Stories from Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The McCook Community College volleyball lost in three games to Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, Colo., 25-11, 25-15, 25-15 Tuesday night at True Hall Gymnasium. "We started out well in the first and third sets," said MCC coach Michelle Reiners. ...

CAMBRIDGE -- Paxton High School captured the Republican Plains Association volleyball tournament title Tuesday in Cambridge. Paxton pushed by Dundy County-Stratton in the semi-finals taking the Golden Plains division title before downing Southwest girls for the RPAC title...

Nov. 24, 1921 - Oct. 17, 2008 BEAVER CITY -- Donald W. Hardin, age 86, formerly of Beaver City, died Friday (Oct. 17, 2008) at Christian Homes at Holdrege. He was born Nov. 24, 1921, at Beaver City to Perry and Anna (Gronquist) Hardin. He was raised on his grandparents' farm Southeast of Beaver City. He attended rural school district, graduated from Beaver City High School in 1939...

Oct. 17, 1916 - Oct. 19, 2008 TRENTON -- Vera Christina Redmer went to be with her Lord on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colo., at the age of 92. She was born Oct. 17, 1916, at Trenton in Hitchcock County, the sixth child of Albert M. and Johanna (Rasmussen) Hedke. She grew up on a large farm south of Trenton with her five siblings and walked across wheat fields and pasture land to attend grade school in District 14, known as Prairie Dell...

Nov. 8, 1916 - Oct. 18, 2008 HERNDON -- Helen L. Ketterl Kogl Kleidosty, 91, died Saturday (Oct. 18, 2008) at Rawlins County Health Center. She was born Nov. 8, 1916, to Louis and Katherine (Lippold) Ketterl in Pocasset, Okla. The family moved to a farm Northeast of Herndon and she attended Green Valley Rural School and St. Mary's High School. She went on to become a teacher in the rural Herndon area...

The McCook City Council Monday night extended the time to have a construction contract in place for the sidewalk to Walmart. The supplemental agreement the council approved with the Nebraska Department of Roads will extend the contract until April 1, 2009...

McCook has lost about 200 people since 2005 and city council candidate Mike O'Dell wants to reverse that trend. O'Dell is running for one of the two seats open on the council and he joined incumbents Jack Rogers and Aaron Kircher at the candidate forum Tuesday night. Kircher gave an opening statement but was not asked questions as he did not return a candidate information sheet in time for the panel...

Candidates for the three open seats on the McCook School Board faced off Tuesday night at the candidate forum at the Bieroc Cafe. Incumbents Tom Bredvick and Mike Gonzales were present to take questions from the panel, along with contenders Maury Green and Traci Loker. Incumbent Diane Lyons could not attend the forum...

LB701 opened up a can of worms and local taxes should not be used to meet a state obligation, asserted Buck Haag, one of nine candidates vying for five seats on the Middle Republican Natural Resources District. Haag and other candidates for the MRNRD fielded questions at the High Plains Radio candidate forum Tuesday night at the Bieroc Café...

We knew it would have to end one of these days. While a light coat has been sufficient for attending many of this season's high school football games, that won't be the case for Thursday night's games, the last regular games of the season. If the forecast is right, the season's first snow has a good chance of disrupting the schedule completely...

As election day rapidly approaches, it is so heartwarming to see all the cheap flimsy crummy placards strewn on our bourgeois lawns. After the election, be sure to take them down and send them to Iraq. Why? They are going to have another election soon. This time, they won't have pictures of Saddam Hussein to display...

Inflation is a tax on savings. In 1933, FDR's New Deal (Change) to fix the Depression illegalized owning gold! Not tied to value, lo ... the green backs float! When wages were $1 an hour, bread was 10 cents a loaf. Had you banked it for interest, what can it buy now?...

There has been a good deal of comment, concern, anger, and frustration over the invitation of Bill Ayers to speak at the UNL College of Education. Many of you have communicated directly with me and hopefully I have responded to each of you although the volume of contacts has been immense and I may have missed some. I just wanted my constituents to have the benefit of some of my thinking on the matter and, therefore, this communication...

The autumn leaves have begun their annual dance. The nights are getting colder and morning begins with the whoosh of warm air from the furnace vents. Ah yes, change is in the air. In more ways than one. Because in two weeks -- oh, let them be short -- we'll know who is to assume the mantle of leadership for the next four years. ...