Stories from Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The McCook High School girls tennis team hopes to continue its impressive 2009 season Thursday and Friday at the Nebraska Class B state tournament at the Nebraska Tennis Center Thursday and Friday. The Nebraska Tennis Center is located at 7600 North 70th Street...

A heralded Chicagoland athlete has accepted the reins as McCook Community College's new softball coach. Elizabeth Jacoby assumes her coaching duties immediately and begins her classroom assignments beginning with fall 2009 semester, when she joins the MCC faculty to teach English...

OGALLALA -- The McCook High School boys golf team earned a berth in the Nebraska Class B state tournament with a third-place showing at the Class B-4 district tournament Monday at Ogallala's West Wind Course. McCook will be making its first trip to state as a team since 2006. The Bison placed second at state in 2006...

PALISADE -- Dorothy B. Geihsler, 92, of Holdrege, formerly of Palisade, died Monday (May 18, 2009) at Phelps County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be Thursday, 11 a.m., at Palisade Trinity Luthern Church in Palisade with the Rev. Greg Stuckwisch officiating. Burial will be in the Palisade Cemetery...

May 10, 1927 - May 16, 2009 ARAPAHOE -- Betty Lucille DeFruiter, 82, of Arapahoe, passed away on May 16, 2009, at the Arapahoe. 
 She was born May 10, 1927, to John and Minnie (Jensen) Selk at Lexington. She attended and graduated school at Lexington High School.
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July 7, 1923 - May 18, 2009 GERING -- Lola E. Main, 85 of Gering, died Monday (May 18, 2009) at Mitchell Care Center. She was born on July 7, 1923, in Benkelman to Cyrus and Ruth (Stoutsenberger) Harper. She attended school in Benkelman. She moved to live with her sister, Goldie Collier in California, because her husband, Orval J. ...

April 7, 1949 - May 16, 2009 Dennis Frank Perkinson died Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Community Hospital in McCook at the age of 60. He was born April 7, 1949, to Francis M. and Marvel M. (Ahlgrim) Perkinson in Elgin, Ill. In 1978, he married June Jamieson and they had three children, Jonathan, Melissa and Philip. Dennis and his family moved to McCook in May of 1985, where he worked as a general laborer...

One of the jokes told by one of the comedians at Saturday night's comedy show at the Fox Theatre would have been more funny if it wasn't so true. We won't stigmatize him by naming him specifically -- he was the one from Colorado -- but besides his observation that Nebraska drivers prefer the one-finger wave (that's the index finger), was his conclusion that Cornhuskers didn't know what the little lever on the left side of the steering column was for...

It has been sitting in the big hangar at Red Willow Aviation for several months. Brand new and bigger than life silently lording it over the entire lesser airplanes that surround it. It is a brand new Beechcraft King Air 350, the pride and essential transportation for, an obviously successful, local manufacturing firm...

A preliminary design for a new city fire station will allow the facility to expand in the future. The McCook City Council received and filed a contract Monday night with Prochaska and Associates from Omaha, for initial design drawings for a city fire station. According to the contract, Phase I of the preliminary design will cost $12,000, not to exceed $15,000 with reimbursable expenses...

War memorials have come and gone at Norris Park but a McCook Boy Scout wants to build something that withstands the test of time. The McCook City Council gave its approval Monday night at the regular meeting for Trenton Klimper to proceed with plans for a memorial at the park...

A new agricultural and environmental tourism retreat plans to open in late July after its owner advertises for and hires a professional landscaper and a culinary expert. Andela Taylor of rural Cambridge told Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning that she has "all the balls rolling in motion," in preparation to open "Hilton Farm Eco Retreat" -- a tourism attraction that will provide hands-on experiences focusing on nature, wellness, culinary arts, arts and crafts, horticulture and agriculture.. ...

The McCook City Council cleared the way Monday night at its regular meeting for a major expansion project at Community Hospital. A special exception for Community Hospital was approved by the McCook City Council Monday night and will allow the hospital to expand its current facility by about 42,000 square feet...

Red Willow County's grade on its annual noxious weed report card from the state indicates that the county has infestations that landowners are not taking care of. Galen Niehues, a noxious weed inspector with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, told county commissioners during their weekly meeting Monday morning that roster, budget, activity and control plan reports filed by Bill Elliott, the county's weed supervisor, scored well, earning a score of 983 out of a possible 1,000. ...

The children of Gene and Joetta Glanzer are hosting an open house 2-4 p.m., Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Arapahoe in celebration of the couple's 45th wedding anniversary. Cards of congratulation will reach them at 72452 Road 417, Holbrook, NE, 68948...

Earl Wilson's '51 Mercury grins wide on Atwood's main street during the Saturday afternoon "show-n-shine" of the 27th annual Atwood Early Rod Run. Wilson's car was among the 300+ antique, vintage and collectible cars and pickups on display during the three-day event sponsored by the Atwood Ambassadors. ...