Stories from Friday, September 9, 2005

GOTHENBURG -- The McCook Bison varsity softball team improved to 12-0 with a 9-1 victory at Gothenburg Thursday. "This was a game that had me a little worried because we were playing a team that was just beginning their program at their place and I hoped we wouldn't over look them," said McCook coach Dale Lortz...

IMPERIAL -- Chase County's girls and boys finished first in their own Cross Country meet on the Imperial Golf course Thursday. The McCook girls followed Chase County in second and the Bison boys took sixth. Dundy County's boys took third and the girls placed ninth...

The hearing into whether University of Nebraska Board of Regents member Dave Hergert should be recommended for impeachment was set to begin today in Lincoln. State Sen. Tom Baker, who is a member of the task force which has been asked to determine if impeachment proceedings should by recommended to the full Legislature, said he is trying to keep an open mind in the case...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- Listeners to Saturday night's live radio broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" will hear the voices of 10 McCook-area singers among a large barbershop chorus. The chorus, performing at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson on Saturday afternoon, has been invited to sing on Garrison Keillor's live radio show following the state fair performance...

With officials still trying to persuade some New Orleans residents to leave their homes because of hazardous conditions, one resident and her family from nearby Gretna, La., couldn't wait to flee the area for McCook. "We knew it would be big and mean," said Judy Bradshaw about Hurricane Katrina. "We just didn't know how big."...

Put Southwest Nebraska's theater group together with business people and you can bet the ideas are going to flow. That's what happened this past week when Howard Kool, a McCook businessman and theater supporter, started thinking about ways to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina...

"Everyone was crouched over the dining room table all morning, doing these puzzles, nobody talking." My mother relayed the situation at her house during a recent visit by her brother and his wife and daughter. A brother who had driven more than eight hours to reach her house. A brother whom she saw once or twice a year. A brother who had spent a small fortune in gasoline to visit for the weekend...

Aug. 29, 1957--Sept. 5, 2005 ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Thomas Dean Hansen, 48, died Monday (Sept. 5, 2005). He was born Aug. 29, 1957, at St. Catherine's Hospital in McCook to Dean and Shirley Hansen. He graduated from Hayes Center High School in 1976. He married Virginia Hansen of Anaheim. He was employed by the Sherwood Shuffer Corporation until illness prevented him from working...