Stories from Thursday, June 18, 2009

McCook Midget Baseball Association, Inc. announced the brackets for the season-ending Sluggers Division Tournament. The Sluggers division is the pitching machine league with seven teams. Opening games start at 5:30 p.m. Friday, with games at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. as well. The tournament continues Saturday and Sunday...

Here are the McCook Midget Baseball League games for the week of June 7-13. D&T Electric Giants 12, Stewart Construction Athletics 2 The Giants sent 11 batters to the plate in the first inning and with a combination of walks and hits scored eight runs...

ARAPAHOE -- The McCook Swim Team finished in second place behind Arapahoe Saturday at the Arapahoe meet. Teams from Southern Valley, Elm Creek, Atwood, Arapahoe and McCook participated. McCook swimmers winning three first places were Taylor Geisler, Sharlyn Coleman and Becca Tietz. Double winners were Candace Coleman and Erica Wood while single winners were Sam Knoll and Hannah Kohl...

The McCook 11 and under baseball team recently competed in back to back tournaments. The team placed second in its own invitational June 6 and first at the North Platte Invitational last weekend. In the McCook tournament, McCook defeated Oxford 6-5 and Broken Bow 5-0 before losing in the championship game to Paxton 5-2...

The McCook American Junior B Red and Blue baseball teams won 3-of-4 games from Lexington Tuesday at the Jaycee Sports Complex. McCook Red is at home tonight against Cozad at the Jaycee Complex for a 6:30 start time. Friday and Saturday, the Red team will play in a tournament in Indianola...

Sept. 2, 1920 - June 12, 2009 SUN CITY, Ariz. -- Berwin "Jack" McNeice, died June 12, 2009, at his home in Sun City, Ariz. He was born Sept. 2, 1920, and was a long time resident of Culbertson and McCook. He and his wife, Berniece moved to Sun City in 1982...

April 12, 1907 - June 17, 2009 OBERLIN -- Lloyd Beneda, 102, died Tuesday (June 17, 2009) at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. He was born April 12, 1907, in Norcatur, Kan., to James and Mary (Ruzicka) Beneda Sr. He grew up on a farm north of Oberlin and attended Lone Star Country School...

While some teenagers are relishing the lazy days of summer, 14-year old Trenton Klimper of McCook is keeping busy meeting community leaders and giving presentations to local organizations. A self-professed history buff, Klimper is trying to get enough donations and input to construct a war memorial in Norris Park as his Eagle Scout project...

McCook City Police were forced to put down three pit bulls Wednesday in two separate incidents. A city police officer responded to the first call at about 8:39 a.m. of three pit bulls running loose in the area of West Fifteenth, according to McCook Police Chief Ike Brown. ...

A major project under way in Cambridge is an example of how smaller towns can have an advantage when it comes to technology. In Cambridge's case, it doesn't hurt that the Cambridge Telephone Co. and its Pinpoint offspring have been leaders in telecommunications and Internet service over the years...

Some news came out last week from the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission which most Nebraskans wouldn't believe affects them but it does. The word from the commission was that, given the economic conditions, funding would be cut and staff eliminated from Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park near Burwell and transferred to the bigger, more popular Mahoney State Park, between Omaha and Lincoln...

Well, so much for that idea. For most of the last week, including the occultation of Antares by the moon on June 7, the skies have been clouded over. Of the 13 times the moon will occult, or cover up, Antares during the current year this was the best one for us here in the United States. Although there will be one viewable from Alaska on Nov. 17, if you want to go that far...

GRAND ISLAND -- The Nebraska State Patrol provided assistance to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and Hamilton County Emergency Management in the wake of Wednesday night's tornado, which struck just west of the city of Aurora in northwest Hamilton County...

Sept. 11, 1952 -- June 16, 2009 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Kathy passed away gracefully at the age of 56 after a five year struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She was born Sept. 11, 1952, in McCook to Harold and Mary Lou Groves (deceased). Kathy grew up in Colorado Springs, Colo., from the age of two and graduated from Palmer High School in 1970. ...