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Bison golfers 6th at Ogallala
(High School Sports ~ 09/23/08)
OGALLALA -- The McCook High School girls golf team placed sixth out of 13 teams Monday at the Ogallala Invitational with a 420 score. The tournament was played at the West Wind Golf Club. The top 10 players earned medals. McCook's top player was Alex Trew, who fired a 97. Sydney Jumps fired a 101, followed by Megan Rokusek 108, Becky Goodenberger 114, Shelby Allen 116 and Cori O'Dea 127...
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Maywood splits matches
(High School Sports ~ 09/23/08)
MAYWOOD -- The Maywood High School volleyball team went 1-1 at home Monday night against Elwood and Hitchcock County. The Tigers fell short to Hitchcock County 26-24, 25-14, but came away with a 25-18, 24-26, 25-15 win against Elwood. Kadee Arensdorf and Ashlee Solie led the Tigers against Elwood in setting. Arensdorf had 14 assists and was 17-for-18 with 1 ace in serving and had 12 digs...
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Blanford takes URSS race at McCook Speedway
(Community Sports ~ 09/23/08)
The United Rebel Sprint Series made their second visit of the year to McCook Speedway Sunday afternoon. The Sprint Cars were also joined by SportMods and Hobby Stocks on the card. The warm weather, sunny skies and high winds made track preparation difficult for the McCook Speedway officials, but they had it right come feature time...
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Bison JV football team rolls past North Platte sophs
(High School Sports ~ 09/23/08)
The McCook High School junior varsity football team improved to 3-0 with a 41-0 victory over the North Platte sophomores Monday night at Weiland Field. McCook led 7-0 at halftime, but scored 21 points on 14 snaps in the third quarter, thanks to three North Platte turnovers...
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Bison JV spikers take two at home
(High School Sports ~ 09/23/08)
The McCook High School junior varsity volleyball team went 2-0 Monday night in a triangular at the MHS gymnasium. The Bison defeated Arapahoe 25-9, 25-7 and Southwest 25-23, 26-24. Southwest defeated Arapahoe 25-23, 25-13. McCook JV 25 25 Arapahoe JV 9 7...
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Leola Electa (Smith) Moody
(Obituary ~ 09/23/08)
Jan. 29, 1918 - Sept. 19, 2008 WAUNETA -- Leola Electa (Smith) Moody, 90, died Friday (Sept. 19, 2008) at Wauneta. She was born Jan. 29, 1918, near Eskridge, Kan., to Jesse William and Almetta Estella (Van Deventer) Smith. The family moved by immigrant train to Chase County and settled in the Blanche Community. In 1925, her family moved to Imperial. She graduated from Chase County High School in 1934...
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Iris (Joy) Thompson
(Obituary ~ 09/23/08)
May 21, 1921 - Sept. 21, 2008 WEST MILFORD, N.J. -- Iris (Joy) Thompson, 87, died Sunday (Sept. 21, 2008) at Chilton Hospital in Pompton Plains, N.J. She was born May 21, 1921, in Culbertson to Ira and Flossie Joy. She graduated from Culbertson High School...
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Dowling birthday
(Birthdays ~ 09/23/08)
The family of Fern (Cassel) Dowling of McCook is hosting an open house in honor of her 90th birthday. The open house will be Saturday, Sept. 27, from 2-4 p.m., at the McCook Evangelical Free Church 602 East 14 St. Her family include her husband, Russ; children, Carrol and husband, Warren Barnell of Lincoln, Roger and Maureen Dowling of Squim, Wash., and Sharon and Jerry Felker of McCook. She has 12 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren...
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Refinancing to save county $30K
(Local News ~ 09/23/08)
Red Willow County taxpayers will save about $30,000 by refinancing bonds issued to renovate and add onto the county's nursing home in 1995-96 and to build the nursing home's adjacent Hidden Pines apartments in 1999. Commissioners approved three resolutions Monday morning, approving the call for redemption of the county's outstanding Series 1999A bonds (for the nursing home project) and for Series 1999B bonds (for Hidden Pines), maturing on and after Dec. ...
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County offers kit company monthly payment option
(Local News ~ 09/23/08)
In a take-it-or-leave it document, Red Willow County commissioners are giving Pawnee Aviation the chance to make payments each month for the next 10 years to pay off the $300,000 and interest that the helicopter kit company owes the county's revolving loan program...
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Two to be inducted into MHS Wall of Fame
(Local News ~ 09/23/08)
The selection committee of the McCook Public Schools' "Bison Alumni Wall of Fame" has announced that inductees for 2008 are Albert "Al" Cuellar, Class of 1956, and Bill Harris, Class of 1957. Engraved plaques featuring photographs and descriptions of the accomplishments of Cuellar, of McCook, and Harris, of Lincoln, will join the plaques of other honored graduates' on permanent display on the "Wall of Fame" near the McCook Senior High auditorium...
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Cattle waste plan OK'd
(Local News ~ 09/23/08)
The Red Willow County commissioners and planning commission have both approved Heartland Cattle Co.'s plan to dispose of waste water from its heifer development and feeder cattle operation southeast of McCook. Commissioner Leigh Hoyt explained to fellow commissioners and to a neighbor of Heartland Cattle Co. ...
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Fill 'er up
(Local News ~ 09/23/08)
YMCA Aquatic Director Anna Sis gets her feet wet in the deep end of the pool for the first time in quite a while as executive director Mike Gonzales looks on. The pool will take 174,000 gallons of water, weighing 1.4 million pounds, to fill. Along the way, 4,300 pounds of salt, from the bags scattered around the pool, will be added for the pool's new chlorination system, which converts the salt into chlorine. ...
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Medicine take-back called big success
(Local News ~ 09/23/08)
On Saturday, the Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department along with local businesses and agencies accepted unused or outdated medications which were headed for destruction. Unused or outdated medicines that are flushed down the toilet, reach streams and drinking water, causing unintended negative effects on fish and wildlife...
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Lincoln man bound over on sexual assault charge
(Local News ~ 09/23/08)
A Lincoln man charged with sexual assault of a minor was bound over to District Court from Red Willow County Count this week. Josiah Frobish, 24, was originally charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor on June 24, when he was found in a local motel room with a 14-year-old McCook girl...
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Signs of the time: UNL dorms cutting the wires
(Editorial ~ 09/23/08)
If the hair styles or cars don't tip you off, you can tell how old a television show or movie is by the way the actors communicate. If they need to find a telephone to get in touch with someone, you know the show is more than a couple of years old. Watching those flicks now, we are amused at their lack of cell phones, or we chuckle at the size of their wireless home telephones...
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What was that big, noisy jet?
(Column ~ 09/23/08)
What was that "big" jet that flew into McCook last week? I was asked by more than one person the past couple of days. "He flew over my house and rattled my windows!" stated a pilot friend. To answer the first question, it was a Gulfstream III, a twin engine 21 seat executive jet, model number G-1159A. ...
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Just a minute; they're just in jest
(Column ~ 09/23/08)
On almost a daily basis over the last three or four weeks, Brad has been coming home and telling me the reactions he's received about my columns. Not many of them have been too positive. I just want everyone that doesn't understand this to get the information first hand: These articles are written in jest...
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