Stories from Wednesday, January 2, 2013

James Lawrence Frey Dec. 30, 1924 - Dec.31, 2012 BEAVER CITY, Nebraska -- James Lawrence Frey, 88, of Beaver City, died Monday (Dec.31, 2012), at the Beaver City Manor, in Beaver City. He was born Dec. 30, 1924, to Lawrence M. and Grace E. (Grove) Frey of rural Abilene, Kansas...

Maxine Helen Breinig June 8, 1919 - Dec. 29, 2012 ARAPAHOE, Nebraska -- Maxine Helen Breinig, 93, of Holdrege, Nebraska, formerly of Arapahoe, died Saturday (Dec. 29, 2012), at the Holdrege Memorial Homes in Holdrege. She was born June 8, 1919, at Burns, Wyoming to John O. and Sophia J. (Buhler) Watts...

This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...

Bruce Baker/McCook Daily Gazette The McCook City Fire Department dayroom and kitchen area is ready for action. The fire department is scheduled to operate out of the new space by next Tuesday. City offices will be closed Friday, Jan. 4 and Monday, Jan. 7, as city staff moves into the new building on West Fifth...

Lorri Sughroue/McCook Daily Gazette Tobacco Treatment Specialists and Registered Respiratory Therapists Chris Carfield, Kim Kuykendall and Jessica Meyer will head up the the "Quit Smoking Now" group cessation program offered by Community Hosptial to the public. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Gazette hasn't heard from the parents of a "New Year's Baby 2013." Remember -- parents of New Year's babies must contact the McCook Daily Gazette to qualify the new one for honors as "New Year's Baby 2013" for the Gazette area in Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The monthly "Relish" supplement included in today's edition includes a recipe, "Vinegar Cake," contributed by Julie Legg of McCook. "My family has made this cake through four generations, and it was the first cake I ever made," she wrote in submitting the recipe to the national publication...

McCook, Nebraska, celebrates the last night of 2012 and the "First Night" of 2013 with New Year's Eve fun-and-games coordinated by the McCook Rotary Club. Kids' games occupied 5-year-old Isabella Garcia, while a group of like-aged boys helped John Paul Kain count the marbles he retrieved -- using only his toes -- from a tub of ice. ...

OAKLEY, Kansas -- Four-time Grammy award winning, 24 time Dove award winning, Platinum Christian recording artist Third Day is coming to Northwest Kansas. Performing live at the Oakley High School Auditorium January 20th. Third Day , best known for their chart topping songs, "Cry Out To Jesus", "Revelation", "Call My Name", "Born Again" will be introducing their fans to their New album Miracle which just hit stores this past November. ...

The end of the world supposedly predicted by the Mayans turned out to be a non-event, and we've avoided $8-a-gallon milk and a plunge over the "fiscal cliff" -- for the time being, at least. But that doesn't mean we avoided every disaster in 2012, just ask the American Red Cross, which experienced a record year last year...

As Ernie Chambers would tell us, the next Legislature (convening Jan. 9, 2013) will have 30 Repellicans, 17 Demagogues and 2 independents (he's one of them). The state's longest-serving senator, returning after a term-limited four years, refers to his party-banner-toting colleagues in the officially non-partisan body in such terms. Always has. And his fellow lawmakers have always taken it with the good-natured degree with which it is intended...

"This is a test." The phrase is often heard in the walls of Castle Cribbs -- when there's more money than month, when the phone doesn't ring, or rings in the middle of the night, or when our pleas seem to fall on deaf ears. A particularly trying time came upon Danny in mid-summer and the phrase, so frequently at the front of his mind as his world contracts, just wasn't cutting it. ...