Stories from Tuesday, May 24, 2011

April 26, 1914-May 14, 2011 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado -- Alberta Schneider, 97, passed away Saturday, May 14, 2011, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Alberta was born in Deweese, Nebraska, to Daniel and Eva Scott on April 26, 1914. She graduated from the Deweese High School...

WAUNETA, Nebraska -- William Jeffries died Sunday (May 22, 2011) at Imperial Manor Nursing Home in Imperial, Nebraska. He was a long time resident of Wauneta and a officer of Chase County Veterans. Survivors include his son, Dan of Wauneta; daughter, Kathy Crabbs and husband, William of Littleton, Colorado; sister, Nellie Rose Bishop and husband, John of Gilbert, Arizona; brother-in-law, Dale Bischoff of Wauneta; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren...

Jan. 1, 1949-May 15, 2011 NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Peggy Rosenblad, 62, died May 15, 2011, at Yuma Regional Medical Center in Yuma, Arizona following four and a half months of severe multiple sclerosis. She was born Jan. 1, 1949, in Maywood, Nebraska to Delma (Walker) Foote and Thurman Foote. ...

Get informed, argue for your point of view, then move on. Great advice for anyone who wants to be a good citizen, but a matter of survival for a honeybee hive. Huh? Yes, that's the lesson to be learned from a new book, "Honeybee Democracy," by Cornell professor Thomas Seeley...

Some members on the Hitchcock District School Board, am I calling them by their proper name, are saying the Bears are dead. I wonder. Do they think if they say it enough it will happen? Others say the Bears are not dead but hibernating. Sightings of Little Bears and Big Bears have been seen in Culbertson and around the countryside...

Well over 4,000 years ago, our Bible tells us that the Jewish people entered the Promised Land, present-day Israel. Chapter 13 of the book of Numbers states that Moses sent 12 spies into the land to check it out; report on the crops grown, the people already living there and what it would take to conquer the land. ...