Stories from Wednesday, February 11, 2009

June 7, 1925 - Feb. 7, 2009 OBERLIN -- Doris Alene Black, 83, died Saturday (Feb. 7, 2009) at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born June 7, 1925, in rural Oberlin to Earl and Mabel (McClellan) Wilson. She grew up in the Traer and Oberlin communities and attended rural grade school. She graduated fron Decatur Community High School...

The family of Dorothy "Marie" Wilson is hosting an open house Sunday, 2-4 p.m., at the Chief Poolside in honor of her 85th birthday. She was born Feb. 15, 1924. Her family includes sons, the late Glenn Wilson and wife, Juliee, and Richard and wife Jean; and daughters, Betty Leibrandt and Carol Dugger and husband, Ken, all of McCook. ...

CAMBRIDGE -- The squeak of tennis shoe rubber on a hardwood floor blended with the roar of a packed gym that ended with the Cambridge boys knocking off the Class D1 top-ranked undefeated Arapahoe Warriors 56-55 Tuesday.

CURTIS -- The McCook Community College women's basketball team knocked off Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture 66-16 Tuesday night at Curtis. "We are very happy to report that last night's game against NCTA was a victory for the McCook Lady Indians," said MCC women's assistant coach Carter Roe, whose team improved to 6-17...

Bison freshman girls drop season finale The McCook High School freshman girls basketball team finished up the season Tuesday night, losing to Hershey 47-16 at home. McCook was led in scoring by Emily Tolliver with 6 points. Rachel Bradley scored 4 points. Shelby Allen, Erin Wright and Aubrey Rieman each added 2 points...

NEBRASKA/KANSAS AREA BASKETBALL SCORES COLLEGE McCook CC women 66, NCTA 16

One board member couldn't approve the 2009-10 school calendar ultimately OK'd by the McCook Public Schools board of education at its meeting Monday evening. Superintendent Dave Schley told board members and members of the public, "Everyone's had a whack at it -- it's the best we could come up with. It's not going to please everyone."...

In 2000, McCook Public Schools had no children documented as "English Language Learners." Four years later, in 2004, Carolyn Klimper's job helping 10 or so McCook students who were learning English as their second language started as "a side job," "extra duty," with her sixth grade English teaching job at McCook Public Schools...

CURTIS -- The Middle Republican Natural Resources District has collected about $2.5 million in property and occupation taxes under the law created by LB 701 -- but how the property taxes are returned to taxpayers in the district is unclear at this point, according to Dan Smith, MRNRD general manager...

The forecast looks very much like February, with a chance of snow tonight and a better chance on Friday, but the news from Oklahoma sounds more like spring. A cluster of tornadoes touched down across the state, killing at least eight and seriously injuring 14 people. With the search suspended overnight because of the number of downed power lines, it was possible the toll might climb after daybreak today...

The proposal to change the name of McCook Regional Airport is grounded for now. The McCook Airport Advisory Commission, at its regular meeting Wednesday afternoon, did not discuss renaming the McCook airport after Sen. Ben Nelson as scheduled, because the citizen committee that proposed the change withdrew its request...

Danny and I have always had critters in our world. When dogs or cats were prohibited, we had hamsters. Most of our critters were castaways, desperate for a home and grateful to find one with us. VanDyke was thrust upon us by the same family that had introduced Danny and me years before. ...