Stories from Friday, May 2, 2008

The United States Army came calling for Tyrone Sellers Wednesday afternoon. Sellers, a highly recruited football standout from McCook High School, was officially nominated for consideration to play in the most prestigious high school all-star game in the country -- the 2009 U.S. Army All-American Bowl...

KEARNEY -- The McCook High School girls tennis team tied for third place at Thursday's Kearney Catholic Invitational. Grand Island Central Catholic won the team title with 98 points, followed by Beatrice with 88. McCook and Hastings both scored 60 points, followed by Kearney Catholic 76, Lexington 74, Hastings Adams Central 66, Ogallala 52, Alliance 32 and Hastings St. Cecilia 14...

SOUTHERN VALLEY -- Southern Valley High School hosted the Dennis Knipping golf invitational on Thursday. The Eagles finished third in the meet. Jeff Sladky led the Eagles in the individual standings. Sladky finished fourth with a score of 86. Michael Hoxmeier followed in ninth with 90 and Mitch Horwart was 12th with 92...

There will be a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the McCook Junior High School cafeteria for any girls going into grades 9-12 next fall who are planning to play volleyball at McCook High School. The meeting will cover summer schedules, including camps, leagues, and conditioning/weight lifting opportunities...

GOTHENBURG -- McCook's seventh and eighth grade boys and girls competed in the Dutch Zorn invitational in Gothenburg on April 24. McCook's boys 8A team of Justin Terry, Matt Chitwood, and Tyson Karr won the pole vault and the McCook 7A team won the high jump...

The Southwest Nebraska Rifle and Pistol Club has posted the May match dates. The matches will be at the range north of the McCook Airport and begin at 1 p.m. The first match will be Sunday. It will be a bowling pin shoot with 22 revolver and auto, 38 revolver, 9 mm auto, big bore revolver and big bore auto...

Dec. 11, 1937 - April 29, 2008 ATWOOD -- David J. Phelps Jr., 70, died Tuesday (April 29, 2008) at Good Samaritan Center in Kearney. He was born Dec. 11, 1937, to David Jay and Alta May (Scarrow) Phelps in Beardsley, Kan. He was baptized into the Methodist faith on March 21, 1948, at the United Methodist Church in Atwood...

The family of Goldie Edmonds Randolph of McCook is hosting a card shower in honor of her 86th birthday. Her family includes her son-in-law, Sam Smith of Grand Island; sons, Larry Randolph and wife, Nancy of Indianola, Lynn Randolph and wife, Rhonda of McCook; and daughters, Linda Randolph and Lillian Blackman and husband, Gene of Grand Junction, Colo. ...

LINCOLN -- An early June water and natural resources tour will visit the lower Republican River basin in Kansas and Nebraska to help answer water use questions in the basin. The annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce water and natural resources tour is June 3-5, beginning and ending on UNL's East Campus...

An old argument is resurfacing around the country with curious results. According to Fox News, seven states are considering a lower drinking age, and it's often advanced with an argument some of us can remember from 40 years ago. If a man's old enough to fight and die for his country, he should be old enough to buy a drink, the reasoning goes. The only updating the Vietnam-era axiom needs is including women...