Stories from Friday, May 16, 2008

McCook squad nets 24 points LINCOLN -- The McCook Bison girls tennis team placed all four entries into the third round of the Nebraska Class B state tournament Thursday at Lincoln. All four Bison entries lost their third-round matches in the single elimination format, thus ending the season for McCook...

Loper coach brings in players from five states KEARNEY -- University of Nebraska-Kearney head football coach Darrell Morris Thursday announced the names of 18 high seniors who will play for the Lopers next season. They join four mid-year transfers, and seventeen high seniors who came aboard in February, as newcomers to the program...

More than 100 pool players from all over Western Nebraska will make their way to McCook this weekend for the $9,500 Western Nebraska APA Pool League 9-Ball Team Championship. Fourteen teams will compete in the tournament to be held at the Republican River Valley Event Center (Kelley Creek Pub). The top two teams will advance to the APA National Team Championships...

BRASELTON, Ga. -- The Nebraska Wesleyan men's golf team fell back six spots into 21st place and had its worst day of the tournament as the Prairie Wolves battled rainy conditions on Thursday in the NCAA Division III Championships at Chateau Elan Resort and the Chateau Course in Braselton, Ga...

Aug. 23, 1936 - May 15, 2008 Joan Mary McCarville of McCook died Thursday, May 15, 2008, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was 71 years old. Joan was born on Aug. 23, 1936, in Springfield, Mass., to Richard Samuel and Sophie Agatha (Gorecki) Trotter. She graduated from Enfield High School, Enfield, Conn., in 1956...

Aug. 18, 1926 - May 15, 2008 ARAPAHOE -- Helen Elizabeth Esslinger, 81, of Arapahoe, died Thursday (May 15, 2008) at Cambridge Manor in Trenton. She was born Aug. 18, 1926, near Broken Bow to Fred and Ollie (Palmer) Reed. She attended rural school in Custer County and graduated from Broken Bow High School in 1945. She attended Kearney State Teachers College and returned to Custer County to teach at rural schools for 18 years...

A turkey buzzard launches himself from the chimney of an abandoned house north of McCook. He joined two more of the big, ugly birds soaring on airstreams as a weak storm system moved into the area late Monday afternoon.

This Saturday is free fishing and park entry day in Nebraska, and we'd encourage readers to take the family out for a day of enjoying the outdoors. Who knows? Perhaps you'll like it so much you'll invest in a fishing permit and park stamp to keep at it for the rest of the year...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is the beginning of our Declaration of Independence. From this all federal state and local laws are made...

Hundreds of products have hit the shelves in recent years, all of them promising to make people look younger. America is continually questing after the fountain of youth. To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, a lot of women spend most of their life waiting to get to a certain age, and then spend the rest of their life trying to stay there...

OMAHA -- The Maywood boys track team captured two first-place medals in early Class D competition at the 2008 Nebraska State Track and Field Championships. The state track is taking place at Omaha Burke Stadium. Maywood senior Ryan Hazen captured first place in the Class D boys 3,200-meter run with a time of 10 minutes, 09.973 seconds...

April 14, 1939 - May 12, 2008 ST. ANTHONY, Idaho -- Robert Edward Lehman, of St. Anthony passed away peacefully to join his Lord and Savior, at home, with his children present, May 12, 2008.Bob was born at home in Guthrie, Okla., to John Kenneth Lehman and Inez Marie Hokanson Lehman, April 14, 1939. ...

Jan. 15, 1921-May 15, 2008 BEAVER CITY -- Velda I. Bieghler, 87, died Thursday (May 15, 2008) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She was born Jan. 15, 1921, at Calvert, Kan., to George and Emma (Akins) Roberts. She grew up in Kansas then moved with her family to Red Willow County when she was 19...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor CULBERTSON -- Many, many years ago -- 100 to be exact -- women in Culbertson decided they needed to become more involved in "the affairs of the community," and Mrs. Nettie Corrick "talked women's club" until "the movement was put into action."...