Stories from Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Ann Marie Coulter March 30, 1927 - Feb. 20, 2012 HOXIE, Kansas -- Ann Marie Coulter, 84, died Feb. 20, 2012, at Sheridan County Health Complex in Hoxie, Kansas. She was born March 30, 1927, to August and and Anna (Hanson) Berndt. She married Elvis Coulter on Feb. 2, 1947 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Hoxie...

Kevin Lee Radel Jan. 14, 1966 - Feb. 17, 2012 AURORA, Colorado -- Kevin Lee Radel, 46, of Aurora, Colorado, passed away Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, in Julesburg, Colorado. Visitation will be from noon to 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 21 at Austin-Tennant Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22 at the United Methodist Church in Julesburg with Pastor Joy Savage and Pastor Art Roth officiating. Interment will follow at the Ovid Cemetery in Ovid, Colo...

Kelvin Roger Skiles Sept. 3, 1936- Feb. 17, 2012 CASPER, Wyoming -- Kelvin Roger Skiles, of Casper, Wyoming, passed away on Feb. 17, 2012, in Yuma, Arizona following an illness. He was born to Lewis and Merle (Hahn) Skiles on Oct. 3, 1936, in Wilsonville, Nebraska. ...

Raymond 'Ray' L. Lebsack Dec. 18, 1940 - Feb. 18, 2012 GREENACRES, Washington -- Raymond "Ray" L. Lebsack, age 71, passed away Feb. 18, 2012, at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Greenacres. He was born Dec. 18, 1940, in McCook, Nebraska, to Raymond and Helen (Downs) Lebsack. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has reported a finding of no significant impact pertaining to a state revolving fund loan request from the City of McCook for water and sewer service improvements. The $1,830,000 project is anticipated to improve water quality discharged by the waste water treatment plant into the Republican River, in addition to improving reliability of McCook's public water system...

Walls are going up quickly at the new McCook Municipal Facility, housing police, fire and city administration departments. Check out the Gazette all week for this and other improvements in our annual Progress edition, inside.

It's one thing to accept stereotypes when it comes to the behavior of men and women; it's quite another when someone's life depends on it. That's the problem when it comes to women, especially women under 55, who may be experiencing a heart attack. According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which included 1.1 million patients from 1994 to 2006, women having heart attacks are less likely than men to get immediate treatment and are more likely to die in the hospital.. ...

I'm off to summer school. At least, I hope it will be summer school. I certainly don't want to go back to the days when we had to walk to school, in the blinding snow, uphill both ways. In any case, I think I'm going to enjoy the classroom curriculum. Time has come for me to learn how to be a child again, and just in time. This grown-up stuff is getting old in a hurry...

LINCOLN, Nebraska -- State agricultural groups and the governor have demonstrated their willingness to shower the Humane Society of the United States with hellfire and brimstone if the well-funded animal welfare organization even looks like it's about to propose statutory or regulatory changes relating to the treatment of farm animals in the state...

Back in "the good old days" we had to learn how to read a map when going on a road trip and that wasn't even the hardest thing about it. The hardest thing came when you had to re-fold the map! Now, we punch a couple of buttons on our compact Global Positioning System, or GPS as it's known, and this compact device tells us exactly how to get where we're going...

91st birthday The family of LaMoine Keene is requesting a card shower in honor of his 91st birthday. He was born Feb. 22, 1921, in McCook. He is a retired railroad conductor for CB & Q (Burlington) Railroad. His family includes Dian (Chuck) Trail and Steve (Patty) Keene, all of McCook, five grandchilden and four great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach him at 111 West G, McCook, NE 69001...

Don't blame McCook High School senior Josh Stevens if he has a little chip on his shoulder entering the 2012 Nebraska State High School Swimming and Diving Championships. Stevens qualified for the state boys one-meter diving competition that will be held Thursday afternoon at the Bob Devaney Sports Center pool in Lincoln. Josh surpassed the automatic state qualifying standard in the diving event with a score of 371 points on 11 divers at the Scottsbluff Invitational earlier this season...

GRANT, Neb. -- On your marks, get set... The McCook High School girls basketball team turned their Class B-6 District Tournament game with Scottsbluff Tuesday, Feb. 21, into a track meet. The Bison girls used a fast start to sprint past the Bearcats, 59-35, in the first-round contest at the Perkins County High School gym in Grant...