Stories from Friday, September 2, 2005

The No. 4-ranked McCook Bison softball team went 7-0 with a 6-0 victory over the Holdrege Dusters Thursday night at the Jaycees Sports Complex in McCook. McCook pitchers Taryn Placzek and Marissa Wallace combined for a no-hitter. Placzek pitched the first five innings and stuck out nine with no walks...

Sept. 26, 1929--Sept. 1, 2005 HAIGLER -- Lucy Gorgetta Robbins, 75, died Thursday (Sept. 1, 2005) at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. She was born Sept. 26, 1929, to Harry and Lola (Bennett) Arnold in Rutheron, N.M. She was the youngest of five children and spent most of her childhood in New Mexico and Colorado...

Arthur Lee Land performs Thursday night at the final installment of this year's Hot Summer Nights concerts sponsored by McCook National Bank and MNB Financial Group in Norris Park. Land was joined by Steve Seskin in performing to a "packed" park on a pleasant evening. ...

Bodies are scattered outside the New Orleans convention center. An old man in a chaise lounge lays dead in a grassy median while hungry babies wail around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lays dead in her wheelchair, covered with a blanket, while another body lays nearby, wrapped in a sheet...

My wishes seem to change regularly. Sometimes, it's to lose weight. Sometimes, it's to have more patience. Sometimes, it's to understand what my 3-year-old is saying. Recently, however, my wish has been to be inventive and creative because then I could come up with a solution to my family's latest dilemma: An 8-person, leg-powered vehicle...

**Dear Editor, Evolution as a metaphysical research project? No proof? I suppose aforementioned writers believes there was a pair of T-Rex on Noah's Ark and that they behaved themselves; fasted during the trip? It is ostensibly laughable, these claims to debunk the theories of evolution (yes, only the ignorant do not realize there are many theories)...

**Dear Editor, With all due respect, it is not my intention to prove the Bible wrong, nor to prove (writer George Anderson) a buffoon as (he) seems more than capable of that feat unassisted "Metaphysical re-search"(http://www.mccook gazette.com/story/1116358.html)...

Oct. 5, 1936--Sept. 2, 2005 GOTHENEBURG -- Joanne K. Kennedy, 68, died Friday (Sept. 2, 2005). Joanne was born Oct. 5, 1936, at Ainsworth to Armand and Miriam Lambert Carr. She graduated from Springview High School in 1954. Joanne was married to Bruce L. ...

The George Norris home is getting freshened up on the outside, thanks to Duane Tappe, facility coordinator. "George would be proud," Tappe told the Nebraska Public Power District crew who installed the new flag pole at the Norris home on Wednesday. Tappe was referring to Norris' successful efforts as a Nebraska senator in bringing electricity to rural America in the 1930s...