Stories from Friday, August 4, 2006

McCook's Lortz coaches Red Team; Jillian Bryant plays first base LINCOLN -- Putting some of the best recently graduated seniors in the state on the mound was bound to give batters a hard time. That's what the hitters got before a crowd of 876 at Haymarket Park on Wednesday for the Nebraska Coaches Association All-Star Games...

Heritage Hills Golf Course Men's Golf League Results and Team Standings Division I Individual Low Gross Anthony Davis 35 Eric Hutto 35 Kent Hardin 37 Ray Chmiel 37 Brett Brown 37 Kevin Michaelis 37 Division II Individual Low Gross Joe Townsley 36 Kelvin Miller 40...

McCook sophomore Jacque Roberts competes for OSU STILLWATER, Okla. -- Six future Oklahoma State University Cowgirl riders have qualified for the American Quarter Horse Association Youth World Championships Monday through Aug. 15 in Fort Worth, Texas...

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Transportation has turned down Grand Island's request for a different air carrier. Mesa Air Group, dba Air Midwest, was selected by the DOT as essential air service for Grand Island as well as for McCook. Under current plans, McCook will have two round trips daily to Omaha...

For Rebecca Schaffer and Sam Rudolph, managing between 50-60 kids from kindergarten through high school is all in a day's work. As directors of the Missoula Children's Theater, they do more than just manage. Within a week's time they must put together a show complete with scenery, costumes and makeup, rehearse songs and lines with the school-aged cast, then move onto the next town and do the same thing all over...

Privatization isn't the be-all and end-all when it comes to improving government efficiency. There are inherent dangers mixing private industry and public money, but the problems are fewer than another mix: slow-moving bureaucracy and computer technology that changes by the hour...

Oct. 4, 1921-Aug. 2, 2006 ARAPAHOE -- Joyce Burke Cory, 84, died Wednesday (Aug. 2, 2006) at her home in Dallas, Texas. She was born Oct. 4, 1921, at Edison, to Donnelly and Edith (Major) Burke. She was raised in the Edison area and graduated from Edison High School in 1936...

LEBANON -- Beaver Valley firefighters in Lebanon may have gotten a new tanker truck, but that doesn't mean they'll quickly forget certain quirks and characteristics of the old truck. The old truck, a 1953 GMC 6x6 with a winch, was an Army or National Guard surplus truck that the Nebraska Forestry Service loaned to the Beaver Valley fire department. ...