Stories from Friday, May 30, 2008

"All points of view are equally valid." Think for a moment about the significance of that statement. That means everybody is right and nobody is wrong. This is the basic premise of moral relativism. All paths are right, and morals become a matter of opinion...

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The Southwest Nebraska Rifle and Pistol Club June 2008 competition dates are set. There will be a bowling pin shoot Sunday with .22 revolver and auto, .38 revolver, 9MM auto, big bore revolver and auto. There will be a smallbore bench rifle shoot June 8. The shoot will be from 50 yards with five shots for group and 10 shots for score...

The AAU Junior Olympic track and field meet took place May 18 in McCook. Boys and girls participated from Wilsonville, Arapahoe, McCook, Imperial, Edison, Parks, Palisade, Benkelman, Bartley, Trenton, Cambridge, Dix, Sidney, Wallace, Max, Hayes Center, Cozad, Hayes Center, Smithfield and Holbrook...

Heritage Hills Golf Course Men's League Results Wednesday, May 28 Division A Culbertson Bank 9, Midwest Livestock 3 Samway's Furniture 7, Don Hagan/Marr 5 Old Sarge's Bar 8, Ameriprise 4 Kohl's Auto 9, Maverick's 3 Trenton Electric 11, Sports Shoppe 1...

Sept. 18, 1907 - May 28, 2008 STRATTON -- Mary Leona (Heilers) Haller, 100, of Stratton died Wednesday (May 28, 2008 ) at El Dorado Manor in Trenton. She was born Sept. 18, 1907, at Huntingburg, Ind., to Joseph John and Mary Magdalena (Grabber) Heilers. She moved to Nebraska with her family at an early age and attended school in Lawrence for seven and a half years before moving to the Stratton area in 1919. She finished the half year of school and completed the eighth grade...

July 15, 1914 - May 28, 2008 OBERLIN -- Harold George Demmer, 93, died Wednesday (May 28, 2008) at Decatur County Good Samaritan Center. He was born July 15, 1914, in Finley Township in Decatur County, to George and Rose (Preisinger) Demmer. He grew up on the family farm east of Herndon in the Finley Township and attended rural Green Valley School...

Storm clouds form quickly over Hugh Butler Lake north of McCook Thursday afternoon. The storm prompted a tornado warning in Frontier County and later produced tornadoes in central Nebraska including Buffalo County, where homes were damaged and trees and power lines were uprooted...

Denver will be just an hour away, when Great Lakes Aviation begins service Sunday at McCook Regional Airport. Great Lakes will offer approximately three flights daily and two on the weekends to Denver International Airport. Of the three flights daily, two are non-stop and the 10:11 a.m. flight stops in Kearney before continuing to Denver. Round-trip tickets will cost about $259, according to the Great Lakes Airlines passenger site at www.flygreat lakes.com...

A lot of people living in this country know that one of the most important things the President of the United States does, maybe THE most important thing, is to appoint justices to the United States Supreme Court. The reason is simple. Presidents may serve only two terms, whereas Supreme Court Justices serve for life. ...

You have to hand it to Gabe Fidanque of Durango, Colo. Tired of putting up with about $1,000 worth of shoplifting a month at his liquor store, Fidanque hit upon a plan. Every time he caught a shoplifter in the act, he gave him or her a choice: Give me one of your shoes, or I'll call the police...

Sept. 3, 1920 - May 29, 2008 Doris Mary Fahrenbruch died Thursday, May 29, 2008, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook at the age of 87. She was born in McCook on Sept. 3, 1920 to Floyd M. and Doris M. (Jennings) Covert. She grew up in Culbertson and attended school there, graduating from the Culbertson High School in 1938...

April 19, 1935 - May 29, 2008 ATWOOD -- Helena Monice Fitts Brickey Carlson, 73, died Thursday (May 29, 2008) at Rawlins County Health Center. She was born April 19, 1935, in Lee County, Va., to Otto and Mary (Buchanon) Fitts, and moved with her family to Salem, Ind., in 1947...

A faulty storm sewer system is being cited by a McCook couple for damages done to their home. The McCook City Council will take up the matter as a consent agenda item at its regular city council meeting Monday night, 7:30 at the City Council Chambers in Memorial Auditorium...