Stories from Friday, March 20, 2009

The McCook Community College baseball team got back on the winning track as the Indians pounded out 17 hits in route to a 13-9 victory over Colby Community College at the Jaycee Sports Complex Thursday. McCook scored in the first inning and kept it going as the Indians scored in all of the first five innings, building a 13-6 lead...

KEARNEY -- The McCook High School girls and boys track teams opened the season Thursday by competing in the University of Nebraska-Kearney Class B High School Meet. The indoor track meet took place at Cushing Fieldhouse.

Jan. 4, 1918 - March 17, 2009 BIRD CITY -- Emilie Sophia "Millie" (Kroeger) Rambat, 91, died Tuesday (March 17, 2009) at Good Samaritan Village in St. Francis. She was born Jan. 4, 1918, in Republic County, Kan. She married Harvey Rambat and she was a homemaker. She lived in Bird City until moving to Good Samaritan Village...

April 10, 1922 - March 15, 2009 BIRD CITY --Dorothy Jane (McDougal) Sager, 86, Sunday (March 15, 2009) in Bird City. She was born April 10, 1922, in Thomas County, Kan. She married Robert Warren Sager and worked as a Registered Nurse and homemaker...

July 14, 1917 - Feb. 23, 2009 HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. -- Ramona May Faser died Feb. 23, 2009, at Hermosa Beach, Calif., at the age of 91. She was born July 14, 1917, at Humbolt, Neb., the daughter of the late Edwin and Tillie (Heim) Richards. In 1929, the family moved to Culbertson, Neb., where she graduated from Culbertson High School in 1934, She received her teaching certificate from Kearney State College...

In 2006, the Rev. Dr. Chris Atkins changed course. After once serving as a professor of biblical studies at Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Fla., for four years, Chris, his wife, Eunice and their youngest daughter, Bethany came to McCook. He accepted a position as the pastor of adult ministries at McCook Evangelical Free Church, and plotted his course day-by-day...

President Obama proved why he won the election by continuing his campaign on the Jay Leno show Thursday night. It's inspiring to have a leader who can express coherent thoughts in complete sentences, and inspiration is what the country needs right now...

I've had a lot of successes and a lot of failures in my life, as most of us have. It's the grand litany of life that makes it so. We have our peaks and our valleys and we can only hope that when this grand adventure draws to a close, we've somehow been fortunate enough to have had more ups than downs...

Brady Esch poses with Grandpa Vern Esch and the quarter-scale John Deere combine and International Harvester corn picker that Grandpa designed and built in his welding shop between McCook and Indianola. McCook National Bank is displaying Vern's collection of down-sized farm machinery during March, "National Farm Month." "The corn picker's 'the cream of the crop'," Vern said with a grin, explaining that he has about 200 hours in its creation. ...

NORTH PLATTE -- The Mid Plains Community College president is asking the board of governors to let residents of neighboring states pay the same tuition as in-state residents. The board will consider the issue at its regular meeting, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at North Platte Community College's north campus, Room 200...

Rebecca Kogl and Gregory Tollefsen, both of Omaha, announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are John and Rhonda Kogl of Holdrege and Jim and Bev Tollefsen of Aurora. Grandparents of the bride-to-be are Hazel Musick of Grant and the late Ernie Musick and Clemens and Rose Marie Kogl of Culbertson...

Jesse and Tina Pace announce the birth of their daughter, Zaely Belle Pace, born March 2, 2009 at McCook Community Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and was 19 inches long. She has three siblings, Zoey, Zeah and Zane. Grandparents are Blaine and Ann Budke of MCook and Joyce and Robert Pace of Cambridge. Great-grandparents are Wayne Stewart of McCook, Ed and Betty Budke of Salome, Ariz. and Cecil Pace of Amherst...

April 15th. It's a day some look forward to with apprehension. Others look at April 15th with a sense of cold dread. However, thanks to preparation and thoroughness, Tax Day for some is just another day. I'm proud my office is a source of information, assistance, and reference for the people of the Third District. ...

I would like to thank the good, sensible citizens of Nebraska for helping to bail out California with your share of the $31 billion stimulus gift to us by the Federal Frankenstein. The reason you're getting a meter pittance of the stimulus is because you didn't vote for Commissar Obama, as we overwhelmingly did...