Stories from Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Oct. 1, 1983--Jan. 16, 2011 HAYES CENTER, Nebraska -- Jesse Ray Korell, 27, lifetime resident of rural Hayes Center, passed away Sunday (Jan. 16, 2011), as a result of a farming accident. Jesse was born Oct. 1, 1983, in Grant, Nebraska to Kenneth E. and Christie L. (Rutherford) Korell. He graduated from Hayes Center High School with the class of 2002, earning all-state defensive end in football...

Jan. 15, 1912--Jan. 15, 2011 ST. FRANCIS, Kansas -- Edwin William Henry Meyer, 99, died Saturday (Jan. 15, 2011), at Cheyenne County Hospital in St. Francis. He was born Jan. 15, 1912, in Smyrna, Nebraska. He was a farmer and rancher. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruby (Wright) Meyer; and great-grandson, Rick Straub...

Today I am writing this column on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a day set aside annually to celebrate the end of rampant racial discrimination in our United States of America. Growing up in Southwestern Nebraska I had no experience with black people. ...

The headline sounds like an airport or college commercial, but it should provide inspiration for any young person facing the future from a hometown like McCook. Seventeen-year-old Teresa Scanlan also should encourage home school students and parents by being homeschooled in her younger years...

To get a good job, get a good education. Stay in school and collect as many degrees as possible. I've known dozens of diploma jockeys who do no physical work. They teach classes and in their spare time, write useless letters to the editor (such as this)...

There is change in the air. Sen. Deb Fischer, because of her frustration with high telecommunication taxes levied against businesses and residents by cities across Nebraska created Legislative Bill 165. Business owners of McCook have you had enough of being gouged by our city? You have a telephone, so customers can call you. Or, so you can call them. Right? The thanks you get is a 3 percent Telecommunications Tax, plus a 1.5 percent Sales Tax forced on you...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook City Council was presented with a recap of the cities annual audit report, Monday evening, during its semi-monthly meeting at council chambers. While the report included recommendations for certain fees and rate increases, Terry Galloway of Almquist, Maltzahn, Galloway & Luth, the CPA firm that performed the audit, said good cash management practices by city staff were responsible for holding water and sewer rates down thus far. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- It doesn't have to be fancy. It doesn't need to be the a dog Mahal. A dog house must, however -- by law -- provide a pooch with adequate shelter from rain and snow and wind. And, by law, a dog owner must provide that shelter. In super-cold temperatures and in an ideal world, all dogs would be allowed inside. Anywhere inside -- in the garage ... the mud-room ... the basement...

June 10, 1934--Jan. 16, 2011 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Darrel Raymond Youngs was born June 10, 1934 in Dresden, Kansas to Chet and Opal (Davis) Youngs. He passed away Sunday (Jan. 16, 2011), in McCook, surrounded by his family and friends. He was raised a Kansas boy, living south of Lenora until the family moved to Oberlin where he graduated from high school in 1952. ...