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Morells play solid golf at state stroke-play tournament
(High School Sports ~ 06/19/03)
OMAHA -- The Morells from McCook -- mother Marcia and daughters Elizabeth and Katherine -- put together a solid showing at the Nebraska State Women's Stroke-Play Championship at Omaha's Happy Hollow Course. Elizabeth Morell, a member of the Creighton University women's golf team, finished fifth in the championship flight with a 54-hole score of 236. She won the state match play title last summer...
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Reno Ray Fikan
(Obituary ~ 06/19/03)
ATWOOD -- Reno Ray Fikan, 83, died Tuesday (June 17, 2003) at the Lantern Park Nursing Home in Colby, Kan. He was born May 9, 1920, to Ralph Otto "Rusty" and Clara Ella (Davis) Fikan at their home southeast of Atwood. He attended country school at Pleasant View School District No. 47 and then graduated from Atwood Community High School in 1938...
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Long wait
(Editorial ~ 06/19/03)
Dear Mr. Williams, you are going to have to wait a lot longer than 2008 if you want to see Hilary Clinton inaugurated as president of this country.
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Changing laws
(Editorial ~ 06/19/03)
On city ordinances, they change them, it seems to me, from week to week, and don't let people know. If you call down to complain about an ordinance, it's been changed. I don't think that's right, and would like something done about it.
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Stop and think
(Editorial ~ 06/19/03)
I wish people who steal flowers off of graves would just stop and think. My husband hasn't been gone all that long, and I went out this morning, both vases were gone. I was really hurt.
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Landing system will boost local aviation volume
(Editorial ~ 06/19/03)
The next time you visit with an experienced pilot, ask him, or her, how important it is for an airport to have an "ILS." For most of us, those three letters don't mean much, but for a pilot in severe weather conditions, they are all-important. The letters stand for "Instrument Landing System" and, when ceilings are low and visibility is limited, the system is the difference between safe landings and overflights to other airports...
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What it takes to make a grown man cry
(Column ~ 06/19/03)
Vacations are great. Except when you're getting ready for them and when you have to come back to work when they're over. Getting ready for them takes about as much work as the actual vacation. You rush around trying to get everything done that needs to be done for the next week -- and usually end up doing an inadequate job of what you're supposed to be doing...
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Andrew Peterson
(Births ~ 06/19/03)
Aaron and Amanda Peterson of McCook announce the birth of their son, Andrew Michael Peterson, May 15, 2003, at Community Hospital in McCook. He weighed 7 pounds and 1 ounce. Grandparents are Steve and Shari Haag of McCook and Mike and Lisa Peterson of Lincoln. Great-grandparents are Ray and Myrna Haag of Bartley, Sara Reiners of Danbury and the late Ken Reiners, Jerry and Diana Asher of Page, Doris Ziska of O'Neill and V.K. Peterson of Stuart...
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'Amber' alert age raised
(Local News ~ 06/19/03)
LINCOLN -- Attorney General Jon Bruning announced today that the Nebraska AMBER Alert Committee voted unanimously to modify the age criteria for issuing an AMBER Alert from 15 to 17 years of age. The change was made based on recommendations from the United States Department of Justice and from the Nebraska State Patrol...
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Rural Electric tour
(Local News ~ 06/19/03)
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson meets with students from across Nebraska who were in Washington, DC, for a week-long tour in conjunction with the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. The group was lead by Kristen Gottschalk of Nebraska Rural Electric Association and State Senator Adrian Smith who represents Legislative District 48 in the Scottsbluff-Gering area. ...
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Police warn of new e-mail credit card scam
(Local News ~ 06/19/03)
Today's modern technology has made it possible for a new credit card scam to make its way to McCook. The McCook Police Department has received information from a McCook resident who received an e-mail message advising that an order was made at a Best Buy web site with their credit card information...
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Auto thief captured
(Local News ~ 06/19/03)
A man who was wanted for the theft by deception from a McCook auto dealership and by the the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Marshal Service on drug charges was captured in Phelps County on June 11. The McCook case began against the man on May 20, when he and a female companion obtained a false I.D. in Buffalo County in April and opened a bank account in Chase County. The couple then used a starter check he had received from the bank to purchase a pickup from the McCook dealer...
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B Street 'bulb'
(Local News ~ 06/19/03)
Paul Alonzon of Cozad and Ramon Lopez of Lexington, employees of Paulsen Inc. of Lexington, prepare the sidewalk along B Street between Norris and West First for concrete.The new "bulbs" along B Street have been designed as a safety feature to curtail the driving habit of creating an extra lane on a side street in order to make a right hand turn. ...
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Arsenic level lower than stated, still above new threshold
(Local News ~ 06/19/03)
LEBANON -- While the arsenic content of Lebanon's water supply is above the maximum level allowed in new federal standards, it is far below the 23 parts per billion set forth in a Friday the 13th editorial in the McCook Daily Gazette. "The highest arsenic content in the Lebanon water is 13.9 parts per billion," said Frederick W. Ankenman, chairman of the Lebanon Village Board. That is 3.9 parts per billion above the new standard of 10 parts per billion...
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New features are planned for promotion
(Local News ~ 06/19/03)
If everything works out for McCook's annual Crazy Days celebration this July, several new features will be added to the already popular event. Marie Owen, executive director of the McCook Chamber of Commerce said the annual downtown sales promotion, July 10-12, will include all the features it has had in the past -- such as the classic car show and the costume judging contest -- and add a few new features -- like street artists and strolling minstrels...
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First Central Bank tops Sluggers field
(High School Sports ~ 06/19/03)
The McCook Midget Baseball Association played its Sluggers Division Championship Tournament this past weekend with First Central Bank coming out on top in this double elimination tournament. Mac's Drive-In 9, Wells Fargo 5 The weekend started out with Mac's Drive-In and Wells Fargo in a close game...
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Darlene M. Grotelueschen
(Obituary ~ 06/19/03)
LONGMONT, Colo. -- Darlene M. Grotelueschen, 64, died Tuesday (June 17, 2003) at the Longmont United Hospital in Longmont, Colo. She was born May 8, 1939, in Herndon, to Ernest and Frieda (Klawonn) Allacher. On July 19, 1959, she married Donald Grotelueschen in Herndon. They lived in Columbus for a time and moved to Longmont in 1984. She was a work coordinator for U.S. Bank in Longmont for 19 years...
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