Stories from Saturday, November 17, 2007

Major repair work is set for West J and the McCook City Council will be asked to approve an engineering service for the project, at its regular meeting, 7:30 p.m. Monday at Memorial Auditorium. The council, upon recommendation of the selection committee, will be asked to approve W Designs Associates for the project. The committee comprised City Manager Kurt Fritsch, Public Works Director Kyle Potthoff and Public Works Supervisor Dob Neuhaus...

Temperatures are expected to be in the comfortably cool range Saturday night -- perfect weather for football in Memorial Stadium. It was hard to believe with Friday's temperatures in the 70s, but snow is in the forecast for Tuesday and Tuesday evening...

I recently read a book about the tragic demise of an interesting group of native North Americans. These people called themselves "People of the Deer," as in reindeer or caribou, and they lived up around the Great Slave Lake in way northern Canada. The aspect of their culture that intrigued me was their requirement to give away anything of value to any stranger, or family member, who showed up. ...

I wrote a column almost two months ago announcing the launch party for Morris Media, a new book production firm in McCook. Gene Morris, former publisher of the McCook Gazette, is the president of the firm, Barbara Morris is the vice president of operations and Gloria Masoner is the design director...