Stories from Thursday, October 11, 2007

The McCook Bison football team will be playing its final regular-season home game Friday night at Weiland Field against a tough Cozad team. McCook is 6-0 and Cozad is 4-2, but the Haymakers lost one game in overtime and led by 14 points in the other loss...

HASTINGS -- The McCook High School softball team dropped its first-round game at the Nebraska Class B state tournament Thursday morning. The No. 3 seeded Bison (25-5) lost 3-1 to the No. 6 seeded Blair Bears (25-6). It was just the third time this season the Bison had allowed an opponent to score more than two runs...

Indians play No. 1 WNCC tonight at Scottsbluff BEATRICE and COLUMBUS -- The McCook Community College volleyball team split matches Monday and Tuesday and will take a 9-24 record to Scottsbluff tonight when the Indians take on No. 1-ranked Western Nebraska...

April 23, 1923 - Oct. 9, 2007 OBERLIN -- Beatrice V. Wolfram, 84, died Tuesday (Oct. 9, 2007) at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born April 23, 1923, in Traer, Kan., to Simeon and Agnes Helms (Pirkl) McCoy. She grew up on a farm near Traer and attended Traer Grade School. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1941 and attended Normal Training to teach school...

The family of Neal and Anita Callan are requesting a card shower in honor of the couple's 60th wedding anniversary Oct.12.Their children are Ron and Cindy Callan of Kearney, Sharon Brennemann of Lincoln, Sandy and Mark Hissam of Alliance, and Randy Callan of McCook. Cards will reach them at 910 West 14th, McCook, NE 69001...

BARTLEY -- Bids for a new Southwest Public Schools junior-senior high school building in Bartley will be accepted until 4 p.m., Monday, Nov. 12. School board members will discuss the bids at their monthly meeting that evening. Bids will include labor, materials and equipment necessary to build the new grades 6-12 junior-senior high school building approved by voters in March 2003. Since that time, court challenges have delayed the sale of bonds and construction...

CAMBRIDGE -- Furnas County Attorney Tom Patterson said this morning that on Wednesday he filed an additional charge against the Grant/Holbrook man charged with motor vehicle homicide in the death of Kasey Jo Warner of Arapahoe on Oct. 3. Herchel Huff, whose residency fluctuates between Grant and Holbrook, is now also charged with tampering with a witness, a Class IV felony, and his bond has been increased from $250,000 to $500,000...

CURTIS -- The Middle Republican NRD Board of Directors voted last month to approve a new "occupation" tax that will take affect this fall and raise just over $2 million to be used solely for the purposes of underwriting a bond to be issued this fall...

CURTIS -- Members of the Middle Republican Natural Resources District board balked at recommendations from the state about compliance standards and postponed any action approving the plan. Instead, the board decided Tuesday night at its regular meeting to have the groundwater committee, comprised of five MRNRD members, revise some of the language in the Integrated Management Plan from the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources...

CURTIS -- A Hayes Center resident conveyed his frustration that nobody seemed to care, from the governor to board members of the Middle Republican Natural Resources District, about the effects of groundwater pumping. Barry Richards told MRNRD board members Tuesday night at its regular meeting that in conversations with Gov. ...

Ken McBride of San Martin, Calif., adjusts a push rod and rocker arm on one of two 3,000 pound engines on his newly acquired B-25 Mitchell. McBride, along with pilot Tom Reilly, stopped at McCook Regional Airport Wednesday for fuel, a "little oil" and lunch. ...

Public officials who have been the target of words of criticism written in this space may find it hard to believe, but we have to agree with the concept promoted by a Kansas City church and picked up by Johnny Walker's Church of God in Trenton. It's the "A Complaint-Free World," campaign, that involves a bright purple rubber bracelet that reminds participants to be grateful for what they have and stop gossiping, criticizing or complaining...