Stories from Saturday, August 6, 2005

By GLORIA MASONER McCook Daily Gazette Politicians make it a major part of their platform. Community service organizations talk about ways it can be stopped. Political subdivisions put out money and property to change it ... And two women from Holdrege are now doing their part to bring it to a halt...

Work on the East B Street construction project should be switching lanes within a week and a half, according to Hugh Holak, District Construction Engineer with the Nebraska Department of Roads. Holak said Werner Construction expects to complete the work on the north two lanes by the end of next week or first of the following week. Once the traffic is switched work will begin on breaking up the old concrete...

Don't worry about the bricks on Norris Avenue. They continue to serve McCook well and will remain in place. Those words came this week from Kyle Potthoff, the city's director of public works. He commented on the bricks in the midst of a crosswalk replacement program at four of the intersections on Norris Avenue: A, C, D and E...

I was in a rut. I was in love with someone who couldn't or wouldn't live up to the promises she had made me and it had put my whole life on hold. I was doing nothing but treading water, living life in a holding pattern, hoping beyond hope that some miracle would occur that would allow her and I to pick up where we left off and get on with all our hopes, plans, and dreams. ...