Stories from Wednesday, March 28, 2007

McCook netters play at NP Saturday The McCook High School girls tennis team rolled to another 9-0 victory. This time Hastings was the victim. The meet took place Tuesday afternoon at the Bison/Elks Courts. The McCook girls tennis team has posted three 9-0 victories in four matches this spring and won an 8-1 decision in the other...

By BRENT?L. COBB McCook Community College News Bureau Coordinator Jim Garretson has loved science for as long as he can remember. As a child he staged chemical magical shows for his family. He studied all sorts of things under the microscope. He gazed at the heavens in wonder -- especially when the things he learned in school differed with what he learned in church...

The announcement that 12 of Nebraska's 81 Farm Service Agency field offices will be closed is not good news, but it's at least better than last year's plan, which would have closed nearly a third of the FSA offices across the country. As it is, farmers in Dundy, Frontier and Hayes counties will have to drive many miles to consolidated offices in Chase, Red Willow and Hitchcock counties to conduct business such as signing up for programs, reporting acreages and crops they plan to plant...

We have a situation in SE Nebraska where a cattle farmer had 250+ horses. On Wednesday morning, 200-plus were loaded on trucks heading to slaughter due to a situation where the farmer could not place them elsewhere. One of the rescuers got in touch with the farmer on the day the horses were sent out and he kept 45 horses back for the rescues here to try to save. ...

As I write this, we are in the waning hours of the third full month of 2007. Astonishing, isn't it? We barely got the Christmas decorations down in time to get out the candy hearts, and now it's almost time to color eggs. It is important for us to measure our days in as small of increments as necessary. ...

May 1, 1919-March 26, 2007  BENKELMAN -- Esther W. Krug, of Benkelman, Neb., died Monday (March 26, 2007), at Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman at the age of 87 years. She was born May 1, 1919, on her family's farm north of Benkelman in Dundy County, Neb., to Fredrick and Louise (Haarberg) Kuhlman, and attended country school near her home. She later attended Benkelman High School where she was a member of the graduating class of 1935...

Oct. 16, 1926 - March 18, 2007 DENVER, Colo,- Delmar D. Ebert, 80, died Sunday (March 18, 2007) at his home in Denver after a 15 year battle with prostate cancer. He was born Oct. 16, 1926, in Norcatur, Kan., to Willie and Henrietta "Babe" (Townsend) Ebert. He grew up near the Nebraska and Kansas border, with many childhood memories in Lebanon. The family moved near McCook and Delmar graduated from McCook High School in 1945...

Sept. 19, 1922-March 26, 2007 NORTH PLATTE -- Katherine Levinia Fisher, 84, died Monday (March 26, 2007) at North Platte. She was born Sept. 19, 1922, to Marie and Edward Anderson. She grew up in the Curtis area and attended rural elementary schools in the Curtis area and the Nebraska School of Agriculture...