Stories from Friday, November 30, 2007

IMPERIAL -- The football players on the McCook High School boys basketball team only practiced for about a week entering Thursday night's season-opener at Imperial against the Chase County Longhorns.

TRENTON -- The Cambridge Trojans season opener ended in a 47-22 loss to the Hitchcock County Falcons Thursday night at Trenton. "This was a nice win against a good Cambridge team," said Falcons' coach Mike Tines. "Our defense played extremely well. "Offensively, we struggled shooting, but made the shots when we needed. It's always nice to win the first game of the season."...

Twenty McCook High School football players were recognized on the 2007 Nebraska Class B District 5 All-District Team, which was released recently. The Bison won the B-5 district title with a 3-0 record, finished with a 12-1 overall mark and lost to Crete 14-7 in overtime in the state championship game Nov. 17...

LAMAR, Colo. -- The McCook Community College women's basketball team dropped a 65-52 decision to Otero Junior College Thursday night in the first round of the Region IX South Sub-Regional Tournament. The tournament is being hosted by Lamar Junior College...

Indians' Crabtree is one of area's top returnees ST. FRANCIS -- After pulling down an average of nine rebounds per game during the 2006-07 season, Ted Crabtree stands out for the St. Francis Indians boys basketball team as one of the top returning players in the Northwest Kansas region...

NORTH PLATTE -- Mid-Plains Community College "broadened the scope of the new global society" this week when it met with representatives from North Lindsey College in England to sign a Global Education Partnership Ag-reement designed to "develop the academic cooperation, exchange and development of relationships among students, faculty, administration, and board members of the two colleges under the principle of reciprocity and mutual benefits." ...

ALMA -- Representatives of the three irrigation districts from which water was sold during the 2007 irrigation season got an update on where their money stands, and a chance to air concerns, at the Nov. 29 meeting of the Republican River Basin Coalition...

Our balmy fall is coming to an end today and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service, with the possibility of one or two inches of snow and sleet, freezing rain and gusts of wind up to 30 mph. We've noticed the staff of the Kearney television station paying special attention to predictions of freezing ice -- can it be almost a year ago that we took pictures of twisted powerline towers and sympathized with residents of Holdrege and other town who went days or weeks without electricity?. ...

Last week I flew into McCook in a small airplane with my three kids to fill up with fuel. We had one of the nicest experiences in a small town that I've ever had. Shirley at Red Willow Aviation was absolutely a jewel! She took care of us like we've never been taken care of before...

As I read about the problems of where to move the State Fair to, I wondered why not in central Nebraska? The fair belongs to all of us, not just Omaha and Lincoln. Too many things go to the eastern part of the state. I was originally from Grand Island, have lived in Southwest Nebraska for 66 years and am 98 years old...

There have been many stand-up comics whose best material had to do with the differences between the genders. That's because there is so much material of this kind to work with. We're simply on different wave lengths. I don't think that any interstellar theories like the popular Venus/Mars thing can completely explain the crossed wires that can occur between men and women here on Earth...

CAMBRIDGE December marks the beginning of the holidays and with that comes holiday traditions. Santa Claus lists, tree lightings, cookie decorating and hot chocolate, Christmas carols, late evening shopping and sharing with family and friends. Start your spirit-of-the-season going with these December suggestions as Cambridge explodes with traditional and not so traditional options...