Stories from Tuesday, June 7, 2005

Scoring six runs in one inning will definitely give a team tremendous momentum. This is exactly what the McCook National Bank Seniors American Legion baseball team did as they clenched an 11-1 victory over the Overton Bandits Monday night. Rain and pea-sized hail pushed the starting time back about 30 minutes, but the field crew did its job getting the infield dried out, and ready for a five-inning game at the Jaycees Sports Complex...

KEARNEY -- The Nebraska A's girls fastpitch softball team finished third at the Kearney tournament Saturday and Sunday with a 4-1 record. The first game on Saturday was with the Lexington Kekumbas and it went six innings. The A's came up with a 2-1 win...

(Feb. 2, 1922 - June 5, 2005) OBERLIN -- Esther Wilson, 83, died Sunday (June 5, 2005), at the Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born Feb. 2, 1922, to Fred and Eva (Karst) Bauer. She was raised in Patricia, S.D., and attended Patricia Country School...

TRENTON -- One size doesn't fit all in Nebraska, Gov. Dave Heineman said this morning during a press conference at the Trenton Agri Products ethanol plant. Gov. Heineman and Sen. Tom Baker, of Trenton, smiled and laughed as they explained the benefits of Nebraska's new tax incentive package that will take effect Jan. 1, 2006. The package, the governor said, will provide opportunities for growth for all Nebraskans, rural and urban...

Red Willow County commissioners have scheduled a public hearing Monday, June 20, at 9:30 a.m., to amend a county budget that's been hit by unusually high health insurance claims. "It's just one of those things," said Commission Chairman Earl McNutt, during a commissioners' meeting Monday morning. "There's no way to anticipate."...

The 13 residents of the Nothnagel addition south of McCook are one step closer to resolving their water problems. The McCook City Council agreed Monday night to complete documents related to a $150,000 Emergency Community Water Assistance Grant. The grant, from USDA Rural Development, would be used to extend the municipal water system south to the addition, where wells have gone dry because of the drought...

A landowner's arch enemy -- musk thistle -- has just been waiting for a warm spring, -- long days of sunshine and lots of rain. "We've got five years of thistle germinating in this rain," Red Willow County Commissioner Steve Downer said during a commissioners' meeting Monday morning...

Who's the funniest person you've ever heard? The absolute funniest? In this age of instant entertainment -- with hundreds of television shows beamed into American homes every hour of every day -- it's hard to say, as highly paid comics take turns at trying to tickle our funny bones...

Sixty years ago, my father was somewhere in the South Pacific, recovering from the mortar shell and hand grenade wounds he received a few days after being part of the seventh wave of troops invading the island of Okinawa. As the operator of a .30 cal., water cooled machine gun, he was a high priority target for the Japanese soldiers defending the island...

Familiar to highway 6 and 34, Imperial native Phil Hayes accelerates to 65 miles per hour and lets out a deep sigh, as his hour journey has just begun for another day. He cranks up his 1980's classic rock CD and heads for his destination, which is located at the corner of West M and West 10th Streets...

The family of Jeff and Elaine Polley announce their 25th anniversary on June 7. The couple was married June 7, 1980.