Stories from Saturday, November 12, 2005

McCook Public Schools board of education members will once again discuss a name for McCook's new single-site elementary facility, during a regular meeting scheduled Monday at 6 p.m., in the junior high conference room. During last month's meeting, board member Mike Gonzales suggested naming the new school something more inspiring than "Mc-Cook Elementary," and encouraged anyone with ideas to contact board members...

It may rain Saturday, but we know that any precipitation won't have a chance to settle on Weiland Field Saturday night when the McCook Bison host the Beatrice Orangemen in state Class B semifinal football game. Gates open at 2:30 and kickoff is at 4 p.m...

I received my "Greetings" letter from Uncle Sam in July of 1968. I had been on the Tulsa Police Department less than a year, after four years at the University of Arkansas with a student deferment. I think I'm one of the few from that time period who doesn't remember his draft "lottery" number but I have no idea what it was. Evidently it was pretty low...

Jan. 18, 1918--Nov. 10, 2005 NORCATUR -- Marguerite Lucile Fullerton, daughter of Charles Melvin and Nettie (Wotton) Butler, was born Jan. 18, 1918, on the family farm north of Norcatur, and passed away at the Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin on Nov. 10, 2005, at the age of 87...