Stories from Monday, June 22, 2009

Nov. 2, 1912 - June 15, 2009 PALISADE -- Archie Bowman was born to Harry and Mertie Baker Bowman in a sod house south of Palisade, Nebraska on Nov. 2, 1912, and passed away on June 15, 2009, in Greenwood Village, Colo. He married Jean Mardelle Barker from Max in 1936. ...

McDONALD, Kan. -- Frances E. (Greene) Erickson, 92, died Friday (June 19, 2009) at Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. Survivors include her sons, Glenn and wife, Earlene of Fort Morgan, Colo., Wayne and wife, Kandy of Brush, Colo., and Rich and wife, Judy of Fort Morgan, Colo.; daughter, Kay and husband, Gail Miller of McDonald, Kan.; 17 grandchildren; and numerous other relatives...

Movie Review - Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Optimus Prime. Rated PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material...

Led by Hershey High School grad Marla Munsen, the West squad defeated the East 4 games to 1 at the 18th Annual Sertoma Volleyball Classic, held at the the McCook High School gym Saturday night. Munsen, who was named her team's MVP, scored 7 kills and 2 blocks, while also having 12 digs on the night. Teammate Blair Dixon of Wauneta-Palisade also contributed 7 kills, while Dundy County-Stratton's Hilary Wilson had 5 of her own, along with a service ace...

The year was 1943. The Nation was at war. Washington, DC was expanding as President Franklin D. Roosevelt carried out his duties as Commander in Chief. Americans cultivated "Victory Gardens" to grow their own food as war-time rationing limited many goods they were used to enjoying including gasoline. Gasoline only cost 15 cents a gallon but people were limited as to how much they could buy...

CHAMPION -- The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission hopes to start construction of a new water control structure at Champion Mill State Historical Park late this summer or early fall. The structure and repairs to the mill pond and dam will be paid for with federal funds and $55,554.25 approved by the Nebraska Legislature in LB 289...

Despite torment and temptation from "Hoot" the devil dog, Paul Daily of Trout, La., gentles a 3-year-old ranch-bred Quarter Horse gelding owned by Kent Buffington of Wauneta, during the grand opening Saturday evening of HIS Haven therapeutic riding ranch at Palisade. ...

Kids will be kids, we used to say. Yes, underage drinking is wrong, but everyone does it, right? It is right that a lot of underage people do consume alcohol, but that doesn't make it all right to look the other way. Far too many graduations and prom nights have been transformed from fond memories into times of horrible tragedy by the mistake of drinking and driving...

Nebraska is not normally a state that one associates with being on the cutting edge when it comes to social change, yet in 1891 the University of Nebraska football team accepted its first black player, George Flippin to its roster, becoming one of the first predominately white colleges in the United States to have a black player on its team...