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Sara Cappel stays home to play volleyball at MCC
(College Sports ~ 03/23/05)
Sara Cappel will stay at home to play volleyball. The McCook High School senior signed a letter of intent Tuesday to compete at McCook Community College for coach Jenni McConville. Cappel, a 5-foot-7 outside hitter who was an honorable mention selection on the McCook Daily Gazette All-Area Team last fall, chose the Indians over two other programs...
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Wed sports shorts: McCook senior Jeremy Young selected for Shrine Bowl
(High School Sports ~ 03/23/05)
McCook senior Jeremy Young selected for Shrine Bowl LINCOLN -- The 47th annual Nebraska Shrine Bowl Football Game will be played on at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 23 at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. McCook High School standout Jeremy Young, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound tight end/defensive end, was the lone area player to make the team...
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Wilbur J. Reiman
(Obituary ~ 03/23/05)
July 19, 1924-March 20, 2005 BENKELMAN -- Wilbur J. Reiman, 80, of Benkelman, died Sunday (March 20, 2005) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was born on the family farm northeast of Benkelman to Charles and Sophia (Reining) Reiman and attended country school near his home in District 18...
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Theresa M. Towne
(Obituary ~ 03/23/05)
Oct. 3, 1921-March 20, 2005 CURTIS -- Theresa M. Towne, 83, of Curtis, NE died March 20, 2005 at Sunset Haven Nursing Home in Curtis. She was born on Oct. 3, 1921, in Wellfleet to Harrison & Bertha (Gerken) Damoude. She graduated from the Nebraska School of Agriculture of Curtis in 1940...
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Clarice Leake
(Obituary ~ 03/23/05)
Sept. 17, 1906-March 22, 2005 OBERLIN -- Clarice Leake died Tuesday (March 22, 2005) in Oberlin. She was born Sept. 17, 1906, to Peter N. and Birdie (Davis) Fough in Cambridge. She was raised in Parkersburg, W.V. The family moved to Red Willow County when she was in her teens...
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Dowling birthday
(Birthdays ~ 03/23/05)
The family of Russ Dowling is hosting an open house in honor of his 90th birthday March 27, 2-5 p.m., at the Evangelical Free Church in McCook. Cards of congratulations will reach him at 907 East Fifth, McCook, NE 69001.
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Woody birth
(Births ~ 03/23/05)
Becky Shepherd and Ben Woody of Kidder, Mo., announce the birth of their daughter, Madison Marie Woody, Feb. 7, 2005, at Heartland Hospital in St. Joseph, Mo. Grandparents are Leona Pauley of Hardin, Mo., the late Ben Woody Sr., Doris Parker of Hamilton, Mo., and Fred and Pam Shepherd of McCook...
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Weskamp birth
(Births ~ 03/23/05)
Steven and Melissa Weskamp of Denver, Colo. announce the birth of their son, Andrew Paul, on Feb. 24, 2005, at the Littleton Adventist Hospital in Littleton, Colo. He weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces and was 19 3/4 inches long. His grandparents are Lonnie and Barbara Weskamp of rural McCook and Kenneth and Karen Gibson of Massapequa, N.Y. Great-grandparents are Kenneth Luther of McCook, Alice Gibson of Arvada, Colo., and Marvin and Phyllis Winkoff of North Lauderdale, Fla...
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Carlson birth
(Births ~ 03/23/05)
Tim and Judy Carlson of Arapahoe announce the birth of their daughter, Miranda Lynn, Feb. 25, 2005, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces and was 19 inches long. Her grandparents are Eleanor Rogers of Holbrook and the late Neal Carlson, the late Margaret Kunkee and the late Jack Wisdom...
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Study group still hopes for joint jail
(Local News ~ 03/23/05)
Red Willow County's jail task force members struggled Tuesday evening with their mission statement, torn between the ideal of a joint county-city public safety center and the reality that city officials have declined to consider the possibility. "It just baffles me that we cannot work together," said task force member Gene Axtell of rural Danbury. "One public safety center would benefit everyone -- financially and in response times."...
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Area churches busy with holy week activities
(Local News ~ 03/23/05)
Holy week activities fill the calendars of most Christian churches this week following the commemoration of the Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem during Palm Sunday services.. The community is encouraged again this year to participate in the annual Cross Walk Friday, immediately preceding the Good Friday Lenten service...
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Loup City radio tower hampered airport project
(Local News ~ 03/23/05)
New information about a similar situation in another Nebraska town was received too late to be introduced into evidence in a petition brought against the City of McCook by McCook Public Power District over a new radio tower. The petition, which asks a judge to find in favor of the utility placing a 370-foot radio tower within three miles of the city's airport, was filed on March 14. ...
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New school something to be proud of
(Editorial ~ 03/23/05)
The people of the McCook area have known since May of 2004 that they were going to be getting a new, expanded school at the North Ward site, but it has not been until the past week that they have been able to visualize the full extent of the project...
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Vain hopes
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/23/05)
**Dear Editor, I see that King George, his fanatical clerics and the Republican Guard have once again deprived a citizen of the right to make decisions based on personal conscience, rather than religious dogma, and I find this to be deplorable. I agree that Mrs. ...
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Auction thefts
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/23/05)
**Dear Editor, The recent annual Holbrook Lions auction was considered a success, but not to the extent the tabloids made it sound ... they may have "taken in" $217,000 ... but didn't "make" that much (darn it!). That figure didn't allow for payment to the many consignors and other expenses...
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Help available
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/23/05)
**Dear Editor, We would like to commend the citizens of Indianola for their obvious concern about what they believe is a growing drug problem in their community. Their concerns were outlined in a story that appeared in the Tuesday, March 15 edition of the McCook Gazette, "Meth effort -- Indianola citizens seek help controlling drugs."...
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A homecoming worth the journey
(Column ~ 03/23/05)
Immediately following my mother's death in 1986, all I wanted to do was go home. That goal, at times, seemed impossible to attain. I was more than 1,000 miles away. I had traveled to the Texas Rio Grande Valley by plane and by car, and so was at the whim of others as to when I could leave...
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