Stories from Thursday, October 5, 2006

It might be Lexington Week for the McCook Bison football team, but more importantly it's Week 1 of Nebraska Class B-5 district play, said McCook head coach Jeff Gross. McCook (5-0, ranked No. 1 in Class B by the Associated Press, Omaha World Herald, Lincoln Journal Star and Huskerland Prep) hosts Lexington (3-2) at 7 p.m. Friday night at Weiland Field...

Jan. 3, 1927- Oct. 3, 2006 ATWOOD -- William Robert "Bill" Steele, 79, died Tuesday (Oct. 3, 2006) at the Rawlins County Hospital in Atwood. He was born Jan. 3, 1927, at Meriden, Kan., to Walter and Gladys Becker. He was adopted by Mabel Steele of Atwood on Dec. 11, 1937. He attended Blakeman rural school and graduated from Atwood High School in 1945...

ATWOOD?-- Gladys Bruhn, 93, died Saturday (Sept. 30, 2006) at Good Samaritan Center in Atwood. She was born on the family homestead in Stanton County, Kan., to R.A. and Minnie (Alexander) Swaim. On July 18, 1933, she married C. George Fisher. They owned and operated a cafe in Bird City...

March 26, 1929 - Oct. 3, 2006 Robert L. Bowker, died Tuesday (Oct. 3, 2006) in his home. He was 77. Robert was born March 26, 1929, in Beaver City, the son of Robert R. and Marie (John) Bowker. The family moved to Hendley where Robert lived until age eight, when the family moved to Ponca City, Okla., where he spent the rest of his childhood and graduated from high school and then attended Northern Oklahoma Community College.  The family moved to McCook in 1949, where he spent the remainder of his life.. ...

The hood is missing, and the wall has seen better days, but a car parked in a Trenton garage is waiting faithfully for its next trip to town.

There's a temptation for many young people, especially those who have been less than stellar scholars, to leave school at the earliest opportunity, and get a job. They want to be free of books and study and the work it involves. But the latest Nebraska Rural Poll results prove the importance of investing time, energy and money in ourselves while we can. Putting our noses to the grindstone now pays off with more freedom later, according to about 2,500 respondents in Nebraska's 84 rural counties...

I've always been a firm believer that I should stick with the color of hair that the good Lord blessed me with. I was born a blonde. Pictures from the past show a tow-headed blonde until about the age of eight. Then it began turning to a dirty dishwater blonde...

44th District legislative candidate Mark Christensen is calling his opponent's position on water laws dangerous. "According to a KRVN story, during his first listening tour stop in Imperial, Frank Shoemaker publicly stated that he believes the Nebraska water laws should be changed to combine ground and surface water rules. If that is done, then groundwater irrigation will likely suffer the same fate as what is currently happening in Colorado," Christensen said...