Stories from Friday, January 25, 2008

The McCook Community College men's basketball team has dropped four road games in a row. The Indians lost to North Platte Community College 74-63 Wednesday night at North Platte, Iowa Western 87-60 Tuesday, Central Community College-Columbus 71-70 on Friday and Northeastern-Norfolk 83-81 Saturday...

WAUNETA/SOUTHERN VALLEY -- The RPAC basketball tournament begins to wind down, after Thursday night's girls semifinal games. The boys semifinals begin tonight with the final games for both divisions set for Saturday in Cambridge. Wauneta-Palisade and Cambridge's girls will vie for the RPAC title on Saturday. The Broncos edged by Hitchcock County 41-36 in the Golden Plains Division. Cambridge beat out Arapahoe 67-41 in the Republican Valley division...

On Thursday night at the McCook High School gymnasium, the McCook Bison wrestling team dualed the Chase County Longhorns. It was a successful night for the team picking up another dual victory. McCook defeated the Longhorns 48-15. "We stressed all week that in a dual we cannot give up pins or bonus points to the other team and I was pleased that none of our wrestlers were pinned Thursday," said McCook coach Nick Umscheid...

Matt Hall sets new diving mark McCook High School sophomore Whitney Korgan established MHS records in the girls 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle at the Bison squad's home triangular Thursday at the YMCA pool. Senior Matt Hall also posted a school record in boys diving...

PAXTON -- The executive committee of the Republican Plains Activity Conference is proud to announce the addition of Paxton Consolidated Schools in Paxton as the 14th member of the organization. Paxton applied for membership and was approved at the January meeting of the RPAC Executive Committee...

The McCook High School freshman girls basketball A and B teams split a pair of games with North Platte on Thursday. The A team squad dropped a close game 35-33. McCook was led in scoring by Jessa Sughroue with 10 points, Gretchen Sehnert with 6 and Megan Carfield 5. Sehnert had 8 steals, Carfield 7 and Laura Brooks and Sughroue both had 5...

June 19, 1927 - Jan. 22, 2008 Delphine May Remington, age 80, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008, at Vista Grand Inn in Cortez, Colo. She was born June 19, 1927, to Lee Roy and Odessa May (Grafton) Nokes in Red Willow County. She was full of energy and at one point she flew an airplane off of the barn...

Sept. 6, 1914 - Nov. 25, 2007 SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Dorothy (Leonard) Eisenhart died Sunday (Nov. 25, 2007) at San Antonio, Texas at the age of 93. She was born Sept. 6, 1914, at Boston, Mass., the daughter of John and Mary (O'Brien) Leonard. Dorothy grew up in Boston where she received her nurses training and on Nov. 9, 1937, she entered the U.S.Army Nurse Corp as Second Lieutenant...

Sept. 9, 1926-Jan. 24, 2008 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Lois (Bolton) Davis, age 81 of Sioux Falls, S.D., joyfully joined her Savior on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, at Dow Rummel Village in Sioux Falls. She was born on Sept. 9, 1926, in Bloomfield, Neb., to William and Helene (Nieburg) Bolton, and grew up on a farm with her four brothers, one sister and 10 half-siblings. ...

Sept. 5, 1924 - Jan. 23, 2008 GRAND ISLAND -- Robert Merlin Cady, 83, formerly of McCook, died Wednesday (Jan. 23, 2008) at the Grand Island Veterans Home. He was born Sept. 5, 1924, at Cambridge, to Frank and Ida (Rhinehammer) Cady. He received his education in rural Furnas County, south of Cambridge. Following his education, he engaged in farming with his father on the family farm south of Cambridge...

City officials have become increasingly concerned about the condition of 44 mature hackberry and linden trees in Norris Park and have seen signs that things are getting worse. This past September, a tree branch about 6 inches in diameter and about 15-20 feet long, came down vertically on the Sunday evening of Heritage Days, after the crowds left, drilling a 6-inch hole straight into the ground...

Washington is at it again. Provided the Senate doesn't add something President Bush doesn't like, we can expect tax rebate checks in May. Worried that the economy may be headed into a recession, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Republican leader John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson hammered out a deal that they hope will pump about $150 billion into the economy...

How many rules is a kid breaking when he has fudge nut brownies for breakfast? It's hard to count them all, since I only have ten fingers. I baked a big batch of fudge nut brownies yesterday and we had them for dessert last night. There was still some left over this morning. ...

Thanks to generous contributions of labor and materials, spacious, modern dressing rooms are being constructed in the lower level of McCook's historic Fox Theater. The dressing rooms -- which will encompass more than 1,200 square feet of space -- are being built almost entirely with donations, according to Gene O. Morris, executive director of the Fox...