Stories from Thursday, April 30, 2009

The McCook Bison Football Team will be hosting its annual Championship Football Camp from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 1-4 (Monday through Thursday). The camp, which will take place at the McCook Senior high practice field directly behind McCook High School, will feature many of the players that helped McCook reach five out of the last eight state football championship games and the last seven state semifinals...

HOXIE -- Rawlins County and Decatur Community (Oberlin) competed in the Hoxie golf meet Tuesday. Rawlins County finished third and Oberlin was eighth. Hoxie took second. Zach Ruda led Rawlins County, finishing fifth in the individual standings. Ruda shot an 83 for the day. Hoxie's Troy Ostmeyer took fourth with an 81 and Ric Linnell was sixth with an 84...

Aug. 17, 1929 - April 25, 2009 CAMBRIDGE -- Florence Roach, 79, died April 25, 2009, at The Manor in Cambridge. She was born Aug. 17, 1929, to Helen Williams Slater and Frank Henry Slater in Tooele, Utah. To those who knew Flo, her life may have seemed ordinary, but throughout her life she showed courage, determination and great strength. ...

Three McCook Community men's basketball players were were recognized by the Nebraska Community College Athletic Association. The trio honored are Ronnell Grant, 6-foot sophomore guard, Tucson, Ariz.; Javoun Martin, 5-10 sophomore guard, Marksville, La.; and Trey Mosby, 5-10 sophomore guard, Portageville, Mo...

SUTHERLAND -- Wauneta-Palisade's Blair Dixon took home three gold medals in the Sutherland Invitational Tuesday. Dixon won the 100 with a time of 12.6 seconds, the 400 in 1 minute and 00.4 seconds and the 100 hurdles with for Wallace. Griffiths won the 800 in 2:36.2 and teamed up with Josi Hasenauer, Laura O'Brien and Katie West to win the 4x800 relay with a time of 11:06.3...

Mid Plains Community College is at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting athletes, a McCook resident told the board of trustees Wednesday night. The resident, Kelvin Miller, asked the board to consider creating some full-ride athletic waivers that would include room and board, matching offers by other regional community colleges...

By LORRI SUGHROUE City Editor There will be no check in the mail for property owners who paid LB 701 taxes, taxes later declared unconstitutional by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Instead, property owners in the Republican River Basin will pay a little less next year in their NRD taxes...

Lincoln -- Michelle Wood of Maywood recently won $54,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery. There were more than 5,000 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Thursday, April 2, drawings. Among these winners was Wood, who purchased a four-play Nebraska Pick 5 ticket at Kabredlo's, 204 West B Street in McCook. One play on the ticket contained all five of the winning numbers (20, 22, 34, 37, 31) from the April 2 drawing for the $54,000 jackpot...

BENKELMAN -- A Benkelman woman has won a $10,000 prize in an online contest sponsored by Overstock.com The Benkelman News reports that Bonnie Willis won the retailer's monthly "Family Bailout Sweepstakes," a contest that pays $10,000 directly to the creditors of one winner each month through November. The grand prize in December is $50,000...

If there's one defining characteristic of barbershop singers -- besides the clear, synchronized voices -- it's this: they sure have fun doing it. That much was evident Tuesday night at the city auditorium, as members of the Prairie Statesmen barbershop chorus whistled snippets of songs and kept the wisecracks coming as they rehearsed their numbers for the upcoming show Saturday...

"I can't believe all the cows," said Cloe Theakston. This was just one comment made by a group of students and staff from North Lindsey College in Scunthorpe, England, who spent the past week visiting Mid-Plains Community College campuses in McCook and North Platte...

Using a remote control pack, Bryan DaMoude of DaMoude Concrete Pumping of Hershey, left, directs the pouring of the foundation for the new urgent care walk-in medical clinic on North Highway 83 in McCook, under threatening skies early Wednesday morning. ...

"No pain, no gain" is usually a mantra for athletes -- or participants in programs like the McCook YMCA's "Biggest Loser" contest, who will be recognized in a ceremony tonight. But the same holds true for business, unfortunately, such as the big car companies, which are shedding nameplates and employees, and in one case, apparently going into bankruptcy while joining forces with a foreign carmaker...

Wow! Although I don't think that is a big enough adjective to describe the experience of watching the moon occult, or cover up, the planet Venus last Wednesday morning. I am not normally a morning astronomer, but this was an event worth watching so I popped up my trusty telescope and had a peek. The moon was an excruciatingly slender crescent almost lost in the blue of the sky just after sunrise and Venus was a very bright dot just to the moon's left...

Area officials listen to a presenter from Kirkwood Community College in Iowa during a Foreign Animal Disease Response workshop recently in McCook, sponsored by the Southwest Nebraska Public Health District and the Emergency Managers of the Southwest Region. ...

Movie Review - X-men Origins: Wolverine Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Shrieber, and Ryan Reynolds. Rated PG-13. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the first in a line of possible comic book based movies that will center on each mutant in the X-men comic books. Wolverine is and has been the most popular, so the first movie fittingly kicks off with him...