Stories from Saturday, October 1, 2005

HASTINGS -- The McCook Bison football team had their hands full with the Hastings Tigers Friday night in a Nebraska Class B-5 district contest at Hastings. The Bison, ranked No. 1 in Class B, improved to 5-0 with a hard-fought 31-23 victory. Hastings dropped to 0-5...

ARAPAHOE -- The Arapahoe Warriors rolled to a 46-0 victory over the Eustis-Farnam Knights in high school football action here Friday night. Arapahoe is ranked No. 5 in Class D1 by the Omaha World Herald. The game was called at the end of three quarters due to the 45-point rule...

McCook High School's Lesley Nelson and Justine Hager earned the eighth- and ninth-place medals at the Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference girls golf tournament Friday. The GNAC tournament was played at Heritage Hills Golf Course in McCook. Nelson, a senior, fired a 96 and Hager, a sophomore, shot a 97...

Never before in the history of this country have Americans been so divided about so many different things. There is a chasm that exists between Americans of different beliefs that is both deep and wide and nothing suggests that is about to change anytime soon...

Never before in the history of this country have Americans been so divided about so many different things. There is a chasm that exists between Americans of different beliefs that is both deep and wide and nothing suggests that is about to change anytime soon...

Although McCook is more than 1,200 miles from New Orleans, people from this Southwest Nebraska community are finding ways to reach out to the hurricane and flood-ravaged port city at the base of the Mississippi River. Dale Ellerton, a hydraulic technician at the Bureau of Reclamation field office in McCook, is among those on the front lines of hurricane relief. ...

The City of McCook may hold an easement hostage if the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad doesn't pony up the $3 million it owes by Oct. 17. City Council members will decide whether to take that route at their 7:30 p.m. meeting Monday night. BNSF asked for changes to be made in the temporary easement agreement, which the city adopted in May 2005, before releasing the payment to the city, according to the City Council packet...

A spaghetti dinner, a silent auction and a performance by the Saggy Bottom Boys is planned for Sunday to help pay for the high-risk but successful operation that has a McCook High School student standing tall. Andrew Burrell, a McCook 11th-grader, who suffers from a rounding of the spine, underwent a dangerous surgery -- called "The Works" because of its complexity -- to straighten his back and ease the pressure on his heart and lungs...