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Discovering reptiles
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
District 8 students Melinda Shields (above, from left) Franke Williams and Daton Goodenberger touch Banana Boy, an albino Indian rock python, the fourth largest in the world. Bruce Shwedick (right) of Plant City, Fla., feeds a chicken leg to Gabriel, an African monitor lizard, and Myron (below), a yellow-footed tortoise from the Amazon, checks out the view from the floor of the classroom. Shwedick brought his Reptile Discovery Program to the school Wednesday...
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General Store preserved at museum
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
The Museum of the High Plains Historical Society has an old-fashioned drug store on display and it contains the best features of four historical landmarks in southwest Nebraska. The exterior is fashioned after a building that once stood in Hendley. The interior came from the Bartley Masonic Hall and the cabinets and most of the stock came from Teter's Drugstore in Bartley...
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Book of Galoshes
(Column ~ 03/19/03)
Dear Editor, The evil communists are out there trying to get us. We must use high-tech bombs to stop them. In a short time, the world is going to end, so invest wisely, buy more life insurance. In the Book of Koran Sinkshaft the profit wrote he was not God, only a messenger. ...
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Complete prophesy
(Column ~ 03/19/03)
Dear Editor, As you know, the U.S. is on the verge of going to war with Iraq. As you saw on TV, heard on the radio or read in the newspapers, all of the Islamic countries of the world are looking at this war as an attack on Islam by the "Great Satan."...
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Kansas perspective
(Column ~ 03/19/03)
Dear Editor, As a farmer in Western Kansas, I recently read with interest of the somewhat controversial issue of school consolidation being discussed in Red Willow County. A strong advocate of education myself, with several years of school board experience in the '70s and '80s, I am aware that there is a strong argument to be made either way. ...
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A job well done
(Column ~ 03/19/03)
Dear Editor, I would like to say I have read a lot about the arrest of the meth lab (operators) in this area, and you would think that they would read the paper and notice that the Red Willow County Sheriff's Department is on top of everything and not even try to run a meth lab...
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Rain or snow, we'll take it!
(Column ~ 03/19/03)
Did you smell that fresh air when you stepped out the front door this morning? Feel that moisture in the atmosphere, cleansed from dust for the first time in many weeks? The McCook Municipal Airport officially received 1.30 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at midnight last night, but unofficial reports are much more favorable. Citizens reported rain amounts ranging up to 3 inches of much-welcome rain over the last two days...
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Metzer 105th birthday
(Other Record ~ 03/19/03)
The family of Clara (Wagner) Metzer is hosting a card shower in honor of her 105th birthday, March 23. Her children are Marvin Metzer and Kenneth and Thelma Brenning, all of McCook. She has three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach her at El Dorado Manor, PO Box 97, Room 112, Trenton, NE 69044...
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Hartman 80th birthday
(Other Record ~ 03/19/03)
The family of Elaine Hartman is hosting a card shower in honor of her 80th birthday, March 23. Cards of congratulations will reach her at P.O. Box 97, Danbury, NE 69026.
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Hayes County opens new exhibit hall
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
HAYES CENTER -- Hayes County residents have already used the new exhibit hall/community building on the fairgrounds in Hayes Center. Hayes County Agricultural Society members officially opened the new 60x80-foot metal structure Monday, but treasurer Vickie Gohl said the building has been the site of two Christmas parties and RC&D and Southwest Public Power multi-county zoning meetings...
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'State Fair' on stage next week
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Theater officials are hoping for more record crowds later this month when Southwest Nebraska Community Theatre Association presents the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical State Fair. Tickets for the four-performance run went on sale last week and officials expect comparable numbers to last year's record attendance numbers for Damn Yankees. ...
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Official gives county better marks on its weed program
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Red Willow County's noxious weed control program earned high scores for the second year in a row, and a state ag inspector told commissioners Tuesday he's pleased with the continued improvement. Tom Neill, an inspector with the state's Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, gave the county's weed program an 87.6 percent, or 2,978 points out of a possible 3,400. ...
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State monitors gasoline prices
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
State officials are adding gas prices to the things they are watching as the United States moves toward war in Iraq. Authorities are already taking steps to improve security at important assets such as dams, power plants, feedlots and transportation systems...
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What's the price of peace
(Column ~ 03/19/03)
I can't help but ponder the difference it would have made to our world if the League of Nations had stopped Hitler in his tracks when Germany first began its rearmament. Imagine, no Holocaust. Austria remains ... Austria; Poland ... Poland ... No blitzkrieg over London. No need for the liberation of Paris...
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Ida Rose Serr
(Obituary ~ 03/19/03)
KEARNEY -- Ida Rose Serr, 56, died Monday (March 17, 2003) at the Good Samaritan Hospital following a lengthy illness. She was born Oct. 22, 1946, in Thedford, to Richard and Caroline (Swisher) Hackbart. She received her schooling and moved to Kearney 38 years ago...
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Robert Jeralee Foote
(Obituary ~ 03/19/03)
DANBURY -- Robert Jeralee Foote, 67, died Tuesday (March 18, 2003) at the Great Plains Medical Center in North Platte. He was born Aug. 25, 1935, at Denver, Colo., to Bernice and Dorothy (Johnson) Foote. He graduated from high school in Rawlins, Wyo., in 1953...
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