Stories from Tuesday, November 7, 2006

A decades-old city ordinance forbidding hard liquor sales on Sunday will be a thing of the past come December. And, McCook water customers will have to get the check in the mail sooner. The McCook City Council unanimously agreed that a city ordinance that allows only beer and wine to sold on Sunday in McCook was out of date and will begin the process of setting a new ordinance that will allow the sale of all alcohol beverages on Sunday...

Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning accepted a check for $10,000 from Dan and Amy Jones and, with it, closed the account for Jonzeez Java, a portable coffee shop that borrowed $15,000 from the county's reusable loan fund in July, 2003. In October 2003, the Joneses started falling behind in their monthly payments, and by the middle of 2004, they were four months behind. Jonzeez Java closed in the middle of the summer...

Harvesting hope, healing and harmony evoked both laughter and tears Sunday evening during the ninth annual "An Evening for Hospice" auction. Poignant recollections of angels in the snow and the last words of a dying child stilled the crowd of more than 100 when Terri Shipshock, executive director of Community Hospital Health Foundation and Jonathan Krutz, director of the Nebraska Hospice and Palliative Care Partnership, shared personal reflections of the benefits of hospice care. ...

McCook to host Crete in West bracket finals on Saturday Except for one big play, McCook's No. 1-ranked defense put the clamps on the Cozad Haymakers Monday night at Weiland Field, and the Bison rolled to a 42-7 victory in the Nebraska Class B quarterfinals...

Life is a joy and a struggle. We enter this world, we grow up, most of us become parents, then we watch our parents and loved ones pass away, and finally leave this world ourselves. If we're fortunate, we have help dealing with the struggles in our lives -- medical staff at birth, family when the baby is brought home. Friends and family and professionals when we're sick, professionals when family members pass away...

We come to the last two of the Pegasus/Andromeda/ Perseus constellation group and that is Cassiopeia and Cepheus, the king and queen of the story. Cassiopeia the "W" shaped constellation. It is located in the northeastern part of the sky just above Perseus and is visible starting at about 7 p.m. MST. The constellation is composed of mostly second magnitude stars making them relatively bright. They can be seen even in a light polluted area, but they are better viewed from a dark place...

Feb. 2, 1923 - Nov. 4, 2006 BERTRAND -- Alfred Dale Fahrenbruch 83, died Saturday (Nov. 4, 2006) at the Bryan LGH-East Hospital in Lincoln. He was born Feb. 2, 1923, at Culbertson to Jake and Amelia (Bauer) Fahrenbruch. He grew up at Culbertson, where he received his primary education and then graduated from Culbertson High School with the class of 1941...