Stories from Wednesday, May 30, 2007

LEXINGTON -- The McCook Rebels 14 and under girls fastpitch softball team traveled to Lexington to capture first place. The Rebels went 3-0 on Saturday to put them in the No. 1 seed for Sunday's tournament play, where they again went 3-0. The Rebels beat the Kearney Khaos 5-1...

LEXINGTON -- The McCook Rebels 12 and under girls fastpitch softball team traveled to Lexington over the Memorial Day weekend to participate in a nine-team tournament. The Rebels brought home second-place medals. The Rebels went 2-1 in pool play on Saturday...

Several McCook Midget Baseball Association games were played recently. Here are some of the highlights: Amfirst Bank vs JM Stevens Painting Matthew Towne and Nic Macfee both had 3 singles for Amfirst and Andrew Graff had 2 singles and 1 double for JM Stevens...

Division A Culbertson Bank 6 vs Samway Furniture 6 BAW Communications/T Pinkal Construction 3 vs Kohl Automotive/Parker 9 Don Hagan/Marr Insurance 3 vs Old Sarge's Bar 9 Mavericks 4 vs Ameriprise Financial 8 Trenton Electric 2 vs Midwest Livestock 10...

Ethan Hardin made a hole-in-one Tuesday on the par three seventh hole at Heritage Hills Golf Course. Ethan, 15, was playing with his brother, Ryan, 16, when his tee shot went into the hole. The ball hit on the front fringe, rolled to the cup, stopped momentarily at the edge, then dropped in...

Travel in Hayes County is "at your own risk," after torrential rains Monday and again Tuesday carved huge crevices in country roads and compromised bridges through-out the county. Tuesday's heavy rains also necessitated two evacuations near Culbertson and flooded roads near Palisade...

 July 22, 1921 - May 28, 2007 BENKELMAN -- Marion Royce Anderson, 85, died Monday (May 28, 2007) at the Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. He was born near Haigler on July 22, 1921, to George "Tom" and Iva (Wilkenson) Anderson and graduated from Parks High School...

Oct. 26, 1930 - May 27, 2007 NORTH?PLATTE -- Adine "Joan" Housman, 76, died Sunday (May 27, 2007) at her home in North Platte. She was born Oct. 26, 1930, at Hayes Center to Tony and Lucy (Brownell) Yonkers. She graduated from Hayes Center High School and later taught rural schools in the Wauntea and Hayes Center areas...

Sept. 11, 1987 - May 25, 2007 PFC Jonathan N. (McCart) Peterson, age 19, died Friday (May 25, 2007) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney as a result of an automobile accident. He was born Sept. 11, 1987, in Liberal, Kan., to Valery A. (Lira) McCart. He graduated from McCook High School in May of 2005 and joined the U.S. Army on July 26, 2005. ...

Have a good story about the McCook Army Airbase? The railroad? How about McCook's early baseball teams, school memories at Eastward, or Harry Strunk? It's all fair game at the open mike sessions of the Buffalo Commons Story-telling Festival, one of several free events scheduled for the festival...

A couple who wrote a spate of forged checks totalling $6,000 were bound over to District Court Tuesday. Kassie M. North, 23, and Michael Haar, 37, addresses unavailable, were arraigned in Red Willow County Court and charged with second degree forgery. North was charged with a total of nine forgery charges, seven as felonies and two as misdemeanors. Haar was charged with 11 forgery charges, five as felonies and six as misdemeanors...

Time was, people were institutionalized for all sorts of reasons -- epilepsy, alcoholism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, developmental disabilities -- any mental condition that the medical community didn't understand or couldn't cure was grounds for "putting away" the victim...

Memorial Day 2007 has come and gone. Personally, I am very grateful for this opportunity to honor our veterans. Memorial Day is a time of remembrance and reflection, not only for veterans, but for family and friends. Each year, the American Legion Post 203, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Boy Scouts, and a group of proud citizens put more than 400 American flags on known veterans' grave sites in Memorial Park and Riverview cemeteries in McCook. ...

I have been against this war from the very beginning. I respect that the soldiers are glorified for what they are doing for our country, but I think and feel that it is time to bring our soldiers home. Sincerely, McCook...

It is the last week of the First Regular Session of the 100th Legislature and any bill that has not made it onto the agenda by now has little chance to see debate this year. With only three legislative days left the bills that have not been indefinitely postponed (killed) and are sitting in committee or in the debate process at the end of this session, will be carried over to next year's session...

Waiting in doctor's offices or in line at the grocery store, or even in a traffic jam, I am seldom bored. I am a people watcher, always wondering what puts a secret smile on one woman's face and a perpetual scowl on another's. We wear clever masks, you see, unless we're convinced that no one is watching. Then the facade fades, even if just for a moment, sometimes revealing peace, more often, turmoil...