Stories from Tuesday, October 17, 2006

IMPERIAL -- The McCook High School freshman/sophomore football team shut out the Chase County-Imperial junior varsity 12-0 Monday night at Imperial. The Bison ninth graders played their final regularly-scheduled game of the season and posted a 7-0 record. The McCook junior varsity team went 6-0...

SOUTHWEST -- The McCook High School sophomore volleyball team won the Southwest Freshman/Sophomore Tournament Monday with wins over the Elwood Pirates and the Southwest Roughriders. McCook defeated Elwood 25-21, 25-19 and Southwest 25-17, 25-19. McCook's leading servers were Shelby Woitaszewski, 6-of-6, 2 aces; Jordan Baumbach 6-of-6, 2 aces...

The McCook Junior High School eighth grade football A team played its third game of the season, losing a tough game to Lexington 8-6 here last Tuesday night. The B team improved to 2-0 with a 6-0 win over Lexington. The Bison A team started the game off playing the best football of the season. The defense set the pace with a great series full of fast-flying and hard-hitting plays...

For the past eight years, the wrong kind of toxicity testing has been done on the waste outflow at the sewer plant, Utility Director Jesse Dutcher informed McCook City Council members Monday night. Mandated by the EPA, toxicity tests check the allowable levels of contaminates in the sewer outflow. The problem was discovered Thursday, Dutcher said...

Suspending the three-reading rule, the McCook City Council approved a purchase agreement to transfer a part of Kelley Park property to McCook Community College. The suspension of the three-reading rule was approved so the MCC officials would have sufficient time to bring the matter before the Board of Governors and the Coordinating Commission...

Amending the waste hauling contract of C&J Trucking is not fair to other contractors who bid the job at a more accurate cost, contractors told the McCook City Council. In fact, city bid specifications spell out clearly to prospective bidders that the city will not guarantee any tonnage, said McCook resident and trash contractor Steve Fritz...

By CONNIE?JO?DISCOE Regional Editor Red Willow County commissioners will contact neighboring counties about writing interlocal agreements to determine which county maintains what portion of roads on county lines. Commissioners are considering reclassifying some Red Willow County roads as minimum maintenance to reduce the county's liability and responsibility, and discussed the changes at their meeting Monday morning...

LINCOLN -- University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty have prepared briefing papers about several ballot initiatives that will be before voters Nov. 7. ?The papers are posted on the Web through the UNL's Department of Agricultural Economics at http://www.agecon.unl.edu/resource.html. ...

Good morning, Mr. or Mrs. 300,000,000! Or perhaps it should be "Buenos d'as," since Hispanics are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. It was officially at 6:46 a.m. CST this morning, when the U.S. Census Bureau's population clock rolled over to the 300 million mark...

Last Thursday I attended the County/City meeting on the proposed joint public safety and city fire department building. I was only there for the first two hours but came away with more questions than answers.  The meeting was like an executive summary of the jail needs assessment, which can be located on the Internet at http://www.co.red-willow.ne.us/jail_study.html if you want to read the entire document. ...

Airplanes of all sorts such as 60-year-old Aeronicas and Piper J-3s, radio controlled, home built and many others turned out to celebrate the Atwood Rawlins County Airport's new 5,000-foot paved runway, above in an aerial photo. Saturday's celebration included a fly-in breakfast and lunch, drawing visitors from a wide area...