Stories from Thursday, April 5, 2007

LINCOLN -- The Nebraska volleyball team continues its spring season this weekend, as the Huskers head to North Platte to take on the Wichita State Shockers. Saturday's match, scheduled for 2 p.m. at North Platte High School, has been sold out for a month, as all 2,400 tickets were gobbled up the first day they were available...

BENKELMAN -- Dundy County's boys won their home invitational Tuesday. The Tiger girls finished the day in seventh. Cambridge's girls won the overall title, with Hitchcock County coming in second and Maywood third. Wauneta-Palisade finished in fourth, St. Francis was fifth and Southwest took sixth. Arapahoe followed Dundy County in eighth and Hayes Center was ninth...

GRANT -- Chase County's girls won the Ed Moore Memorial track invitational Saturday. The Longhorn boys finished in fifth. Perkins County's girls and boys both finished sixth in the meet. Ogallala's boys finished in first, Gothenburg, was second and Cozad took third. Sidney finished fourth ahead of Chase County and Perkins County and Ainsworth was seventh...

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Postponements The Kearney Invitational golf tournament, where the McCook High School boys team was slated to compete today, has been postponed indefinitely. The Broken Bow track meet, featuring the Bison boys and girls, has been moved from today to Monday at 1 p.m...

Decatur Community Red Devils Oberlin golf coach Coach Dick Ahlberg will try to return to State this season, after ending last years and the Northwest Kansas League champions. "Our team will try to repeat as NWKL champions," said Ahlberg. The Red Devils return Jobey Black and Breck Simonsson to the team. Both boys were all NWKL players and Simonsson is a two time state qualifier. The team also returns lettermen and seniors Corey Cook and Andy Gilliam...

Sen. Mark Christensen's water bill, LB 701, will advance to the the full Legislature for debate on Tuesday, at which time he hopes to add some amendments that will address concerns he failed to get in committee. Still, it will be "Russian Roulette" at that point, he said, as he wants to add enough amendments to fix the bill, but not enough to kill it...

The tulips seemed to be holding up well in spite of this morning's snow, which was expected to reach a depth of a couple of inches, but some gardeners and farmers were concerned about what a late frost might to to other flowering plants and the wheat crop...

The father of the Unicameral, Tennessee Valley Authority and the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, otherwise known as the "Lame Duck" amendment, George W. Norris was one of eight U.S. senators spotlighted in John F. Kennedy's book, "Profiles in Courage."...

Several of you have been asking about our daughter, Emilee, who was in a car accident in February. What a miracle this situation has been! It was a lonely, country road. There was snow on the ground on a cold evening. But, when she was thrown from the vehicle, she had her cell phone with her and she remained conscious, so she called for help herself. ...

Monday was a great day. The sun was shining, it was nearly 80 degrees outside and the wind was blowing at less than the normal 25 miles per hour. It was a rare occasion. Brad was home from work early. I had the day off. Jeremy was home from school by 3:35 p.m. We talked about what we wanted to do for the evening. We were all tired of sitting at home watching television...

May 21, 1947 - April 4, 2007 NORTH?PLATTE?-- Cindy J. Kelsch died Wednesday (April 4, 2007) at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, at the age of 59. She was born May 21, 1947, in McCook, the daughter of the late Albert and Jane (Matson) Kee. Cindy grew up in McCook, where she graduated from McCook Senior High in 1965, and from McCook Junior College in 1967, where she was an honor student on the Deans list and a member of Phi Theta Kappa...