Stories from Saturday, June 2, 2007

Plans are moving forward on the J Street resurfacing project, with the McCook City Council expected to approve a bid Monday night from a local contractor. The council will meet for its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m, at City Council Chambers at Memorial Auditorium...

They say the nurses at the Nebraska Regional Poison Center don't have to look out the window or at a calendar to know what time of year it is. All they have to do is keep track of the kinds of calls coming in -- when people stop calling in about carbon monoxide and cough and cold medicine, and start asking questions about gasoline, ant killer, fertilizers, cleaning chemicals and critters that bite and sting, they know that spring has arrived...

Remember the freedom you felt turning 16 and getting your driver's license? Now imagine that feeling times 10. That's how flying feels. Friday March 9, 2007, 1 soloed in an airplane for the first time. Was I nervous or scared? Honestly it was just like driving the combine or sprayer for the first time. Except I was more afraid running a combine or sprayer for the first time because it's Dad's equipment and they are worth a lot more...

Norm (The McCook Chef) and I spent a pretty fascinating twenty-four hours in Denver on Memorial Day. We left here at seven in the morning in the T-Bird and arrived downtown at 10 Mountain time. We parked the car in a parking garage and walked down to the Delectable Egg, maybe the best breakfast place in town. It was full as it always is and we had to wait 15 minutes or so to get a table. Every town I've eaten breakfast in offers the classic Denver omelet but the Delectable Egg doesn't...