Stories from Wednesday, June 29, 2005

CAMBRIDGE -- The hometown girl did good on her hometown golf course. Sara Sackett, a Cambridge High School graduate and a member of the University of Nebraska women's golf team, captured first-place medalist honors Tuesday at the 2005 Nebraska Women's Amateur Golf Association Western Championship...

COLBY, Kan. -- The McCook National Bank American Legion Seniors were finally rewarded with two wins as they continued to play with confidence Wednesday night at Colby. The Seniors defeated Colby 7-6 and squeaked by Goodland 9-7. In the first game of the night, MNB exploded in the top of the sixth inning by scoring four of their seven runs...

Local duo 2nd at APA Jack & Jill 8-Ball Doubles Championship Tammy Barber and Dick Burton fell just one win short of advancing to the 2006 American Poolplayers Association (APA) Jack & Jill 8-Ball Doubles National Championship in Las Vegas when they were defeated by a Lexington team in a recent APA Jack and Jill 8-Ball Doubles Regional Tournament...

The family of Dorothy Olsson is hosting a card shower in honor of her 76th birthday July 3. Her children are Linda, Scott and family; Jeri, Gary and family; and Susan, Kent and family. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 1214 W. Fifth, McCook, NE, 69001...

Growing and maintaining grass and the animals that depend on it is different in Southwest Nebraska than anywhere else in the state. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Grassland Studies Citizens Advisory Council toured the landscape, range lands and habitats of Southwest Nebraska on Tuesday to find out more...

Members of the Nebraska Development Network discussed a possible Northeast-Southwest Nebraska interstate when they met in McCook last week. A proposal to build an interstate highway from Sioux City to McCook and on into Kansas was discussed. The South Platte United Chambers of Commerce has given its support for this project, nicknamed the "Snowbird Trail."...

Come one! Come all! Fireworks are returning to McCook for the Fourth of July! It's official. After a year-long community fund drive, the McCook Optimist Club will be presenting a spectacular $5,000 aerial display Tuesday, July 4, at the Red Willow County Fairgrounds in McCook...

**Dear Editor, Here we go again. I am writing in reference to Kirt Matson's goof, again in the Open Forum of June 24. Kirt, isn't that the same liberal court that gave the presidency to Bush in 2000? You didn't do your homework. Probably got your information straight from the mouth of your guru, Rush Limbaugh. You would like us to believe that four liberals on the Supreme Court are to blame for the ruling that state or federal governments can take property against the owner's will...

**Dear Editor, Politico the Klown was talking to his friends on the Supreme Court one day and says "I am building a Klown Museum. But the location now has a small old house on it and the owner won't sell it to me. "If I could build my museum there, we could hire two full-time employees and a part-time janitor -- I'm sorry, a building maintenance supervisor...

**Dear Editor, I just want to take a moment and say thank you to a few individuals (you know who you are) here in McCook and the surrounding area who made living and working here a wonderful experience. My husband moved our family here from the Kansas City area nine years ago. I really wasn't sure what I was getting myself into...

**Dear Editor, The "retired police detective" who is speaking out against the war on drugs is Howard J. Wooldridge, not Mike Hendricks. Mr. Sharpe would probably know this had he bothered to actually read Mr. Hendrick's article, rather than finding it in some automated web search and seizing the opportunity for yet another letter to the editor...

Recent roof repairs displaced a family of birds. Well, more than displaced, really, as the nest and its contents were a total loss. But Mama Bird, unable to process the loss, keeps returning to her former home, perching as close as she can to the site, then attempting to figure out where she made the wrong turn. ...