Stories from Friday, March 30, 2007

The McCook Community College baseball team will play doubleheaders at Lamar, Colo., Sunday and Monday, instead of Saturday and Sunday, because of weather reasons. The twinbills start at 2 p.m. central/1 p.m. mountain. Games scheduled for April 10 in McCook against Cloud County, Kan., have been canceled...

CAMBRIDGE -- Cambridge golfers hosted the Cambridge invite Wednesday. North Platte St. Pats won the tournament. Alma followed in second, Franklin was third and Cambridge took fourth. Southern Valley round out the top five. Hitchcock County took seventh, Southwest was ninth and Eustis-Farnam came in 10th...

The McCook St. Patrick's track teams competed in the Maywood Junior High track meet Tuesday at the McCook High School track. Hayes Center won the event on the girls side. St. Pats followed in second, Maywood was third and Medicine Valley was fourth...

The LeRoy Hoehner Invitational track meet is scheduled for Saturday at the McCook High School track. Field events begin at 10 a.m., and the track events start at 11:30. Field events will start with the girls long and triple jump on the west side of the track and the boys long and triple jump on the east side...

Roxann Owens of Painting Plus works on the mural at Heritage Senior Center Wednesday afternoon, which she began in March and hopes to finish by April. The country road mural, which stretches across the dining room, will incorporate scenes she used from a magazine along with photographs she took south of the McCook...

Work on the highway improvement project on US-6 & 34 between Cambridge and Holbrook will resume on April 9, according to Nebraska Department of Roads officials. The remaining work will involve placing the top lift of asphalt on the entire roadway, building asphalt curb and flumes, completing the remaining guard rail and seeding the shoulders. Traffic will be maintained during construction using flaggers and pilot vehicles...

Some day, some student of political science should write a master's thesis on the conflicts, sacrifices, compromises and maneuverings that went into Thursday's announcement of a complicated plan to meet Nebraska's obligation to deliver Republican River water to Kansas...

Three months. A little over three months until I am officially undesirable … to the advertising agencies. While most people make a big deal out of reaching the "0" birthdays such as 30, 40, 50, 110, another birthday milestone usually passes quietly. It's the turn of the calendar from 34 to 35...

As a professional biologist, I'm alarmed that a course in creationism will be offered as science in McCook (McCook Daily Gazette, Mar 28.). Creationism is religious apologetics, not science. It relies on common sense and rationalizing, not creating and testing hypotheses...

Wauneta-Palisade boys, state champion wrestlers from Kansas top the list An undefeated state championship boys basketball team from Nebraska, a girls team with two losses and two state champion wrestlers from Kansas lead the McCook Daily Gazette's All-Area selections for winter 2006-07...

Sept. 22, 1912-March 30, 2007 Maudie L. Oberg, 94, died Friday (March 30, 2007), at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born Sept. 22, 1912, in Bonner Springs, Kan., to Thomas and Ella (Morash) Tirrill. She attended rural school at District 8 south of McCook...

April 23, 1924-March 30, 2007 Barbara R. Bortner, 82, died Friday (March 30, 2007), at Community Hospital in McCook. She was born on April 23, 1924, at McCook, to Fredrick and Barbara (Bauer) Schlecht. She attended McCook High School. On April 4, 1948, she married Melvin Bortner in McCook. They made their home on a farm north of McCook where she helped with the farm work and was a homemaker...

When the cry of "We have no king but Caesar!" was first uttered, the Rev. Gary Brethour placed the 158 attendees at Friday afternoon's Community Lenten service among that crowd. "Would we have joined in that chorus?" he wondered. And, more to the point, he continued, what would we say today? Would we still cry, "We have no king but Caesar?"...

May 22, 1907 - March 28, 2007 RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Robert "Bob" Rousselle, 99, died Wednesday (March 28, 2007) in Riverside, Calif. He was born May 22, 1907, to Camille and Sarah (Angermeir) Rousselle in Beaver Crossing. He married Rachel Cook, Sept. ...