Stories from Monday, December 12, 2005

Arapahoe boys and girls basketball teams swept the finals Saturday in the Cattle Trail Invite in McCook. The boys defeated Hayes Center 64-43 and the girls over took Southwest 59-42. In the boys division Dundy County took the third placing after winning against Hitchcock County 42-35...

GOODLAND, Kan. -- The McCook High School boys and girls basketball teams brought home fourth- and sixth-place finishes from the Goodland, Kan., Topside Tipoff Classic. The Bison boys lost to Burlington, Colo., 87-79 in the third-place game. The McCook girls lost to Ottawa, Kan., 58-33 in the fifth-place game...

Wade Stevens was born in Arapahoe but grew up in Beaver City, where he graduated from high school, and later practiced law with his father, John Stevens Jr. Wade was a rather small man, very disciplined, and kept himself physically fit. During his adult life he probably did not weigh more than a few pounds more than he weighed when he graduated from high school...

The McCook City Council will hold a special City Council meeting tonight at 7:30 at the City Council Chambers, to discuss plans for the recruitment of a new City Manager. According to the City Manger's report, the vacancy time interval for the previous two recent city managers was four months after one and eight months after another. The City Staff recommended that the next city manager be on the job by May 2006...

McCook Public Schools board members will discuss the district's bus barn on West Q during their regular board meeting today at 6 p.m. in the junior high conference room. Red Willow County is considering the bus barn acreage as a possible location for a new jail, if its construction is approved by county voters. A long-range plan developed by the school district in the late 1990s proposed building a new bus barn on school-owned land south of the track bowl on West Tenth...

Mike Chipman on the trombone, Whitney Pierson on the flute and Sara Alumbaugh on the piccolo play their parts in "Silent Night," which will be presented during the McCook Senior High and Junior High School bands' annual Christmas concert Thursday. The program will feature a wide variety of music, including program tunes, marches and other holiday favorites, performed by the high school and junior high concert bands and the high school jazz band. ...

When it comes to raising children, the people 0f Southwest Nebraska have a lot in common with the citizens of Lake Wobegon. We say that because of the newly released state report card, which shows the overwhelming majority of this region's 4th, 8th and 11th graders performed well on assessment tests for reading, math and writing...

**Dear Editor, Large urban cities, many of which are located on rivers, need cheap water. Floods along these rivers damaged the cities, so federal flood control reservoirs were built to protect them. Before these projects could be built, Congress required multi-state compacts to be written. The states where these cities are located are now suing the upstream states and using the compacts to get the cheap water they need...

Dec. 1, 1916--Dec. 10, 2005 OBERLIN -- Helen Charlotte Lindquist, 89, died Saturday (Dec. 10, 2005) at the Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. She was born Dec. 1, 1916, in McCook to Fred and Eruilla (Fitch) Adams. She graduated from McCook High School...

WAUNETA -- Otis "Knotty" Knotwell, 82, died Friday (Dec. 9, 2005) at the Northern Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colo. Survivors include his wife, Beryl of Wauneta; daughters, Carol Thompson and husband, Steven of Wauneta, Barb Hinrichs and husband, Gordon of Lexington, Colleen Goings and husband, Dennis of Elsie and Patti Kitt and husband, Lonnie of Schuyler; son, James Knotwell and wife, Denise of Wayne; sister, Esther Einspahr of Wauneta; 12 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren...