Stories from Wednesday, February 18, 2009

CRETE -- In the final tune up going into the conference championship meet, Doane College track athletes hit 16 automatic NAIA marks and 20 provisional marks at the Doane Valentine's Day Invite. The Tigers were originally scheduled to go to Buena Vista but the snow storm that swept through on Friday prevented travel...

HOUSTON -- The Nebraska men's golf team finished the Rice Intercollegiate in eighth place Tuesday at Westwood Golf Club. The Huskers wrapped up the final round of their first spring tournament with a 294 team score for a 54-hole total of 889. Mike Coatman tied for ninth place, matching his career-best finish and marking his second straight top-10 finish dating back to the fall season. Coatman shot a 219 for the tournament...

The McCook Junior High School eighth grade boys A, B and C teams went 3-0 over Lexington Monday night. The Bison A team is 6-0 and was lead to another win by Marcus Gonzales. Gonzales scored 16 points. Lucas Post followed with 12 and Sean Backer had 11...

CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- Junior Charlotte Wendner tied for 21st individually to help the Nebraska women's golf team to a 12th-place finish in an 18-team field at the Aztec Spring Invitational on Tuesday afternoon. Wendner, a native of Bjarred, Sweden, closed the three-day tournament with a 54-hole score of 231 (72-79-80) to lead the Huskers...

SOUTHERN VALLEY -- The Southern Valley Booster club will have a 3 on 3 basketball tournament March 28 atSouthern Valley High School. The tournament is for boys and girls in grades 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12. The deadline for sign up is March 13. For more information contact Mike Quinn at 308-824-3827 or 308-991-7652...

OMAHA -- Since dropping back-to-back games in early January, Missouri Valley Conference preseason favorite Creighton has been chasing first-place Northern Iowa in the league standings. Thanks to reserve guards Cavel Witter and Antoine Young, the Bluejays (22-6, 12-4) are riding a seven-game winning streak and still in the title hunt with two conference games to play...

June 1, 1930 - Feb. 16, 2009 ARAPAHOE -- Phyllis Ann Warner, 78, died Monday (Feb. 16, 2009) at Denver, Colo. She was born June 1, 1930, at Arapahoe to William and Jerry (Highland) Stewart. She spent her childhood and early family life in Arapahoe and McCook...

May 25, 1915 - Feb. 16, 2009 NORTH PLATTE -- Elsie Katherine Rathbun was born May 25, 1915, in rural Hayes County, Neb., to Joe and Bertha Tate. Her parents moved to Frisco, Colo., for two years while she and her brother were still small children, where her father hauled supplies to the minors...

Dec. 11, 1915 - Feb. 12, 2009 HOUSTON, Texas -- Dorothea Jane Hoffman, 93, died Thursday (Feb. 12, 2009) in Houston, Texas. She was born Dec. 11, 1915, at Havelock to Charlie and Elizabeth (Wacker) Fahrenbruch. She spent most of her life in Culbertson...

There's no better time than when money's tight to get the most bang for your buck. That's the opportunity attendees at this weekend's Home and Leisure Show will have at the Army Reserve Training Center on Airport Road. About 66 booths and 75 vendors, from as far away as Lincoln, Broken Bow, Grand Island, Fairbury and Naponee, plus Haxton, Otis, Fort Morgan and Wray, Colo., will have displays on everything from home electronics to landscaping products, and new this year will be special programs on innovative ways to use cabinetry in your home, organize your closets, save energy in your home or business, or look your best.. ...

Someone has been feeding feral cats in our neighborhood (East Fifth and E), but has not had the decency to have the mother cat spayed. That includes whoever has provided shelter for her and her last litter during freezing weather this winter. Come see for yourself--plenty of cat food spread under the tail end of an old milk delivery truck. Sometimes someone has put the turkey remains right there too...

I have some questions concerning last Friday's column written by Mike Hendricks (Mike @ Night). In his column he equates the prophecies of Nostradamus and the Mayan calendar with those made by the Biblical prophets. In grade school, we were taught to use our helpers, Who, Where, When, Why, What and How to make evaluations and arrive at a conclusion...

By the grace of God, they survived, grew new limbs, scions and seeds! They lived! The old trees had been ravaged by wars, two of them at least, and storms and pestilence and disease. But by God, they clung to their mother Earth, hung in there, and with kind Man's help, survived...

In 1899, a gentleman by the name of Henry Barbazette purchased two lots in the budding town of McCook, Nebraska. Mr. Barbazette was married and was the owner of a fine furniture store two blocks away from his lots on Main Street. He proceeded to build one of the largest, finest homes in this little prairie town, a two story mansion with a huge wrap-around porch, two sunrooms and parquet wood floors. It was a Victorian masterpiece at a time when the Victorian style was just beginning to wane...

The McCook City Council unanimously agreed Monday night to authorize Councilman Aaron Kircher, acting as vice president in Mayor Dennis Berry's absence, to sign a property lease agreement between the city and the State of Nebraska, Department of Administrative Services, for the McCook Armed Forces Readiness Center...

Two of the three defendants charged in the burglary of the U.S. Post Office in Bartley Oct. 30 have struck a plea bargain. Miranda Ranae Vanderpool, 23, address unavailable and Jonathan William Weems, 19, of Cambridge, were both charged with the Class III felony of burglary. In Red Willow County District Court on Tuesday, both pleaded guilty in plea agreements, Vanderpool to the lesser charge of accessory to a felony, a Class IV felony and Weems to the original charge...

The Cambridge girls basketball team limited Sutherland to 5 first half points to advance to the C2-11 sub-district finals against North Platte St. Pat's Thursday at the McCook High School gymnasium. The Trojans ripped the Sailors 49-24.

Time and gravity had taken their toll and the old brick chimney canted to the north, threatening our neighbor's roof. Something had to be done, and brick by brick, the chimney was dismantled, revealing a well-formed, obviously annually refreshed, bird's nest. They had carefully selected each twig and inspected every speck of cotton before weaving it into the wall of their home. It must have been there for years...