Stories from Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Marian, Scottsbluff, Minden win championships GRAND ISLAND (AP) -- McCook High School junior Justine Hager went from a 16th-place tie on Monday to an 11th-place tie on Tuesday at the Nebraska Class B state girls golf tournament. The Class B girls state tournament was played at Grand Island's Riverside Golf Club...

Brett Burton gets 7th seed in No. 1 singles LINCOLN -- McCook High School senior Brett Burton is the seventh seed in No. 1 singles at the Nebraska Class B boys state tennis tournament Thursday and Friday at the Woods Complex in Lincoln. Burton (18-8) received a first-round bye and will play the winner of the first-round match between Kearney Catholic's Flavio Tatit and Ralston's Mark Kinney in the second round...

McCook plays Cozad in first round OMAHA -- The McCook Bison softball team (25-3), the Class B-6 district champions, will be the No. 1 seed at the Class B state tournament and will play No. 8 seed Cozad (19-9) at 3 p.m. Thursday. The state tournament will be played Thursday and Friday at Seymour Smith Park in Omaha...

Are the McCook Public Schools turning out reading robots? Probably not. Are school officials trying their best to do the job they have been assigned? Certainly. But Monday night's two-hour, emotional citizen forum illustrates just how important perceptions are and how vital communication is...

What a year it has been. Two-thousand six is going down in my memory as an ideal year. The winter closed with a blustery blizzard, spring actually happened, the summer wasn't intolerably hot and fall has been magnificent this year. In fact, a few of my co-workers and I were engaged in a little sidewalk philosophy the other day and pondered the question of whether or not there'll be seasons in heaven. ...

McCook Public Schools' kindergarten teachers told board of education members during a board meeting Monday evening that they are "very supportive" of a new program called "Leap into Kindergarten," used during the first couple days of school this fall...

A spider, suspended in a dew-spangled web, prepares an early-morning breakfast in a road ditch near Trenton. Rains were expected to end today, with temperatures near 80 by Sunday.

Nov. 30, 1923-Oct. 8, 2006   BENKELMAN -- Izetta P. Hardwick, 82, died Sunday (Oct. 8, 2006), at the Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport. She was born Nov. 30, 1923, to Henry and Louise (Swanson) Pickrel at Moorefield.  Her father traveled for the Standard Oil Co. and therefore she grew up and attended many schools in the towns in western Nebraska.  Wauneta was a particular favorite...

Oct. 23, 1909-Oct. 8, 2006   NORTH PLATTE -- Glenn L. Milleson, 96, died Sunday (Oct. 8, 2006), at the Sutherland Care Center in Sutherland.  He was born Oct. 23, 1909, in Decatur County, Kan., to James N. and Myrtle Baugher Milleson.  He grew up in McCook and in 1930 he graduated from McCook High School. ...

Nov. 29, 1926-Oct. 7, 2006   SUTHERLAND -- Delaware Lewis Decker, 79, died Saturday (Oct. 7, 2006), at the Sutherland Care Center. He was born Nov. 29, 1926, at the farm home in Wauneta, to Zenas and Bessie Decker. He graduated from Wauneta High School in 1944...