Stories from Tuesday, October 25, 2005

COLBY -- The McCook Community College volleyball team lost to Colby in five games Monday night at Colby 30-22, 21-30, 29-31, 30-26, 15-5. Kayla Laird had 40 set assists, 3 ace blocks, and 17 digs for the Indians. Lindsey Hartman had 11 digs, and 4 ace serves...

SOUTHWEST -- Southwest, Wauneta-Palisade, Wallace and Dundy County came out on top in the GPAC tourney at Southwest on Monday. The four teams will compete Tuesday, starting at 2 p.m., and will play for the GPAC championship. Maywood and Medicine Valley started the tournament off in Game 1...

McCook City Council members awarded a $1.48 million bid to Paulsen Inc. for the new wastewater collection and transfer system for the city's new water treatment plant. At a special City Council meeting Monday at the Heritage Senior Center, it was revealed that Paulsen Inc. of Cozad was the lowest responsible bid, with other bids submitted by Industrial Process Technology Inc of Mitchell, S.D. for $1,642,601, and Simon Contractors of North Platte for $1,695,000...

Katherine Thornsburry adds the shadowing to homecoming message on Brown's Shoe Fit in downtown McCook. The Bison planned a pep rally at the high school parking lot at 2:20 this afternoon in preparation for Thursday's big homecoming football battle against Holdrege. Katherine, 14, is a freshman at McCook High School. She and her family moved here from Florida after last year's hurricanes. (Bruce Crosby/McCook Daily Gazette)...

CAMBRIDGE -- A Cambridge man is keeping an eye on what some astronomers believe is the 10th planet in our solar system. As his e-mail to the Gazette indicates, however, the subject is far from settled. Linderholm submitted photographs of the celestial body that is the center of the controversy...

When you are bombarded with national news, it's sometimes difficult to pay attention. "How does this apply to me and my community?," you find yourself asking. But, upon learning that Alan Greenspan is stepping down as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, there were no questions in our mind how this man and this agency affects daily lives in McCook and other communities all across America...

I've heard about them, but I've never actually seen one. I heard someone advertising an infrared spotting camera used by hunters that might just help me capture an image of one. I'm not talking about BigFoot or the Loch Ness Monster. I'm talking about pedestrians who actually use the B Street crossings in downtown McCook...

Feb. 18, 1932--Oct. 23, 2005 LINCOLN -- Cozetta Lamoni Porter, 73, died Sunday (Oct. 23, 2005) at Bryan LGH Hospital in Lincoln. She was born on Feb. 18, 1932, in Frontier County to Louis C. and Clarissa M. (Blake) Fritsche. She graduated from Maywood high School in 1950...

Aug. 9, 1931--Oct. 23, 2005 CAMBRIDGE -- Shirley M. Hyke, 74, died Sunday (Oct. 23, 2005) at the Cambridge Manor. She was born Aug. 9, 1931, in Lincoln to Clyde and Leora (Davidson) Wolfe. She graduated from Lincoln High School. She married Norman "Curly" Howe on Feb. 18, 1956, in Glenwood, Iowa. The couple moved to Wilsonville in 1972. He preceded her in death in 1977. She then married Floren "Shob" Hyke...

Oct. 4, 1917--Oct. 22, 2005 MONTROSE, Colo. -- Willard E. Losh, known as "Bo" to many members of his extended family and friends, died on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005, at the age of 88. Bo, the fifth of five children, was born in Traer, Kan., on Oct. 4, 1917, the son of Icy Ephraim Losh and Cora Mae (Gordon) Losh. Bo was raised on a farm outside McCook...