Stories from Wednesday, March 15, 2006

The McCook Community College baseball team defeated fifth-ranked Iowa Western 5-4 in the second game of Tuesday's doubleheader at the Jaycee Sports Complex in McCook. Taylor Evans scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning on Gary Hall's infield groundball fielder's choice to give MCC the split...

The life and ministry of the Rt. Rev. Willis R. Henton, 80, the first Bishop of Western Louisiana, was celebrated at a burial service and Requiem Eucharist Feb. 18 ath the Church of Ascension in Lafayette, La. Bishop Henton died Feb. 16 at Iberia Medical Center in New Iberia, La...

I have often wondered about Mary and that whole "pondered these things in her heart" statement made about her in the New Testament. What must she have thought, presented with a perfectly ordinary baby at the end of her travail. (That little halo so frequently seen on the image used in our nativity scenes was certainly not a part of the original scene.) Once the family returned from Egypt, it seems as though they settled into small town life and into ordinary, everyday routines...

It would be nice if schools didn't have to have programs like the one going on Thursday at McCook Junior High. Parents and children should be able to communicate and trust each other. The worst substance abuse teachers would have to worry about would be about kids drinking too much soda. Junior High would be a great time of learning and growing...

HAYES CENTER -- Candidates seeking to represent the 44th district in the Nebraska Legislature spoke about several issues at a forum Tuesday night at Hayes Center. Moderated by Derek Beck and broadcast live on U.S. 93.9 FM, the forum was sponsored by the Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock and Perkins County Farm Bureaus...

The week's performance of 'The Sound of Music" has become a family affair for the Southwest Nebraska Community Theater cast, according to Janet Hepp, publicity director. In three months time, the long hours put into rehearsal by cast and crew have formed a family-like bond, she said, who portrays the baroness Elsa in the musical and has been involved with numerous community theater productions...

OGALLALA -- Chambers of commerce from Ogallala-Keith County and Vernon, Texas, are seeking descendants of cowboys who came up the Western Trail, often called "the Texas Trail" in Nebraska, to help dedicate a "Great Western Trail" marker at Ogallala's Boot Hill Cemetery...