Stories from Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Brandon Crick, Eric Rippen earn medals for 9th, 15th place; Tournament delayed by lightning LEXINGTON -- The McCook High School boys golf team placed fifth at the Lexington Invitational Tuesday and featured two individual medalists in the top 15. The tournament was delayed by an hour because of lightning...

ARAPAHOE -- Medicine Valley finished third in the Arapahoe golf invite Tuesday. Amherst won the tournament with Alma taking second. Southern Valley's golfers were sixth for the day, with Arapahoe following in seventh and Cambridge eighth. Southwest's golf team placed 11th...

ATWOOD -- The Rawlins County-Atwood boys track team took first in its home meet Tuesday. The girls team finished second. Macy Migchelbrink led the girls team with four first-place medals, winning the triple jump, 100 hurdles, 300 hurdles and the long jump...

Tuesday afternoon's dark clouds produced little rain, but plenty of wind and lightning, keeping area firemen busy. Lightning is believed to be the cause of the fire that started in Elizabeth Snyder's pasture south of Maywood. Randy Arent, rents the ground from Snyder and figured there was approximately two acres of dry grass and cedar trees that burned. Firefighters from Maywood, Wellfleet and Red Willow Western responded to the plume of smoke that could be seen from several miles away...

"And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins....But Christ has indeed been raised, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep." (I Corinthians 15:17, 20) Just as the women in Scripture made their way early on the first day of the week to the tomb, celebrants of the empty tomb will make their way to a variety of special services all across Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas. ...

In a two-minute agenda item Monday evening, the McCook Public Schools board of education closed the District 41 attendance center north of McCook on Highway 83 and welcomed its students and teachers to McCook. District 41's 10 students will start class in McCook in the fall. The dissolution becomes effective June 15...

McCook will be 125 in 2007.

He saw it first in his mother's eyes, in the dark watches of the night when hunger stirred him and roused her to cradle him in her arms, to meet that most basic human need. He saw it also in his earthly father's gentle patience guiding him as he carefully planed and shaped the wood...

It was with interest that I read your story about the team mascots. After being a loyal "Bison" fan, I became a McCook College "Indian" fan, a term I did not know to be degrading, as we were very proud of our teams. I now live in Aniak, Alaska, and the residents of this village are equally as proud of their "Halfbreeds," a mascot picked by the students several years ago...

Dear Editor: Ronald Reagan once said "outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economical as the private sector." I believe this same philosophy is the exact direction the City of McCook needs to take. Any operation the city is presently involved in, other than public safety, could be and should be looked at either to sell or privatize the management of...

Dear Editor, If the commissioners had the taxpayers interests in mind they would sit down with the Lincoln County commissioners and build a regional jail in Maywood. With the upfront costs and operational costs shared the taxpayers and the region would reap the benefits. But that would require common sense and compromise so ... never mind...

Editors, After reading your series of "Lenten Lessons," I'm compelled to ask if you are running a newspaper or a proselytization vehicle. I guess old-school objective journalism is a thing of the past. This paper is begging to be treated as a hayseed tabloid rather than an attempt at honest journalism. ...

May 16, 1913 - April 10, 200g Henry "Hank" Mathias Fossen, 92, died Monday, April 10, 2006, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. He was born May 16, 1913, to Peter and Jennie (Keegan) Fossen in Red Willow County. He married Pauline Stritt on October 17, 1945 in Indianola. To this union four children were born, Kenneth, Clarence, Larry, and Marcia. He farmed northeast of Indianola until 1985, when they moved into Indianola...

March 13, 1927 - April 10, 2006 CURTIS -- Robert "Bob" George Petersen, 79, of Curtis, died Monday (April 10, 2006) at the Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. He was born March 13, 1927 to Jack and Giziah (Decker) Petersen in Ashland, NE...