Stories from Saturday, June 23, 2007

It hasn't been all that many years since the Internet first arrived in Southwest Nebraska, but it's quickly become something we take for granted. Twenty years ago, a fax machine was about the most sophisticated form of communication used to produce this newspaper, if one didn't count the satellite feed that brought news text from The Associated Press...

Talk about inspirational! I watched the ladies from the Air Race Classic come through McCook last Tuesday. All were professional, courteous and in a big hurry. Two groups stood out in my mind. It was the young ones, the 18- to somewhere around 25-year olds who have an unlimited future in aviation, possibly a future astronaut among them...

Coach Daryl Bonow, Jim and Carol Lemon and I were scheduled to leave McCook last Wednesday night/ Thursday morning at 3:45 but didn't pull out of the station until after 6 a.m. because the train was almost two and a half hours late arriving. We were due to arrive in Reno, Nevada at 9:35 Friday morning but didn't get there until four o'clock in the afternoon, almost seven hours late...