Stories from Thursday, May 18, 2006

McCook senior has 11 top three finishes at Omaha McCook High School senior Brendan Liess is already one of the most decorated athletes in sports history at both MHS and the state of Nebraska. In addition to being a member of two state championship football teams and two state runnerup squads, Liess also has 11 medals in his trophy case from the Nebraska Class B state track and field championships...

ARAPAHOE -- Tony Braithwait and Blake Maaske of Arapahoe high school have signed letters of intent to play basketball at Dana College next season. Maaske was a first team Class D All-State selection this past season and second team All-State as a junior...

McCook Daily Gazette Community Hospital of McCook plans the ceremonial groundbreaking for its new rehabilitation center at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 25. "We're excited about our new project," said James Ulrich, who will transition into the position of president and CEO with the semi-retirement of Gary Bieganski in July. ...

A hearing in Holdrege on Tuesday shows just how tough a time proponents of a plan to transfer water from the Platte to the Republican River basin are going to have selling the idea. Among the chief spokesmen for the opponents, at a hearing of the Legislature's Natural Resources Committee, was Kent Miller, general manager of the Twin Platte Natural Resources District...

With only 24 hours in a day, it's always been hard for me to prioritize the things that need to be done. There's work, of course -- eight hours of the day gone to paying bills and having a little play money for whatever little project I might come up with. Then there's sleep. An additional seven to eight hours that prevents me from doing the fun things in life that I really want to do, like mowing the lawn, cleaning the house, laying the flooring on the deck, shopping for a new water heater …...

I attended a Memorial Service at Karrer Park on Monday, May 15 for Law Enforcement week. Even though the morning was beautiful and the service heart touching, I was sad. Thinking that in a town of almost 8,000 people there were only about five adults and three children watching the service...

As a kid I back in the late '50s, I had fun pushing a mower The kind of mower that had no motor but cut grass by pushing it. Then, 33 years ago when we got married, my dad gave me a push mower with, again, no motor. Well that one finally died and I had to buy a new one, as few can be found at yard sales. ...

Feb. 27, 1937 - May 13, 2006 OBERLIN -- Robert E. "Bob" Morris, 69, died Friday (May 13, 2006) at the Robert E Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, Kan. He was born in Oberlin, Feb. 27, 1937, to Claude and Sylvia (Post) Morris. He attended Oberlin Elementary School and graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1955...