Stories from Thursday, June 15, 2006

OMAHA -- McCook High School alums Brandon Crick and Bob Wellman were still alive after one round at the Nebraska Men's Match Play Championship golf tournament. The tournament is being played at Shadow Ridge Golf Course in Omaha. Crick, a Gonzaga University signee, defeated Josh Reinertson, Gibbon, 2 and 1 Wednesday...

HASTINGS -- The Rebels 14 and under black finished second at the Hastings Flame Tournament Saturday and Sunday. In their first game the Rebels defeated the Holdrege Heat 2 13 to 4. Meagan Carfield, Brittini Bieker both singled and Taylor Matson had two RBI's...

Midget League baseball report Boys T-Ball Community Hospital vs Kool Honda Nolan Priebe doubled for Community Hospital and Camry Hurdle singled. Bryson Kool doubled and Tanner Unger had a single for Kool Honda. McCook Eye Clinic vs JM Stevens Painting...

Red Willow Western firefighters Jesse Carlisle (left) and Chris Kelley douse the flames and embers of a grass fire in a canyon north of Centennial Drive and Estancia Way Wednesday morning. Fire Chief Bill Elliott said the blaze started from an earlier debris fire that rekindled in Wednesday's high winds. The Wildland Fire Assessment System of the U.S.F.S. and the U.S.D.A. today rate the grass fire danger in Southwest Nebraska as "high" and Northwest Kansas as "very high."...

Central Elementary in McCook will have five classes in each of fourth and fifth grades this fall, following a unanimous decision by the McCook Public Schools board of education Monday evening. The increase from four units per grade level has been a goal of the board for several years, according to board president Greg Larson. Before East and West Wards were closed and before budget constraints several years ago, there were six units for each grade...

School is out, but it may not be over for the former East Ward building on East Fifth. Doyle Wineland, representing developers Austin and Macy Co. LLC, sought a special exception from the McCook Planning Commission Monday night in a effort to begin renovation of the former school building into condos and/or apartments...

After last weekend, I've come to the conclusion that boating may not be on my list of favorite things to do. I guess it started out OK. We went out to pick up the boat where it was being stored and we actually got the trailer loaded onto the hitch on Brad's pick-up. ...

Site has advantages, but the price may become prohibitive.

Sept. 10, 1919 - June 14, 2006 PARKS -- Lillian R. Krutsinger, 86, a longtime resident of Parks died Wednesday (June 14, 2006) at Chase County Hospital in Imperial. She was born September 10, 1919, in a farm home north of Haigler, to John and Bertha (Kinnett) Pfifer and attended school near her home...

May 18, 1936 - June 13, 2006 Loretta June (Leiter) Wallace, died June 13, 2006, at McCook Community Hospital. She was 70 years old. She was born to Arthur Lee and Gladys (Thomas) Leiter on May 18, 1936 in Scottsbluff. On September 30, 1989, Loretta Harris and John Wallace were married in Stapleton...

July 4, 1945 - June 13, 2006 Linda Diane Larson, of McCook, died Tuesday, June 13, 2006, at the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln. She was 60 years old. Linda was born on July 4, 1945, to Frank Gustav and Mildred Clare (Klucke) Nitz in Ledyard, Iowa. She graduated from Ledyard High School in 1963 and attended Mankato State College in Minnesota...

Aug. 24, 1926 - June 12, 2006 ORD -- Burke DeLoy "Swede" Leach, 79, formerly of Holdrege, died Monday (June 12, 2006) at the Valley County Health System in Ord. He was born August 24, 1926, at Holdrege, the youngest of two children of Walter DeLoy and Edna Vail (Russel) Leach. He received his education from Holdrege and Mascot, graduating from Mascot High School with the class of 1944...