Stories from Friday, October 6, 2006

GOTHENBURG -- The McCook High School volleyball team improved to 8-14 with victories over Gothenburg and Lexington Thursday night at Gothenburg. McCook defeated Gothenburg 25-18, 25-21 and Lexington 25-19, 25-23. In the Gothenburg match, Tara Powell had 3 ace serves, Lindsey Hazlitt 2 and Morgan Chitwood 1. Hazlitt had 5 kills, Erica Clapp 4 and Hanah Swsahnorst 3. Clapp and Hazlitt each had 3 set assists. Corinne Burger had 9 gdigs, Clapp 6 and Joanna Bryant 6...

The McCook Community College volleyball team hung tough with the North Platte Community College squad Wednesday night at True Hall Gymnasium. The Indians (2-28) fell to the Knights in four games 30-27, 28-30, 30-18, 30-24. "I thought that we played very good last night against a good team," said MCC coach Gary Payne. ...

CAMBRIDGE -- Cambridge's volleyball team battled it out with Southwest in five close scoring sets on Thursday at Cambridge. Cambridge won 27-25, 27-25, 12-25, 25-23. Jenna Dietz and Frankie Petersen led the team in scoring. Dietz put in 13 points and Petersen had 12...

CAMBRIDGE -- Southwest's cross country team hosted the RVL cross country meet Thursday in Cambridge. Layne McConville claimed the first place medal for Southwest's girls with teammate Julie Gates following in fourth, giving the team the overall win in the girls division...

NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook High School boys tennis team lost four varsity and nine junior varsity matches in a duel at North Platte Thursday. The duel was the final regular-season tune-up before the Class B state tournament at Lincoln next Thursday and Friday...

GOTHENBURG -- The McCook High School junior varsity volleyball team swept Gothenburg and Lexington Thursday at Gothenburg. The Bison defeated Gothenburg 25-20, 25-19 and Lexington 25-11, 25-17. In the Gothenburg match, McCook's leading server was Jordan Baumbach, who was 10-of-10 with 4 aces. Ashley Palic was the leading hitter -- she was 9-of-10 with 6 kills. Jordan Baumbach was 43-of-45 in sets with 12 assists...

Nov. 13, 1924-Oct. 5, 2006 NORCATUR -- Marvin Ray Bailey, 81, died Thursday (Oct. 5, 2006), at Decatur County Hospital. He was born Nov. 13, 1914, in rural Kanona, Kan., to Ray William and Mabel Kate (Ruebesom) Bailey. He was raised on a farm near Kanona and attended Kanona and Norcatur schools...

Aug. 17, 1978-Oct. 5, 2006 GERING -- Kyle Doak Nickerson, 28, died Thursday, (Oct. 5, 2006), at the Heritage Estates Care Center in Gering.  He was born on Aug. 17, 1978, to H. Doak and Kay (Wymore) Nickerson in Rapid City, S.D.  He lived with his parents in Minatare, until the age of 6. He was then became a resident at the Bethphage Mission in Axtell until 2000.  He has been a resident at the Heritage Estate in Gering since 2000...

Aug. 16, 1944-Oct. 5, 2006 MANSFIELD, Texas -- Daniel Allen Tangeman, 62, beloved husband and father, formerly of Southwest Nebraska, passed away Oct. 5, 2006, at Community Hospice House in Fort Worth, Texas. Funeral Mass: Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m., Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 2100 N. Davis Blvd. Arlington, Texas...

If approved by the Legislature, selected penitentiary inmates will be able to complete their sentences at the Nebraska Department of Corrections Work Ethic Camp in McCook and earn earlier releases. Bob Houston, Department of Correctional Services Directors, along with Deputy Directors Larry Wayne and Frank Hopkins unveiled the plan Thursday at the Work Ethic Camp Community Involvement Committee...

City of McCook and Red Willow County voters will be asked to approve a new joint county jail and sheriff's office and city police department and fire station at the polls Tuesday, Nov. 7. If voters approve both city and county questions -- which will be separate issues on the ballot -- the joint facility will cost $7,665,000...

Reporters, candidates and political junkies know the routine; the first ballots arriving at the courthouse, the tallying the results, the midnight vigil waiting for the last precincts to come in. We're grateful that's mostly a thing of the past, thanks to Nebraska's new system of automated counting of paper ballots (which to us seems a wise alternative to purely electronic systems, which are accused of having security problems)...

Once again, I was searching my home office for something I had put away in its rightful location. (Why is it that you can leave something laying around for months, only to finally put the item away but then you can't remember the next day where that proper location is?)...