Stories from Friday, March 9, 2007

The McCook Community College baseball team claimed both games of a doubleheader Thursday against the Hastings College Junior Varsity. MCC won the opener 12-0 in a five-inning run-rule game and claimed the second game 9-1 in seven innings. Freshman left-hander Evan Koetter, a McCook High School and McCook American Legion alumnus, picked up his first collegiate victory for the Indians...

LINCOLN -- For the first four minutes of Friday morning's Nebraska Class D-1 boys state semifinal game, the top-seeded Wauneta-Palisade Broncos played at Scribner-Snyder's pace. After that, the Broncos turned up the heat and buried the Trojans 86-50 to advance to Saturday night's state championship game. Tip-off at the Devaney Sports Center is 7 p.m...

Jan. 3, 1927 - March 6, 2007 ATWOOD -- Virginia S. (Schandler) Chvatal, 80, died Tuesday (March 6, 2007) at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colo. She was born Jan. 3, 1927, in Leoville, Kan., to John S. and Mary A. (Austerman) Schandler. The family moved to Atwood in 1942, to operate Schandler Funeral Home and furniture store. ...

Jan. 22, 1929 - March 7, 2007 ELWOOD -- Melvin Houlden, 78, died Wednesday (March 7, 2007) at Elwood Care Center. He was born Jan. 22, 1929, at Lexington to Clyde Sr. and Mary (Hanson) Houlden. He attended school in Elwood and graduated in 1948. He attended college at York...

Sept. 22, 1923 - Feb. 25, 2007 CAMBRIDGE?-- Robert was born in Cambridge on Sept. 22, 1923. His parents were Monte Clifford Lockenour and Jeanie Marie (Rankin) Lockenour. He attended school in Cambridge and graduated from High School in 1941. He attended Hastings College for one semester and then entered the U.S. Navy in 1942, serving until October of 1945. Much of his Navy time was spent in the South Pacific, especially New Zealand...

Get ready for the semi-annual hassle, with a twist. This year -- and from now own, barring new congressional edicts -- Daylight Saving Time arrives the second Sunday in March, instead of the old day of the first Sunday in April. You know the argument -- setting our clocks forward will save energy...

Ten items or less   Fortunately for those heading east for the Nebraska Boys State Basketball Finals this weekend, no snow is in the forecast. (And my family is staying put.) For those who also made the trip to Lincoln last weekend, there was never a good travel day. There was the obvious blizzard on Thursday, which put a damper on many a travel plan...

By CONNIE?JO?DISCOE Regional Editor McCook Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Don Marchant recommends additional staffing and scheduling changes to make the school district's elementary literacy programs more agreeable to parents and teachers. In written recommendations to be presented to the school board at its monthly meeting Monday, Dr. ...

Wauneta-Palisade's Trevor Ridlen battles Pope John's Steven Bartak for the rebound as Andrew Isom looks on during Thursday's first-round game of the Class D-1 boys state basketball tournament in Lincoln. Trevor Ridlen scored 17 points in the Broncos' 72-44 win over Pope John-Elgin in the first round of the state tournament. ...

By DAWN CRIBBS Associate Editor The Rev. Emmanuel Reinbold admitted that when he heard the story as a child of Jesus before Pilate, he was frustrated by the entire scene. Addressing a crowd of nearly 160 Friday afternoon at First Congregational Church, the pastor from the McCook First Church of the Nazarene confessed that, first of all, he simply could not figure out what kind of judge would allow an innocent man to be flogged...

There's no shortage of geese this year, at least judging from the flock of snow geese Rosemary Corey saw in the Funk area on Monday. "There were thousands of geese on  the pond and probably that many in the air at all elevations.  Their calling was endless and very loud. What a sight!"...