Stories from Thursday, July 26, 2007

SILVER LAKE, Kan. -- Recent Decatur Community High School-Oberlin graduates Heather Williams and Tricia Dorshorst participated in the Kansas Volleyball Association's 22nd Annual All-Star Match Tuesday night at Silver Lake, Kan., near Topeka. The Blue Team won the match over the Red Team 30-18, 18-30, 30-23, 30-28, 15-12...

CAMBRIDGE -- The Furnas County Seniors American Legion baseball team had its season come to an end Tuesday night in the consolation finals of the Class C Area 7 district tournament at Cambridge. The Furnas County Seniors lost in a heart-wrenching manner by giving up seven runs in the bottom of the seventh and losing to Shelton-Gibbon 11-10...

Tyler Budke shows off his Eagle Scout project, a monument that has the 10 Commandments engraved on one side and the Beatitudes on the other and is result of an Eagle Scout project initiated by Tyler Budke. "The Altar Society said they were interested in this so I took it on as my project," said Tyler, who solicited donations and made arrangements to purchase the monument. ...

A policy to make Mid Plains Community Colleges tobacco-free met stiff resistance Wednesday night and was overwhelming rejected by the MPCC Board of Governors by a 9-2 margin. The policy was first approved at the June meeting and would have prohibited tobacco products, including chewing tobacco, on all MPCC property...

A spokesperson from an organization that represents clerical and custodial workers at Mid Plains Community College, asked that the MPCC Board of Governors re-think its decision not to use the group as a negotiating unit. Jeanie Shimmin, representing the Classified Staff Association, or CSA, asked the board at its meeting Wednesday night at McCook to uphold its previous action when it recognized CSA as a bargaining organization for two-year employment contracts. ...

Over the years, I've talked a lot about our three dogs. I always thought they were spoiled. They get to stay inside all day, out of the heat -- or cold, depending on the season. They have the run of the house, the yard, and when the opportunity arises and the mood strikes them, the neighborhood...

"Just so you won't run out of things to worry about," as Paul Harvey says, the West Nile virus has been reported in 12 Nebraskans so far this year. That means a lot of us have been exposed to the disease, which is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito that has picked up the virus by feeding on an infected bird...