Stories from Thursday, December 1, 2005

LINCOLN -- Nebraska returns home to the NU Coliseum this week, as the Huskers host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament this weekend in Lincoln. The Huskers (28-1, 19-1 Big 12) were chosen as the tournament's overall No. 1 seed and will take on SWAC champion Alabama A&M (15-11, 7-1 SWAC) in the first round at 7 p.m. Friday...

LINCOLN -- Nebraska's Christina Houghtelling and Sarah Pavan made history on Wednesday when they became the first two Husker volleyball players to earn CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in the same season. The 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's Volleyball Team was announced Wednesday after voting by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA)...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Gonzaga University men's golf coach Robert Gray has announced the signing of Brandon Crick to a national letter of intent to join the Bulldogs squad for next season. Crick plays at McCook High in Nebraska where he is a three sport standout in golf, tennis and basketball...

McCook Chiefs clip St. Pat's The McCook Home School Chiefs edge out McCook St. Patrick's Nov. 21 by a 22-18 score. Shane German led the Chiefs with 11 points. Nathan Morgan also led in scoring with 7. Logan Hoyt totaled 2 points. Alan Goodenberger led the St. Pats boys with 6 points...

Aug. 21, 1922--Nov. 29, 2005 Leila Marilyn Weyeneth died Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005, at the Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook at the age of 83. She was born Aug. 21, 1922, in Lebanon, the daughter of Fred and Gladys (Zweigle) Jolly. She grew up on a farm south of Lebanon on the Nebraska, Kansas line. She graduated from the Decatur County High School at Oberlin in 1940. She began teaching at the Spring Branch Rural School in Decatur County...

Aug. 28, 1923--Nov. 29, 2005 HERNDON -- Genevieve Eula Kristina Henningsen, 82, died Tuesday (Nov. 29, 2005). She was born Aug. 28, 1923, in rural Rawlins County to Olof W. Erickson and Christina Marie Westman. She attended Linda Country School and graduated from Decatur Community High School...

Nov. 9, 1953--Nov. 29, 2005 BEAVER CITY -- David Walter Buss, 52, died Tuesday (Nov. 29, 2005) at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Holdrege. He was born Nov. 9, 1953, in Gothenburg to Walter and DeVona (Max) Buss. He graduated from Cozad High School in 1972...

Dec. 3, 1938--Nov. 24, 2005 Mary Jane Lewis, 66, died Thursday (Nov. 24, 2005) at the Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in Hastings. She was born Dec. 3, 1938, in Keith County to Eddie and Laura Pankonin Uehling. She graduated from Perkins County High School in Grant in 1956. She became a registered nurse in 1959...

Nov. 18, 1935--Nov. 28, 2005 HARRISON -- Alta "Nadine" Ellicott, 70, died Monday (Nov. 28, 2005) in Crawford. She was born Nov. 18, 1935, in Alliance to Willard and Edna Pearl Carpenter. She was a member of the Harrison Methodist Church and United Methodist Women...

OXFORD -- The curator of the Korean War museum in Oxford has relocated the museum's memorabilia to a small community southeast of Hastings. Kyle Kopitke, who moved to Oxford when he transported Korean War museum memorabilia from Hawaii to the Furnas County community of 1,000 in 2004 and 2005, purchased Edgar's former high school building for $1, and has loaded up and hauled away the memorabilia that filled the rooms of the nursing home-turned-museum in Oxford...

It's been called the season of giving, and offenders from the Nebraska Department of Corrections Work Ethic Camp in McCook are getting in on the ground floor -- that is, the garage floor of Bill Stewart's shop, where they are refurbishing bikes and tricycles for the Annual Toy Box giveaway, set for Sunday Dec. 18...

With 1,000 miles of highways to clear in 13 Southwest Nebraska counties, Department of Roads' crews knew they were in for a long, trying ordeal Sunday when blizzard conditions struck the Great Plains. Thanks to an exact forecast, the highway maintenance workers were on alert before the winds started howling and the first drops of rain turned to snow...

It's amazing how much they begin to infiltrate your life. You bring them home, and despite their lack of ability to understand the rules you lay out, they begin to worm their way into your family. You tend to overlook their misbehavior, allowing them some leeway because of their age, and the newness of their surroundings...

**Dear Editor, I was very pleased with the tenor of your (Community Spotlight) featuring the City of Oberlin. The government and citizens of Oberlin strive to present a progressive image, and I felt that this was recognized in your insert. The City of Oberlin faces many of the same difficulties that every rural community does, but we take a great deal of pride in the way we seek solutions to those difficulties. It's nice to see our positive spirit recognized in a regional publication...