Stories from Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Randy and Brenda Ruf announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Chelsea Marie to Cole Klinkebiel son of Roxie Klinkebiel-Wendland, Dave Wendland and the late Lonny Klinkebiel. Both are 2004 graduates of Cambridge High School and are currently attending college at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. ...

March 12, 1922 - Dec. 21, 2007 BEAVER CITY -- Lela Fay Ruby, died Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, at Beaver City Manor in Beaver City, at the age of 85. She was born March 12, 1922, in a sod house north of Danbury, the daughter of the late Victor and Etta (Winters) Brown. Lela grew up at Danbury, where she graduated from Danbury High School in 1940...

Sept. 22, 1921 - Dec. 23, 2007 OXFORD -- G. Annella Schroeder, 86, died Sunday (Dec. 23, 2007), at the Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in Hastings. She was born Sept. 22, 1921, on the family farm southeast of Cambridge in Furnas County to John and Myrtle (Clarkson) Sayer. She received her education from Cambridge High School, graduating with the class of 1939...

The search officially begins for the "New Year's Baby" of 2008 in the golden plains of the Gazette area. The first baby born in 2008 to a mother who lives in the Gazette coverage area of Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas will arrive to smiles, love and newspaper recognition...

HOLDREGE--For those who feed birds along the Chicken Dance Trail in southwest and south central Nebraska, the winter months are always a treat, says Nebraska Game and Parks Naturalist T.J. Walker. According to Walker, snow and cold temperatures often lead to high concentrations of common winter birds at feeders, but this winter, people should be watching for a few surprises...

If revenue projections hold, the State of Nebraska will have a cash reserve of $542 million by the end of the fiscal year, probably more than it's ever had, according to state officials. It's a problem more of us should have. Observers like to point out that Americans have a woeful saving rate, a little over one-half percent of disposable income in the third quarter of 2007, compared to the Japanese rate in the mid-20-percent range...

It didn't take long for the new city of McCook to burst into action. Days after the town was established in 1882 as a division point on the Chicago, Quincy & Burlington railroad, the original townspeople gathered to make plans for a Fourth of July celebration...

(With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore:) Twas the day after Christmas and all through the house, scraps of paper and candy canes tempted a mouse. The stockings, once hung by the chimney with care, were torn down and tattered, 'cause Santa's been there...