Stories from Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Bison girls tennis team competes at Lex Thursday HOLDREGE -- The McCook High School girls tennis team lost 3-of-4 matches Tuesday in a dual at Holdrege. The meet was played indoors because of cold weather outdoors. In No. 1 singles play, McCook's Hanah Swanhorst lost 8-2...

Chase County's Jubal Joslyn 6th, McCook's Aaron Goodenberger 11th LEXINGTON -- The McCook High School boys golf team placed fifth out of 15 teams at the Lexington Invitational Tuesday, and the Chase County squad finished 10th. The meet took place at the Lakeside Course in Lexington...

GOODLAND, Kan. -- The Decatur Community-Oberlin golf team placed sixth and the Rawlins County-Atwood squad was 11th at the Goodland Invitational Tuesday. Oberlin posted a 385 score and Rawlins County 436 in the 12-team tournament. Hays won the tournament with a 368 score, edging out Goodland and Thomas More Prep by one stroke...

Because of the cold temperatures, and the winter storm watch that has been issued for Friday, McCook Speedway has postponed the season-opening races. Weather permitting, opening night will be Friday, April 20. The gates will open at 6 p.m., with races starting at 8 p.m...

One new program will be offered this fall, and one existing program continued to draw fire at Tuesday night's meeting of the McCook Public Schools board of education. Vocational agriculture, an issue in the last school board election, will be offered at McCook High School this fall...

A closup of a pink tulip shows details most of us miss with a passing glance. Tulips and other flowers have had a tough time of it with unseasonably cold weather, with near blizzard conditions possible Friday. McCook Speedway's opening race, scheduled for Friday, will be delayed a week because of the weather...

Walking, jogging, bicycling, weightlifting, swimming, Nintendo. Nintendo? Those trying to shed a few pounds in time for swimsuit season are likely to add one of the first five activities to their daily regimen, but video games? Yes, video games. No, the typical "gamer" isn't someone most of us would look up to when it comes to physical fitness, but that may be changing...

Nov. 1, 1912 - Feb. 1, 2007 Harry Eugene Godtel died Feb. 1, 2007, at Community Hospital in McCook at the age of 94. He was born Nov. 1, 1912, in a sodhouse on the Henry Godtel farm three miles north of Culbertson. He was the son of the late Henry and Nellie (Cox) Godtel...

Sept. 16, 1922-April 9, 2007 SUTHERLAND -- Robert Alfred Hansen, 84, died Monday (April 9, 2007) at the Sutherland Care Center. He was born Sept. 16, 1922, in a sod house near Quick, to Alfred and Sophia Fritsche Hansen. He grew up in the Quick area and later farmed on a farm he bought from his uncle. He farmed until 1987, when he moved to North Platte. He worked part-time for Pat Clinch Construction...

I first met Stephen the summer of my 13th year. He was 9 years old and a lifetime resident of Ridge Home in Arvada, Colo., a state-run institution for the then-termed mentally retarded where I briefly worked as a volunteer. The details of his particular impairment escape me these many years later, but I can still see him -- his growth stunted, his mind in perpetual infancy, lying in an oversized crib. ...

LINCOLN -- Gov. Dave Heineman, along with the Nebraska Department of Economic Development and Nebraska Rural Development Commission, has awarded $224,942 to 10 partnerships through the Building Entrepreneurial Communities Act. They include two local projects...

April 28, 1931-April 8, 2007 CURTIS -- Ruby E. Hanes, 75, died Sunday (April 8, 2007), in Curtis. She was born April 28, 1931, to William and Margaret (Fox) Wilson at Moorefield. She grew up seven miles south of Moorefield and attended the Boston Ridge Grade School. ...