Stories from Wednesday, January 11, 2017

There was a day when you couldn't post pictures of your breakfast to hundreds of friends, share a Tweet from the president-elect or berate officiating in front of thousands of football championship game viewers. In those days, one had to be a professional journalist, dedicated to getting the story first, getting it right, and getting it past your editor before anyone could read a single word of your report...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The "grab and go" breakfast has been a huge success at the McCook elementary schools. Easy to eat items, such as yogurt parfaits and breakfast wraps, are being offered to children to eat in classrooms at McCook Elementary and Central Elementary. Initiated after Christmas break, it replaces the standard breakfast that used to be offered before school began each morning...

Pamela S. Andrews July 23, 1949 - Jan. 7, 2017 LAWRENCE, Kan, -- Pamela S. Andrews, 67, of Ottawa, Kan., died Saturday, Jan. 7, 201,7 at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence. She was born July 23, 1949, in McCook, Neb., the daughter of Alfred and Geraldine (Hansen) Baum. ...

Detta Faye Anderson July 5, 1933 - Jan. 10, 2017 OBERLIN, Kan. -- Detta Faye Anderson, 83, of Oberlin, died Tuesday (Jan. 10, 2017), at Decatur Health Systems in Oberlin. She was born July 5, 1933, to Gilbert and Opal (Swisher) Bryan in rural Decatur County. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1951. She married Elden M. Anderson on Oct. 4, 1952, at the Herndon Covenant Church in rural Herndon. She was a homemaker and a clerk at the LandMark Inn in Oberlin...

Gladys Viola (Weber) Weimer May 20, 1917 - Dec. 18, 2016 FORT MORGAN, Colo. -- Gladys Viola (Weber) Weimer, 99, of Fort Morgan, died Sunday (Dec. 18, 2016), at the Valley View Villa in Fort Morgan. She was born in Culbertson, Neb., on May 20, 1917, to Henry and Anna (Bekel) Weber. She attended grade school at a country school north of Culbertson and graduated from Culbertson High School in 1935...

Donald W. Bramer March 12, 1932 - Jan. 10, 2017 McCOOK, Neb. -- Donald W. Bramer, 84, died Tuesday (Jan. 10, 2017), at Hillcrest Nursing Home. Services are pending with Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel in McCook.

ndy County's boys shot into an 18-8 lead and never lost control of their 64-49 win over Hitchcock County Tuesday evening. The Tigers improved to 9-2 while remaining among Class D-1's Top 10 teams. Hitchcock tried its best to shake off a slow start, scoring 33 points during the second and third quarters Tuesday night...

MAXWELL, Neb. -- The surging Maywood-Hayes Center Wolves scored another win, 40-38, over Maxwell Tuesday evening. Junior Sydney Mullen-Shaw's 14 points powered the M-HC girls as they evened their season record at 7-7. Freshman Avery Johnson stepped up to score another 13 points and junior Grace Koubek burned the home team for seven...

BARTLEY, Neb. -- Wins have been a little elusive for Southwest Roughriders recently, but both teams got it done against feisty rival Arapahoe Tuesday night. Senior Drew Hofman's 14 points fueled a 46-39 boys victory while Alec May added 13 and Derek Greenlee netted nine...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Despite Chase County's Cody Williams hitting six of six shots, Southern Valley shook off a slow start and prevailed 53-39 at the Peter & Dolores Graff Event Center Tuesday night. The Eagles (6-5) outscored Chase, 16-6, during their second quarter for a 25-16 halftime lead. They finished their win with a 16-point fourth period...

R.B. Headley Gazette Sports Editor MCCOOK, Neb. -- Southern Valley's sharp outside shooting over the taller Chase County Longhorns led to a 61-49 triumph Tuesday evening. Cassie Bose buried four bombs from long range as he Eagles hit seven threes overall...

HOLDREGE, Neb. -- A cold 11-point first half doomed the McCook boys as they lost by 11, 51-40, to old rival Holdrege Tuesday evening. The Bison (4-8 record) made another super second-half comeback with senior Kyle Geisler and junior Hunter Potthoff both hitting plenty of third-quarter baskets...

McCook American Legion baseball Boosters, INC will be having their 2017 annual meeting and election of board members and officers. The meeting is to be held today at 6 p.m. The meeting is held in the McCook National Bank conference room. Please use the C street entrance...

HOLDREGE, Neb. -- A super first half had McCook High's girls focused on one strategy Tuesday night. "Just keep doing what we were doing," coach Scott Leisy said during his post-game radio interview. "You watched that first half and those were two good teams going at it."...

The 26th annual "MAC Attack" youth basketball tournament will be held in McCook on Saturday, Jan. 21. The tournament is sponsored by the McCook Optimist Club. The grades for the tournament include 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th for both boys and girls. Divisions will be assigned based on availability...

RENTON, Neb. -- Class D-1's only unbeaten Top 10 girls basketball team showed no signs of taking one of the chin Tuesday evening. The Dundy County Tigers fell behind BADLY at 2-1, then unleashed their full-court pressure while racing to a 54-27 triumph over familiar RPAC foe Hitchcock County...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Red Willow County sheriff's officers are asking the public's assistance in recovering tools stolen in a burglary at Ag Valley Co-Op in Bartley Tuesday morning. Sheriff Alan Kotschwar said this morning that a suspect is in custody and the investigation continues into the incident...

Lorri Sughroue McCook Gazette McCOOK, Neb. -- The "grab-and-go" breakfast has been a huge success at the McCook elementary schools. Easy-to-eat items, such as yogurt parfaits and breakfast wraps, are being offered to children to eat in classrooms at McCook Elementary and Central Elementary. Initiated after Christmas break, it replaces the standard breakfast that used to be offered before school began each morning...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook area has received only trace amounts of precipitation through the first nine days of the year, although it probably isn't much of an indicator of things to come. A dry month of January last year, with only .02 inches of precipitation, was ultimately followed by an above average year and the most precipitation since a record low was posted in 2012...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook City Council hoped a new airline would turnaround what had been a disastrous two-year stretch for commercial air service at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport and, so far, they appear to be right. The airport posted a 388 percent annual increase in boarded passengers and finished 2016 with the best fourth quarter stretch in nearly a decade, according to city enplanement reports...