Stories from Friday, July 8, 2005

GOTHENBURG -- Hits were hard to come by during the opener of the McCook Midgets doubleheader at Gothenburg Wednesday, but as the evening moved on the bats sparkled under the lights. In the first game of the double header, Gothenburg came out on top 4-2, but McCook rebounded and won game two 14-5...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Bison Nebraska Red boys basketball team, featuring Cambridge's Waid Vontz, defeated the Wisconsin Swing 64-51 in the team's fourth game of the Hoosier Shootout tournament in Indianapolis. This was the first game of single elimination play. The win put Bison Nebraska Red into Thursday night's round of 32...

WILSONVILLE -- When the Wilsonville village board meets next Friday, it may have to replace a board member and it will have to decide whether board members need to be bonded. Board member Kent Chambers has until Monday to resign. Petitions circulated throughout the village of 118 residents contain enough signatures to call for Chambers' resignation from the board. If Chambers declines to resign, board members will have to set a date for a recall election...

Sept. 18, 1958-July 6, 2005 BENKELMAN -- Carrie Ann Gallington, 46, died Wednesday (July 6, 2005), at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She was born Sept. 18, 1958, at Benkelman, to Lloyd and Marjorie (Dickie) Foster, and grew up on the family farm south of Max. She attended school in Benkelman and graduated from Benkelman High School. She attended college for a short time and returned home to care for her father...

April 3, 1920-July 7, 2005 Kathleen L. Noe, 85, died Thursday (July 7, 2005), at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born April 3, 1920, at Basin, Wyo., to Harvey and Mabel (Skanks) Richards. She grew up in Basin where she received her education. She later earned her general equivalency diploma...

Sept. 15, 1934-July 6, 2005 ATWOOD -- Gerald Herman Heussman, 70, died Wednesday (July 6, 2005), at his home in Atwood. He was born Sept. 5, 1934, on the family homestead northwest of Atwood to Herman and Ida (Focke) Heussman. He attended grade school at Enterprise Rural School and graduated from Atwood High School in 1951...

The double-walled 4 million gallon storage tank is taking shape.The City of McCook is making progress toward a March 1, 2006, compliance date to meet arsenic, uranium and nitrate federal standards.

Pay me now, or pay me later. Unfortunately, that's true all to often, as is the axiom "there's no free lunch." Thanks to new state energy rules, new homes will have to abide by the "pay me now" idea. That's because the law, which went into effect Friday, requires new homes to meet the 2003 International Energy Conservation Code...

**Dear Editor, Congratulations, McCook! For making your community Fourth of July Fireworks Display a huge success. The wonderful and enthusiastic crowd, perfect weather provided by Mother Nature, and a sky brilliantly painted by Stonebraker Fireworks, made for a night that will long be remembered...

**Dear Editor, Who in the world appointed Ted Kennedy to be the judge of the Supreme Court nominees? Ted Kennedy judging anyone is extremely hypocritical to say the least. Senator Kennedy needs to judge himself with the same zeal that he uses against the conservative nominees. He can start with July 19, A.D.1969, when he violated the civil liberties of Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick Creek. Permanently...

**Dear Editor, Thought you would enjoy this as much as I did: "The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, 'Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?'...

My marriage is being strained and not just by the sheer number of children and animals at my house. No, any marriage will be tested if one spouse likes to camp and the other would have the majority of his or her teeth pulled rather than sleep in a tent. I put the wedding vows -- those little ones about sticking together through better or worse, through sickness and health, through camping and not camping -- to the test during a recent camping trip...

Nov. 16, 1939-July 8, 2005 Larry Lee Lepper, 65, of Henderson, Nev., died Friday, (July 8, 2005) at his home. The memorial service will be Sunday, July 10, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sutton, Neb., with Pastor Judy Terry officiating. Cremation has taken place in Nevada...