Stories from Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Aug. 25, 1921 - Dec. 8, 2007 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., --  Beryl V. Harper, age 86 of Grand Junction, Colo., entered eternal life on Dec. 8, 2007. She entered this life on Aug. 25, 1921, in Stratton. Mrs. Harper spent her childhood in Stratton and was a graduate of Stratton High School. She married Glenn Harper on Sept. 22, 1943, in Oberlin. Beryl and Glenn made their home briefly in Green River, Wyo., from 1978 to 1988...

The McCook Community College men's basketball team wrapped up the first semester with an 8-6 record.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- Morningside College proved too much for the visiting Dana College Vikings women's basketball team on Saturday afternoon. The NAIA third rated Mustangs defeated the Vikings, 85-60, in Sioux City, Iowa. Dana kept the game close in the opening minutes of the game, but could not stop Morningside on the boards. The first half saw Dana shoot 50 percent, but Morningside shot the same...

NORTH PLATTE -- Area wrestling teams competed in the North Platte St. Pat's Irish Invitational Thursday in North Platte. Medicine Valley finished second with Southwest following in third. Hitchcock County's wrestlers took fifth, Wauneta-Palisade ninth, Eustis-Farnam 10th and Dundy County-Stratton 12th place...

The McCook High School varsity and junior varsity girls basketball home games against Cozad scheduled for tonight have been postponed because of snow and icy road conditions. The games will be rescheduled at a later date, according to the MHS activities office...

The McCook High School freshman girls basketball team improved its record to 2-1 with a 33-28 win over Southern Valley on Monday night at the high school. McCook was led by Taylor Matson, Gretchen Sehnert and Laura Brooks each with 6 points. Kasha Messersmith and Megan Carfield added 4 each...

A mother and daughter, formerly of McCook, were awarded a total of a half million dollars in damages from a 2004 vehicle accident near Culbertson. After a two-day trial in District Court in McCook that ended Dec. 6, a jury found in favor of Angela Flores, 57, and Dalia Lopez-Flores, 31, now of Paxton, for $60,000 and $442,548.79 respectively. ...

The McCook Public Schools board of education accepted four sizable donations at its monthly meeting Monday evening. The first, $760, from Wells Fargo, is designated for the McCook Senior High Student Council. Superintendent Dave Schley said the money would be used for expenses associated with the group's annual spring-time leadership banquet and speaker expenses...

Ah, Solitude, Of marble Silence fit abode! I do prefer my fading face, My loss of loveliness and grace, With cloud-dreams ever in my view; Also the hope that other eyes May share my rapture in the skies, And, if illusion, feel it true. From "Solitude and the Lily"...

Ask any die hard astronomy nut (or in my instance space case) what they would like for Christmas and you are likely to get a description of the latest motor-driven goto telescope with all the bells and whistles designed to do the star finding for you. If you are not in mind to spend $4,000 to $5,000 in one lump, what else could be a possible gift for the astro minded?...

I was glad to see the picture of Chad Lyons and his students painting the chairs for the Toy Box on the front page of Saturday's paper (12/8/07). However, I think there should be some clarification of why the school donated the chairs and toys to the Toy Box...

I just wanted to let people know how mean, deceitful and dishonest people really are. I recently lost my brother to a motorcycle wreck west of Atwood. After his death, I bought him a cut-steel five-foot wide, three-foot high image of a motorcycle. I put it at his gravesite about one month after he passed away...

Gina Whipple gathers up a herd of horses that will be given as Christmas gifts after McCook's annual Toy Box distribution Sunday. Monday morning, Gina and fellow offenders at the Nebraska Department of Corrections Work Ethic Camp in McCook helped Santa's elves move donated used and new toys from Toy Box collection points to the Nebraska Army National Guard Armory (404 W. ...