Stories from Tuesday, February 1, 2005

EUSTIS -- The Eustis-Farnam girls basketball team hosted Brady and came away with a 59-17 victory Monday night. "We did some things well tonight against a Brady team that kept coming at us all night," said Eustis-Farnam girls basketball coach Brad Dunlap...

The McCook Community College baseball team's weekend fund-raising efforts earned almost three times as much as last year's event, according to MCC baseball coach Jeremy Jorgensen. In its second year, the baseball team's bowl-a-thon and silent auction raised almost $3,200 compared to last year's totals of about $1,100...

Aug. 9, 1926-Jan. 30, 2005 HOLDREGE -- Mable A. Johnson, 78, died Sunday (Jan. 30, 2005) at her home in Holdrege. She was born Aug. 9, 1926, south of Oil Center, Okla., to Neal and Addie Mae (Cook) MacDonald. She attended Vanoss High School in Oklahoma, graduating in 1945...

July 14, 1946-Jan. 29, 2005 Terry Wayne Dyer, 58, of McCook died Saturday (Jan. 29, 2005), at Premier Estates Senior Living in North Platte. He was born July 14, 1946, at Dennison, Texas, to Elbert Washington and Virgie Ethel (Foxx) Dyer. On Oct. 10, 1975, he married Dixie L. Matson at Guyman, Okla. They moved to the McCook community in 1998. Terry was a self-employed handyman doing such jobs as painting, mowing, janitor work, mechanic and truck driving...

Amber Wilcox and Shawn Winder announce the birth of their son, Aden Paul, Dec. 10, 2004, at Deaconess Billings Hospital in Billings, Mont. He weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was 21 inches long. Grandparents include Don and Lisa Wilcox, Doug and Shellie Winder and Dave and Michelle Bunnell, all of McCook. Great-grandparents include Ardess Cappel and the late Paul Winder, Ike and Bernie Malcolm, Irvin and Lois Wilcox, all of McCook, Joyce Keller of Omaha, and Jackie Mathews of Pheonix, Ariz...

The question was, "In 10 years, what types of programs does McCook Public Schools want to offer its students?" And 1974 McCook High graduate Leigh Hoyt answered, "Not in 10 years -- next year -- I definitely want some sort of ag program back at McCook."...

An "old house" in extreme southeast Decatur County (southeast of Jennings) is actually a shed dating from the time Edward and Sarah McKenna homesteaded the land back in the 1870s. The shed is the only building left standing from a farmstead that used to have two houses and other outbuildings. Before those were built, the couple lived in a dugout sod house...

Three hundred and sixty-four candidates. That's how many people were vying for the presidency here. Yet there has been little campaigning. With all those choices, a local man asked me, how can he be expected to make a knowledgeable choice? It's three days before the election and it is reported that a class of 50 female suicide bombers has entered the country. ...

How do you balance taxpayers' ability to pay with students' need for a full, rounded offering of academic classes and activities? That is the question which lingers after the goal setting session conducted Monday night by McCook School District 17. Ideas for improvement abound, with many at the meeting speaking in support of reviving the vocational agriculture program on the junior high and high school level. ...