Stories from Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Warm weather always brings out more two wheelers of all types, whether they be gasoline powered or of the muscle-powered variety. That's especially good this year, because using two wheels almost always requires less gasoline than four wheels. The down side is the danger of injuries or fatalities, especially where motorcycles are concerned...

CAMBRIDGE -- Cambridge's High School golf team will compete in the Class D State golf tournament after finishing third in the team standings in the D-4 district tournament. Cambridge hosted the district meet and placed two golfers in the top 10. Catlin Rice led the Trojan golfers with a seventh place finish and a score of 86...

2008 McCook graduate plans to major in pre-med McCook High School's Tony Bieck signed a letter of intent to play tennis at Doane College in Crete. Bieck, a 2008 MHS graduate, made it official Tuesday at the McCook Junior High School gymnasium, where his coach Matt Wiemers teaches...

The Bison Tennis Camp will begin June 9 and run through July 24 at the new McCook High School tennis courts. The camp is open to all ages and playing levels and is designed to promote a better understanding of the game and strokes of tennis. McCook tennis coach Matt Wiemers will instruct players in the fundamentals of tennis...

May 9, 1927 - May 12, 2008 PALISADE -- Harley E. Ward, age 81, died Monday, May 12, 2008, at Heritage of Wauneta Nursing Home in Wauneta. He was born May 9, 1927, to William W. and Clara (Geihsler) Ward in McCook. He graduated from Palisade High School in 1945...

BENKELMAN -- Dundy County voters Tuesday approved a property tax not to exceed 4.84 cents to update the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. And at the polls in Arapahoe, voters said "yes" to a sales tax revenue/economic development question...

After Nebraska legislators got done finagling and finessing the formula for state aid to public schools, McCook's state aid dropped from an anticipated increase of $450,000 to an increase of $134,278. "There's a tremendous number of schools who lost state aid," MPS Superintendent Dave Schley told board members at their monthly meeting Monday evening...

My dad would have loved Anna Nicole Smith. To him, she would have been the epitome of womanhood -- sexy, shapely and wise in the ways of the flesh. But, I saw something else in her; a deep sadness, an unidentified longing, a hungry woman who was sold a bill of rotten goods a long time ago. ...