Stories from Wednesday, October 19, 2005

The McCook Community College volleyball team lost in three games to Northeast Junior College Tuesday night. The match was played at MCC's True Hall Gymnasium. NJC, from Sterling, Colo., won the match 30-25, 30-21, 30-15. Kayla Laird had 21 set assists and 4 ace serves for the host Indians. Mary Gohl added 11 kills. Kate Voss had 8 kills...

SOUTHWEST -- Southwest and McCook's volleyball teams battled it out Tuesday at Southwest. Southwest won three out of the five sets -- the final score was 22-25, 25-23, 25-22, 20-25, 15-11 -- but the Bison broke two school records. Allison Smith broke the school record for the most kills in a match with 19 and Erica Clapp for the most assists in a match with 45...

McCook JV volleyball team falls at Southwest SOUTHWEST -- The McCook High School junior varsity volleyball team lost at Southwest Tuesday night 25-15, 25-18. The Bison JV's season record drops to 10-4. Both the sophomores and the junior varsity squads end their seasons Tuesday night at home against Chase County in McCook...

It's late. A court suit has been filed. Yet, if a way can be found, McCook Public Power District-REA and the City of McCook need to work out their differences for the mutual benefit of the community and the area. The point of contention is a 390-foot communications tower, which McCook Public Power is proposing to install on the west edge of the REA's property on the northwest edge of McCook...

**Dear Editor, I would like to comment on the City Council meeting I attended last night and the behavior of one of our councilmen and our city manager. The case at hand was the promotion of "comfortable" for the city auditorium. Missy Nelson and a small group have taken this monumental project upon themselves and have worked diligently to raise the funding. The idea behind it is to make seating in the auditorium more comfortable and in return, encourage more events at the auditorium...

**Dear Editor, Last night I attended the City Council meeting in order to support and observe Missy Nelson as she asked the council to allocate $15,000 in support of the Share a Seat Campaign for the city auditorium. The proposed chairs cost $85 a piece and we will need a little over 500 of them in order to replace the bleacher-type seating we have in the balcony now...

**Dear Editor, I want to be the first to congratulate Mr. McPhillips on is outstanding rebuttal of Mike's (Hendricks') 10/15/05 article. Apparently Mike was so worried about his fault based MSN liberal media biased article he had to gain access to readers options before Mondays paper was even printed so he could post another so called "factually based" response...

The manager of the Mc-Cook Public Power District wishes he could just sit down with McCook city officials and work out a settlement in a dispute over a new communications tower to replace one that is dangerously old. Instead, a lawsuit between the two entities is expected to be in court early next year...

Red Willow County commissioners certified tax levies for the 2005-2006 tax year for political subdivisions throughout the county during their meeting Monday morning. According to a report from Budget Clerk Shirley Volz, the county's tax levy will be $0.3440 per $100 of tax valuation, which is higher than the $0.31 in 2004-2005...

Bill "Mr. Bill" Donze said one of his mobile candy store's customers, a 12-year-old McCook girl, set a record by using her tongue to make 12 holes in a giant jawbreaker. The sculpture was featured on a national Web site.

I love surprises. Most of the time. Some surprises aren't as welcome as others. For instance, the surprise I got when I balanced my checkbook last month and discovered that I had added when I should have subtracted was a decidedly unpleasant surprise...