Stories from Friday, August 31, 2007

Nov. 29, 1914-Aug. 28, 2007 BIRD CITY -- Clarence Henry August Busse, 92, died Tuesday (Aug. 28, 2007) at the Hester Home in Benkelman. He was born Nov. 29, 1914, at Hubbel. He was a farmer-rancher and served in the U.S. Army. He was preceded in death by his wife, Minnie (Oestmann) Busse in 2005...

July 7, 1927-Aug.29, 2007 HENDLEY?-- Harold Brakhahn, 80, of Hendley died Wednesday (Aug. 29, 2007) at Good Samaritan Hospital at Kearney. He was born July 7, 1927, at Holbrook to Christian and Frida (Mull) Brakhahn. He grew up in Hendley, attending District 56 and Hendley High School...

Remember those days, way back when, when Mom and Dad and the kids used to play games to make the time on long-distance car trips pass more quickly? Those days before back-seat DVDs and iPods made communications nonexistent? Remember "I Spy," "I'm going on vacation and I'm going to take my ..." and "Slug bug?" or even "Twenty Question."...

Board members (skate boarders) stand in protest, as cops say they will put them in jail if they are caught sitting on the stage with skate boards again -- not skating just sitting. The kids said they will be charged with trespassing -- on public property?...

We are in a day and age when everything is digital and nothing seems to work.  Not that many years ago, when I used a pen and a piece of paper to write a letter, the only thing that could go wrong was that your pen might run out of ink.  Although that was a pain, you didn't have to call someone to have it fixed.  After all, a pen wasn't a huge investment.  If it stopped working, you threw it away and got another one...

HAYES CENTER -- Hayes Center Public Schools will not have class Tuesday, but will be the site for the funeral of Ryan Ridlen, who died Wednesday in a car-truck accident as he drove himself and his sisters to school. Ridlen, 17, is the son of Steven and Alicia Ridlen, of rural Palisade. He had just started his senior year at Hayes Center High School...

The pantry shelves and cupboards are getting bare, and the need doesn't go away. McCook Pantry volunteers are hoping that the annual fall "Pantry Drive" will help provide the food supplies that sustain families who turn to the Pantry in times of need...

Cheri Beckenhauer recently stopped by the Norris House to purchase a replica of the George Norris Sculpture for $125. She said that she and her husband, Jerry, had agreed to participate in this project some time ago, and she finally remembered to stop by with her checkbook...

A proposal by the Middle Republican Natural Re-sources District to reduce pump irrigation allocations by an inch per year was derided by surface irrigation interests as self-serving and completely inadequate at a hearing Thursday night. Four men spoke in opposition to proposed amendments to the district's Ground Water Management Area rules and regulations...

Sid Doak of Doak Construction keeps a tight rein on the crane rope and strap restraining a car that went over the retaining wall at McCook's Pizza Hut Wednesday at 8 p.m. Steven V. Mather, 51, of Kearney, told McCook police at 7:33 a.m., Thursday, that he thought there was an exit in the southeast corner of the parking lot, and he drove off the pavement and over the retaining wall that had been undermined by heavy spring and summer rain and damaged by poor drainage. ...