Stories from Thursday, June 11, 2009

The McCook Football League Program will again be run for boys entering grades 5-8 this summer. Due to large enrollment expected, parents should enroll their athletes as soon as possible in order to address equipment needs. Once again, registrations are limited to no more than 80 participants per age division...

Here are the results of McCook Midget Baseball League games through June 5. B&M Drywall Braves 3. Community Hospital Reds 1 This game turned out to be a pitcher's duel with both teams recording nine strikeouts. The game also had two teams who are vying for the top spot in the league along with the Rockies...

March 9, 1939 - June 9, 2009 SUTHERLAND -- Joyce Blake, 70, of Sutherland, fought a courageous battle with cancer and went to heaven to be with her family on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at Sutherland Care Center in Sutherland. Joyce was born Erla Joyce Petersen on March 9, 1939, to Earl and Josephine McNiece Petersen in Culbertson. ...

HASTINGS -- The Rebels traveled to Hastings this past weekend, to earn third place in the Gold Division. The Rebels went 2-1 Saturday in pool play to be the second seed going into tournament play on Sunday. McCook Rebels 7, Norfolk Golden Girls 0 Amberette Burkey singled. Gretchen Sehnert singled with one RBI. Erin Premer doubled...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- University of Sioux Falls head men's basketball coach Chris Johnson is pleased to announce the signing of Deshawn Howard, a 6-foot-7, 220-pound forward from McCook Community College in McCook, Neb. "We are very excited to add Deshawn to the USF family," Johnson said...

LINCOLN -- University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor Harvey Perlman and athletic director Tom Osborne have mutually agreed to extend Osborne's appointment as athletic director indefinitely. Originally the agreement stated that Osborne would serve as athletic director until June 2010. Perlman and Osborne have now agreed that they will review the position on an annual basis...

Technically all nine planets have the possibility of being viewed during the month of June. I hear you. You said "nine" in a questioning manner. Yes, nine. I still consider Pluto to be a planet. Alas, for us non-early risers, only one will be in the evening sky. That is our ringed friend, Saturn. It is just below Leo the Lion and can be found about 45 degrees above the southwest horizon beginning at about 9 p.m. local time...

A promoter of Old West values may have an idea for modern times.

What started as a casual conversation at a home basketball game has now grown into a unique volunteer-based publication, that keeps McCook high school classmates in touch with each other and their hometown. But a search is on for a new director of the Bison Alumni newsletter, with current director, Cheri Beckenhauer, stepping down after 17 years...

With the state prison population at 140 percent, the role of the Nebraska Department of Corrections Work Ethic Camp in McCook should be increased, said Sen. Mark Christensen at the Legislative Wrap-Up breakfast at Country Kitchen this morning. "I'd love to see it expanded," he said of the facility, the only state correction facility not maxed out on population. ...

Sept. 4, 1941 - June 10, 2009 CULBERTSON -- Boyd Delane Miller died Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at his home in Culbertson after a courageous battle with Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 67 years old. Boyd was born Sept. 4, 1941, in Stapleton to Lloyd Dewayne and Halcyon Victoria (Lutes) Miller. He graduated from Indianola High School in 1960 and continued his education at McCook College. He served with the National Guard from 1960 until 1961...