Stories from Thursday, April 27, 2006

Nebraska Wesleyan claims 3rd straight GPAC men's golf crown

Many residents in the dorm at McCook Community College didn't take last night's fire alarm seriously. They have real fire drills, and they suffer through prank fire alarms from time to time. Somebody scorches a bag of popcorn in the microwave. "I thought it was fake," said Lisa Daffer of Danbury. "Then somebody came running down the hall yellin' it was a real fire." That was at 9:40 p.m...

The Activity Center that Mid-Plains Community College wants to build in McCook's Kelley Park and two other projects were temporarily put on hold Wednesday night. At the board of governors meeting in McCook, the Campus Development Committee declined to recommend to the Board an architect that MPCC President Michael Chipps and the Area Physical Resources Council had suggested...

Valmont's quarterly report shows just how important a role its new McCook plant plays in the company, but also just how much it really is a world economy. According to its news release, Valmont's first quarter sales are up nearly $40 million, to $303.6 million...

With the rising prices of all forms of energy, it dawned on me that we have two sources of renewable energy that haven't been looked at. The most promising ones are the waste treatment facility and the feed lots and hog confinement operations. Both the feedlots and the waste treatment facility have methane gas as a byproduct of the waste. ...

My son, Jeremy has been looking for a car he can fix up for the past year or so. I've been hoping he'd get one to drive back and forth from Norton for the past year or so. He finally found a 1974 Ford LTD. It cost him $200. It needed a little work -- new brakes, a seat cover for the front seat, a duplicate title. But we finally got him on the road...