Stories from Thursday, June 22, 2006

COLBY -- The McCook National Bank American Legion Seniors baseball team split a doubleheader at Colby Wednesday night. The Seniors (13-8) lost the opener 8-3 and won the nightcap 11-3 in a five-inning run-rule contest. McCook scored single runs in the top of the first, fourth and fifth innings and collected eight hits...

KEARNEY -- University of Nebraska-Kearney men's golf coach Dick Beechner Wednesday announced the names of 14 high school seniors that will join the Lopers next season. The group includes 13 Nebraskans, 10 who qualified for their state tournament this past fall...

American Legion squad will compete at North Platte Tournament this weekend The McCook American Legion Midgets baseball team lost a 9-1 decision to Hayes Wednesday night at Jaycees Sports Complex. The Midgets also split a doubleheader at Lexington Tuesday night. McCook won the first game 16-5 and lost the nightcap 15-13...

Crick falls in Neb. Junior Match Play Tournament BELLEVUE -- McCook High School graduate Brandon Crick competed in the Nebraska Junior Match Play Championship at Bellevue this week. Only 32 out of more than 100 golfers qualified on Tuesday. The tournament is being played at Willow Lakes Golf Course...

Public Schools board of education Wednes-day evening described the criteria of the "operating council" that will make recommendations to the full board regarding the operation of the former Class I District 8 ("Fitch") attendance center southwest of McCook...

Red Willow County Commission Chairman Earl McNutt knows that a new city-county public safety center, sheriff's office and jail would reduce or eliminate the county's transportation of prisoners and its rental of jail space in other counties. McNutt told fellow members of the city-county jail study committee at a meeting Wednesday that a new jail would also meet the needs of an increasing jail population. "I don't see that ever going away," he said...

It seemed to be "just say no" to radio towers Monday night at the McCook City Council. First was an ongoing dispute with the McCook Public Power District over replacement of a communications tower near its North U.S. Highway 83 headquarters in McCook...

It was discouraging to watch the penny wise and pound foolish City Council Monday night. Three of the four councilmen voted not to allow the cell tower to be put on agriculture land outside of the city limits, even though the planning commission has voted unanimously for it...

Writer Ray poses some interesting questions in his letter of 6-19 A.D. 2006. Perhaps I can provide some information that will answer those questions to his satisfaction. The "Bi-" in Bible means two, two testaments, the Old Testament and the New Testament. Testament means "Promise" hence, the old Promise and the New Promise...

Nov. 13, 1908 - June 20, 2006 KANSAS?CITY, Kan. --  Henry "Hank" Brehm died Tuesday, June 20, at Presbyterian Manor of Kansas City. He was 97 years old.  He was born Nov. 13, 1908, to John and Kate (Wilman) Brehm at Beverly. He graduated from Palisade High School. His parents and four brothers preceded him in death -- Albert, Joe, Ruben, and Elmer.  One sister, Freida Romersheuser, lives in Indianola...

A while back a friend of mine undertook refurbishing an old house in Sod Town portion of Palisade. He wants to restore it so it looks like an old time homestead. He and I talked of windmills, outhouses, antique relics of the past as enhancement, I told him of an old outhouse I knew about. He inquired but received a "No, you can't have it" answer...

**Dear Editor, It would be helpful if those stopped by a flagman at road construction sites would use their hazard warning flashers. **Phyllis Nordhausen, Wauneta

I'm glad to see that some things never change, like the fact that McCook is still the "City Without Limits," provided you have the right last name, right amount of money or the right connections. I refer in this instance to the cell towers than have been placed in two places where they weren't wanted and not placed in the other. The only difference was who had the money and who didn't...

In reference to Kati Ladenburger's letter of June 21 ("Prairie Dogs, C.O.D."), I am actually a scientist with a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology. I have extensive field experience with a wide range of rodent species including the maligned nutria. Although Ms. Ladenburger is correct that I have yet to conduct a formal field study on prairie dogs, I have researched them extensively...

March 9, 1900 - May 4, 2006 FRANKLIN -- Marie Martha Osterlund died Thursday, May 4, 2006 at the Franklin Health Care Center in Franklin at the age of 106. She was born March 9, 1900 on a farm southeast of Macon, the daughter of the late William and Mattie (Yelkin) Denendehner. ...

Sept. 21, 1930 - March 12, 2006 FRONTENAC, Kan. -- Joan Lee Haller, 75 died Sunday, March 12, 2006 at Sunset Manor in Frontenac, Kan.  She was 75 years old.   She was born in McCook on September 21, 1930 to Jake and Marie (Reinek) Frick, Jr. She was raised on a farm east of Culbertson and later graduated from Culbertson High School in 1948.  She worked for Safeway Grocery Store until her retirement in 1986...

Over the last eight years, I've learned a lot from Brad about fishing and hunting. Up until last year, we'd never fished from a boat. Instead, we would sit in the shade of the trees that line the banks of the area lakes, sip our sodas and wait. We never waited long. We found our favorite fishing hole threw our lines out into the lake as far as we could get them, Not once did we go home skunked...