Stories from Friday, April 21, 2006

GOTHENBURG -- The McCook High School boys golf team won the Gothenburg Invitational title Thursday with a 311 score and senior Brandon Crick won first-place individual medalist honors with a 67. The tournament was played at the Wild Horse Golf Course...

The McCook High School varsity tennis team lost just one match out of nine Thursday afternoon against Hershey at the Elks and Bison courts. McCook dropped a match at No. 3 doubles. The Bison junior varsity posted a 26-5 record against the Panther JV...

ATWOOD -- Rawlins County's track team took first in the team standings in Tuesday's home track meet. Hoxie finished fourth in the boys division and sixth for the girls side. Macy Migchelbrink took home two gold medals, winning the 300 intermediate hurdles and the 100 high hurdles...

Jade Muehlenkamp and other past McCook American Legion baseball players are returning home this weekend to put on a free skills clinic for players ages 11-12. Registration will be from 1:15-2 p.m. on Sunday. The clinic will last from 2-4:30 p.m. at Felling Field...

CURTIS -- The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture rodeo team hosted its largest High School Timed Event Jackpot ever last Saturday. More than 70 contestants from Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas competed for cash prizes and all-around scholarships...

MCC site for seven hoops camps McCook Community College will host seven basketball camps this summer, said men's basketball coach Ty Orton. June 2-4 is the Girls Team camp. For high school girls teams from around the area and the nation. The cost is $250 per team and each team is guaranteed seven games...

June 11, 1915 - April 19, 2006 Kearney -- H. Irene Davis, 90, of Kearney, formerly of Beaver City, died Wednesday (April 19, 2006) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born June 11, 1915, at Beaver City, to Ira and Eunice (Lewis) Hester. She grew up in Beaver City and graduated from Beaver City High School with the class of 1933...

April 13, 1922- April 18, 2006 OBERLIN -- Dale R. Carlisle, 84, died Wednesday (April 19, 2006) at his home in Oberlin. He was born April 13, 2006, in Traer, Kan., to Arthur and Clara (Porterfield) Carlisle. He attended school in Traer through the ninth grade and graduated from Decatur Community High School...

Rose Marie Unger died Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at McCook Community Hospital. She was 95 years old. Rose was born on February 25, 1911, at Kearney to William Frederick and Bertha Cedonia (Gartner) Keen. As a child Rose's parents moved from Minden to McCook. She was baptized in April of 1937, by Pastor Wagner at the Lutheran Church northwest of Oberlin. She attended school at Perry...

The president of the McCook Public Library's board of directors will use the new computer, scanner and printer at the library to preserve about 75 old photographs of railroad life in McCook. When Steve Batty's not using the new system to complete that project -- he has until March 2007 -- it can be used by other library patrons interested in doing their own picture-history projects...

We're often amused by our big-city cousins' observations about small-town life. "What is there to do?" they wonder. Anyone who has lived in most small towns for any length of time knows that finding something to do isn't a problem. More often, especially with jobs and young children, the question is, "Which of these 14 things should I choose to do?" or "How do I politely decline to be involved in these 10 worthy community projects?"...

Your April 17 article about "McCook's own, J. Raymond McCarl," was an excellent recollection of an outstanding public servant who served as the first Comptroller General of the United States. But it concluded with a significant factual error when it stated that the position has been eliminated and replaced with two federal Inspectors General...

We have been reading with interest plans to add more time to McCook's school day next year. Perhaps there are good reasons for extending the hours in school, not only for high school students, but for Central and elementary students as well. However, not one teacher nor parent I have approached had any foreknowledge this decision was being made...

Young lady comes up to the store. Says, Mr. BILL I hate my life. I asked her how old she was. She said 15 years old. I said you want a driver's license I bet? NO was her answer. I said then what's the problem? The girl said "I'm (jail bait)." Now in 23 years on the streets of McCook that is a first...

Ten items or less While I'll glance at the signs, especially those yards supporting every candidate in every race (if they can't make up their mind in their yard, what is that owner going to do in the voting booth?), I take special notice of those signs displayed where obviously no one lives...

By DAWN CRIBBS Associate Editor It's a new lease on life for Marilyn Matson. Her new link to that lease is her newly arrived service dog, "Link." On March 28, Marilyn arrived in Concordia, Kan., to begin two weeks of training with her 15-month old Labrador...