Stories from Wednesday, November 5, 2003

The McCook Community College men's and women's basketball teams both suffered setbacks in their home openers Tuesday night at True Hall Gymnasium. The McCook men lost to Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, Colo., 86-79 and the Indian women lost 60-39...

We have a dilemma. We would like to urge you to attend the performance of the U.S. Air Force Heartland of America Concert Band, and we do. It's set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Auditorium in McCook. The Gazette is local sponsor for the event. We also urge you to attend a special meeting of the McCook Public Schools board of education, where W Design Associates will make a presentation on its proposal for improvements to local elementary schools...

Regarding the picture of the kitten in the Humane Society ad; this was a joke that came over the Internet. It seems that this guy kept hearing scratching on a window screen and thought a burglar was trying to get in, so he goes to get his gun, switches on the light, and here's this charming little kitten in the window...

Dear Editor, Our lighted "Mr. Gargoyle" is home! Thank you, thank you. **Carol J. Lashley McCook

**Dear Editor, I am doing research for a documentary on that vanishing and now almost extinct American landmark -- namely the "privy," "out-house," sometimes called the "convenience." I welcome letters from those seniors who still have nostalgic memories, comical experiences, photos, drawings and jokes on the "out-house" of days gone by...

I must have had a guilty conscience after all. I poo-poohed my co-workers jabs, both verbal and visual, when my phone would ring and I would go off on an elaborate explanation they knew was a complete fabrication. The admonitions would follow, "Thou shalt not lie" and so on, reverberating through the newsroom...

GRANT -- Hayes Center upset top-seeded Wallace to claim the D2-10 subdistrict volleyball championship Tuesday night and advance to the district final. Hayes Center, now 11-9, will face Class D2-9 winner Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Friday for a chance at the state tournament in Lincoln...

**Indians to play next round at Johnson-Stanton County ST. FRANCIS -- St. Francis blew out Plainville 46-8 in a Kansas Class 2-1A state football playoff game Tuesday night at St. Francis. The Indians improved to 8-2, and will play a quarterfinal game at 2 p.m. Saturday at Johnson, Kan., against Stanton County...

LINCOLN -- Attorney General Jon Bruning and Phelps County Attorney Time Hoeft announced Tuesday that felony theft charges have been filed against Bill White, 37, former owner of the Atlanta Grain Elevator. A 2 1?2 year investigation by the Nebraska State Patrol into the operation of the Atlanta Grain Elevator in Phelps County, led to the arrest...

LOUISVILLE, Ky -- Two members of the Imperial FFA chapter were named national winners of proficiency awards at the 2003 National FFA Convention, Oct. 29-Nov. 1 in Lousiville, Ky. Matt Vlasin, 20, competed in the Floriculture-Entrepre-neurship Proficiency award program, and C.J. Swanson, 20, competed in the Vegetable Production - Entrepreneurship/Placement proficiency award program...