the Republican River in southwestern Nebraska...

Did you know that in Nebraska in 2003,22 percent of the deaths occurring in the the state were attributed to cancer? In the eight counties of Southwest Nebraska 24 percent or 99 of the 474 deaths in 2003 were caused by cancer. Red Willow County and Dundy County have the highest percentage with 27 percent of the deaths attributed to cancer. Frontier County, Hayes County and Frontier County have the lowest incidence with less than 10 percent...

It's official. Spring is here. I know this because next week I am taking a week's vacation to do my spring cleaning. Window protection against the winter winds will disappear. The windows themselves will soon sparkle with spring light and sweaters, wool pants and snow boots will be packed carefully away, awaiting my annual fall vacation, when I reverse the whole process...