Stories from Monday, February 13, 2012

Sarah A. Myers Feb. 1, 1924 - Feb. 11, 2012 GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska --Sarah A. Myers, 88, of Cairo, Nebraska, died Saturday, Febr. 11, 2012, at Tiffany Square Care Center in Grand Island,. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m.Tuesday at the Cairo United Methodist Church in Cairo. The Rev. Melanie Adams will officiate. Burial will be in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery...

STRATTON, Nebraska -- Koda H. Reiman, 83, orginally of Stratton, died Sunday (Feb. 12, 2012), at the Sarah  Ann Hester Home in Benkelman. Services are pending with Carpenter Breland Funeral Home.

Iola M. Berger Aug. 27, 1917 - Feb. 13, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Iola M. Berger, 94, died Monday (Feb. 13, 2012), at McCook Community Hospital. She was born Aug. 27, 1917. Services will be announced by Herrmann Funeral Home.

Velma Ruth Smith July 2, 1925 - Feb. 12, 2012 ARAPAHOE, Nebraska -- Velma Ruth Smith, 86, of Arapahoe, died Sunday (Feb. 12, 2012), at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She was born July 2, 1925 at Oxford, Nebraska to Oscar and Bessie M. (Shield) Eman. She graduated from Oxford High School in 1942 at 16 years old. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County commissioners agreed this morning to build a new law enforcement center in McCook, Nebraska, and to build it next door to the courthouse. The board also agreed unanimously to allow county voters to decide whether they want to finance construction of the jail with bonds whose repayment levy would be outside the county's state-mandated 50-cent levy limit...

Chinese delegates from the Chinese Education Association for International Exchange check out a welder at McCook Community College's Center for Applies Science and Technology Friday. During their tour of the CAST facility, They are, from left, Cao Wen Hui, Feng Jianhua, Wang Hui, Zhang Zeling, Yang Yan. ...

By 2018, the United States will need about 2 million people in a job that earns in the mid-30,000s of dollars a year. You don't need a college degree, but you do need to be able to pass a drug screening test, have no felony convictions and have a good driving record...

Several McCook residents and members of McCook Group are opposed to changing the law regarding LB786. This law is regarding a council person who violates state law or city ordinance. McCook's City Manager form of government and big business appear to be for eliminating competition and having unfair advantage by passing laws or ordinances in a hurry and with no compromise. ...

(From the McCook Tribune) In the first years of McCook's existence the United States Land Office was one of the busiest places in town. Settlers were flocking into the new territory, lured by the prospects of free land, in a country that had been touted as being "A Land of Milk and Honey."...

There they go again. Last week, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee approved along party lines a bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to commission a study of the ethanol blend E15 before allowing it to be used in vehicles. This will cause an unwise delay in use of this fuel that holds so much promise...

Tanner Bauer (55) of Hitchcock County pulls down a rebound in front of Wallace's Lane Scott (34) and Kody Funk (14) in a boys high school basketball contest last Friday night in Trenton. Wallace scored in the final seconds to nip the Falcons, 57-56.

Donna B. Smith Jan. 4, 1931 - Feb, 7, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Donna Belle Smith went peacefully to Heaven, Tuesday, Feb.7, 2012, from Bryan LGH East Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 81. She was born Jan. 4, 1931, in St. Francis,Kansas, to Orion L. ...