Stories from Wednesday, September 7, 2011

LINCOLN -- Gov. Dave Heineman decided to flat out oppose the route proposed for the TransCanada XL Pipeline. Some people wondered: "What's that about?" Others said: "It's about time!" Heineman said what other critics have said in arguing that TransCanada's preferred path for transporting tar sand oil across the porous Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer represented too great an environmental threat. ...

Nov. 11, 1922-Sept. 3, 2011 APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota -- Faye A. Pennington, 88, formerly of McCook, Nebraska, died Saturday (Sept. 3, 2011). She was born Nov. 11, 1922, at Lebanon, Nebraska, to Carl and Leah Waterman. She was raised in Lebanon and graduated from Lebanon High School in 1940...

June 23, 1929-Sept. 5, 2011 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Madeline June Coburn, 82, passed away Sept. 5, 2011, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska. She was born June 23, 1929, in Culbertson, Nebraska, to John and Lillian (Ross) Hein. She graduated from Culbertson High School in 1947...

If the expression about making lemonade when life hands you lemons is too shop-worn, then making Green Tea is appropriate in the case of one Kansas town We still remember a television reporter's first words back to the station in Wichita when she arrived on the scene. "Greensburg is gone."...

LINCOLN -- Gov. Dave Heineman decided to flat out oppose the route proposed for the TransCanada XL Pipeline. Some people wondered: "What's that about?" Others said: "It's about time!" Heineman said what other critics have said in arguing that TransCanada's preferred path for transporting tar sand oil across the porous Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer represented too great an environmental threat. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook City Council will host two public interviews for the open city manager position, Thursday, 6:30 p.m., at Memorial Auditorium. The candidates, Wanda Darrow and Sam Janson, hail from Potterville, Michigan, and Grand Haven, Michigan, respectively...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County Commissioners unanimously approved issuing bonds, not to exceed $2.2 million, for improvements at Hillcrest Nursing Home. At Monday's regular meeting, Commissioners Vesta Dack and McNutt voted unanimously to issue the bonds. Commissioner Steve Downer was absent from the meeting...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook City Council approved the second of three required readings for the proposed water and sewer rate increases, Tuesday evening during their semi-monthly meeting at council chambers, but resisted one councilors desire to increase water rates even further than previously discussed. ...

Eric Edmundson has been hunting "since he was old enough to walk," said his father, Ed. Since Eric was a child, he's kept a list of game he wanted to hunt. But hunting for Eric is a little bit different than for other hunters. In Oct. 2005, he was wounded in Iraq by an IED while driving a Stryker vehicle...

These are not happy memories. The visions from that day, nearly 10 years old now, still chill us and many of us would like nothing better than to let this anniversary pass, the wounds still too fresh for picking. In the newsroom, however, everyone has been helping to compile collective memories for a special tab and I prepared five radio broadcasts for KNGN 1360 AM, recalling columns written immediately after the terrorist attacks and in the weeks and months following...