Stories from Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Dec. 1907-Jan. 6, 2008 LUDELL -- Tressie Bell (Flood) Samson, 100, died Sunday (Jan. 6, 2008), at Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. She was born Dec. 5, 1907, in a sod house south of Trenton to James Edward and Martha "Mattie" Elizabeth (Frakes) Flood. She completed eight years of country school at District No. 15...

McCook girls give unbeaten Colby squad a battle COLBY, Kan. -- Cory Gaston hit a 15-foot jump shot with 7 seconds left in the game to give the McCook High School boys basketball team a 66-64 victory over the Colby Eagles Tuesday night at the Colby Community Center...

SOUTHWEST -- The Rawlins County-Atwood boys basketball teams improved to 8-0 with a 72-53 win over Southwest High School Tuesday night. Drew Basgall led all scoring with 25 points. Elijah Kastens added 20 and Jackson Grafel and Marcus Cahoj each scored 10 points...

July 19, 1919-Jan. 5, 2008 ARAPAHOE -- Arline Frances Sorensen, 88, died Saturday (Jan. 5, 2008) at C.A. Mues Good Samaritan Center in Arapahoe. She was born July 19, 1919, at Indianola to Francis J. and Lily E. (Wood) Madden. She grew up on the family farm north of Indianola and attended grade school at Frontier County District No. 27...

President Bill Clinton made only one trip to Nebraska, but some of his semantic gymnastic skills seem to have rubbed off. The man who crafted the phrase, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" would be proud of some of the arguments being prepared for the state's defense of LB701 against the "Friends of the River" lawsuit...

In a hundred years, what will it matter? The question is posed by well-meaning friends and acquaintances usually when someone struggles with a seemingly inconsequential decision. If the decision is truly inconsequential, it will scarcely matter in a hundred days, let alone a hundred years...

In the warm sunshine Tuesday afternoon, City of McCook workers chip away at ice and snow clogging the curbs on J Street, clearing the way for a survey -- public works director Kyle Potthoff hopes -- before the next big snow. The renovation of J Street, from West Tenth to Norris, begins this summer and will require about three months to complete. ...

The inventor of "Gobs of Glob," "Sizzle Seeds" and "Cinnamon Toothpicks," Lewis "Bud" Harmon of McCook, died Tuesday at Community Hospital of McCook. He was 90 years old. Harmon was a 1936 graduate of McCook Senior High, who, with his wife, Betty, owned two neighborhood grocery stores in McCook and operated a 24-hour restaurant in downtown McCook during World War II. ...