Stories from Friday, June 22, 2007

LINCOLN -- McCook High School alum and Gonzaga University sophomore-to-be Brandon Crick lost to Lexington's Nate Jaeger 2-and 1 in the Round of 32 Thursday morning at the Nebraska Match Play Championship. The tournament is being played at Hillcrest Country Club in Lincoln...

The McCook Rebels 16 and under girls fastpitch softball team lost two games to the North Platte Belles Thursday night at the Jaycee Sports Complex. McCook lost to North Platte Belles 9-1 in the first game and 5-2 in five innings in the second game. North Platte led off the first game with two singles and a triple to take a three-run lead in the first inning...

Aug. 7, 1912 - June 21, 2007 CURTIS -- Sarah "Sally" Blanche Floyd of Hayes Center died Thursday (June 21, 2007) at Sunset Haven Nursing Home in Curtis.  She was 94 years old. Sally was born on Aug. 7, 1912, at Quitman, Ark., to George Washington and Cora Alice (Thompson) Trawick.  She moved to Little Rock in 1928, where she worked as a stenographer until 1942.  During World War II she worked for the Maritime Commission in Oakland, Calif...

TRENTON -- Directors and members of the new South West Weed Management Area will contact owners of land along the Republican River in four Southwest Nebraska counties to enlist their participation in a project to control vegetation along the river...

It doesn't seem all that long ago, does it, that we were worried about ice storms and power outages. But now winter has come and gone, and so has spring. Summer activities had been in full swing for a long time before the season officially arrived on Thursday...

Ask why people climb mountains, they say things like "because it was there." Now over the last 24 years on the streets of McCook, I have seen some crazy stunts, including attempts to ride a skateboard off the roof of the shelter house next to the pool. Maybe a half-dozen have tried it, with everyone crashing and being lucky just to limp off with broken boards...

Due to the recent discussions and controversy on the description of rescuing dogs from unpleasant situations and placing them in better ones, I would like to clarify the rescue process. All over the United States there are organizations run by caring animal people to remove pets from places where they are not being cared for and finding new homes for them. They are first spayed or neutered to help the over population of unwanted pets and then homes are found for them...

I am writing in regard to the proposed dog kennels. This kennel is already housing 30 plus adult dogs plus puppies in a 10x20 metal building. The question we need to ask ourselves is do we want McCook to have the reputation,, like Lexington, of a puppy mill...

It never fails.  When you're in a group of people and someone mentions a bandage on someone else's person, there ensues a discussion about every injury these people have ever had.  I like to call these discussions Scar Wars. The conversation eventually gets around to each person.  Each person then relates a horror story that relates to a scar on their body.  Each story gets worse and worse as if they were trying to outdo each other in their extremeness...

Two hundred businesses in eight counties were recently inspected by Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department for compliance with the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act of 2003. "This was primarily an educational inspection for area businesses." states Myra Stoney, Director of Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department. "Most businesses were not aware of the regulation and were appreciative of the inspection."...

LINCOLN -- Ann Bleed, Director of the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources announced that after several months of negotiation, an agreement has been signed between the Republican River Basin Coalition, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, and several irrigation districts in the basin to purchase the use of this year's irrigation water supply...

CULBERTSON -- Flood waters and weeds are no match for Deb Lau -- for her energy or her optimism. On May 30, the lowlands west of Culbertson that cradle Deb's commercial garden, "Nana's Garden," were under water, flooded by torrential rainfall upstream on the Frenchman and Stinking Water creeks. She and her husband, Doug, evacuated their home, driving through deep water and wondering how much of the garden would be left when they returned...