Stories from Tuesday, May 12, 2009

April 12, 1928 - May 10, 2009 June Marie Troxell, age 81, died Sunday, May 10, 2009, at her home in McCook. She was born April 12, 1928, to Franklin Phillip and Yula Mae (Dunn) Kleckinger in Falls City. She married Joe Morgan. On Feb. 12, 2005, she married Homer J. Troxell Jr. in Culbertson...

March 30, 1930 - May 6, 2009 WAUNETA -- Anita Fekkers, 79, died Wednesday (May 6, 2009) at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial. She was born March 30, 1930, to Lloyd William and Emma (Domes) Boulton in Chicago, Ill. She was baptized two months later and confirmed at age 13. ...

Movie Review - Star Trek Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content. Running Time of 126 minutes. Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, and Leonard Nimoy. I struggled with this review all weekend. I actually had a chance to watch Star Trek last Thursday morning before the big premiere and wrote a review then that I decided to trash. ...

A Red Willow County Extension educator driving to work in McCook Monday morning heard a loud noise, saw lots of dust and smoke, and two pickups "were suddenly coming right at me." Two men were injured and two pickups were totaled in the three-vehicle accident that involved Mary K. Warner of Arapahoe as she approached McCook from the east Monday morning...

McCook Public Schools could use its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to add four early childhood preschool classrooms at McCook Elementary. That concept would meet the federal government's requirement that its recovery funds be used for special education projects. Moving preschool special education students into new classrooms would free up existing classroom space for K-3 students, several of whose populations are larger than normal...

The McCook Public Schools board of education approved, on a 5-1 vote, the schools' involvement in an eight-member inter-local cooperation project to design a marketing plan to promote the McCook area. The schools' involvement would require a $1,000 contribution for each of the next two years and provide one position on the 13-member board. ...

The McCook Midget Baseball Association Inc. will kick off the season with a free-will offering hamburger feed at 5 p.m. Friday at Felling Field. The evening will start with an infield parade of teams, coaches, prize drawings for the players, and two baseball games starting after the prize drawing...

Community Hospital will celebrate its 35th anniversary and National Hospital Week by inviting the public to a picnic at the hospital on Friday, May 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There is no charge to attend. Schmick's Market will be serving grilled hamburgers, potato salad, pork and beans and anniversary cake near the front entrance of the hospital. ...

Say you're the average Red Willow County resident, making about $25,000 a year. You spend every penny you make this year, plus another $11,500 you've borrowed. You plan to keep that up for the forseeable future. It's obvious that you couldn't keep it up for long, but that's just what the federal government is doing...

Another week has gone by and we are quickly approaching the end of the 2009 session. Last week I discussed how the Natural Resources Districts planned to use property tax relief to return the property taxes levied under LB 701. This week I would like to discuss what is going on in the Legislature regarding the occupation tax authorized in LB 701, which is currently tied up in the courts...

First off this isn't about the lusty kind of love championed by Mike at Night! Oh no this is about great appreciation of a mechanical work of art. In life one is sometimes privileged to work with a tool or machine that nears perfection in purpose, a machine that feels right, looks right and is pure pleasure to interface with. This is that kind of love!...