Stories from Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Bison JV red-white scrimmage slated for today; Varsity team competes at Kearney Catholic Thursday The McCook High School girls tennis team hosted Lexington Tuesday at the Bison and Elks courts. The tournament ended early because of rain. The Bison squad won 2-of-3 doubles matches and No. 1 singles player Kim Serbousek posted a victory...

Chase County's Ohlson sets meet record in boys 3200 race SUTHERLAND -- Chase County's Scott Ohlson placed a new meet record in 3200-meter run with a time of 10 minutes, 15.7 seconds Tuesday at the Best of the Midwest Track Invitational. The meet took place at Sutherland Tuesday. Competitors medaled if they placed in the top three...

NORTH PLATTE -- Michelle Jankovits of the North Platte Community College women's volleyball team has signed a Letter of Intent to attend and play volleyball at Dana College in Blair. Jankovits was instrumental in helping the Knights win the 2004 NJCAA Region IX Division II championship and earn a spot in the NJCAA Division II Volleyball Championships in Toledo, Ohio...

The consultants hired to study Red Willow County's prisoner housing needs recommend that the county build its own jail, rather than continue to transport prisoners to jails outside the county. Mark Martin and Gary Bowker of Allied Correctional Services told members of the county's jail task force, in a written report they presented Tuesday evening, they recommend a 30-bed facility "that can serve as an investment in the long-term public safety interests of all of Red Willow County."...

State Patrol Sgt. Joel Smith of McCook, center, and Red Willow County sheriff's deputies Joe Koetter, left, and Bill Patras check the contents of the car that had been driven by a 51-year-old Omaha woman at speeds of up to 107 miles-an-hour on U.S. Highway 83 through Lincoln, Frontier and Red Willow counties Tuesday night. ...

Boy Scout Troop 147 of McCook has permission from Red Willow County commissioners to clean up one of the county's oldest pioneer cemeteries. Scout Master John Zlomke told commissioners Monday his Scouts want to pull weeds, mow native grasses, fix aging and vandalized tombstones and fences and locate and mark unmarked graves at the Boxelder Cemetery, located on country roads seven to eight miles northeast of McCook...

Three point eight million dollars is a lot of money, even if you do say it fast, as councilman Phil Lyons is fond of saying, and even if most of it comes from sources other than city property taxes. That's the project price tag, in 2005 dollars, of an extensive recreational trail, planned to stretch 13 miles around McCook and take a couple of decades to complete...