Stories from Friday, August 25, 2006

HASTINGS -- The McCook Bison softball team lost its first two games of the 2006 season Thursday at Hastings to Omaha Gross and Omaha Skutt. The Bison fell in the first game of the 2006 campaign when Omaha Gross won a nine inning game by the score of 6-5. After scoring 3 runs in the first 2 innings, McCook could only get 2 more in the next seven frames...

MAYWOOD -- In their return to eight-man football, the Maywood Tigers lost to Stapleton 51-6 Thursday night. The game was also Maywood's home opener. Stapleton entered the game ranked seventh in Class D-2 in the Omaha World Herald's preseason poll. The Broncos had a pair of 1,000-yard rushers returning from last year in Quincy Opela and Alex Hutchison...

KEARNEY -- University of Nebraska-Kearney volleyball coach Rick Squiers announced that setter Kayla Laird joined the UNK volleyball team. The Hayes Center native most recently played for the McCook Community College Indians. She was a member of the MCC volleyball and women's basketball teams, earning Academic All-American honors in both sports...

Maywood, Medicine Valley, Hayes Center and Dundy County exceeded the statewide average

McCook High School seniors Morgan Pearson, left, and Tristan Darling climb a ladder to put the finishing touches on the stylistic dancers they painted on the walls in the auditorium at MHS. Tristan said that the high school had a speaker last school year, "and we got bored, and were looking around" and Morgan added, "And we just thought the auditorium looked old and dingy and ugly." The girls drew up plans to brighten up the space and got the OK from MHS Principal Jerry Smith and then-activities director Rick Haney. ...

Kelley Park will be the site of a new Disc Golf Course.

July 24, 1930 - Aug. 24, 2006 Robert Dean Wilcox, Sr., 76, died Thursday (Aug. 24, 2006) at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. He was born July 24, 1930, at McCook, to Roy and Mildred (Adams) Wilcox.  He graduated from McCook High School in 1948. He served in the National Guard from 1948 until 1954...

McCook High School junior Justine Hager earned second-place medalist honors at the McCook Invitational girls golf tournament Friday afternoon at Heritage Hills. Hager finished with a 91 (46-45) and finished seven strokes behind first-place medalist Katie Keiser of Gothenburg, who fired an 84...

Dec. 6, 1922-Aug. 24, 2006 CURTIS -- Stanley Laverne Thomsen, 83, died Thursday (Aug. 24, 2006) in Sutherland. He was born on Dec. 6, 1922, at Norman to Chris and Maggie (Steffensen) Thomsen. On June 2, 1956, he married Mary Anne Stasch at Nenzel. He was a life-long resident of the Curtis area. He was a retired farmer who also did custodial work at the elementary and high school in Curtis...

Orchestrated traffic patterns -- enforced by law enforcement officers -- have been designed to reduce and/or eliminate vehicle congestion and improve student safety at McCook's new elementary school. Classes start Monday morning at McCook Ele-mentary, and School Super-intendent Dr. ...

With sponsors committed for 11 of the 18 holes, the McCook Rotary Club is optimistic that the Kelley Creek Disc Golf Course will become a reality before the end of 2006. A Rotary Club committee is spearheading fund raising efforts through a variety of activities, including a challenge to all civic clubs to sponsor a hole. So far, the Optimists and Lions clubs have voted to sponsor a hole and the Elks Club and Sertoma Club are considering it...