Stories from Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Sam Frazier and J.D. Stone, three-year starters on the McCook High School football team, signed letters of intent Wednesday with NCAA Division II programs from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Wednesday was the first day of the college football signing period throughout the United States...

Nov. 19, 1908 - Feb. 4, 2008 OBERLIN -- Alvina Marie Unger, 99, died Monday (Feb. 4, 2008), at Decatur County Good Samaritan Center. She was born Nov. 19, 1908, in Augusta, Mo., to Fritz and Olinda (Knoernschild) Fuhr. She grew up in Augusta and attended Christ Lutheran School and August High School, graduating in 1926...

Nov. 20, 1938 - Feb. 4, 2008 OBERLIN -- Lila Mae Holsman, 69, died Monday (Jan. 4, 2008) at Decatur County Hospital. She was born Nov. 20, 1938, to Chester and Grace (Larson) Withington, in Milliken, Colo. She grew up and attended school in Greeley, Colo., Herndon and Atwood...

Oct. 24, 1917 - Feb. 7, 2008 OKMULGEE, Okla. -- Orla Hobson Leitner Harbour, 90, of Okmulgee, formerly of Enid, Okla., died Monday (Feb. 4, 2008), in Highland Park Nursing Home in Okmulgee. She was born Oct. 24, 1917, in Hill City, Kan., to Orrell and Ethel Hobson. The family moved to a rural area near McCook. She graduated high school and went to college in Kearney to become a teacher. She taught school in a rural setting near McCook...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor Red Willow County commissioners were a little surprised that no one appeared at their meeting Monday morning to comment on a proposal to combine the Lebanon and Beaver voting districts in southeast Red Willow County...

Dust off your spatulas, heat up your ovens and join us for what is certain to be one of the best shows of the year. McCook Daily Gazette and Knowlen and Yates presents Taste of Home Cooking School "Swing Into Spring" show. Join culinary specialist Carol Ritchie as she whips up some superb spring dishes right before your eyes! Carol is one of nine Taste of Home culinary specialists who travel across the U.S. ...

A Benkelman couple who cashed about $6,000 worth of fake traveler's checks were sentenced to probation and jail time Monday in Red Willow County District Court. Maryalice Frere, 47 and Russell Frere, 66, were both sentenced to 24 months probation, 56 days jail with credit for time served and $4.475.28 restitution to AmFirst Bank, on second degree forgery charges, a Class IV felony...

Two McCook men who were sentenced to probation for burglary were charged with probation violations in District Court Monday. William J. Fune, 19, of 401 W. Second and Brandon J. Kilgore, 18, of 111 N. Cherokee, were both originally charged with burglary, a Class III felony. Fune was sentenced February 2007 to 24 months of intensive supervised probation, restitution and electronic monitoring...

You may be getting a bit of a break from Red Willow County, but if a bill now pending in the Legislature makes it into law, don't take it for granted. After resisting it for years as too lenient, County Attorney Paul Wood persuaded the county commissioners to allow authorities to offer the STOP program -- "Safety Training Option Program" to drivers with minor offenses to complete an eight-hour driving class rather than going through Red Willow County Court...

I loved playing dress up as a little girl and I loved making myself long, long hair by wrapping bath towels snugly around my head. Mom kept my hair fairly short in those days, though I do remember the double braids she used to put in my hair. She'd part it down the middle and put in two small braids from the crown and then incorporate those braids into the two main braids on either side of my head. ...