Stories from Tuesday, October 21, 2003

The Red Willow County Commissioners agreed to purchase a new grader during their regular meeting Monday morning. Commissioners agreed to accept a bid from Murphy Tractor and Equipment of North Platte for a John Deere 770CH Series II for $100,425. The purchase price includes trade-in on a 1990 Caterpillar 40G and a 1969 Caterpillar 12F...

Motions to annext two other areas died for lack of a second

Many projects are making fast progress.

"You are so wrong!" Most newspaper editors are used to calls that start that way, but this one was different. John Kugler was taking issue with my contention that he probably didn't remember the Ainsworth Centennial, 20 years ago, when he and the big green Kugler balloon were one of the highlights...

USMC birthday Dear Editor, Monday, Nov. 10 will be the 228th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. In 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the formation of two marine battalions. They made their first landing on the Bahamas in 1776 during the Revolutionary War and have been active in nearly every conflict since that time...

The McCook Community College women‚s volleyball team lost on Parents Night to Garden City Community College (Kan.) 30-8, 30-19, 30-14 Monday. McCook struggled all night with its serve receive and faced a tough battle at the net against the taller Garden City team...

But the team loses just one senior in Jordan Bass.

BEAVER CITY -- Clyde Swartz, 82, died Sunday (Oct. 19, 2003) at the Beaver City Manor. He was born Aug. 7, 1921, in Red Willow County, to Fred and Mary (Hansjosten) Swartz. He entered the Army July 7, 1942, and served during World War II. He was awarded the Purple Heart and was honorably discharged Aug. 30, 1945...

Wanda Mae Bodeman of Hayes Center, died Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003, at the Sutherland Care Center. She was 73 years old. Wanda was born on Nov. 1, 1929, in Culbertson, to Ross Sidney and Joyce Dee (Johnson) Mosley. She attended rural school in northwest Hayes County and graduated from Hayes Center High School in 1948. She graduated from McCook College in 1950 earning a teaching certificate. She went on to teach in the same rural school she attended until her marriage...