Stories from Monday, November 8, 2010

Jan. 13, 1921--Nov. 5, 2010 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Bernie Malcolm, 89, passed away on Friday (Nov. 5, 2010), in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was born Jan. 13, 1921, on a farm near McCook, to John L. and Jane M. (Corcoran) Traphagan. She attended elementary school at Spring Creek, graduated from McCook High School and attended McCook Junior College...

July 17, 1924--Nov. 5, 2010 CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Floyd A. "Red" Schroeder, 86, died Friday (Nov. 5, 2010), at Tri Valley Health Systems Hospital in Cambridge. He was born July 17, 1924, near Oxford, Nebraska, on the family farm, to William Otto and Katie Belle (Tammen) Schroeder. He attended country school, later attending school in Oxford and graduating from Oxford High School...

Dec. 18, 1926--Nov. 6, 2010 OBERLIN, Kansas -- Mary C. Uehlin-Kolsky, 83, died Saturday (Nov. 6, 2010), at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born Dec. 18, 1926, in rural Dresden, Kansas, to Lloyd and Katherine (Taylor) Fortin. She was raised on a farm near Dresden. She attended Jackson School and Decatur Community High School; graduating in 1946...

Americans must love blueberries. "It's a big thing here," observed 16-year-old Margeaux Theillier, a French student who has been in McCook since August as a Rotary International student. "Blueberry yogurt, blueberry waffles, blueberry pancakes ... we don't have all that in France."...

KANSAS CITY -- The Red Willow County 4-H Livestock Judging Team earned several honors during the American Royal Livestock Judging Contest, in Kansas City, on Oct. 31. The team was represented by Katelyn Fritsche (daughter of Mark and Holly Fritsche), Samantha Yonkers (daughter of Bob Yonkers and Sonya Prentice), and Will Miller (son of John and Karen Miller). ...

Besides the struggle to keep a local school open, nothing illustrates the plight of small rural towns better than the loss of the local grocery story. The Center for Rural Affairs advocacy group today released two reports that point out just how important those small grocery stores are, and what some people are doing to help them survive...

One of the featured displays at the High Plains Museum, in downtown McCook is a tank respirator, or iron lung, the device most associated with polio. Physicians had found that in the first, acute stages of polio, a patient very often was unable to breathe because the polio virus paralyzed the chest muscle groups that allowed that patient to breathe. ...

As a past Nebraska Beef Council (NBC) board member and chairman, and current Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB) director from Nebraska, I felt compelled to address some of the information I have seen in the papers lately regarding how the Beef Checkoff is invested and overseen...

ARTHUR, Nebraska -- Arthur County pulled away from Hitchcock County in the middle quarters Friday, Nov. 5, to gain a berth in the 2010 Nebraska state high school six-man football championship game. The host Wolves ran away from Hitchcock County, 68-20, in six-man state playoff semifinal action at the Arthur County home field Friday afternoon...

AURORA, Nebraska -- In a state playoff rematch, McCook couldn't duplicate a great start the Bison enjoyed in a regular-season meeting with Aurora. The host Huskies jumped on the Bison early, then slowed the McCook offense in a 27-0 decision in the Class B state playoff quarterfinals Friday night, Nov. 5...