Stories from Thursday, March 1, 2007

LINCOLN -- According to the Associated Press and the Nebraska State Activities Association, the Nebraska state girls basketball championship will go on as scheduled today in spite of bad weather. The first round of the state tournaments started today at various sites in the Lincoln area...

HAYS, Kan -- The McCook Community College baseball against Colby Community College postponed from Wednesday to today has been postponed yet again. The game was to be played at Fort Hays State University. MCC coach Jeremy Jorgensen said the game will be rescheduled for another date next week...

Feb. 12, 1986-Feb. 26, 2007 BENKELMAN -- Craig Richard Nelms, of Benkelman, died Monday (Feb. 26, 2007) near Greenwood, at the age of 22. He was born Feb. 12, 1985, at North Platte to Dann E. and Sue Ann (Hayes) Nelms, and later moved with his family to Benkelman...

May, 29, 1924 - Feb. 26, 2007 RIVERTON, Wyo. -- Dewey G. "Red" White, died Monday (Feb. 26, 2007) at the home of his son, Larry on Burma Road near Riverton, Wyo. Dewey White was born in Poplar Bluffs, Mo., on May 29, 1924, the son of Walter Preston White and Edith (Gillispie) White. The family moved from Missouri to Oklahoma and Texas, settling in Sumter, S.C., where he attended school...

As McCook Public Schools' board of education worked on it goals Wednesday evening, a group of McCook businessmen encouraged it to, somewhere within in its goals and budgets, reestablish an agriculture program in the McCook school system. Cal Siegfried, a 1973 MHS graduate and the owner-operator of Cornerstone Cattle Co. of McCook, told board members, "If this area is going to sustain itself, it's going to be in agriculture."...

One administrator for McCook's public school system used a board of education goal-setting session Wednesday evening to encourage those involved in the schools' reading program controversy to concentrate more on educating kids. Central and junior high principal Dennis Berry told board members, fellow administrators and the six members of the public attending the meeting, "We don't have to agree, but we don't have to be disagreeable."...

Sen. Mark Christensen's bill to address the state's non-compliance with the Nebraska-Kansas Colorado water compact was heard in committee Wednesday, but in vastly different form. LB 701 has been amended to eliminate the Basin Administration committee, water transfers from the Platte to the Republic River and property taxes, all key issues that drew the most controversy, Christen-sen said...

Who's taking care of the kids? According to a new national survey, no one's really sure. Nebraska ranked second to the lowest scores in caseloads for inspectors of child care centers, frequency of inspections, health and safety requirements, background checks, staff qualifications and activities offered to children...

"I don't want to go to school this morning" my son, Jeremy, announced Wednesday. "Let's go fishing." "I have to go to work this afternoon," I told him. "And I don't like ice fishing." "Well the ice probably isn't that thick any more," he reasoned. "I like fishing under the ice even less," I told him...

Part of my job as the nurse here at Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department is to follow up on emergency room visits of children (primarily newborns thru age 19 yrs) to ERs in our department's five hospitals. Educating people to make appropriate choices for health and making sure everyone has a primary or regular doctor, dentist, and vision specialist is the goal...