Stories from Saturday, October 18, 2008

A disposal system to get rid of the waste from the drinking water treatment plant is one step closer to completion, with a bid for construction work up for approval at the regular City Council meeting Monday night, 7:30 in City Council Chambers at Memorial Auditorium...

Hillcrest Nursing Home Foundation celebrated 19 years of "investing in all generations served by Hillcrest" Thursday night with appetizers, desserts, and a wine tasting in the Hillcrest dining room. Entertainment for the evening was the McCook Piano Quartet and vocalist Kathy Latta...

Marylou Luther grew up in Cambridge, where her dad was a farmer and car dealer, and her mother had an eye for fashion. After journalism school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she wrote what was probably then called women's news -- weddings, engagements -- "and moved my editor's car every two hours so she wouldn't get a ticket."...

In late May 2008, I received a very special invitation from the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce to be the grand marshal for the 37th Annual Heritage Days Parade there in McCook on 27 Sept. 2008. Of course, I accepted this very prestigious offer and made plans to attend...

The Nebraska State Board of Health strongly supports the fluoridation of public drinking water as the most cost-effective, equitable and safe means of providing protection from tooth decay in a community. Fluoridation in public drinking water has safely and effectively reduced tooth decay for community residents of all ages for over 50 years...

A prominent McCook businessman and a friend of mine asked me the other day if I intended to write a column before the November election on America's "ignorant electorate" and I told him it was already on the drawing board. It's something we talk about in class at the college every semester and an issue that simply won't go away. Because far too many Americans cast uninformed ballots at every election, should voting be a right or a privilege?...

Robert "Lindy" Lenhart, a 1939 graduate of McCook Junior College not only has fond memories of his college days as a student and MJC athlete, but is also grateful that McCook Junior College provided him the opportunity to get a quality education while living at home and working on a student work program to pay his college tuition and book expenses...

McCook improves season record to 8-0 HOLDREGE -- The McCook Bison, the No. 1 high school football team in Nebraska Class B, rolled past the Holdrege Dusters 47-0 Friday night at Holdrege. McCook improved to 8-0 overall and 2-0 in Class B-7 district play. Holdrege dropped to 5-3 overall and 0-2 in district play...

CURTIS -- Elwood missed a 24-yard field goal on the last play of the game to let Medicine Valley escape with a 38-36 win at home Friday night. Elwood had 426 yards total offense to Medicine Valley's 366, with Elwood turning in 373 yards rushing to Medicine Valley's 121...

LINCOLN -- McCook High School sophomore Connor Larson placed second in No. 1 singles at the Nebraska Class B boys state tennis tournament for the second year in a row.