Stories from Thursday, January 6, 2005

For nearly three years, they collectively sat on the bench, learned about the McCook Community College basketball program, and learned about life. Now they are the sophomore leaders Coach Ty Orton counts on and the student-athletes he points to as successful examples of "the MCC way."...

The McCook Community College Women's basketball team has found itself undersized in the first half of the season, but the players are compensating by outrebounding, outhustling and outdefending their opponents. The problem in a 5-9 start has been a plain and simple shooting slide that resulted in a six-game skid to end 2004...

Correction: Cambridge invite Thursday-Saturday CAMBRIDGE -- The Cambridge Invitational 2005 Basketball Tournament, which was originally slated to start Monday and conclude Tuesday, has been rescheduled for Thursday and Saturday. First-round games at the high school gym feature Cambridge girls and boys vs. Northern Valley at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday...

IRAQ -- Many Southwest Nebraskans were part of a 1013th Quartermasters' convoy from Kuwait to Mosul the week before Christmas. Lee and Linda Maiden had three children on the Army Reserve convoy, Kyle and Kevin Stritt and Steph Maiden. Linda Maiden shared this letter with family and friends, as well as our readers:...

Kurt Vosburg is the new District 7 Engineer for the Nebraska Department of Roads. District 7 includes Chase, Dundy, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Kearney, Perkins, Phelps and Red Willow counties. Vosburg, a licensed professional engineer, succeeds Jim Knott, who was recently named the new NDOR Roadway Design Division Engineer at their state headquarters in Lincoln...

The taxpayers of McCook and Red Willow County have reason to be upset by the failure of the city and county to settle the Kiplinger Arena bleacher dispute without going to court. What started out as a gesture of good will has turned into a dispute with no apparent willingness to give by either side. And, so, as a result, the taxpayers of McCook and Red Willow County could end up paying two ways: for prosecution of the suit by the city, and for defense of the suit by the county...