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Rawlins teams roll to Oakley crowns
(High School Sports ~ 04/22/08)
OAKLEY -- The Rawlins County High School boys and girls track teams, the defending Kansas Class 2A state champions, won the Oakley Invitational Friday. Macy Migchelbrink, Laura Wolters and Sara Miller led the Buffaloes in the girls division. Migchelbrink won three gold medals, taking first place in the long jump, triple jump and 300 meter hurdles...
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Oberlin golfers place sixth at home tournament
(High School Sports ~ 04/22/08)
OBERLIN -- Decatur Community High School golfers hosted the Oberlin Invitational Saturday. "The tournament ran smoothly, thanks to the Oberlin CC, the course was in good shape," said Oberlin coach Dick Ahlberg. Oberlin finished sixth in the tournament and Rawlins County was fourth...
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McCook 7th grade boys track results
(High School Sports ~ 04/22/08)
The McCook Junior High Track teams competed recently in two meets. On April 14, the Bison traveled to Ogallala for a triangular with Lexington and Ogallala. On April 18, the Bison competed in the Holdrege Invite. Grades 7 and 8 competed against each other in the combined meet...
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Dates set for Lady Bison Basketball Camps
(High School Sports ~ 04/22/08)
Dates are set for the McCook High School Lady Bison Basketball Camps for girls who will be in grades 3-6 and 7-12 next fall. Camp for grades 3-6 is June 2-5 and camp for grades 7-12 June 23-24. Forms are available at Sports shoppe, and the Senior High Office, or contact coach Barry Schaeffer at 345-5422...
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Council turns down cell phone tax
(Local News ~ 04/22/08)
After hearing from the public and discussing it among themselves, McCook City Council members unanimously shot down a proposal to impose a 3 percent occupation tax on cell phones usage in the city. City staff had recommended the cell phone tax, as landline telephones are taxed as a utility and cell phones should be treated the same way. It was also suggested as a way to boost declining utility revenue in the General Fund budget, which pays for city salaries and services...
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Mary Katherine 'Kitty' Sramek
(Obituary ~ 04/22/08)
June 17, 1942 - April 20, 2008 BENKELMAN -- Mary Katherine "Kitty" Sramek died Sunday, April 20, 2008, at the Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman, Neb. She was born June 17, 1942, in Marysville, Ohio, the daughter of Edward and Geneva (Delay) Fetty. She grew up in Ohio, and met her husband Jr. in Denver, Colo., where both were visiting others...
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City sets tire amnesty
(Local News ~ 04/22/08)
If you have some spare tires you need to get rid of, the city of McCook will conduct an a amnesty period in May to get rid of them. Thanks to a $45,000 award given to the city by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, McCook will have a tire amnesty period from May 16-May 31 at the McCook Transfer Station...
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Roxanne R. Pavlicek
(Obituary ~ 04/22/08)
Dec. 15, 1940 - April 18, 2008 MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Roxanne R. Pavlicek, 67, formerly of Oberlin, died Friday (April 18, 2008) at her home in Memphis, Tenn. She was born Dec. 15, 1940, in Oberlin to Gale and Genola (Southward) Ridgway. She grew up in Oberlin and graduated from Decatur County High School in 1958...
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Gunnar W. Blanke
(Obituary ~ 04/22/08)
Sept. 23, 1946 - March 31, 2008 DENVER, Colo. -- Gunnar W. Blanke of Denver, Colo., died suddenly on March 31, 2008, while working onsite at the age of 61. Gunnar was born Sept. 23, 1946, in Atchinson, Kan., the son of the late Dorothy and Jack Blanke Jr...
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Maurice R. Kammerlohr
(Obituary ~ 04/22/08)
Feb. 7, 1917 - April 18, 2008 Maurice R. Kammerlohr, 91, of McCook, Neb., formerly of Lexington, died Friday (April 18, 2008) at McCook. He was born Feb. 7, 1917, at Spring Ranch, Neb., near Hastings, to Frank and Hazel (Coba) Kammerlohr. He moved with his family as a young boy to McCook where he graduated from high school with the class of 1935. ...
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Donald G. Sailors
(Obituary ~ 04/22/08)
April 7, 1940 - April 20, 2008 Donald Graydon Sailors entered into the gates of heaven surrounded by his loving family at his side on Sunday, April 20, 2008, at Community Hospital in McCook at the age of 68 after a recent battle with lung cancer. He was born April 7, 1940 at Thedford, Neb., the son of the late Rev. ...
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The Rev. Virgil W. Willits
(Obituary ~ 04/22/08)
May 10, 1921 - April 21, 2008 NEWTON, Kan. -- The Rev. Virgil W. Willits, 85, died Monday (April 21, 2008) at Kansas Christian Home in Newton, Kan. He was born May 10, 1921, in Haverhill, Kan., to Clyde Walter and Nancy Loretta (Hayes) Willits. On April 2, 1944, he married Virginia Troup at Enid, Okla. He was a minister serving in church in Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Colorado, Indiana and Kansas. He retired after serving the Disciples of Christ church for 54 years...
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NASA scientist visits town where he learned how to fly
(Local News ~ 04/22/08)
Twenty five years after Dick Trail of McCook taught him to fly, Mike Wusk prepared to leave McCook with three other members of his NASA atmospheric study crew this morning on their way back to Virginia from Alaska. Their plane is equipped with downward looking Lidar (light detection and ranging) laser, coupled with a telescope, to study pollution from the Pacific Rim and Europe that collects as a brown haze over the Arctic...
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More to climate change than 'going green'
(Editorial ~ 04/22/08)
Somehow -- perhaps it was the success of former vice president Al Gore, his Oscar and Nobel Prize for his film, "An Inconvenient Truth" -- going "green" is all the rage these days. A lot of it is simple capitalism; retailers tend to create whatever image will help improve their bottom line. Some of it is extremism, such as PETA's call for all of us to become vegans, or offering a million dollars for the first person to create artificial meat in a test-tube...
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The 100th Legislature wraps up
(Column ~ 04/22/08)
The 17th was the last day of the second regular session of the 100th Legislature. At the beginning of this short session, I introduced 10 bills and had three bills that had carried over from last session. I would like to update you on what happened to each of these bills...
- Frazier 7th in discus at Kansas Relays (High School Sports ~ 04/22/08)
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Mars is moving eastward
(Column ~ 04/22/08)
Have you been watching Mars lately? It is moving eastward among the background stars and is traveling from the middle of the constellation Gemini up toward its two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux. By month's end it will form an almost straight line with the pair...
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From the Bench: Pardon the old cliché, but I'm back ...
(High School Sports ~ 04/22/08)
Cliché warning -- I'm back. For those who were wondering where I have been and where I went, and for those who weren't, I returned to the McCook Daily Gazette Monday morning after about a six-week absence. I underwent surgery March 20 in Wichita, Kansas, to remove a herniated or protruding disk from my lower back -- the operation is called a microdiscectomy. It's sort of a miracle -- I can walk!...
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