Stories from Thursday, November 14, 2002

After more than a year of often-heated discussion, the Mid-Plains Community College Board of Governors have made it official. Nebraska's oldest junior college will be called McCook Community College a Division of Mid-Plains Community College. Around 140 concerned citizens from the McCook area attended the regular meeting of the board, at True Hall in McCook, on Wednesday night to show their support for the college, which officials have been calling the McCook Campus of Mid-Plains Community College.. ...

Dear Editor: In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season, Southwest Nebraska has much to cheer about. While we join our area teams in the celebration of their success this season we would be remiss if we failed to share some facts with our residents...

Dear Editor: I voted for Gregg Meyer and I would do it again. He is a good neighbor and close friend. He would have been an excellent Sheriff because he has demonstrated integrity, honesty, leadership and performance with no excuses while serving as a Detective in Denver. ...

Dear Edior: The name of an educational institution like McCook College is important, but so is its curriculum. This week my son received a publication from Chadron State College regarding Distance Learning classes for the spring semester of 2003 to be offered to colleges of Western Nebraska...

It was not only a proud moment for McCook Community College, it was a proud moment for the people of the McCook area and the surrounding area as well. We're talking about Wednesday evening's meeting of the Mid Plains board when "McCook Community College" was officially restored as the name for Nebraska's oldest junior college...

ARAPAHOE -- Scott Moyer was doing precisely what he had always planned and wanted to do. He finished high school, went on to college at Northwest Oklahoma State University where he earned his degree in secondary education and after teaching for a year, fulfilled his dream by taking over the family pig farm, eventually running 150 head of sows, raising the pigs from farrow to finish...

BEAVER CITY -- Furnas County Sheriff, Joel Hank Pulley, will remain in office, a victory determined by a recount of votes Wednesday. Pulley said this morning he looks forward to serving another four years as sheriff. Challenger Gregg Meyer conceded the race Wednesday afternoon. "It is my position that the election results stand as now counted, giving Mr. Pulley the sheriff's office," Meyer said in a written statement...

McCook bankers, builders and real estate agents joined housing officials Wednesday for the start of a five-month study of the community's housing and development needs. The meeting, arranged by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, attracted a group of 30 people for a 21/2-hour session at the former Bonanza Restaurant, now known as the Country Steak Buffet...

DANBURY -- Cyrus Haag has old pictures showing the neighbors and a whole string of Fordson tractors picking Rudolph Schultz' corn when Rudolph was sick many, many years ago, in the 1920s. "Farmers have always done this. It's just what they do," Cyrus said, standing near a field of corn the neighbors picked Wednesday morning for Cyrus's son, Bill...

When the Aurora Huskies take the field Saturday against McCook in the Nebraska Class B state football playoff semifinals, it will be without three of their best players. The Huskies won't have their leading rusher or their starting free safety in the lineup when the game kicks off at 4 p.m. CT...

When Brad and I moved into our house, we knew we had found our perfect home. At the front of the house is a well-maintained city street. On that street, we can get to wherever we want to go in McCook in just five minutes. In the winter, when white snow blankets the earth, our street is one of the first to be cleaned, since the city shop sits about two blocks from our front step...

OMAHA -- Gary Leon Purdy, 62, died Monday (Nov. 11, 2002) at Methodist Hospital in Omaha. He was born June 21, 1940, to Clyde and Beulah (Einspahr) Purdy at Wauneta. He attended grade school and high school at Wauneta. He served in the U.S. Navy and after his discharge he returned to Wauneta...

Bernice B. Winters, 90, died Wednesday (Nov. 13, 2002) at Hillcrest Nursing Home of McCook. She was born May 12, 1912, to Wait E. and Mary Angeline (Callihan) Winters at Atwood. She grew up in Colorado and Nebraska and graduated from the Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis in 1932. She and her family farmed southeast of McCook before moving to McCook in 1963...