Stories from Friday, June 1, 2007

The McCook Bison Football Team will be hosting the annual Championship Football Camp from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 4-7 at the McCook practice field. The camp will feature many of the players that helped McCook to 5 straight undefeated seasons, four straight state football championship games...

McCook's own Chris Wiemers won the John Mullen Pro-Am Golf Tournament in 2006 and returns for the 19th annual event at Heritage Hills this weekend. The tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. The festivities kick off with the Horse Race at 4 p.m. today...

CRETE -- McCook Community College baseball coach Jeremy Jorgensen has accepted the head baseball coaching position at Doane College in Crete. He will assume his new duties on July 1. Jorgensen compiled an impressive record while at MCC recording 23 plus wins in each of the past three seasons...

May 30, 1914 - May 25, 2007 LOVELAND, Ohio -- Vivian Esther Victoria Murry, 92, died Friday (May 25, 2007) at the Lodge Care Center in Loveland, Ohio. She was born May 30, 1914, at Kearney to Nels and Emma Nelson and was raised in a sod house. The family moved to Dundy County and she attended school in Max.  She continued her education at nursing school in Denver, Colo.  After graduation, she relocated to California in 1940...

Southwest Nebraskans with water damaged homes from the recent storms need to be on the lookout for mold growth, said Mary K. Warner, Extension Educator. If homeowners have discovered dampness or water in their basements or experienced other types of water leaks from the driving rain, they may have ideal conditions for mold growth in their home...

Bryce Scott, John Huffman, Brock Kotschwar and Taylor Garcia enjoy tubing down the Republican River near McCook -- something that hasn't been popular for several years. With the abundance of rainfall came washed out roads, flash floods and other problems, however...

The 2007 Legislature is history, and there was a lot for us in greater Nebraska to think about. The biggest issue for Southwest Nebraska, of course, was LB701, designed to keep us in the irrigation business at a cost of 10 cents per $100 of assessed property value, plus $10 an acre for irrigated land...

I am sure you know about the contamination we have in east McCook from the old TRW plant, and the tax dollars spent for the treatment plant on airport road. We were told here on East 15th street, that the poison was going down the airport road. Yeah, in a pig's eye; now in all their infinite wisdom, they have put a chemical warehouse below the old TRW site...

Sitting in the airplane, waiting to fly out of Denver, I stare listlessly out the window. I am empty. The gray clouds above spit gray mist down onto the gray pavement. A raindrop streaks down my window like the teardrop that burned down her cheek when we said goodbye...

Justin Coleman, a McCook High School alumnus and son of the late Ron Coleman, tees off Friday in the John Mullen Pro-Am Horse Race on the No. 1 hole at Heritage Hills Golf Course. Twenty-three professionals competed in the Horse Race. After several days of rain, including a storm Friday morning, the sun came out Friday afternoon and temperatures were cool. The 19th annual John Mullen Pro-Am will be played Saturday and Sunday, with 9 a.m. shotgun starts both days...

Ruby L. Dack, 73, died Friday (June 1, 2007) at Community Hospital in McCook. She was born Dec. 23, 1933, in McCook to Joseph Edward and Maude Cecil (Tubbs) Dack. She graduated from McCook High School in 1951. After graduation she began her employment with McCook National Bank and First Central Bank as a cashier for 40 years until she retired...