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Major college fund drive under way
(Local News ~ 10/02/08)
NORTH PLATTE -- Mid-Plains Community College is in the early stages of its most ambitious fundraising effort in its 80 year history. The college's first major gifts campaign, "Today's Vision … Tomorrow's Reality," is primarily focused on generating funds needed for two strategic projects -- an Events Center at McCook Community College and a Health Complex at North Platte Community College...
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Rendezvous Economics -- Traders depended on European fashion for their livelihood
(Local News ~ 10/02/08)
HAYES CENTER -- The American government allotted explorers Lewis and Clark $4,000 to purchase "gifts" of scissors, gewgaws, trinkets, beads and bells to give the Indians they encountered as they traipsed across Indian lands to the Pacific Ocean 200 years ago. In exchange, Lewis and Clark wanted safe passage -- and furs...
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Stay alert during harvest
(Editorial ~ 10/02/08)
Fall is a time to be on the lookout for farm equipment on the highway, and according to the Nebraska State Patrol, there's plenty of reason to be cautious. Not only do we need to be careful passing combines, grain carts, tractors and other agricultural equipment on its way to or from the fields, but there's a good chance that next truck you see has bad brakes...
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Sensational sunrises and the dance of the seasons
(Column ~ 10/02/08)
There have been some absolutely fabulous sunrises during the past few days. Now, a sunrise is not an event that I would normally go out of my way for as I am, by self-proclamation, not a morning astronomer. However, if one is leaving work and heading home at 6 a.m. you can't hardly miss them...
- Darlene Ellen Lusk (Obituary ~ 10/02/08)
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