Stories from Thursday, May 29, 2008

It's the art of presentation that reels you in.

There must be a small bit of little boy yet in me, I still enjoy watching the satellites go over. That is what I used to do when I was much younger. We would sit on the front porch of my grandparents house late into the evening and wait for the satellites. That must be why I enjoy watching the International Space Station (ISS) so much...

CASPER, Wyo. -- Lincoln Proud of Pinedale, Wyo., was a four event participant and medal winner at the Wyoming High School State Track Meet last Friday and Saturday. Proud captured a fifth-place medal in the Class 3A 110-meter hurdles. He holds the school record with a time of 15.22 seconds...

More than 230 pool players from all over Western Nebraska will make their way to McCook the next two weekends for the $17,000 Western Nebraska APA Pool League 8-Ball Team Championship. Twenty- nine teams will compete in the tournament at the Republican River Valley Event Center (Kelley Creek Pub). The top three teams will advance to the APA National Team Championships...

McCook swept team titles of the 2008 Hometown Family Radio High School Track Championships. Points were awarded to the top eight places based on the Area Track Standouts featuring athletes from the listening areas of Coyote Country 105.3, US 93.9 and Z102...

LINCOLN -- The Nebraska School Activities Association All-State Girls Tennis Team was recently announced. McCook High School's No.1 singles player Brianna Watkins and the No. 1 doubles team of Melissa Lyster and Amy Lester were honorable mention selections...

Recruitment efforts continue as Community Hospital of McCook seeks to find replacements for three physicians who announced in April they will leave McCook to practice elsewhere. July 30 will be the last day for Dr. Dan Farrell, an orthopedic surgeon, and his wife, Dr. Kathy Farrell, a pediatrician. July 31 will be the last day for family physician Dr. Toby Free...

Junior Class Song returns

NORTH PLATTE -- The physics and chemistry labs at McCook Community College will be spiffed up this summer, thanks to a bid that was approved by the Mid Plains Community College Board of Governors. The board approved bids that totaled $130,620 at its regular meeting Wednesday night at North Platte. ...

Over the years, thousands of travelers through Southwest Nebraska have watched the slow deterioration of this structure east of the Trenton Dam on the north side of U.S. Highway 34. The high winds that accompanied the downpours last week seem to have delivered a fatal blow. Severe weather is in the forecast tonight...