Stories from Friday, July 29, 2005

Both teams finish unbeaten with 3-0 records The Ravens and Jets are the champions of the McCook Football League, which wrapped up its season Thursday night at Weiland Field. The Ravens won the Grades 7-8 title with an 8-0 victory over the Redskins and finished the season 3-0...

Brandon Crick shoots 82 in 3rd round of stroke play OMAHA -- McCook High School senior-to-be Brandon Crick fired an 82 Thursday in the third round of the Nebraska State Men's Stroke Play Championship. The tournament is being played at the par-71 Omaha Country Club...

March 5, 1925 -- July 28, 2005 Arlington Richard Terrell, 80, died Thursday (July 298, 2005) at Community Hospital of McCook. He was born March 5, 1925, to Earl J. and Mary Olive (Nealeigh) Terrell in the Cornell Community. He grew up in the Cornell Community and graduated from Trenton High School...

McCook Bison seniors-to-be participate in 8 DI camps this summer When the final bell sounded to end the 2004-2005 school year, most students walked out the door looking forward to a nice relaxing summer. As Brendan Liess and Tony Purvis' summer was underway, they only knew hard work and dedication would help them achieve one of their many goals for their Senior year -- to land a Division I football scholarship...

HOLDREGE -- A special prosecutor and the Nebraska Attorney General's office have both closed their files on a case in which Furnas County Sheriff J.H. "Hank" Pulley was accused of verbally attacking and threatening former Oxford City Administrator Dennis Wolzen...

When it comes to growing the state economy, the new Nebraska Advantage Act is not the end-all answer, says Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Nabity. Nabity made a stop in McCook on Thursday to follow up on a press conference he held in Omaha to discuss his economic growth plan...

CAFTA is wonderful. CAFTA is horrible. It depends on whom you ask. "CAFTA could not stand on its merits," According to U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota. "The Administration recognized that the facts were not on the side of CAFTA and resorted to sleazy Washington deals. The checkbook was opened and deals were made right up until the last minute to force CAFTA through in the dark of night."...

**Dear Editor, On the last days of the Nebraska Legislature, LB 126 was passed, forcing consolidation of all Class I (rural schools) with larger K-12 districts. This law would dissolve Class I districts without the vote of the local patrons. It is a very complex law, taking away local control which is very important to make the Class I districts work efficiently and improve the quality of education that the small schools have...

If our time spent looking for lost things uses up great blocks of our lives, then reunions make us realize how much time has been lost. With the nose to the grindstone, days are spent going to work, doing laundry, driving to soccer games. Time spent with distant friends is pushed to the back burners. Before you know it, a decade has passed since you have seen people which you spent every waking hour with for years during college...

**Dear Editor, Thanks for your coverage of the Highway 25 Association's recent Sale-abration, 130 miles long and yards and yards wide. When working with an event such as this, it soon becomes apparent how much we depend on "The Paper" to spread the word concerning an approaching happening. There would be little to report about the day when it actually arrived, without your valuable input ahead of time...

The McCook Chamber of Commerce will be at the McCook City Council meeting Monday night to make a request for $5,000 to $10,000 to market a new Christmas promotion. According to the city council packet, the Chamber of Commerce is hoping to implement a "Let it Snow" campaign in which customers can have a "free" Christmas if certain conditions are met...

Hans Grunden of rural Curtis discusses his calf with showmanship judge Lance Manker of Indianola, during the Frontier County Fair on Friday morning in Stockville. Saturday, the Marv Andrijeski Memorial Antique Tractor Pull and the car show begin at 11 a.m. ...

There is something for everybody in the Golden Plains if you look at the energy bill passed by Congress and ready for President Bush to sign. No, not everyone is happy with the measure -- like nearly everything coming out of Washington, the 1,724-page document is a compromise. But both the fossil fuel and renewable energy industries can take heart in the new or extended tax incentives that are part of the bill...

**Dear Editor, The Wilsonville Town Clerk still didn't quote me right. I stated, "I resign because the Board follows the ordinances of the town arbitrarily. I can't be a part of a Board like that." Their attorney tried to get me to say I was resigning because of the petition and then I repeated myself...

The problem with television these days is not content but choice. Or lack of choice. Or lack of the ability to make a choice. When I was growing up, choice wasn't an issue. There was no cable or satellite television. If you lived in town or close to a television tower, you could pick up the signals with "rabbit ears" that sat on top of the television set...

Sept. 20, 1937-July 28, 2005 CURTIS -- Leland Douglas Welch, 67, died Thursday (July 28, 2005), at Sunset Haven Nursing Home in Curtis. He was born Sept. 20, 1937, at Farnam, to Robert and Mildred (Spencer) Welch. He graduated from Farnam High School in 1955...

John William Beck, 88, formerly of the McCook area, died Thursday (July 28, 2005), at Hays, Kan. Services will be Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., at McCook Christian Church with the Rev. Clark Bates officiating. Interment will be at Riverview Cemetary in McCook...