Stories from Thursday, June 4, 2009

The 21st annual John Mullen Pro-Am golf tournament will take place Saturday and Sunday at McCook's Heritage Hills Golf Course. The tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. The tournament was started by Bernie and Nona Mullen in memory of their son, a former assistant pro at Heritage Hills...

The McCook Travel Baseball Association announced the brackets for its 2009 baseball tournament Saturday at the Jaycee Complex and Felling Field with 14 teams coming from Nebraska and Kansas to participate. The opening games start at 10 a.m. at Felling Field and the Jaycee Complex. Four local teams are participating in the tournament from McCook...

The McCook American Legion Junior B's Blue team dropped a 13-12 decision Tuesday night to Cambridge. "What appeared to be a rainout game turned into an exciting game for McCook Blue and Cambridge, even though the weather and field conditions were not ideal," said McCook coach Greg Larson...

April 24, 1925 - June 2, 2009 HERNDON -- Denis W. Tongish, 84, died, Tuesday (June 2, 2009) at Presbyterian Manor in Newton, Kan. He was born April 24, 1925, in Herndon to John and Mary (Hutfles) Tongish. He grew up on the family farm, attended St. Mary's Catholic School and graduated from Herndon High School in 1943...

CURTIS -- Nebraska Game and Parks Commission officials told concerned lake goers at a meeting in Curtis May 30 that decisions to reduce services Swanson Lake at Trenton went beyond a point system that graded the state's 87 state parks. According to the Hitchcock County News, Roger Kuhn, Game and Parks assistant director, explained during the monthly meeting of the Game and Parks board of commissioners his organization's decision to make Red Willow Lake north of McCook a full-service lake and to reduce services at Swanson.. ...

KEARNEY -- Several public transportation projects in Southwest Nebraska will receive federal stimulus money if Nebraska's application for nearly $5.3 million in transit projects in rural areas is approved by the Federal Transit Administration. Gov. Dave Heineman announced the application Wednesday in Kearney...

The Nebraska Draft Horse and Mule Association will hold its annual field day demonstration on Sunday, on the east end of Indianola. "We expect approximately 10-15 teams of horses and mules from all over Nebraska to show up and work," said Ken Kircher, chairman of the event. "We plan to mow, rake, stack and bale hay. With the exception of baling hay with a stationary baler, all haying will be done with real "horse" power."...

The cold and not-very-responsive "Cecropia" silk moth that Cecil Lafferty and Virginia Myers found settles on a plant in Cecil's home at Willow Ridge Retirement Community in McCook. "It's like a paint brush painted him," Virginia said. "In my 80 years, I've never seen one like it," Cecil added. ...

You name it, we've probably seen it rolling through our area on its way to one coast or another. Unicycles, horse-drawn animals, roller skates, runners, walkers, antique cars, antique motorcycles, solar powered vehicles -- and bicycles. Lots and lots of bicycles...

Just like the monster in the old grade-B movies, this one just won't die. The Mars hoax seems to have an annual life of its own, no matter how many times astronomers try to kill the "beast," it just keeps coming back. It is bad enough that this "thing" starts traveling the e-mail circuit each year at about this time. ...

Hello, Dolly You know that I have been worried about the multitude of feral cats and have written to you expressing my concerns. This morning (Wednesday0 at about 11:30 a.m., my little dog, Emily, and I were almost home from her morning walk and were heading west along East D Street. There is an area where the sidewalk meets the curb, and as we were strolled along, I happened to look down onto the street...