Stories from Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Brandon Crick ties for 5th place with a 72 GRAND ISLAND -- The McCook High School boys golf team opened the season Monday with an 11th-place finish at the Grand Island Invitational, The tournament was played on the Jackrabbit Run Golf Course. McCook was the lone Class B team in a field of Class A schools...

ELWOOD -- Records were broken in the Elwood invite Friday. Eustis-Farnam's Tyler Kugler broke the record in the boys 400 with a time of 50.8 and Southwest's Lisa Lord broke the girls tripe jump record. Loomis's Lance Thorell and Kailey Hunhoff were also record breakers...

By LORRI SUGHROUE City Editor After hearing from a vocal crowd of several hundred Monday night, the McCook City Council voted 4 to 1 against an ordinance that would have set city manager John Bingham's salary. A special city council meeting has been scheduled for Monday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. to terminate Bingham's contract...

A McCook man was to appear in Red Willow County Court today after he allegedly cut a woman's throat Saturday night. William J. Bahl, 36, of McCook, will be charged with first-degree assault and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, both felonies that are punishable by 20 years in jail and a $25,000 fine...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor Coordinators of a pesticide collection in McCook aren't disappointed that the weight and number of pesticides turned in have decreased since the Nebraska Department of Agriculture started cost-free pesticide collections nine years ago...

Mayor Dennis Berry asked input from council member as to what direction they wanted city staff to go concerning the subcommittee of the proposed county/city safety center. The committee's first meeting, open to the public, is scheduled tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the County Commissioner room...

Say what you will about McCook, but there's one thing you can't deny: the people stand up for themselves and they're not afraid to speak their minds. Never has that been more apparent than in the past few weeks, when the re-hiring of John Bingham as city manager sparked one of the most fierce displays of public dissent in community history...

**Dear Editor, After observing the comments made and the behavior of the crowd at the McCook City Council meeting of April 3, I now understand how innocent people were killed by lynch mobs. Sincerely, **Kathy Haas McCook

A 30-year summer tradition in McCook has been reborn. This rebirth has occurred because of the gracious generosity of the citizens of our area. As a celebration of our American freedoms, the McCook Optimist Club will once again take up the torch started by the McCook Elks Club in the '70s, and sponsor a Community Fourth of July Fireworks Display...

It was a quick trip on short notice, but most funerals are. Kenneth White -- or Kenny, as my Dad, four years older, called him -- descended from some of the founding families of our home town, just as my family did. His wife held my mother's job as home economics teacher before Mom did, his son, Dad and I spent many a spring day working calves or hogs, and our families saw each other at church every weekend...

As a native 25 years-old Kansas Citian Hmong who has "Hmong" as a Google Alert, I found this story ("An airport encounter with two new friends," by Dick Trail http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1146425.html) to be uplifting. Thank you for the article...