Stories from Monday, January 26, 2009

January 09 Mid-Plains Community College Board of Governors agenda 1-22-09 NORTH PLATTE -- The Mid-Plains Community College Board of Governors will meet for their regular Board Meeting on January 28, 2009, at the North Campus of North Platte Community College, 1101 Halligan Drive, North Platte, NE in Room #200 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Their agenda is as follows:...

OBERLIN, Kan. -- The Quinter and Rawlins County boys chipped away at each other in the championship game in the Oberlin Invitational basketball tournament Saturday. Quinter came away with the win 64-63. Both teams entered the game unbeaten. Scott Ochs put 25 points on the board to lead Quinter. Zach Nemechek scored 14 and Matt Bird 11...

McCook girls shoot 52 free throws vs. Pine Creek COLBY, Kan. --The McCook High School boys basketball team lost to Goodland 60-53 in the fifth-place game Saturday at the Colby Orange and Black Classic. The Bison, who finished 1-2 in the tournament, blasted Ulysses 76-48 in the consolation semifinals Friday night and lost to Scott City 58-52 in the first round Thursday...

July 9, 1919 - Jan. 23, 2009 DANBURY -- Norma Ruby Gregory was called home to be with her Heavenly Father Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, at Hillcrest Nursing Home at the age of 89. She was born on a farm near Danbury on July 9, 1919, to Absalom and Isabelle Maude (Ruby) Gregory. She received her education in Danbury and graduated in 1938. She was baptized in the Methodist Church...

Sept. 4, 1918 - Jan. 23, 2009 Winfield LeRoy "Pat" Ele died Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, at Community Hospital in McCook. He was 90 years old. Pat was born Sept. 4, 1918, in Dorchester to Ora Ned and Opal (Endicott) Ele. He attended Wauneta schools. On May 4, 1937, he entered the U.S. Navy and served during World War II. He was honorably discharged on May 13, 1941. He reenlisted at the time of Pearl Harbor and served until he was honorably discharged again in 1945...

BARTLEY -- Southwest Public Schools' junior and senior high students will move into their new building in Bartley this fall. Construction is a couple of weeks behind schedule now, Superintendent Dave Hendricks said in the middle of January, so students may start class in August in the old two-story brick building in Bartley and then transfer into the new when it's done...

Encouraged by an outpouring of new ideas, Sue Shaner believes the McCook area is on the brink of an upturn in business ventures. "With our ideas and effort, we have the power to pump new jobs and money into the McCook area economy," said Shaner, who serves as business coach for the McCook Economic Development Corp...

Childhood diseases like measels and chickenpox that Baby Boomers' parents accepted as normal have become almost unknown, thanks to routine vaccinations. Shots for diptheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps and rubella are as routine as filling out baby books...

Now is a good time to take that new telescope you received for Christmas out for a look at one of the grandest sights in the sky, the Orion Nebula. Listed at number 42 on Messier's list of things that were not comets, it is a fabulous sight through any size telescope...

If you'd like to buy a home in 2009, there's a good chance McCook's Housing Director can help you find a comfortable house at a cost lower than you expected. Sound too good to be true? It shouldn't, because programs to benefit homebuyers in McCook continued in 2008 through a housing grant to the McCook Economic Development Corp...

In 1946 the McCook football team was receiving rave reviews all across Nebraska. In that day McCook High competed as a Class A school, in the West Big Ten, with perhaps the smallest enrollment in Class A. McCook's school population was dwarfed by the Omaha and Lincoln schools, as well as by Kearney, Grand Island and Fremont. ...