Stories from Thursday, March 8, 2012

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

Just in case you didn't know, I AM the meanest mom in the world. No one else's mom is as mean as me. Everyone else's mom lets their daughters do whatever they want but not me. I couldn't get any meaner. In fact, I think my Meanest Mom of the Year award is being shipped as we speak. I'm certain my daughters secretly nominated me for this prestigious honor for all the horrible, awful things I've made them do or have not allowed them to do...

If you have been watching the evening sky, as I hope you have, Venus and Jupiter are moving closer to each other by the day. During the next week they will have their closest approach of the year. They won't be this close again until March of 2023, so go out an look at it now...

Lola Elnora Scott Campbell June 5, 1922 - March 6, 2012 AMARILLO, Texas -- Lola Elnora Scott Campbell, 89, died Tuesday (March 6, 2012), in Amarillo. She was born on June 5, 1922, in Hess township, incorporated settlement Ensign, Kansas. On Dec. 13, 1941, she married Melvin Lee Campbell and they had two children...

Margaret Ann Whipple July 8, 1923 - March 7, 2012 ARAPAHOE, Nebraska -- Margaret Ann Whipple, 88, of Arapahoe, died Wednesday (March 7, 2012), at C.A. Mues Good Samaritan Center, in Arapahoe. She was born July 8, 1923, at Lynch, Nebraska to Thomas and Bessie (Hight) Welfl...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Hayes Center would probably like to erase the third quarter of the Cardinals state tournament game with Giltner Thursday, March 8. The Cards were outscored 18-5 in the third period for the main ingredient in a 61-36 loss to Giltner in the Class D-2 boys state basketball tournament. The first-round contest was played Thursday morning at the Lincoln Northeast High School gym...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The constitutional amendment that seeks to raise annual salaries of Nebraska legislators from $12,000 to $22,500 has advanced and was placed on Select File Wednesday. During the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce weekly legislative conference call at the Keystone Business Center, Thursday morning, Sen. Mark Christensen said that he spoke in support of the amendment and believed it would increase middle class representation in the legislature...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- It was ultimately the thought of having to mow around 220 feet of track that made Greg Trosper decide what to do with his 1950's-era carnival ride. Greg, of McCook, Nebraska, bought the four cars -- and their 220 feet of track -- after discovering them on a farm near Orleans. ...

Every spring, it seems, I'm writing one of these columns. A pre-post-mortem, if you will, for a television show that I enjoy which is in trouble ratings-wise and has the odds stacked against it for renewal. A couple years ago, I wrote an early obit for the wonderfully silly satiric sitcom "Better Off Ted." Last year, I wished a fond goodbye to the solid cop drama "Detroit 1-8-7." And in 2012, my heavy-hearted attention goes to the sweet-and-salty ensemble comedy "Cougar Town."...

James 'Jim' Randell Henry April 10, 1938 - March 7, 2012 SEWARD, Nebraska -- James "Jim" Randell Henry, 73, formerly of McCook, died Wednesday (March 7, 2012) at in his home in Seward. Services are pending with Carpenter Breland Funeral Home in McCook...