Stories from Wednesday, May 9, 2007

The McCook Area Sertoma Club hosted McCook's first ever disc golf tournament -- the McCook Challenge. It was a sanctioned PDGA "D" Tier Event. There were 43 participants from as far away as Omaha and Sidney, Norton Kan., and Fort Collins, Colo., teeing off Saturday morning at Kelley Park...

The McCook High School boys and girls track teams will host the Nebraska Class B-6 District Meet Thursday at the MHS track. The meet starts at 11:30 a.m. Schools competing are McCook, Chase County-Imperial, Scottsbluff, Gering, Alliance, Mitchell, Sidney, Gordon-Rushville, Ogallala and Chadron...

BENKELMAN -- Dundy County hosted the junior high GPAC track meet Monday. Dundy County won the event in both the girls and boys divisions. Medicine Valley's boys finished in second, Arapahoe took third, Southwest was fourth and Wauneta-Palisade took fifth. Wallace end up in sixth place, Hitchcock County was seventh, Maywood took eighth and Hayes Center was ninth...

OBERLIN -- Decatur Community (Oberlin) and McCook St. Pats competed in the Oberlin Junior High track meet last Thursday. Oberlin's seventh grade girls finished fifth and the eighth grade girls were third. St. Pats seventh and eighth grade girls were both sixth...

IRVINE, Calif. -- Trey Harris, a combo guard from McCook (Neb.) Community College, has signed a national letter of intent with the UC Irvine men's basketball program, announced by Anteater head coach Pat Douglass. The 6-foot Harris averaged 12 points, 4 assists and shot 43 percent from three-point range en route to All-Region IX honors this past season for coach Ty Orton...

This summer McCook is hosting a wrestling camp featuring some of the top wrestlers at the college level. On June 19-20, University of Nebraska-Omaha wrestlers J.D. Naig and Ross Taplin will be the featured clinicians. J.D.Naig is a three-time national champion and Ross Taplin is also a national qualifier and placer...

An estimated 380 pool players from all over Western Nebraska will converge on McCook over a period of four weekends to participate in the 10th Annual Western Nebraska APA Pool Leagues Team Championships at the Republican River Valley Event Center in McCook...

June 7, 1958 - May 8, 2007 KEARNEY -- Teresa Carol Brown, 48, of Culbertson died Tuesday (May 8, 2007) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.  She was born June 7, 1958, in McCook to Earl Donald and Marcella Marie (Keegan) Ridpath.  She grew up in Indianola and attended Republican Valley Schools. She received her GED and graduated from McCook Beauty Academy...

Nov. 10, 1923-May 7, 2007 Maxine Lucille Ele, 83, of McCook died Monday (May 7, 2007) at Hillcrest Nursing Home.  She was born Nov. 10, 1923, at Orleans to Delburn Fay and Irene Anna (Ball) Willsey. The family moved to Wauneta where she graduated from high school. ...

McCook Public Schools is operating without a superintendent, following the acceptance of the resignation of Superintendent Dr. Don Marchant at a special school board meeting Tuesday evening. School board member Mike Gonzales said Dr. Marchant's resignation was effective immediately...

Looked in the medicine cabinet lately? If you are like most of us, it could probably use some cleaning out. Experts warn that the efficacy of drugs declines after they are older than their listed shelf life and they begin to break down. So flush them down the toilet, right?...

Lynch-mob? I've been pondering the incident at the high school ever since my wife read to me what one of your concerned citizens had to say. I wonder if that individual ever made a mistake or if maybe the savior has returned? The lynch-mob attitude that has been displayed over this incident concerns me far more than what some teenagers did! The Monday morning after on Open Line, people were ready to go out and start hanging teenagers before they even knew who had done this, or as far as that goes, what the extent of the damage was if any!. ...

Cell phone technology is great. Camera phones. Text messaging. Oh, and you can call people, too. And who doesn't love the personalized ring tones? With some models, you can tell by the ring tone who is on the other line. As Yakov Smirnoff would say, "What a country."...

It will now be easier for the "Greatest Generation" to stay connected to the computer generation, thanks to the efforts of 17-year old Ian Hunter of McCook. Hunter, a member of Boy Scout Troop 244, recently revamped six outdated computers and donated them to Hillcrest Nursing Home, as part of the service project he needed to complete to advance to Eagle Scouts. For Hunter, a self-professed computer junkie, working on the computers was a natural fit...

Oct. 7, 1951 - May 6, 2007 Joyce I. Samuelson, 55, of McCook died Sunday (May 6, 2007) at Community Hospital in McCook.  She was born Oct. 7, 1951, in McCook to John C. and Louise (Creighton) Pollmann. She graduated from Culbertson High School in 1968 and from McCook Community College in 1970. ...