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Bertrand, DCS, Paxton, Southwest reach RPAC volleyball semifinals
(High School Sports ~ 10/21/08)
BENKELMAN/SOUTHWEST -- Southwest, Dundy County-Stratton, Paxton and Bertrand High School volleyball teams will square off in Cambridge tonight in the semifinals and championship round of the Republican Plains Activities Conference Golden Plains and Republican Valley divisions...
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Bison spikers ranked 10th
(High School Sports ~ 10/21/08)
OMAHA -- Fresh off a home sweep of Ogallala and Scottsbluff Saturday, the McCook Bison volleyball team was rewarded with a No. 10 ranking in Nebraska Class B in the latest Omaha World-Herald poll released on Tuesday. McCook has a 16-12 record. The Bison are one win away from trying the school record for wins set during the 2005 season when MHS posted a 17-15 record...
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McCook 8th grade football team edges Lexington
(High School Sports ~ 10/21/08)
The McCook Junior High School eighth grade football team posted a 22-6 victory over Lexington Monday at Weiland Field and finished the season with a 4-0 record. On the first play of the game, Jake Schlager ran a 73-yard kickoff return for a touchdown giving the Bison an early 6-0 lead...
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Esther A. Cram
(Obituary ~ 10/21/08)
Nov. 19, 1912 - Aug. 28, 2008 BARTLEY -- Esther A. Cram, 95, died Aug. 28, 2008, at American Lutheran Nursing Home in Mapleton, Wis. She was born near Bartley on Nov. 19, 1912, to August and Mary Zeller. She was raised near Bartley. She met and married Joseph Quaintance and lived north of Bartley. He preceded her in death in 1957...
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Larry James Jackson
(Obituary ~ 10/21/08)
March 31, 1941 - Oct. 9, 2008 HOLBROOK -- Larry James Jackson, 67, of Holbrook was born March 31, 1941 in Wilsonville to Charles "Donnie" Jackson and Ella (Grotfeld) Jackson. He passed away at the Deaconess Hospital on Oct. 9, 2008, in Oklahoma City, Okla...
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Jay Dale Buker
(Obituary ~ 10/21/08)
Nov. 3, 1909 - Oct. 18, 2008 STOCKVILLE -- Jay Dale Buker, 98, of Stockville, died Oct. 18, 2008, at Linden Court in North Platte. He was born to Jesse G. and M. Alma (Wymore) Buker on Nov. 3, 1909, in Freedom. He grew up in Frontier County in the Stockville Area. He attended school in Freedom and graduated from Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis in 1930...
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Barrnett 'Barney' R. Leitner
(Obituary ~ 10/21/08)
May 5, 1927 - Oct. 18, 2008 Barrnett "Barney" R. Leitner, age 81, died Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 near Seward. He was born May 5, 1927, to Edward W. and Elsie M. (Albrecht) Leitner in McCook. He married Lola G. Jones in Oberlin on Nov. 17, 1946. To this union three sons were born, Royce, Laney and Dennis. He farmed southwest of McCook, in his free time he played piano and guitar, he enjoyed his family and friends, and traveling on his motorcycle...
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George John Vlasin
(Obituary ~ 10/21/08)
Feb. 22, 1924 - Oct. 20, 2008 HAYES CENTER -- George John Vlasin of Hayes Center died Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, at Eldorado Manor Nursing Home in Trenton. He was 84 years old. George was born to Joseph John and Rose Marie (Kucera) Vlasin on Feb. 22, 1924, in Hayes County on family farmstead southeast of Hayes Center. He attended rural country school through the eighth grade...
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Jennie Mae Guy
(Obituary ~ 10/21/08)
Jan. 25, 1917 - Oct. 17, 2008 OBERLIN -- Jennie Mae Guy, 91, died Friday (Oct. 17, 2008) at Decatur County Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin. She was born Jan. 25, 1917, in Trego County, Kan., to Samuel and Lela (Brown) Coleman. She grew up in Trego County and attended school in WaKeeney, graduating in 1935...
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Gladys Yungblut Ricketts
(Obituary ~ 10/21/08)
Aug. 3, 1911 - Oct. 18, 2008 LINCOLN -- Gladys Yungblut Ricketts, 97, died Saturday (Oct. 18, 2008) in Lincoln. She was born Aug. 3, 1911, to Walter and Besse (Rowell) Wright in Windsor, Ontario. She grew up in McCook and attended McCook Junior College...
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Sole bidder wins well control contract
(Local News ~ 10/21/08)
Some contractors may have been scared away from work scheduled for the injection well because of its technical aspects, the McCook City Council was told Monday night. The injection well, installed at the sewer plant, will dispose of waste from the water treatment plant by forcing it underground below the water supply. The waste contains the arsenic, uranium and nitrates removed from the water...
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Council approves zoning changes
(Local News ~ 10/21/08)
The Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department has outgrown its downtown quarters and needs a larger place for its office. Monday night, the McCook City Council granted a special exception for 404 and 406 West 10th, the location to which the department would like to move...
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Councilman calls for quicker snow removal
(Local News ~ 10/21/08)
With snow in the forecast, McCook City Councilman Aaron Kircher remembers the large piles of it on the intersections at Norris Avenue last winter and wants them removed this year in a more timely matter. "There were quite a few close calls that I witnessed," Councilman Kircher told Public Works Director Kyle Potthoff at the regular city council meeting Monday night. "It got pretty bad last year."...
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Council to sue helicopter kit company
(Local News ~ 10/21/08)
Red Willow County Commissioners unanimously voted to pursue a lawsuit against a helicopter kit company that owes $300,000, plus interest, to the county's revolving loan program. Rex Nelson, director of the McCook Economic Development Corp., which oversees the county's revolving loan fund, told county commissioners Monday morning at their regular meeting that there has been no reply from Ron Willocks, owner of Pawnee Aviation, or his attorney, to the county's letter of Forebearance to Sue. ...
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The outlook for agriculture
(Column ~ 10/21/08)
Recently my sister, the younger who lives in Nevada, asked me to comment on an article from the New York Times. The article was constructed as "An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief." It was written by Michael Pollan whose salutation reads "Dear Mr. President-Elect." Mr Pollan is a Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkley. On the Web you can find the article on the Times Web site...
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Can't argue with the economics
(Column ~ 10/21/08)
Every year for the last three years, Brad and I have been making a trip to Wyoming to hunt antelope. We made this year's trip a couple of weeks ago. One of my online readers took exception to this after my column last week, when I wrote about how the economy was affecting the financial situation of families including my own. She suggested we forego the trip...
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Unfunded mandate
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/21/08)
Regarding the fluoride issue ... this is yet another un-funded mandate being shoved down our throats by Government. Fluoride is a very toxic substance in it's concentrated form and requires expensive equipment for a community to add it to the water system. ...
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Seeks information on ancestors
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/21/08)
We are looking for any information that someone may have about the Albert Axtell family that used to reside near Indianola in the early 1900s. We are particularly interested in finding the location of the Axtell Farmstead. Any information you have would be greatly appreciated, we are just trying to piece together our family history...
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Bellvue bank is robbed
(Local News ~ 10/21/08)
BELLEVUE, Neb. -- The FBI and the Bellevue Police Department are seeking the public's assistance in identifying and locating the individual who robbed the First National Bank at 2008 Pratt Avenue, Bellevue, Neb. On Oct. 21, 2008, at 11:21 a.m. a lone man entered First National Bank at 2008 Pratt Avenue, and passed a note to a teller requesting a specific amount of cash and advising that this was a robbery...
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Digital television offers quality, free alternative
(Editorial ~ 10/21/08)
You can't beat the deal. Seven clear crisp channels, including at least one in high-definition, for $10. Not $10 a month; $10 one time. The deal is probably different at your house, although the price is the same. If you're a cable or satellite subscriber, the conversion to digital television -- most people are --won't mean much more to you than the annoying messages scrolling across the bottom edge of your television screen...
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