Stories from Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The 2006-07 basketball season tips off Thursday night as McCook High School hosts Chase County-Imperial. The varsity girls game starts at 6 p.m. at the McCook Senjor High School gymnasium, followed by the varsity boys game at 7:30 p.m. The junior varsity boys game will be played at 6 p.m. Thursday in the McCook Junior High School gymnasium, followed by the JV girls game at 7:30 p.m...

Knights host Hayes Center on Monday ATWOOD -- McCook St. Pats boys basketball team took on Atwood Monday. The A team beat out Atwood 45-36, with the B team falling 37-17. "We got off to a good start, the boys played really hard and executed well the first quarter," said St. Pats Coach Rod Gaston...

June 5, 1921-Nov. 27, 2006 Murl Lavern Lavery, 85, died Monday (Nov. 27, 2006), at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. He was born June 5, 1921, to Edwin C. and Mary E. "Lizzy" (Bowden) Lavery north of Overton.  He attended District No. 42. He farmed with his father and brother until he married Bethine Bea Blakeslee on March 26, 1949 in the Methodist church in Lexington by Rev. ...

March 17, 1934 - Nov. 28, 2006 HASTINGS?-- Hastings resident, Florine Marie Fellers, 72, died Tuesday, (Nov. 28, 2006) at Perkins Pavilion. She was born March 17, 1934, in Norton, to Dave and Opal Marie (Henderson) Leech. She graduated from Cambridge High School in 1951...

Oct. 2, 1914 - Nov. 25, 2006 WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. -- Lyda Matisek Harvanek 92, died Saturday (Nov. 25, 2006) in Wheat Ridge, Colo. She was born Oct. 2, 1914, in a sod house to Joseph F. and Anna (Kytner) Matisek and was baptized into the Catholic faith...

Tri-State Spas's plastic palm trees rattle in the cold north wind that blew snow into Southwest Nebraska in the early morning hours today. Paul Younger, a snow plow driver for the City of McCook, scrapes snow and ice off B Street. Skies are expected to clear by Thursday...

By LORRI SUGHROUE City Editor Newly-elected state senator Mark Christensen, has kept busy since being elected with training sessions, hiring staff, finding living arrangements -- and bumping into lobbyists. "I'm not overly concerned about them -- (lobbyists) have no more control than what the senators give them," Christensen said, who already has been approached by two for water and school issues. "The truth usually lies somewhere between both sides."...

The official start to the holiday shopping season has arrived. We're having great fun reading the shopping stuffers, oohing and aahing over the myriad toys, clothes, jewels, electronics and assorted bling blings vying for our hard-earned dollars this year. ...

Nebraska's name is derived from an Otoe word meaning "flat water, but perhaps we should look for a word meaning "straight rails." That's because the life of our state has been intertwined with the fortune of its railroads since the earliest days. McCook's prosperity can be traced in large part to its role as a division point for the Burlington and Missouri Railroad, and towns were established along the line so that settlers could reach one in a day's travel by horse-drawn wagon...

I was doing a Web search for several astronomy topics when my Google search returned a link to your newspaper and articles by Vernon Whetstone. From the one article, appearing in October 2006, it appears that your newspaper has recently started a new astronomy column...

My fellow McCookites: The blatantly vulgar display of Christmas decoration objects on Norris Avenue is an eyesore. Several weeks ago political candidates often-mentioned "wasteful government spending." If all this crap strewn along our city's main street isn't a waste, then what is?...