Stories from Wednesday, May 3, 2006

LEXINGTON -- The McCook High School varsity girls tennis team improved its season duel record to 5-2 by defeating Lexington 5 matches to 4 Tuesday at Lexington. The Bison play Thursday at the Kearney Catholic Invite and Saturday at the Greater Nebraska Activities Council tournament at Scottsbluff...

The McCook Community College men's golf team placed eighth in the eight-team NJCAA District III tournament Monday and Tuesday at Heritage Hills in McCook. The top two teams qualified for the 2006 NJCAA Division I men's tournament at Sierra Blanca Golf Course, Ruidoso, N.M...

SUTHERLAND -- Several area track teams competed in the Best of the Midwest track and field invitational in Sutherland Tuesday. McCook's girls took home two first place medals and the boys earned a gold in the 4x100. Kim Miller won the shot put and Kayla Wilson took the discus...

Rick Haney shoots a hole-in-one McCook High School activities director Rick Haney recorded a hole-in-one at Heritage Hills Golf Course April 22. Haney used an 8-iron to hole out the 146-yard fifth hole. The hole-in-one was witnessed by Monte Hazlitt, Dan Stramel, Steve Leopold and Kelvin Miller...

KEARNEY -- Senior Brandon Crick finished fifth with a 75 Tuesday at the Kearney Invitational and the McCook High School boys golf team placed seventh out of 14 teams with a 332 score. Crick shot a 37 on the front nine holes on the Meadowlark Golf Course in Kearney and followed with a 38 on the back nine...

Oct. 19, 1921 - May 1, 2006 Martha Francis Nelson, 84, of Lexington, died Monday (May 1, 2006) at Park Avenue Estates in Lexington. She was born to Charles W. and Mattie (Anderson) O'Neill on Oct. 19, 1921, on a farm near Hazard. She married Glen Lawson in 1941...

BARTLEY -- Sadie Riddle, 92, died Monday (May 1, 2006) at Parsons House in Omaha. She was born on the family farm in Frontier County on Feb. 27, 1914, to Seward and Cora (Wolfe) Flanigan. She attended rural school, graduating from Bartley High School in 1931...

April 15, 1927- May 2, 2006 Dr. Lavern Ray Blank was born on April 15, 1927, at Franklin, the son of Thomas and Lila Blank. He passed away on May 2 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook at the age of 79. Lavern attended grade school and high school at Franklin Public Schools, graduating in 1944...

Jan. 16, 1906-May1, 2006 BENKELMAN -- Alice Ruth Steele, of Benkelman, died Monday (May 1, 2006) at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman, at the age of 100. She was born January 16, 1906' to Albert and Minnie (Gunther) Pettit on the family homestead where she spent most of her life. She attended Porter country school near her home...

Law enforcement officers anticipate that criminal charges will be filed against the man who held police at bay for 5 1/2 hours Monday morning and kept his South Street neighbors away from their homes for three hours longer. McCook Police Chief Ike Brown did not release the name of the man police took into protective custody when he surrendered at 12:53 p.m., after he fired a "warning shot" and negotiated for 5 1/2 hours with a friend and police, Work Ethic Camp officials and Nebraska State Patrol officers.. ...

B Street drivers deal with the unusual condition of wet pavement Tuesday evening in McCook. Residents hope the showers in the forecast turn into more than the .01 inch received.

Nebraska may be the Cornhusker State, but when it comes to politics, we're more like Missouri -- Show me. Something about hype leaves us a little short. That's why the McCook Daily Gazette is supporting Don Stenberg for the Republican nomination for Senate, and Ron Ross for State Treasurer...

I've done it again. It's the third time in six months. I'd be worried about my memory and powers of concentration except that I remember, all too well, that this is the third time in six months that I've added when I should have subtracted in my checkbook register...

BENKELMAN -- Viola E. Brown, 102, of Benkelman, died Sunday (April 30, 2006) at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman . She was born in Phillips County, Kan., on the Bradley farrm. On May 10, 1919, she married Ernest Foster Brown,. The Couple had eight children, all born in Benkelman...