Stories from Wednesday, January 27, 2010

BEATRICE -- It was a happy late-night trip back home for the McCook Community College basketball teams Tuesday night. The Indians swept two games over Southeast C.C. of Beatrice in Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference action. The McCook women used a strong second half to beat the Storm 51-37. The MCC men avenged a loss to Southeast that occurred just 10 days ago with Tuesday's 75-70 win...

Technology has changed so many aspects of our lives that we don't even think about it much, anymore. Now it's even changed how we think about heroes. Day after day, we hear about "drone" attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with unmanned aerial vehicles, taking out insurgents with remote-control missile attacks...

April 23, 1924 - Jan. 22, 2010 Siloam Spring, Ark. -- Velma "Vicky" Maxine Berry, 85, died Friday (Jan. 22, 2010) at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Ark. She was born April 23, 1924, in Palisade the daughter of Max J. Welk and Grace R. Meints Welk. She owned and operated Vicky's Café in Broomfield, Colo...

The city police department has seen better days, as cramped quarters and maintenance issues cannot meet current needs of the department. McCook City Police Chief Ike Brown said at Monday's meeting that within the next couple of years, the city will have to address major maintenance needs at the existing police department, to the tune of $200,000. ...

Community Hospital's construction project is coming in on time and nearly 10 percent under budget at a cost that is now slightly under $30 million. Bids are out for nearly all of the project, hospital president Jim Ulrich said, and the cost savings mean officials haven't had to cut back on parts of the project...

Dec. 22, 1933 - Jan. 25, 2010 Mona V. Faimon of McCook, 76, died Monday (Jan. 25, 2010) at Heartland Park Retirement Community in Seward. Mona was born on Dec. 22, 1933, in Rosemont to Carl and Ida (Hoppen) Wilhelms. She graduated from Blue Hill High School in 1951...

July 6, 1961 - Jan. 23, 2010 LEWISTON, Idaho -- Katrina C. Binkley, 48, died Saturday (Jan. 23, 2010). She was born on July 6, 1961, in Evereux, France to Richard and Shirley Adams. She grew up travelling and living all over the world and the United States with her Air Force family. She graduated from Culbertson High School in 1979...

June 3, 1933 - Jan, 24, 2010 Gloria Marie Messinger, 76, died Sunday (Jan. 24, 2010) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She was born June 3, 1933, at Oberlin, the daughter of the late Charles and Ruby (Parkhurst) Larreau. She attended grade schools at Oberlin, moving to McCook where she attended high school and graduated in 1951. Gloria worked at the Northwestern Bell Telephone office in McCook following her graduation...

June 26, 1940 - Jan. 26, 2010 Byron B Brunswick, 69, died Tuesday (Jan. 26, 2010) at the Community Hospital in McCook. He was born, June 26, 1940 at McCook, to Lewis M. and Dorothy G. (Bonar) Brunswick. Byron had four children, Robert, Chad, Tonja and Rona...

Dec. 30, 1934 - Jan. 14, 2010 COZAD -- Marcey A. Wolford, 75, died Thursday (Jan. 14, 2010) at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Marcey was born Dec. 30, 1934, at Smith Center, Kan., to Ralph and Hilda (Haring) Innes. She graduated from Odessa High School in 1952 and attended Kearney State College until 1954...

It seemed a little silly to me at the time, but I wanted to be a good sport about it. After all, I spend virtually my entire workday in front of a computer screen, researching, writing and mousing image and text boxes into their proper positions on pages. Usually the last thing I want to do at day's end, or at day's beginning for that matter, is to set myself down in front of another computer, for whatever reason...

Miss Nebraska Brittany Jeffers is in Las Vegas preparing for the upcoming Miss America pageant. The Ogallala native, daughter of Scott Jeffers s the daughter of Lisa and Scott Jeffers of Ogallala. Scott commutes to McCook where he is an agent for Shelter Insurance...