Stories from Thursday, November 13, 2008

In a Week 3 game Sept. 12 at Aurora, the top-ranked McCook Bison football team fought off the Aurora Huskies 42-7. That was then.

KEARNEY -- The University of Nebraska-Kearney football team has placed 13 players on the 2008 All-RMAC team. The team was selected by the league's 10 head coaches and released earlier Tuesday. UNK went 7-4 this year and tied for second in the RMAC with a 7-2 mark. Of the 13 Lopers selected, only two were selected first-team...

LINCOLN -- Jordan Larson's 16 kills led three Huskers in double figures, as the third-ranked Nebraska volleyball team swept Missouri, 25-19, 25-22, 25-14 Wednesday night at the NU Coliseum. Larson totaled 16 kills and 13 digs for her 10th double-double of the year, as the Huskers (24-1, 15-1 Big 12) posted their 17th sweep of the season...

NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook Junior High School wrestling team competed at the North Platte Madison meet along with North Platte Madison, North Platte Adams and Lexington. "The McCook Junior High School High wrestlers did well as a whole," said MJH wrestling coach Zane Engelbert. "There are many things that we need to improve on and they will come with time and hard work...

LINCOLN -- A day after receiving Blackshirts, the Nebraska football team returned to the practice field Wednesday with a two-hour workout inside the Hawks Championship Center. The Huskers, who practiced in helmets and shoulder pads, are in the middle of preparation for their upcoming game against Big 12 North foe Kansas State this Saturday...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- The semifinal round of the 2008 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball Tournament was played Wednesday night in Orange City and Sioux City, Iowa. In Orange City, top seed Northwestern eliminated fourth seed Doane 3-1 (25-23, 25-14, 25-18) and in Sioux City second seed Morningside defeated three seed Dordt 3-1 (25-23, 25-13, 26-28, 25-21)...

May 21, 1985 - Nov. 10, 2008 NORTH PLATTE -- Dustin Dean (Cole) Rhodig, 23, died Monday (Nov. 10, 2008) in North Platte. He was born May 21, 1985, in Coffeyville, Kan. He grew up in Colby and Oberlin, Kan., and attended the area schools there. On Sept. 20, 2008, he married Samantha Justice in North Platte. They lived in North Platte. He earned his G.E.D. and worked on an oil rig...

What an honor and a privilege to work with such a committed, caring group of people as there are at McCook Elementary School! The Veterans Day activities were awe-inspiring. The teachers and paras worked hard to come up with many diverse activities in each classroom. ...

Life on the Plains has never been easy, and modern times are no exception. Today, however, technology provides opportunities the pioneers could never have dreamed off, connecting farmsteads to the world and dissolving the miles. Isolation is no longer a barrier for entrepreneurs wishing to reach a wide market, thanks to broadband Internet combined with the availability of fast delivery of products -- or even electronic delivery of goods and services...

If you are a person who notices such things, and I am, the sun has been creeping further along the eastern horizon at sunrise and the western horizon at sunset in its day-by-day march south toward the winter solstice on Dec. 19. Another thing we can notice in this southward march is we are not getting as many daylight hours. The days are growing shorter and the nights are growing longer...

CURTIS -- The former Sunset Haven and Hillside Estates senior living facilities in Curtis will be turned into dorm rooms for the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. Entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr. George Garlick of Richland, Wash., a native of the Maywood and Curtis areas, sealed the purchase of the facilities Nov. 9. Some rooms may be available in January, the Frontier County Enterprise newspaper reports...

Haigler village crews round up and burn the herds of tumbleweeds that were caught in Haigler as they raced across southwest Dundy County with winds up to 70 miles an hour last week. Charlie Mulligan of Haigler said that the tumbleweeds stacked up against houses, garages and buildings, and caught in cedar trees and fences as they blew in, especially on the west side of town. ...

WILSONVILLE -- Voters may have voted on whether to dissolve Wilsonville as a village, but the county election official was directed not to tally the votes. Furnas County Clerk Kennis McClelland said he initially thought the petition to dissolve the village had enough votes, but he was directed by the Secretary of State's office not to tally the ballots because an insufficient number of proper signatures were received...