Stories from Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The McCook High School girls kicked off the 2008 season with a great performance beating Hershey 9-0. \

Aug. 20, 1924 - March 17, 2008 BOONE, Iowa -- Nadine Cross, 83, died Monday (March 17, 2008) at the Boone County Hospital in Boone, Iowa. She was born on Aug. 20, 1924, in McCook, to Jessie Raymond and Stella (O'Brien) Gragg. She attended school in McCook. She then started working at the McCook Army Base with tool distribution. She also worked as a waitress at Modrells Restaurant in McCook...

March 2, 1920 - March 17, 2008 Lester "Bum" A. Malleck, age 88, died Monday, March 17, 2008, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. He was born March 2, 1920, to Toney and Fay Marie Catherine (McCool) Malleck in Indianola. He graduated from Indianola Public School in 1936...

The family of Irene F. (Steinke) Stover is requesting a card shower in honor of her 90th birthday March 22. Her family includes John Cook of Trenton, Doug Roose of McCook, Calotte Francis, Regie, Sonny and Jane. Card of congratulation will reach her at 805 1/2 W. Second, McCook, NE 69001...

Our representatives in Washington are just like us ... if we're millionaires, that is. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which operates the enlightening www.opensecrets.org Web site, the average U.S. senator had a median net worth of about $.7 million in 2006, and 58 percent of them could be considered millionaires...

I think our grandson may be planning to disown us. I think we missed the big race. And we really wanted to be there, since Grandpa got the chance to help, just a little, with the race car. I didn't write the date down. Drat. One small, insignificant detail and we missed the whole thing. (I think. I haven't caught up with Patrick yet to make sure, maybe there's still a chance...)...

Improvements at the Karrer Park lift station are now complete, except that the cost of these improvements will be slightly higher than anticipated. That's because two existing pump intake valves were found to be unworkable during the project, and will cost an extra $1,777 to replace...

COLUMBUS -- The Nebraska Public Power District, along with Midwest Wind Energy LLC and its affiliate Elkhorn Ridge Wind LLC, announced today that after several months of negotiations the parties have executed a 20-year power purchase agreement that will pave the way for construction of Nebraska's largest wind farm near Bloomfield...