Stories from Thursday, January 17, 2002

Kearney has the arch ... North Platte is getting the golden spike ... and now it's time for the McCook area to establish a shrine of its own. And what exactly should that be? In the opinion of a group that started meeting in the fall of 2001, the most appropriate memorial for the McCook area would be a monument saluting the tremendous importance of rural electrification in American life...

Dear Editor; I'm writing this in hopes it will help to clarify an article in the Gazette and help save my grandson's reputation. On Saturday, Jan. 12, the court report listed the name, age and address of a young man who was accused of Third Degree Sexual Assault...

Wouldn't it be nice if we could attack our chores with the same passion with which we attack our hobbies? I can just imagine how things would look around the house if Brad were to turn some of his preoccupation with the outdoors toward getting things going around the house...

Audrey M. (Black) Searcey LIBERTY -- Audrey M. (Black) Searcey, 80, died Tuesday (Jan. 15, 2002) at the Goldcrest Retirement Center in Adams. She was born March 18, 1921, on a farm near Liberty to Arthur and Pearl (McKamey) Black. She spent her childhood there, graduating from Liberty High School in 1939...

Eugene Carl Steinke WAUNETA -- Eugene Carl Steinke, 85, died Monday (Jan. 15, 2002) at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial. He was born Nov. 28, 1916, south of Trenton to Carl and Mary (Raymond) Steinke. He attended school through the eighth grade and worked with his father on the farm...

Martha A. Schneider OMAHA -- Martha A. Schneider, 83, died Tuesday (Jan. 15, 2002). She was born Nov. 18, 1918, east of Quick in Frontier County to Bryan and Arlilla (Jewell) Harrison. She attended rural school through the eighth grade and earned her high school diploma later in her adult life...