Stories from Tuesday, April 25, 2006

CURTIS -- The Medicine Valley-Maywood golf team swept the first-place honors at the weather-shortened Golden Plains Activities Conference tournament Monday. The tournament was played at Arrowhead Meadows in Curtis. The rain and cold shortened the tournament to nine holes...

By Connie Jo Discoe Regional Editor CAMBRIDGE -- While Mid America Agri Products/Horizon, its investors and residents of Cambridge broke ground Monday morning for the new "MAAP/Horizon" ethanol plant on the southeast edge of Cambridge, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman declared the day, "Cambridge Ethanol Celebration Day."...

Red Willow County sheriff's officers have charged a 34-year-old Bartley man with second degree assault in the shooting of another Bartley man on April 17. Sheriff Gene Mahon said this morning that Merlin R. Hinz was charged Monday with recklessly causing bodily injury with a dangerous instrument -- second degree assault -- after he allegedly shot Sam Cunningham, 24, as Cunningham drove on the Bartley city street south of the high school football field. ...

When the United States was subject to the OPEC oil embargo more than 30 years ago, how many of us expected to be dealing with the same problem -- dependence on foreign oil -- this far into the 21st century? With gasoline set to climb through the $3 mark and keep on going, perhaps the problem is finally ready to receive the attention it should have received back then...

HASTINGS -- Glenn E. Bosley, 96, of Hastings, died Monday ( April 24, 2006) at Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital. He was born Aug. 20, 1909, in Clifton, Colo., to Glen and Jessie (Rigg) Bosley. He graduated from Hastings High School in 1926. On July 28, 1932, he married Helen Portenier in Concordia, Kan...

Rose Marie Unger died Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at McCook Community Hospital. She was 95 years old. Rose was born on February 25, 1911, at Kearney, to William Frederick and Bertha Cedonia (Gartner) Keen. As a child, Rose's parents moved from Minden to McCook. She was baptized in April of 1937, by Pastor Wagner at the Lutheran Church northwest of Oberlin. She attended school at Perry...

Roger Cross was born April 19, 1941, in Garland, Nebraska and died on April 23, 2006, at his home in Fountain Hill, Ariz. He was 65 years old. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Roberta; his daughter, Dr. Kelly Cross Pyritz of Fountain Hills; his son Dr. ...

OLATHE, Kan. --Kenneth E. Van Vleet, 90, of Olathe, Kan., formerly of Oberlin, died Saturday (April 22, 2006) at Olathe Good Samaritan Center. He was born Sept. 24, 1915, in Oberlin, to Walter E. and Alice (Delong) Van Vleet, and raised on the family farm...

Louis McKenna of McCook died Monday (April 24, 2006) at Community Hospital of McCook. He is survived by his wife Gloria (Vaughn) McKenna of McCook. Services are pending and will be announced by Pauls Funeral Home of Oberlin, which is in charge of arrangements...

CAMBRIDGE -- Onna F. Sandman, age 94, of Cambridge,died at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Sunday (April 23, 2006). She was born near Wauneta, on May 24, 1911. Onna was one of eight children born to Chester and Bessie (Ough) Stock. She graduated from Wauneta High School in 1931. She went to Greeley,Colo., where she received her teaching certificate. She taught school for six years...