Stories from Wednesday, April 23, 2008

KEARNEY -- The McCook High School girls tennis team was edged out by Kearney Catholic 5-4, but rebounded with a 6-3 win over Kearney High School. It was the first dual loss of the season for the Bison. The next action for the Bison netters is Friday at Alliance against Alliance and Scottsbluff. The matches start at noon and 2 p.m. mountain time...

HOLDREGE -- McCook High School junior Joe Vetrovsky placed second among individuals Tuesday at the Holdrege Invitational with a personal best score of 76. The Bison golfers placed third in the 12-team tournament with a 323 score. Adam Kruger placed 12th with a personal best 81. Eric Rippen shot an 82, followed by Justin Spector with a personal best 84, Tony Bieck 91 and Ben Vetrovsky 91...

WAUNETA -- Cambridge High School's boys golfers captured the Wauneta-Palisade Invitational team title Tuesday, led by Bo Cribelli's first-place individual effort. The Trojans posted a 331 score, 25 strokes better than second-place Medicine Valley and 26 better than third-place Sutherland...

On June 30-July 1 (Monday and Tuesday), the McCook Wrestling Club will be conducting a wrestling camp for any wrestlers going into Grades 7-12 for the following year. This year's camp instructors are from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. They are Todd Meneely, a four-time state champion in high school and two-time NCAA division II national champion, along with Aaron Denson, who holds the Nebraska high school all class career wins record and also is a NCAA division II All-American...

Dec. 1, 1914 - April 15, 2008 WRAY, Colo. -- LaVoine Thomas Collicott was born Dec. 1, 1914, at his parents sod dugout homestead, south of Haigler in Cheyenne County, Kan. He was one of three children and the only son, born to Charlie Thomas and Glena Alice (Workman) Collicott...

Jan. 26, 1908 - April 22, 2008 Flora M. Dutcher, age 100, died Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born in a sod house on the homestead of her parents, Austin Wilson "A. W." and Minnie M. (Tucker) Dutcher, in Red Willow County on Jan. 26, 1908...

Feb. 14, 1958 - April 19, 2008 OBERLIN -- Tom R. Fisher, 50, died Saturday (April 19, 2008) at his home in Oberlin. He was born Feb. 14, 1958, in Oberlin to Royal J. and Darlene D. (Jording) Fisher. He grew up in Oberlin and attended Oberlin Elementary and graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1976...

McCook and Cambridge High School junior varsity teams took the team titles at the McCook JV Invitational Monday. McCook won the boys title. The Bison won 9 of the 17 events scored. The relay team of Chad Stull, Brad Baumbach, Tye Smith and Dillon Harpham won the 4x100 meter relay in 47.6...

The drinking water treatment plant in McCook has been on-line for nearly two years, but the process to dispose of the waste from the plant wasn't resolved until April 8. That's when the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality approved the permit for McCook to operate a Class I non-hazardous waste injection well at the sewer treatment plant...

That sound you heard Tuesday was the other shoe falling. Kansas put a pricetag on the water it contends Nebraska has not sent it under the Republican River Compact, $72 million. Kansas figures Nebraska's made $63 million from water it didn't have coming, and added 15 percent as an incentive to comply plus cover Kansas' legal costs...

The greatest story ever told contains the greatest gift of God to his creation, man. And that gift is Jesus. I often wish that indescribable gift would fit into the same category of gifts that I am able to give. We spent many a Christmas Eve burning the midnight oil assembling various gifts so that they would be ready to go at first light when the children burst forth from their bedrooms on Christmas morning...