Stories from Monday, January 15, 2007

DESTIN BEACH, Fla., -- Tiffany Marie Nix of McCook and Robert Allen Stanton of Bozeman, Mont., were united in marriage on Oct. 14, 2006, on Marimar Beach in Destin, Fla., with Joel Stanton, father of the bridegroom, officiating. Parents of the couple are Dr. ...

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio --Lori Rene Harris of Middletown, Ohio, and Troy James Barger, formerly of Palisade, were united in marriage July 8, 2006, at the Breiel Boulevard First Church of God in Middletown with the Rev. David Colp officiating. Parents of the couple are Dr. ...

Mitch and Patty Mollring of Omaha, announce the birth of a son, Miles Mitchell. He was born Dec. 13, 2006. He weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and measure 19 3/4 inches in length. He has a six-year-old brother, J.R.; and twin sisters, Macy and Sophie, 4. Grandparents are Larry and Diane Mollring, of Lincoln, formerly of McCook and Richard and Susie Ziegler of Syracuse. Mitch is a graduate of McCook High School...

NORTH PLATTE -- It was a hard weekend for MCC men's basketball team, which lost to Otero Junior College 81-60 Friday night. The Indians bounced back with an 81-49 win over the Doane College junior varsity on Saturday. Sterling Link led MCC with 15 points, 6 rebounds, 4 blocks and 1 steal. Kyle Wamsley added 10 points and 5 rebounds...

OBERLIN -- Four McCook High School wrestlers came away with a medal from the Oberlin Invitational on Saturday. Bison coach Nick Umscheid said the Oberlin meet was a very tough tournament with many highly ranked individuals from Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado...

HAYES CENTER -- The Hayes Center Cardinal boys basketball team outscored Cambridge 65-52 Saturday night. Matt Gohl led the Cardinals with 17 points and 13 rebounds. Justin Huss had 10 points and 5 assists and Jake Rowley scored 15 points. Jackson Johnson had 15 points, Bo Cribelli 11 and Dustin Webb 10 for Cambridge...

HASTINGS -- The McCook High School girls basketball team was able to cut an 18-point deficit to 5 with 51 seconds to go in the third quarter, but Hastings held on to win 52-43 in basketball action Friday night. "We didn't make our adjustments on defense very well," Bison coach Barry Schaeffer said...

EUSTIS -- Eustis-Farnam's girls and boys walloped Alma Friday. The Knights girls are ranked ninth in 9-1 and took the board 53-28, while the boys edged by the Alma team 47-42. Katie Fagot tallied the points for the Knights with 17. Fagot also had 4 assists. Rieker added 11 points and Jacey Schultheiss had 10. Schultheiss also led in rebounds with 8 and had 4 assists and 1 steals...

Feb. 23, 1926 - Jan. 13, 2007 DENVER, Colo. -- Dale A. Bradshaw, age 80, died on Saturday (Jan. 13, 2007) following a battle with cancer. He was born Feb. 23, 1926, in the town of McCook, to the late Bert and Mabel Bradshaw. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, stationed at Alamogordo, NM. He married Marjorie Poore June 10, 1945, in McCook. He was united in marriage with Doris Wood in Longmont, Colo., Dec. 7, 1980...

Feb. 1, 1929 - Jan. 13, 2007 TRENTON?-- Evelyn  Louise Lindgren, age 77,  died Jan. 13, 2007 at El Dorado Nursing Home in Trenton.  She was born Feb. 1, 1929, to John and Cornelia Lily (Clug) Lindgren in Los Angeles, Calif.  She lived in the community for 67 years.  She worked at various places in McCook, including Community Hospital...

May 19, 1914 - Jan 12, 2007 ATWOOD?-- Dorothea "Dororthy" Elizabeth Holste Lewis. 92, died Friday (Jan. 12, 2007). She was born on May 19, 1914, near Ludell to Herman and Mary (Hoffbauer) Holtse. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Ludell. She grew up on the farm where her grandparents settled...

McCook Fire Chief Marc Harpham and Utilities Director Jesse Dutcher tromp through deep snow on the front sidewalk of the former St. Catherine's convent in the 1200 block of West Fourth, responding with other emergency personnel this morning to the building's blaring exterior fire alarm. ...

The Universal Service Fund may have been a good idea when it was established in 1999, but eight years is a lifetime in the high-tech world of telecommunications. Established to keep the state in line with the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Nebraska's fund is designed to make sure everyone in the state has access to telephone service...

Of the 88 officially recognized constellations, Orion is my favorite. For one, it is so prominent; its bright stars gleaming against the blackness of the winter night sky. Secondly, Orion contains one of the most impressive of sights seen through a backyard telescope: the Orion Nebula or M42 as it is called in comet hunter Messier's list...

Yes, it's true that the Internet clutters your computer with a lot of unneeded and unsolicited information. But -- every once in a while -- an e-mail comes through which brings a smile ... a tear ... and, sometimes, even a bit of wisdom. I thought about that last week when my wife, Barbara, shared the following comments from her daily e-mails. The collection is taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds:...

**Dear Editor, This was a wonderful tribute to my cousin Kevin Gilmore ["Marshall crash reverberated through McCook" (http://www.mc-cookgazette.com/story/1182516.html)]. Thank You. **Andrea Gilmore Szanto, via e-mail

Since Mother Nature was kind to us in the McCook area by not knocking out our electricity, maybe we should help out our friends in the Holdrege area who have suffered a great deal of hardship these past few weeks. The Phelps County Community Foundation has opened a Disaster Relief Fund in response to this costly ice storm. They will help the area agencies, churches and individuals that are experiencing a rapid depletion of their resources...

We have posted an Excel worksheet that looks at the Governors water numbers.  We are having difficulty finding a way to make his numbers match his statements.  Take a look at  http://www.waterclaim.org/blog/2007/01/governor_math.html and see if you can identify where the missing $35.9 million comes from...

Aug. 16, 1956 - Jan. 12, 2007 Robert Dale Keen Jr., 50, died Friday (Jan. 12, 2007) at his home in McCook. Memorial services will be Wednesday, 2 p.m., at Herrmann Funeral Memorial Chapel in McCook, with the Rev. Steve Bales officiating. Inurnment will be at a later date...