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McCook native's search for Fossett subject of Tuesday show
(Local News ~ 08/27/08)
ESPN60 will broadcast a documentary about McCook native Mike (Siverly) Larson's search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett at 6 p.m. CDT on Tuesday. Larson and colleague Kelly Stephenson, a Garden City, Kan., native, have formed a private team, Geosearch, to search for Fossett...
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Health insurance solution depends on your perspective
(Editorial ~ 08/27/08)
Take a good look when your favorite football team takes the field this week. If the players are typical Nebraskans, one of them won't have health insurance, and one of them, probably the same one, is living in poverty. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the state's two-year average uninsured rate is up 2.3 percent, to 12.8 percent from the average rate of 2004-05. ...
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Learned complacency
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/27/08)
During a recent voter registration drive I was taken aback by our young adults total disinterest in politics. Their arguments for complacency varied little -- it was a complete waste of time. I wondered for days where the idealism of youth, which throughout history had been one of the greater driving forces for change, disappeared to. ...
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Leona E. Breitling
(Obituary ~ 08/27/08)
June 9, 1912 - Aug. 25, 2008 Leona Margaret Elizabeth Breitling died Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook at the age of 96. She was born June 9, 1912, on a farm north of Marion, Neb., the daughter of Jacob and Martha (Boll) Leibbrandt. She grew up on the family farm and was baptized and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church at Ash Creek...
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Fifth annual 'Smokin' on the Beaver' set
(Local News ~ 08/27/08)
ATWOOD -- Pieces of Eight Band, the driving country/rock band that electrified the 2007 "Smokin' on the Beaver" crowd, will be back for the 2008 event set for Saturday, Sept. 27. And Jim Ferguson, host of the popular Great American Trails Radio Magazine, will be back as a contest competitor and emcee of the fifth annual barbecue cookoff and contest!...
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Retired physician, 94, still dreams of eradicating polio
(Features ~ 08/27/08)
A Rotarian celebrating his 94th birthday recalls the devastation polio caused in the 1950s and '60s, but still dreams of eradicating the disease worldwide today. The McCook Rotary Club honored Dr. John Batty with birthday cake and special recognition at its Tuesday noon meeting at Country Kitchen, a day before his actual birthday...
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County road gets new right-of-way
(Local News ~ 08/27/08)
A Red Willow County road that has been no more than two wagon wheel ruts or tire tracks through a pasture since 1889 will now have an officially defined right-of-way, and landowners bickering about the road and fences will have to move both their fences beyond that new boundary...
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Douglas J. Florom
(Obituary ~ 08/27/08)
March 13, 1952 - Aug. 25, 2008 MAYWOOD --Douglas J. Florom, 56 of Firth, NE formerly of Maywood, died Aug. 25, 2008, at Bryan LGH East in Lincoln, Neb. Douglas J. Florom was born on March 13, 1952 to Herbert and CeCelia (Bates) Florom at Curtis, Neb. He attended school in Maywood graduating from Maywood High School in 1970...
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An authentic experience
(Column ~ 08/27/08)
Near-death experiences are anything but commonplace. That being said, they do seem to be increasing in frequency, if the online blogs and Internet postings are to be believed. Perhaps it is because of the many advances granted to medical science; perhaps it is attributable to the many varieties of pain killers or other narcotics administered in emergency medicine. ...
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