Stories from Thursday, January 24, 2008

McCook hosts triangular today vs. Kearney, NP SCOTTSBLUFF -- McCook High School swimmers and divers competed at The Twin City Invitational in Scottsbluff on Friday and Saturday. Led by Whitney Korgan and Jayde Aufrect with individual medals, the girls 200 free and 400 free relays including Korgan, Aufrect, Katie Latta and Madeline Shaddock and divers Matt Hall and Kim Ellicott...

MHS senior awarded four-year scholarship Colton Cochran, a McCook HIgh School senior, was awarded a four-year athletic scholarship to Doane College. Flanked by his parents, Mary Kay and Steve Cochran, Cochran signed the letter of intent to play baseball for the Doane Tigers baseball team Wednesday at the McCook High School gym...

The McCook High School freshman girls basketball team improved its record to 5-2 with a 38-28 win over Chase County Tuesday. McCook was led in scoring by Jessa Sughroue with 13. Gretchen Sehnert added 8 and Megan Carfield 6. Carfield had 5 steals. Taylor Matson contributed 12 rebounds for the game. Sughroue and Sehnert both added 6...

The view of the majority of votes in the Legislature is that compliance to the Republican River Basin Compact should be taken care of locally, State Sen. Mark Christensen said this morning. Christensen talked about water woes the state faces, along with LB701, the bill he sponsored last year to address compliance, at the McCoook Chamber of Commerce Legislative conference call this morning...

January's full moon, the first of the year, played peek-a-boo behind the hills Wednesday morning.

We knew the $50 one-way tickets to Omaha were too good to last, but the US Airways Express announcement that they would be tripled came as a shock. Unfortunately, the bad news didn't end there. Now, parent company Mesa Airlines has filed notice that even with Essential Air Service subsidies -- which amount to $2.29 million a year in McCook -- it can no longer afford to provide air service to McCook, Grand Island, three cities in Missouri, three in Arkansas and two in Kansas...

This is in regards to Mike Hendrick's column Saturday, Jan. 19, regarding the stories circulating about Barrack Obama and his reference to the picture of Obama holding his hands at his side. Mr. Hendrick's column stated and I quote: "The message underneath the photo asks how anyone could think about voting for someone for President who refuses to place his hand over his heart while the Pledge is being recited, not to mention refusing to recite the pledge too...

I live in Hayes County and operate an irrigation/dryland, cow/calf farm. I would like to point out some facts that pertain to the NRD debate. It seems to me that a large part of the public's perception is that the irrigators are to blame for the state's non-compliance of the 1943 compact...

Thank you for your opinion of 1-23-08 regarding the challenges we are faced with due to the changes proposed in the LRNRD water guideline. Having the support of the region is important to the success of this project. Hopefully the board of the LRNRD will seriously consider the ramifications if guidelines are enforced as presented...