Stories from Thursday, May 4, 2006

Rippen, Kotschwar join long list of McCook Bison football signee

HAYS, Kan. -- The Decatur Community High School-Oberlin boys golf team placed fifth in the 12-team Thomas More Prep Invitational at Hays Tuesday, The tournament was played at Smoky Hill Country Club. TMP won the tournament team title with a 350 score, edging out the Hays High junior varsity by one stroke...

The FAST Camp is coming to McCook starting June 20. Athletes who participated in the Athletic Enhancement Program FAST Camp had dramatic results, according to a report compiled by SMG of Omaha. Overall, the FAST campers achieved athletic enhancement gains of 17.27 percent...

McCook High School Bison football scholarship history since 1998 Compiled by Jeff Gross Bison head coach 2006-2007 Josh Cherry Kansas State 2005-2006 Tony Purvis Kansas State Brendan Liess UNK Jeff Klug Hastings Brandon Kotschwar Fort Hays Garrett Rippen Nebraska Wesleyan...

Area athletes who have signed letters of intent to compete at the two- or four-year level. List includes McCook Community College. McCook High School Tony Purvis football Kansas State (D-I) Joel Arterburn men's basketball MCC Jillian Bryant women's basketball Dana College...

Bartley -- Sadie Riddle, 92, died Monday (May 1, 2006) at Parsons House in Omaha. She was born on the family farm in Red Willow County on Feb. 27, 1914, to Seward and Cora (Wolfe) Flanagin. She attended rural school, graduating from Bartley High School in 1931...

BENKELMAN -- Gottlieb "Gene" Moser, 89, formerly of McDonald, died Sunday, (April 30, 2006) at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. He was born Oct. 21, 1916, at Coldwater, N.D., to Jacob and Margaret (Kraft) Moser. On April 27, 1952, he married Gladys Nellie Harper at Benkelman...

Dec. 22, 1917 - April 28, 2006 Marjorie Naomi Mires, 88, resident of Cedar Creek Manor, 2480 Terrebonne, Mosinee,Wis., died Friday, (April 28, 2006) at Aspirus Wausau Hospital, Pallative Care Unit. Marjorie was a long-time resident of Tacoma, Wash., until July 2005, when she moved to the Wausau area...

Showing that they are men and women of their word, members of the McCook Gun Club stepped forward Monday night with a check for $27,000 to cover the cost of John Bingham's severance pay. Their action is evidence of how business should be conducted. When you make a promise, you need to deliver...

As I open our new patios doors and look out over the roped off area that will one day be my new deck, I imagine myself sitting under the shade of patio umbrella, sipping a little umbrella drink in a coconut. I see myself grilling inch thick T-bones to share with family and friends...

Greg Fyn of Culbertson finally will be able to cast his ballot for the first time in this year's primaries, but it didn't come easy. In fact, what most people take for granted took Fyn five years of "paper work and bureaucracy," to become a US citizen...