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Doris B. Awtry
(Obituary ~ 03/13/06)
Oct. 10, 1924 -- March11, 2006 Doris B. Awtry of McCook died Saturday (March 11, 2006) at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. She was 81 years old. She was born Oct. 10, 1924, at Curtis to Peter C. and Anna Elsie (Rossen) Nelsen. She grew up in Curtis and graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture High School in 1941...
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Jay Dee Bailey
(Obituary ~ 03/13/06)
Dec. 7, 1938 - March 9, 2006 BENKELMAN -- Jay Dee Bailey, 67, died at Dundy County Hospital on March 9, 2006. He was born December 7, 1938 in a house in Stratton, Nebraska to Justus D. and Marjorie Pearl Bailey. The family moved to Colorado when Jay was 2 years old, and Jay graduated from Arvada High School in 1956...
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County OKs exemption
(Local News ~ 03/13/06)
By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor Red Willow County commissioners approved a re-quest this morning from the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln to exempt from taxation all three floors of the former convent in the 1200 block of West Fourth in McCook. County Assessor Sandra Kotschwar told commissioners Leigh Hoyt and Steve Downer she understands that the third floor of the convent is not being used for educational and religious purposes, and as such, should not be tax exempt. ...
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A truck, a train, a planter and a van
(Local News ~ 03/13/06)
William Scott, 44, of North Charleston, S.C., crawls into his semi-truck after his flatbed trailer, carrying a van and a planter, was struck by a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train about four miles west of McCook at 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Nebraska State Patrol Trooper Doug Petty reports that Scott was northbound and came to the U.S. ...
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Girl Scouts get girls off to a good start
(Editorial ~ 03/13/06)
Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low thought girls were too sheltered, spent too much time indoors and needed more exercise. So, she got 18 girls from her hometown of Savannah, Ga., together for a meeting. She took the girls out in the open air and got them involved in community service. They hiked, played basketball, went on camping trips, learned how to tell time by the stars and studied first aid...
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Something's rotten
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/13/06)
Something smells rotten in Denmark. According to the article in the McCook Gazette dated 3/7/06, Councilman Kircher had requested an open public interview with Bingham, which was done with three prior applicants for the job. It's too late in the process to do that now, Councilman Lyons replied, as the contract has already been offered to and accepted by Bingham...
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Fix the problem
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/13/06)
I've read with some interest the goings on of the City Council, or at least some of it's members and all I can say is that we, the citizens of McCook, have been handed a red-herring. I don't know how it came about that the old city manager got his job back so handily without having to be interviewed like the other applicants did, but something sure doesn't seem to be kosher...
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Yellow-livered inaction
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/13/06)
To the headline Tuesday, March 7, 2006, " County board meetings won't open with a prayer, pledge" I rise to respond ... after a motion failed for lack of a second at their regular weekly meeting Monday morning. As a "blue-blooded" daughter of the Most High God, I despise, I deplore the yellow-livered inaction of the majority members...
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Reluctant resident
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/13/06)
I am a retired farmer who moved to McCook in 1980. I built and live in the same house today as I did when I moved here. My taxes have more than doubled; water, trash and sewer has more than tripled. My gas bill is considerably higher, so I don't figure out how our City Council plans on the people of McCook to continue to pay these bills...
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Brevity, levity
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/13/06)
Long-winded Open Forum letters cannot cover all of the details to present an honest evaluation of the city manager or any other subject. If this man has the strength to endure such onslaught and still want to return to McCook, I think it means there is much more to his character than credit is being given...
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Iraqi business
(Local News ~ 03/13/06)
Because of the war against terrorism, many Iraqis in the oil business have gone out of business. Now that the Iraqis have been invaded, attacked and occupied, and have tasted the freedom of voting, they should be allowed to start new businesses. All the citizens of the new democracy should share equally the perhaps quadrillions of dollars worth of petroleum reservoirs beneath their own land...
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Lessons learned from a mysterious visitor
(Column ~ 03/13/06)
We all have stories to tell. And, for those who take the time to listen, some of the most intriguing stories are told by those who have lived long lives. I was reminded of that last week when Wilma Fritz of Arapahoe wrote to tell me about Vaughn Dawson, a 90-year-old Arapahoe resident with vivid memories of life on Turkey Creek in the mid-1920s...
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Six-on-six basketball
(Column ~ 03/13/06)
During the first week in March, Nebraska sports fans were treated to one of the highlights of the sports year when the girls' high school basketball tournament took place in Lincoln. The games were well attended and on Saturday, when the finals games were telecast, there was a large audience statewide -- with good reason...
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