Stories from Friday, April 6, 2007

HASTINGS -- Cambridge High School senior Kymbre Lytle has commited to play volleyball for head volleyball coach Fred Aubuchon at Hastings College next season. Lytle, a 5-foot-10 outside hitter, was a three-year letterwinner in volleyball, basketball and track and received Republican Valley League honorable mention recognition in volleyball and basketball...

TJ's Family Fun Center League Bowling results 03-27-2007 Women's Majors High Women's Game Lea Doak 234 High Women's Series Lea Doak 594 High Team Game Securities America 856 High Team Series Securities America 2409 Chicks & Chatter High Women's Game Ethyl Siegfried 174...

The McCook Optimist Club is again sponsoring the Nebraska U.S.A. Track and Field Junior Olympic qualifying track and field meet. The event will be at the McCook High School track on May 20, at 2 p.m. The registration deadline is May 15. Entry forms are being distributed to schools later this month and can also be picked up at The Sports Shoppe and online at www.cornhuskerflyers.org/neb_jos.htm...

Dates announced for Trader basketball camps YORK -- Mike Trader's Annual Mid-America Basketball Camp will conduct several basketball camps for boys once again this summer. The dates for the individual camps are June 3-6 and July 22-25. The dates for the team camps are June 30 for a one-day team camp and July 20-21 for a two day team camp...

McCook Daily Gazette The company that is constructing condominiums at the former East Ward Elementary school building would like them to be used as timeshare/vacation rentals. Dan Childers of Sebring, Fla., and his company Austin Macy and Co. LLC is requesting a special exception from the McCook Planning Commission Monday night to allow the condos to be rented out as timeshares and/or a vacation rentals. The meeting begins at 5:15 p.m. at City Council Chambers at Memorial Auditorium...

A new state-of-the-art media center is up and running, available to the public at the McCook Public Library. The media center was funded by grant money from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Nebraska Library Commission. Local support came from the McCook Library Foundation with help from Dr. Paul St-Aubin, Top Office, Eakes Office Plus and the McCook Daily Gazette. The McCook Library Advisory Board wrote and submitted the grant, which was awarded in March 2006...

We're not in favor of government over-regulation, but when it comes to saving lives, the argument loses steam. Such is the case in Thursday's announcement that electronic stability control will be required equipment on all new cars and light trucks sold in the United States by Sept. 1, 2011...

Last year, the Republican River Basin natural resources districts (NRDs) were asked to put together a solution to the water issues facing our part of the state. We were told we had to address three issues: 1) Financial contributions from our local citizens must be included; 2) The plan must be comprehensive and address everyone's concerns; and, 3) The plan must address both short- and long-term compliance with the three-state water compact with Kansas. ...

 How time flies when you're having fun. All good things must come to an end. Quit like a bad habit. My favorite cliches are coming to an end and so to is this column. For more than a decade, I've had the privilege of trying to lighten-up Friday afternoons in the Express Lane...

Feb. 22, 1939 - April 3, 2007 AMES, Iowa -- Robert "Bob" Cyril Campbell, 68, died Tuesday (April 3, 2007) at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa. Bob was born Feb. 22, 1939, in McCook, to Cyril and Eunice Campbell. He married LoAnn Bowen on March 9, 1957...

April 25, 1909 - April 3, 2007 HAYES?CENTER?-- Lola E. Leu-Goedeker, 97, died Tuesday (April 3, 2007) on her ranch west of Maywood. She was born to John Roy and Margaret Corlett Leu on April 25, 1909, in Hayes County. She attended country school then attended the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis...

Aug. 14, 1925-April 5, 2007 BEAVER CITY -- Maxine Marie Bishop, 81, died Thursday (April 5, 2007) at Beaver City Manor in Beaver City. She was born Aug. 14, 1925, at Orleans, to John E. and Edith (McCormack) Stalder. In March of 1929, the family moved to a farm 11 miles from Beaver City. ...