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Bison defense has been extra stingy during team's 40-1 run
(High School Sports ~ 09/15/05)
McCook 'D' has 16 shutouts in 4 years During a 40-1 run in the past three-plus seasons, the McCook High School football team has racked up some pretty impressive offensive numbers. The Bison have featured several 1,000-yard rushers and scored a lot of points...
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Sports shorts: Bison softball at NP tourney, NCTA golf, area volleyball & cross country
(High School Sports ~ 09/15/05)
Bison softball competes at NP Classic The McCook High School softball team will puts its 13-0 record on the line Saturday at the North Platte Classic. The Bison are the No. 1 seed and will play No. 8 seed Lincoln North Star at noon. Other first-round matchups are Scottsbluff vs. Lincoln Southwest, Lexington vs. Gering and North Platte vs. Chadron...
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College board OKs budget
(Local News ~ 09/15/05)
NORTH PLATTE -- A .4274-cent increase in the levy, combined with a 4.05 assessed valuation increase translates to more than a half-million dollar increase in revenue in the 2005-06 budget approved unanimously by the Mid-Plains Community College board of governors Wednesday night...
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Season ticket it a great deal
(Editorial ~ 09/15/05)
Look up the definitions for the word concert and you will get a better understanding of why the McCook Concert Association has had such a long and successful run of success. Because -- in addition to being "a musical performance by one or more singers or instrumentalists" -- concert also means "to act together in harmony."...
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Penguins and evolution
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/15/05)
**Dear Editor, There's little doubt that evolution is a theory in crisis, as science is finding more and more contradictory evidence that dispels the probability that all life emerged and evolved from one or more simple organisms. What we have here is a bunch of sloppy semantics, not some kind of worldwide conspiracy against the God of the Bible or something. ...
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Enough about Katrina, already
(Column ~ 09/15/05)
I've heard enough about Hurricane Katrina. Not about the people who survived it, and certainly not about the people who didn't, and not about the heroes who are risking their lives to save the living and give dignity back to the dead -- they should be remembered forever...
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NRD supports Culbertson walking trail
(Local News ~ 09/15/05)
CURTIS -- After hearing from supporters, the Middle Republican Natural Resources board of directors unanimously approved spending up to $3,000 for a walking trail in Culbertson. The 2,290-foot trail was developed through volunteer labor, donations, an fundraisers, and needed the improvement supporters said as they approached the board to request a Community Assistance Grant...
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Paving approved for MCC parking
(Local News ~ 09/15/05)
NORTH PLATTE -- In an emergency item, the Mid Plains Community College board of governors accepted a bid for $110,785 from McCook Contracting LLC to pave the new parking lot at McCook Community College. The amounts of the bids, higher than $85,000, triggered a board policy requiring a vote...
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Water works
(Local News ~ 09/15/05)
The area south of McCook is a flurry of activity as contractors continue their work on the city's new water treatment facility. Southwest of McCook on land purchased from Hancock Sand and Gravel, Cahoy Well and Pump Service of Atlantic, Iowa, digs a fresh water pit for use in drilling one of the city's two new fresh water wells. ...
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LuAnn (Cahoj) VanLaeys
(Obituary ~ 09/15/05)
June 21, 1954--Sept. 1, 2005 ATWOOD -- LuAnn (Cahoj) VanLaeys, 51, died Wednesday (Sept. 14, 2005) at the Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. She was born June 21, 1954, in McCook to Louis and Dorothy (Vrbas) Cahoj. She grew up on the family farm, northwest of Atwood. She attended Enterprise Country School, St. Scholastic Academy in Canon City, Colo., and graduated from Atwood High School in 1972. She attended cosmetology school at Goodland Vo Tech...
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Filothea 'Flo' Frances Lorens
(Obituary ~ 09/15/05)
STRATTON -- Filothea "Flo" Frances Lorens, 86, died Monday (Sept. 12, 2005) at Community Hospital of McCook. She was born on her family's farm in Rawlins County, Kan., to Theodore and Josephine (Chleborad) Kacirek. She graduated from high school in McDonald, Kan. She then attended beauty school in Denver, Colo...
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