Stories from Friday, February 1, 2008

McCook High School senior Cory Gaston did not settle for anything less than the best. That's why he signed a letter of intent Thursday to play basketball at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, a liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church...

E-F Knight boys fall in semifinals to Maxwell NORTH PLATTE -- Eustis-Farnam's boys and girls basketball teams competed in the semifinals at the Central Platte Conference tournament in North Platte Thursday. The Knight girls blasted Maxwell 45-19. The boys came up short to Maxwell 69-60...

SUTHERLAND -- Chase County's wrestlers won the South Platte Valley Association duals Thursday at Sutherland. The Longhorns finished with a 5-0 record at the tournament. Sutherland followed in second, North Platte St. Pats was third and Perkins County was fourth. Garden County took fifth and Hershey was sixth...

GOTHENBURG -- The McCook Junior High School eighth grade boys basketball A and B teams were 1-1 Thursday night against Gothenburg. McCook won the A game 35-28, but fell shy in the B game 22-18. No C game was played. Matt Chitwood led the A team with 9 points. Tatem Stang added in 8 and both Joel Naker and Tyson Karr had 6...

GOTHENBURG -- The McCook Junior High School seventh grade boys basketball team won three games at Gothenburg Thursday. McCook won the A game 44-14, the B game 27-5 and the C game 25-6. Matt Collicott was the leading scorer for the Bison in the A game with 17 points. Marcus Gonzales added in 9...

May 9, 1935 - Jan. 31, 2008 ARAPAHOE -- Bonnie D Wendland-Pfeiffer, 72, formerly of Holbrook, died Thursday (Jan. 31, 2008) at the Elwood Care Center in Elwood. She was born May 9, 1935, at Arapahoe to Walter L. and D. Velma (Dunlap) Breinig. She was baptized into faith in 1943, at the First United Methodist Church in Arapahoe. She graduated from Arapahoe High School with the class of 1953...

March 20, 1925 - Jan. 31, 2008 Josephine Maria McPhillips died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, following a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 82 years old. Josephine was born on March 20, 1925, to Josef and Maria (Schierlinger) Reiner in Schrobenhausen, Germany. ...

Sept. 7, 1923 - Jan. 31, 2008 ATWOOD -- Doris Adams passed into eternal rest Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, at Rawlins County Hospital at the age of 84. Born Doris Hinderike Wilhelms on Sept. 7, 1923, in rural Webster County near Rosemont, the daughter of Carl M. and Eisine (Ida) (Hoppen) Wilhelms, she was the second child in a family of six. She was raised in the Presbyterian faith. Following graduation from Blue Hill High School in 1940, she was employed as a rural school teacher...

Aug. 28, 1931 - Jan. 31, 2008 PAXTON -- Phillip James Vontz, 76, died Thursday (Jan. 31, 2008) at his home in Paxton after a long battle with cancer. He was born to Marion and Elda (Colling) on Aug. 28, 1931, in Indianola. He graduated from Indianola High School in 1949. He spent 21 years a lifetime career in the U.S. Air Force. He served in the South Pacific, VietNam, Alaska, Hawaii and Tiawain...

According to the state climatologist, we only have two types of conditions in Nebraska: too wet and too dry. And, as is all too common, the western part of the state has the short end of the stick. Pronouncements by the expert, Al Dutcher, at a water conference in Holdrege on Thursday, also seem to prove the axiom that "ignorance is bliss."...

I am going to tell you about the history of thirst. This is history as I understand it. Anyone who doesn't have a sense of humor is cautioned not to read this column because the obvious inaccuracies would be too much for your staid sensibilities. In the beginning, there was water. ...

Lorie Hoyt, the director at the McCook Humane Society, took off early Thursday morning on a rescue mission at a rural residence north of Overton in Dawson County, her fiance Jay Prestes riding along to help. They were scheduled to meet law enforcement, a representative from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, a local veterinarian and two other shelter directors for a well-orchestrated raid on what is commonly called a "puppy mill."...