Stories from Thursday, October 12, 2006

McCook and Cozad battled on the football field for many years, but have not met since Jeff Gross' first two seasons as Bison head coach during the 1998 and 1999 campaigns. McCook won a blowout at Cozad in 1998 and Cozad won a close game at Weiland Field in 1999...

May 2, 1942 - Oct. 10, 2006   Fern A. Sutton, age 86, died Tuesday (Oct. 10, 2006) at Cambridge Court in Kearney. She was born May 2, 1920, on a farm north of Ludell, to John Henry and Lillian A. (Most) Frick.  She attended rural school near Ludell and then Atwood Schools...

Aug. 22, 1933 - Oct. 11, 2006 HOLDREGE -- Charlene Rhea Farwell, 73, formerly of Oxford and McCook, died Wednesday (Oct. 11, 2006) at the Holdrege Memorial Homes. She was born Aug. 22, 1933, on a farm northeast of Oxford in Harlan County. She was baptized and confirmed at the St. John's Lutheran Church. She received her education at the Mascot Consolidated School, graduating in 1950...

Paperwork ... home studies ... background checks ... the process involved in adopting can be scary and overwhelming. It can even feel impersonal if it's handled from miles away with little more than a voice on the phone. Offering "a face" and a personal connection, the staff of a new adoption consultation and child placing agency in McCook will help prospective parents work their way through the home study and the placement processes of adoption...

Sept. 21, 1912 - Oct. 7, 2006 ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Hoye William Fletcher 94, died Saturday (Oct. 7, 2006) at the Anna Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md.  He was born near Bartley on Sept. 21, 1912, to James A. and Lydia M. (Arobogast) Fletcher.   ...

Political candidates paying respect to the late Sen. George W. Norris at his home in McCook include, top, Steve Loschen, candidate for lieutenant governor, Kandy Imes, right, candidate for State Board of Education, and Scott Kleeb, left, candidate for 3rd District U.S. Representative. The hopefuls stopped by the historic site during Heritage Days...

One of the injustices of crime is that we all pay for it. Those who would convert a legal medication into a highly addictive, illegal drug, have made it more inconvenient for the rest of us to find relief when we have the common cold. Beginning Sept. 3, 2005, cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine were placed behind store counters and sales were restricted to no more than 1,440 milligrams a day, and then only to those 18 or older who show identification and sign a logbook...

I've been reading with some humor the ongoing discussion over how children are taught in school today. I find it humorous due to the fact that when I went to school, (sometime in the dark ages), there were in place some very simple methods for doing things...