Stories from Monday, March 6, 2006

LINCOLN -- Cross County had trouble taking care of the basketball Friday night. Megan Allison and Jenna Allison made sure it didn't matter. Megan Allison scored 26 points and sister Jenna added 18 points and 13 rebounds as the Cougars (23-1) overcame 19 turnovers to defeat Cambridge 58-45 Friday night in the semifinals of the Class D1 girls state basketbll tournament...

Indians reach state tournament ELLIS, Kan. -- Hoxie squeezed by Rawlins County-Atwood's girls in the Kansas Class 2A sub-state basketball championship game at Ellis Saturday 46-34. "We finished our season at 14-9, which was a good season -- however we were three games short of our season goal," said Rawlins County Coach John Terry...

Oct. 30, 1921--March 3, 2006 HERNDON -- Lillian Theodora (Brown) Wahrman, 84, died Friday (March 3, 2006) at the Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. She was born Oct. 30, 1921, in Herndon to Wenzel and Theodora "Dora" (Barenberg) Brown. She married Carl Wahrman at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Atwood on Feb. 15, 1944. The couple spent their married life on a farm northwest of Herndon...

Nov. 3, 1914--March 4, 2006 GRANT -- Raymond Lashley, 91, died Saturday (March 4, 2006) at the Golden Ours Convalescent Home in Grant. He was born Nov. 3, 1914, in Hayes County to Walter and Nellsine (Kristiansen) Lashley. He attended rural school south of Hayes Center...

In a campaign swing through western Nebraska last week, Don Stenberg said at his stop in McCook on Friday that if people want someone with an established record, he's the one to vote for. In his third try for the US Senate, Stenberg faces GOP chair David Kramer and Ameritrade CEO Pete Ricketts for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, and what his opponents would do if elected is unclear, he said...

Emma Larington of McCook has the chicks eating out of her hand Saturday at Orscheln Farm and Home in McCook. Emma is a first grader at McCook Elementary and is the daughter of Lee and Kathy Larington of McCook.

We recently took part in a cruise out of San Diego, down the West Coast of Mexico, aboard the Holland American Ship, Oosterdam. Cruises are an increasingly popular way of vacationing, and for good reasons. Costs are fixed (no big city surprises). One can relax on the high seas, and visit a number of interesting foreign ports. ...

If you've observed this space for long, you know we enjoy tooting other people's horns. That's a good thing. It's easy to concentrate on the negative aspects of society, and we don't shy away from discussing them if we feel it's necessary. But we've found it's more productive to spotlight those with achievement than pointing out the shortcomings of others...

Are you blushing? If not, maybe you should be because the candidates for the 44th District legislative seat are saying some nice things about you and the other people who live in this part of the world. Take, for example, the feelings of Jeff Tidyman, a candidate from McCook who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. ...