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Wednesday sports shorts 8/11/2004: McCook girls golf meeting
(Community Sports ~ 08/11/04)
McCook girls golf team meets Thursday night There will be a meeting for the McCook High School girls golf team at 6 p.m. Thursday in the MHS commons rea. Any girls in grades 9-12 at MHS are encouraged to attend. The Bison girls golf coach is Randy Ryser...
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Winds of change blowing through school system
(Editorial ~ 08/11/04)
Okay, let's be honest. While we gripe about school starting ... bemoaning the early end to summer vacation ... we also feel, deep down, a sense of excitement. Each year -- as students, parents, staff and patrons -- we get a chance to start anew, to return to school with a new opportunity to learn and grow both educationally and socially...
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Step up to the plate
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/11/04)
**Dear Editor, I found your editorial regarding (Councilman) Jerry (Reitz's) resignation very sharp and critical of his decision to resign, it's always easy to look from the outside in and have a opinion, maybe it's time for the editor to step up to the plate and use some of his opinion in a more constructive manner, what a great opportunity?...
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Factual, mostly
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/11/04)
**Dear Editor, I love the way Mike Hendricks starts his 8/6 column "By the way MOST of this information is factual" I guess what isn't factual is up for him to decide. You also got to admire him when he goes on to say "SOME information may be correct and SOME may suit my own political persuasion."...
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Defend parents
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/11/04)
**Dear Editor, After reading your story concerning the anonymous complaint made against the care an individual's parents were receiving at Hillcrest Nursing Home, I had a few questions. If this person is truly worried about the care their parents are receiving why is this an anonymous complaint? Wouldn't you want to correct the problem your parents were allegedly having directly, insuring that they were taken care of?...
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Take his advice
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/11/04)
**Dear Editor, I wish to request that your readers, should they follow Mr. Anderson's advice, drill down through the surface of the swiftvets sites to find that John Ellis O'Neill, the putative leader of this group, was not even in the riverine combat zone at the same time as John Kerry, and that he was recruited by convicted felon Charles Colson to run an anti-Kerry effort for Richard Nixon in the early '70s...
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What you see is what you get
(Column ~ 08/11/04)
I'm confused. I admit it. I don't have clue one how to be any other person than the person that I am, faults, foibles and faith combined. That's the reason I'm confused. I was reading an article recently in "Religion in the News," a trade journal of sorts. The article deals with the ongoing debate about homosexual marriage and politics...
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Roads scholars
(Local News ~ 08/11/04)
Will Weber (from left) of Northampton, Mass., Inga-Lill and Hans Åberg of Nykvarn, Sweden, and Larry Palmer of Switzerland pause for a chat at Norris and B Street in McCook on Tuesday on their cross-country bicycle trip. Weber and Palmer are on their way to their 45th reunion of the 1959 class of the U.S. ...
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Richard Ray Modrell
(Obituary ~ 08/11/04)
Feb. 25, 1922-Aug. 9, 2004 HOLYOKE, Colo. -- Richard Ray Modrell, 82, died Monday (Aug. 9, 2004) at the Prairie Vista Nursing Home. He was born Feb. 25, 1922, at McCook, to Walter and Bessie (Doyle) Modrell. He grew up on the family farm north of McCook and attended school in Frontier County...
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Dorothy Mae Duval
(Obituary ~ 08/11/04)
June 24, 1918-Aug. 8, 2004 Dorothy Mae Duval, 86, died Sunday, August 8, 2004 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was born June 24, 1918 in Harlan County to Philip F. and Margaret (Pyell) Dietz. She grew up on the family farm near Orleans and attended school at District 60. Over the years she lived in Paxton, Ansley, Sumner and then returned to Orleans in 1973. She moved to McCook in 1996...
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The world is watching -- McCook brothers link Olympic Games to the rest of the planet
(Features ~ 08/11/04)
A McCook businessman and his older brother, originally from McCook, will be responsible for broadcasting video and data services from the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, for Olympics rights-holders in the United States. Brothers Brett Warren of McCook and Toby Warren of Denver will transmit a host of video and data services via satellite and fiber optics, from 28 Olympic sports played at 35 locations, over a period of 30 days in August...
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Hearing seeks input on cell phones
(Local News ~ 08/11/04)
LINCOLN -- Should more regulations be imposed on wireless telecommunications carriers? Or, should things be left the way they are? Members of the public will have a chance to express their views on those topics at a public meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the McCook City Council Chambers at Memorial Auditorium, 302 W. Fifth Street...
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