Stories from Thursday, May 24, 2007

Cambridge's Bo Cribelli shoots 162 NORTH PLATTE -- Eustis-Farnam High School's Josh Transmeier tied for 13th place at the Nebraska Class C-2 state golf tournament with a two-day total of 160 (82-78), and Cambridge's Jackson Johnson finished 15th with a 161 score (79-82)...

The American Legion baseball tournament scheduled for Sunday at Jaycee Sports Complex was canceled. Liron Yost, coach of the McCook First Central Bank Juniors, said the reason for the cancelation was because a fourth team could not added. McCook, Hershey and Imperial were slated to play...

Editor, Emergency Medical Services, known more commonly as EMS, is a vital public health network of care for victims of sudden and serious illness or injury that depends on the availability and coordination of many different elements. Beginning with an informed public capable of recognizing medical emergencies, a few of the critical components necessary for the system to work include the 9-1-1 emergency number, fire department personnel, prehospital and hospital emergency department personnel...

Memorial Day Weekend -- one last chance to spend some time at the lake with Jeremy, fishing, swimming, catching some rays … it sounded like the perfect plan. The perfect plan, that is, until we delivered our camper to the lake Wednesday night. As we pulled into Trail 4 at Harry Strunk Lake, north of Cambridge, we could see the campground littered with campers of every shape, size and condition. ...

Pride, persistence, and volunteer participation produce positive results.

Brian Rokusek sets up a serve in an impromptu doubles match with teammate Tor Olson at the newly completely tennis courts Tuesday night north of the YMCA in McCook. Tim Burrows and Bryant Brooks are the opponents in the inaugural match. The courts opened Tuesday to rave reviews and a tongue-in-cheek observation by Dr. Burrows, "...the new court removes the excuses. There are no cracks or height differences to blame..."...

Interim position will allow school board ample time to seek full-time superintendent.

With five days left in the Legislative session, bills are are on a fast track to get through, said Sen. Mark Christensen at the Legislative conference call this morning at the McCook Chamber of Conference. One bill in particular he is dragging is feet on is LB 653, he said, which would require implementation of statewide school assessments and other tracking methods...