Stories from Tuesday, March 17, 2009

I was not sure if you ever got an actual copy of the official [Steve Fossett accident] report from the NTSB. See link below: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/GenPDF.asp?id=S... Mr. Jim Struhsaker - Sr. NTSB Investigator assigned to the Steve Fossett Incident whom we were working with closely up until the discovery of the crash, called me last week to discuss some final details and forwarded me the above link. ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- The Hastings College women's basketball team is one win away from being claimed the National Champion as they defeated College of the Ozarks 75-60 in the semifinals Monday night in Sioux City, Iowa. The Broncos avenged last year's loss in the Final Four to College of the Ozarks as Hastings will advance to the national final with the win...

ATWOOD -- Teams are forming now for the Atwood Summer Basketball Leagues. League play for junior high school grades in grades 6-8 begins May 25, junior high boys May 26, high school girls in grades 9-12 May 27 and high school boys May 28. Registration deadline is May 1...

Dec. 26, 1919 - March 7, 2009 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Alfred W. Ward, 89, died Saturday (March 7, 2009) at VA Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colo. He was born to William and Clara Ward in McCook on Dec. 26, 1919. He grew up in Western Nebraska until he joined the U.S. Army in 1942, obtaining the rank of 2nd Lieutenant...

Aug. 27, 1925 - March 15, 2009 ARAPAHOE -- Lorraine "Tootie" Hoffman, 83, of Arapahoe, died Sunday (March 15, 2009) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born Aug. 27, 1925, in McCook to John and Anna (Schwartz) Roth. She attended McCook Public Schools and on Aug. 27, 1943, she married Fred Hoffman of McCook. They moved to Arapahoe in 1947, where they owned a body shop, an implement dealership, a trucking firm and ultimately began farming...

May 21, 1923 - March 14, 2009 NORTON, Kan., -- Kenneth Charles Price, 85, died Saturday (March 14, 2009) at Norton County Hospital. He was born May 21, 1923, on a farm in rural Lyle, Kan., to Charlie and Alta (Knutson) Price. He grew up in the Lyle Community and attended College Hill and Norcatur High School. He entered the U.S. Navy and served during World War II...

March 7, 1920 - March 15, 2009 JUNIATA -- Melvin A. Nienhueser, 89, died Sunday (March 15, 2009) at Perkins Pavilion Good Samaritan Society Hastings Village. He was born March 7, 1920, to Henry and Blandina (Einspahr) Nienhueser on a farm near Kenesaw, where he grew up and lived most of his life...

Feb. 16, 1959 - March 15, 2009 Linda Ann Grabowski died Sunday, March 15, 2009, at Community Hospital in McCook after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 50 years old. Linda was born in Wilmington, Del., on Feb. 16, 1959, to Francis Joseph and Martha Mary (Ziemienieski) Grabowski Sr. ...

Dec. 8, 1949 - March 15, 2009 CULBERTSON -- Judy Kay Suda, of Culbertson, died Sunday, March 15, 2009, at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 59 years old. Judy was born in McCook on Dec. 8, 1949, to Alpha Omega and Della Mae (Ventling) Bolles. She graduated from McCook High School in 1968...

Oct. 15, 1920 - March 13, 2009 BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- Francis Leland Hanes of Bloomsburg, Pa., formerly of the Frontier County Community, died Friday, March 13, 2009, at the Bloomsburg Health Care Center. He was 88 years old. Francis was born in Frontier County to Harvey "H.E." and Iva Fern Hanes. ...

A third party will act as the paying agent for the economic development fund bonds that the city has agreed to issue in the amount of $1.150 million. The McCook City Council unanimously voted Monday night at its regular meeting to authorize Wells Fargo Bank as the paying agent and registrar for the economic development fund bonds. This adds another level of transparency to the process, said City Manager Kurt Fritsch, as well as additional oversight...

Plans for the injection well at the sewer are moving forward and if all goes according to plan, it should be up and running by the end of next week. All that's holding up the completion is a vital part that is on its way now and connecting the system to the water treatment plant...

Same fight, next round ... One of two landowners who fought last summer over a practically non-existent county road south of Indianola continued the battle before Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning. Stan Quigley, who owns land on the north side of Road 713 (named county road 221 in 1889), accused Phil Bamesberger, who owns the land on the south side of the road, of stealing his fence and destroying it. ...

Conflicting language in a city ordinance about wireless towers was ironed out by the McCook City Council Monday night. The amended ordinance now allows a 75-foot tower to be built at McCook Elementary. Operating on a skeleton crew with only three council members present -- Mayor Dennis Berry was absent due to a health issue and Councilman Jack Rogers was excused -- the rest of the council approved on its first reading an amended ordinance that allows school districts to have their own wireless towers, as long as the tower is separated from a church or residential structure by 100 percent of the height of the tower.. ...

Voters elect people to keep an eye on government and decide how things will be done and how our tax dollars will be spent. That's how our representative democracy works, right? Theoretically, yes. Unless you follow the advice of "Deep Throat" from the Watergate era, and "follow the money."...

It is wonderful to see a varied group of local governmental bodies, schools and industry all coming together to work out a win-win solution to benefit us all. I am talking about the new welding school going into the mid-'50s Safeway/Hinky Dinky/Modern Appliance/Youth Center structure built by farmer neighbor Fred Johnson. ...

As many residents in McCook know -- we do not have an animal control officer. This problem adds to the challenge facing many of us of how to deal with the town's large feral cat population. Learn more by attending a meeting at the Heritage Senior Center on Friday, March 27 at 2:30 p.m. The meeting will cover things such as the need for an Animal Control Officer and what is and needs to be done in that regard...

The March 12 article by Sean Callahan of HuskersIllustrated. com about recruiting exposure for McCook's football team was a good article. However, printing it on the same day that our boys basketball team played their first game in the State Basketball Tournament was disrespectful to the team, coaches and parents...

History will provide the solutions to our near financial collapse. All doctrines of free market capitalism in the U.S. are to be found in the Bible. Send your children to only the finest business schools money can by. Throw away all your Karl Marx books. They are evil and have the wrong ideologies. Save the Bible, but only if it is properly translated, edited and approved by the publishing firm...