Stories from Wednesday, December 15, 2004

The McCook Community College men's basketball team has an 8-6 record entering the mid-semseter break. The Indians Casper College, Wyo., on Saturday 68-67 at the Region IX Shootout at North Platte. Andre Goldberg, a sophomore, hit the game winner after Dundy County freshman Ben Shaw stepped up and hit his first 3-pointer of the year...

OBERLIN -- The Oberlin boys basketball team committed 25 turnovers on the way to a 39-36 loss to Hill City on Tuesday. Hill City trailed by four after the third quarter, then outscored Oberlin 16-9 in the final period to steal the victory. The Red Devils did win in the rebounding category, pulling down 19 to Hill City's 14...

BARTLEY -- The McCook Junior High School eighth grade girls basketball A team posted a 46-8 win over Southwest Tuesday afternoon at the Bartley gymnasium. The Bison combined B and C teams defeated Southwest 40-28. Joanna Bryant led the Bison A team with 18 points. Kali Lyons added 11, Brianna Watkins 6, Hannah Swanhorst 4, Ashley Palic 3, Jordan Baumbach 2 and Lyndsay McLaren 2...

July 1, 1935-Dec. 14, 2004 CULBERTSON -- Icyle Yvonne Wright, 69, died Tuesday (Dec. 14, 2004) at her home in Culbertson. She was born July 1, 1935, to William and Stella (Hewitt) Sayre in Evans, W.V. She grew up in Wonderland, Ohio where she attended high school...

April 27, 1924-Dec. 14, 2004 Minnie Marie Huff, 80, died Tuesday (Dec. 14, 2004) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born April 27, 1924, to Isaac Johnathan Delroy and Leila Dayle (Barton) Hoschouer in Maywood. She graduated from Maywood High School in 1942...

One new member has been elected and two will retain their seats on the Board of Directors for Community Hospital of McCook. Marc Harpham, McCook Fire Chief, was elected to a new three-year term and Kenneth Bracht and Dr. Jane Eskildsen were reelected to the post...

Christmas decorations aren't the only colors around to enjoy this week -- take this morning's sunrise in Southwest Nebraska, for example. Temperatures promise to increase into the upper 50s over the next few days, with few prospects for snow in the forecast...

For years and years to come -- conceivably extending throughout this century and into the next -- the $3.5 million bequest from the estate of Jean (Sullivan) Rawson will benefit students attending the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis...

IMPERIAL -- Margaret L. Greeley, 88, died Tuesday (Dec. 14, 2004) at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial.

Many years ago John Lennon recorded the song "Imagine." The song was a melancholy fantasy of a world where we all lived together in peace. In that idealistic realm, issues of hunger, politics and religion no longer separated us. Those issues simply didn't exist in his melodic utopia...