Stories from Monday, February 13, 2006

The McCook Community College men's and women's basketball teams both lost to Southeast-Beatrice Saturday afternoon at True Hall Gymnasium. The MCC men lost to the Storm 84-62 and the Indian women's squad lost 65-49. The MCC defeated Central Community College-Columbus 76-51 Friday at True Hall...

Laura Ford, above, representing Country Floral, captured first place in the McCook Community College Chili Cook-Off Saturday with her white chicken chili. The Cook-Off, conducted in memory of Dick Driml, funds the MCC Fine Arts Program. Ford's husband Mike, representing Knowlen and Yates, placed second. ...

Incumbents who want to file for the May primary have until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Red Willow County Clerk Pauletta Gerver said. The deadline for non incumbents is March 1. Filings on record for county offices are all incumbents so far, including Pauletta Gerver, County Clerk, Beverly Dodge, Clerk of District Court, Marleen Garcia, County Treasurer, Gene Mahon, Sheriff, Sandra K. ...

Out hunting quail, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots a wealthy Republican donor who is also a lawyer. Thankfully, the victim, Harry Whittington of Austin, Tex., is in stable condition after being treated for pellet wounds to the face, neck and chest...

I am writing with reference to an article that appeared in the Gazette, Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 11-12, 2006. The writer of this article suggested that the State Legislature should require nearly all gasoline sold in the state to include 10 percent ethanol. Further, the author of this article suggests that the use of this "ethanol" fuel will reduce our use of foreign oil ("fossil" fuel). With this in mind, I have a question, and so far, I have found no rational answer...

Today most people are familiar with the Red Baron only through the Peanuts comic strip, where an imaginative Snoopy, wearing the goggles of a World War I aviator takes bullet hits from a machine gun while flying his dog house, shaking his fist and shouting, "Curse you, Red Baron!"...

Nov. 6, 1919--Feb. 12, 2006 Geraldine Fay "Gerri" Giespert, 88, died Sunday (Feb. 12, 2006) at Community Hospital in McCook. She was born Nov. 6, 1919, in Cambridge to John Edwin and Lenora May (DeWester) Tumbleson. She graduated from Cambridge High School...

July 7, 1905--Feb. 10, 2006 EVANSTON, Wyo. -- Ivan Edwin Booker, 100, died Friday (Feb. 10, 2006) in Evanston, Wyo. He was born July 7, 1905, to George W. and Myrtie J. (Smith) Booker at Edison. He graduated from Edison High School in 1923. He attended business school...