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Bison golfers 9th in Holdrege Invitational
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/07)
HOLDREGE -- The McCook Bison boys golf team placed ninth in the Holdrege Invitational Thursday. The tournament was postponed from April 24. "The field of teams was cut short because this was a rain make-up tournament," said McCook boys golf coach Dan Hilton...
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Oberlin golfers 4th in Colby invite
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/07)
COLBY -- The Decatur Community-Oberlin golf team placed fourth out of 10 teams at the Colby Invitational Thursday. Goodland won the tournament title with a 332 score, followed by Hoxie 348, Colby 358, Oberlin 366, Norton 367, Rawlins County-Atwood 384, Brewster 404, Garden City C team 413, Oakley 437 and Colby JV 460...
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Bison grade 7-10 boys, girls track teams compete at NP
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/07)
NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook High School/Junior High freshmen, sophomores and seventh and eighth grade girls and boys competed in the 9-10 invite and 7-8 track invitationals in North Platte Tuesday. "A portion of McCook's younger athletes participated in the 9-10 North Platte invite and competed at a level that we expected them to," said Bison girls coach Steve Clapp...
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Southern Valley golfers claim Dennis Kipping Invitational title
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/07)
By JOHN J. MESH Gazette Sports Editor OXFORD -- The Southern Valley golf team captured the Dennis Knipping Invitational Thursday at the Cardinal Country Club in Oxford. The Eagles posted a 356 score, edging out Alma by two strokes. Hitchcock County was third at 367, followed by Axtell 368, Elm Creek 376, Eustis-Farnam 387, Overton 388, Arapahoe 406, Wilcox-Hildreth 415, Southwest 420, Medicine Valley 421, Loomis 461 and Bertrand 610...
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McCook Rebels 12 and under squad 2nd at NP tourney
(Community Sports ~ 05/04/07)
NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook Rebels 12 and under girls fastpitch softball team placed second at the North Platte Junior Belles Spring Fling Softball Tournament this last weekend (April 28-29). McCook went 2-1 in pool play on Saturday. The Rebels lost 15-2 to the North Platte Junior Belles team, defeated the North Platte Sparks 18-3 and North Platte Express 9-0...
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Cheylin tracksters compete at Logan
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/07)
LOGAN, Kan -- Cheylin's track teams competed in the Logan invitational Tuesday. Cheylin finished eighth in the girls division and 10th in the boys. Stockton won the girls meet and Triplains took the boys. Colleen Schrader, Mindy Antholz and Tia Sager led the girls team. Antholz, placed sixth in the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 55.67 and fourth in the shot put with a throw of 29 feet 8 inches...
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McCook's Cory Gaston selected for Nebraska Future Stars team
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/07)
CRESTON -- Cory Gaston, a 17 point per game scorer from McCook, and high-flying Andrew Lyle, a 14 point per game athlete from Hastings, were selected to play on the Nebraska team in the Future Stars spring AAU program directed by Damon Vogt of Creston...
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Kela I. Hinkle
(Obituary ~ 05/04/07)
July 26, 1912 - May 1, 2007 LEXINGTON -- Kela I. Hinkle, 94, died Tuesday (May 1, 2007) at Plum Creek Care Center in Lexington. She was born July 26, 1912, near York, to Claude and Clara (VanVleet) Hager. She was a graduate of Trenton High School with the class of 1931, during high school she received her Normal Training for teaching and taught at two different rural schools at Trenton...
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Grammy-winning storyteller headlines Buffalo Commons
(Local News ~ 05/04/07)
A Grammy-winning storyteller will headline this year's Buffalo Commons storytelling festival, set for the weekend of June 8-9. Bill Harley, who won a 2007 Grammy Award in the Children's Spoken Word category with "Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs," will bring his talents to McCook this year...
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A million trees in 10 years is a laudable goal
(Editorial ~ 05/04/07)
Remember New Years? Around McCook, it came in with a bang. And a crackle, crash and thump. No, the noise wasn't from the Jan. 1 fireworks, it was from tree branches succumbing to the weight of ice from the blizzard that roared through the area. At the time, experts told us to take our time in deciding which trees had to be taken down, and which ones might survive. Now that the trees are, belatedly, beginning to leaf out, that decision will be easier to make...
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Swimming into the sunset
(Local News ~ 05/04/07)
A pair of geese paddle serenely through one of the ponds at Barnett Park, which is still partially flooded from the heavy rains two weeks ago. There might not be much time for drainage, however, with lots of rain in the forecast.
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