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MNB Seniors split with NP
(Community Sports ~ 05/26/04)
With a pair of dramatic games that went right down to the wire, the McCook National Bank Senior baseball team opened up its regular season with a doubleheader split against North Platte at the Jaycees Sports Complex on Tuesday night. MNB dropped the first game of the twinbill to North Platte 3-1...
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Forget steroids, Gatorade and Nikes, it's gotta be the water in SW Nebraska
(Sports Column ~ 05/26/04)
Since October, a dark cloud has loomed over the sporting world. Allegations have come out that big name athletes have been using steroids to boost their performance. Such accusations have cost fines, suspensions and, in some cases, careers. But performance enhancers are nothing new to the sporting world. They are constantly developing and becoming difficult to detect...
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Marlin Eugene Gunther
(Obituary ~ 05/26/04)
March 31, 1939-May 23, 2004 BENKELMAN -- Marlin Eugene Gunther, 65, died Sunday (May 23, 2004) at his home in Benkelman. He was born March 31, 1939, to Harry F. and Wilma F. (Pettit) Gunther in Benkelman. He attended Benkelman schools. He graduated in 1957 from Benkelman High School. After high school he worked for several farmers and ranchers and later moved to Arkansas. After a short time he returned to Benkelman...
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Frances (Ring) Lyons
(Obituary ~ 05/26/04)
LINCOLN -- Frances (Ring) Lyons, 83, died Monday (May 24, 2004) in Lincoln. She was born in a sod house in Hayes County. On Feb. 11, 1941, she married LaVern Lyons at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hayes County. The couple farmed in Hayes County until 1964 and farmed in Saunders county until 1969. They then moved to Lincoln. She worked at Lincoln General Hospital and Bryan Hospital with 20 years of services in the medical records department...
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Donald A. Rome
(Obituary ~ 05/26/04)
Nov. 11, 1939-May 24, 2004 OMAHA -- Donald August Rome, 64, of Funk, died Monday (May 24, 2004) at the VA Medical Center in Omaha. He was born Nov. 11, 1939, to August and Barbara (Rohr) Rome in Menlo, Kan. He attended school in Selden, Kan., and graduated from Selden High School in 1957...
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Mintling
(Births ~ 05/26/04)
CAMBRIDGE -- Wayne and Michelle Mintling announce the birth of their son, Brody Morgan, May 18, 2004, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge. He was 8 pounds, 6.5 ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long. He has two brothers, Derrek, 5, and Shayne, 3...
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Storytelling at its best on tap this weekend
(Editorial ~ 05/26/04)
Through the years, the Buffalo Commons Festival has featured a series of outstanding storytellers, starting with Nebraska's own Roger Welsch in 1997 and continuing each year with some of the top tale-tellers in the nation. But, as talented as the storytellers might be, there is widespread agreement that the best of all -- the master of the art of good, old-fashioned American storytelling -- is Donald Davis from the southern Appalachian mountains of North Carolina...
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And the survey said ...
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/26/04)
**Dear Editor, On Monday, May 24, Bush asks us to trust him as he rides out the Iraq debacle, a matter of his own making. Why should we? For the last year and a half, the administration has made one screw up after another. Reminds me of the Keystone Cops, only it isn't funny. Who is this guy that asks our trust?...
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Joyful anticipation
(Column ~ 05/26/04)
Another school year is coming to a close. By this time tomorrow, the doors will have swung outward one last time and children will have burst forth in joyful anticipation of the endless days of summer, spread before them like a holiday buffet with no end in sight...
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Nelson hears concerns
(Local News ~ 05/26/04)
Members of the National Guard and Reserve worry most about when and if they will be deployed, and will health care be available while they wait, U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson learned Tuesday. Nelson made a stop in McCook Tuesday to visit with local soldiers from the 1013th Army Reserve Unit and the 735th National Guard about their concerns regarding their service in the military...
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