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Response to fire was typical for caring couple
(Editorial ~ 11/08/08)
It was typical Walt and Jean Sehnert. After firefighters had spent several hours battling a fire on the second floor of their lovely home on East First in McCook, Thursday evening, emergency crews enjoyed food and drink catered in from the bakery, now operated by their son, the Sehnerts purchased 50 years ago...
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Supreme Court to review LB701
(Local News ~ 11/08/08)
The long and winding road of LB701 is now in the hands of the Nebraska Supreme Court. The legality of property taxes allowed by LB701 will be reviewed by the court Dec. 3. The law was approved by the Nebraska Legislature in 2007 as a way for Nebraska to come into compliance with Kansas in the Republican River Compact...
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Toyland -- Lifetime collection is dream for children, young and old
(Local News ~ 11/08/08)
CULBERTSON -- The sale bill reads like a toy catalog. A toy catalog offering everything from A to Z -- from acrobat toy to "Zoomer Boomer" car. Rosie Griffing of Culbertson plans an auction later this month that will fascinate every child, and thrill the child within every adult. Rosie is selling the 15-hundred-or-so toys that she and her husband, Cork, collected for the past 35-or-so years...
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Obama and Pelini
(Column ~ 11/08/08)
I grew up in the segregated South. I lived in a segregated town, attended a segregated high school and the University of Arkansas when it too was segregated. The only black person I ever knew personally until I joined the Tulsa Police Department was the shoe-shine man at my home-town barber shop. People referred to him as one of the "good" n*****s."...
Stories from Saturday, November 8, 2008
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