Stories from Monday, January 30, 2006

Ozgun Ozguven and Jacob Forbes (center) are crowned McCook Senior High's Color Day queen and king Saturday evening following the MHS-Lexington basketball games. Ozgun is an exchange student from Turkey living with Cloyd and Linda Clark. Jacob is the son of Greg and Nancy Broadfoot. ...

McCook and Lexington squared off Saturday in both varsity and junior varsity basketball contests Saturday night. The Bison girls and boys varsity teams fell short to Lexington. Lexington's JV teams fell to the Bison boys and girls. McCook's varsity boys kept Lexington on their toes...

McDONALD -- Someone taking advantage of the offer of free building lots in McDonald will get more than a free piece of land. They'll get fresh, clean air ... neighbors who take care of each other ... life stripped of the rat race, the hub-bub, the chaos. They'll get a small community with a heart as big and as open as the Kansas plains that surround it...

McCook City Council members will discuss Phase II of the Jail Needs Assessment Study, and consider the necessity and cost effectiveness of the proposed combined jail facility, at a special meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 at the City Council Chambers in Memorial Auditorium...

CAMBRIDGE -- Arapahoe's boys and Southern Valley's girls were crowned RVL champions Saturday. The Warriors battled it out with a tough Cambridge team in the boys division. The Warriors defeated the Trojans 61-52. Southern Valley's boys took third after downing Bertrand 54-32...

Several famous and influential boomers turn 60 this year.

Dear Editor; I read Dawn's (Cribbs') column in Wednesday's paper and it was such a well-written column about the Women's Conference and the impact Kathy Troccoli and Dee Brestin made on the lives of so many women this past weekend. In our Thursday morning Bible study we had such a blessing as we talked about the conference and how it affected our lives and others that the ladies in our Bible study had talked with...

Dear Editor; My uncle, the late Wendell P. Cheney and his lifetime friend, Ray Search, would be very proud and happy that the McCook College chimes are ringing again. I know that on several long talks with my uncle, he mentioned the MCC chimes and how he would love to hear them ring again. ...

May 14, 1944--Jan. 28, 2006 BEAVER CITY -- Frederick R. Hernandez, 61, died Saturday (Jan. 28, 2006) at Harlan County Hospital in Alma. He was born May 14, 1944, in Albany, Calif., to Alfred and Annie (Bellamy) Hernandez. He attended school in Oklahoma City, Okla...

July 21, 1923--Jan. 27, 2006 PEORIA, Ariz. -- John F. Allen, 82, formerly of McCook, died Friday (Jan. 27, 2006) at his home in Peoria, Ariz., following a short illness. He was born on July 21, 1923, in Axtell, Kan. He attended St. Joseph's Catholic School in Beatrice. ...