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GINW girls end McCook's season at district tourney
(High School Sports ~ 02/25/09)
GRAND ISLAND -- The 2008-09 season came to an end for the McCook High School girls basketball team with a 52-28 loss Tuesday night to Grand Island Northwest in the quarterfinals of the Nebraska Class B-5 district tournament. In the other quarterfinal game, Lexington defeated Hastings 49-41...
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No. 8 Northeastern JC women down McCook CC
(College Sports ~ 02/25/09)
The No. 8-ranked Northeastern Junior College women's basketball team posted a 71-49 win over the McCook Community College women Tuesday night at True Hall Gymnasium. However, the game was much closer than the final score indicated, said MCC coach Benjamin Smith. NJC led by just 4 points at halftime (30-26)...
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Project Graduation volleyball league, tournament starts on Monday
(High School Sports ~ 02/25/09)
SOUTHWEST -- The Southwest High School Project Graduation '09 is sponsoring a women's volleyball league and tournament with six weeks of league play, followed by two weeks of tournament play. League play will begin Monday. Games will be played Mondays at the Southwest High School. Deadline for team entries will be Saturday...
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Bison 8th grade boys 3-0 vs. Cozad at home
(High School Sports ~ 02/25/09)
The McCook eighth grade boys continued a winning streak after defeating Cozad in the A, B and C games Monday night at home. The Bison won the A game 72-16, with Austin Cherry leading the team with 20 points. Matt Collicott chipped in 13 points and Sean Backer had 12. The Bison A ended the season 7-0...
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Sutherland, NPSP meet in sub-district finale
(High School Sports ~ 02/25/09)
Sutherland senior Austin Boggs nailed two free throws with 2.3 seconds on the clock to help the Sutherland Sailors boys basketball team advance to the Class C2-11 title game with a 42-40 win over Dundy County-Stratton in McCook Tuesday.
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Texas A&M beats Nebraska on buzzer-beater
(College Sports ~ 02/25/09)
LINCOLN -- Josh Carter didn't see his long buzzer-beating 3-pointer go through the net Tuesday, but when his teammates stormed the court he knew he had made the shot that gave Texas A&M a 57-55 win over Nebraska. "I saw the guy who was guarding me got hung up on the pick, so I knew I'd have time to shoot," Carter said. "It was lucky it went in. It felt like I got hit on the shot and I didn't get to see it. I knew it was good when my teammates were running at me."...
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Donald Stapp
(Obituary ~ 02/25/09)
July 15, 1918 - Feb. 23, 2009 OBERLIN -- Donald Stapp, 90, died Monday (Feb. 23, 2009) at Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. He was born July 15, 1918, on a farm northwest of Norcatur to Ray J. and Emma (Bailey) Stapp. He grew up northwest of Norcatur and attended country school and Norcatur High School...
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Bryan Wade Witt
(Obituary ~ 02/25/09)
Nov. 10, 1976 - Feb. 21, 2009 PALISADE -- Bryan Wade Witt, age 32, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, in Shamrock, Texas. He was born in McCook on Nov. 10, 1976, to Billie D. and Colleen F. (Moreau) Witt. He was in the Special Olympics during high school and graduated from McCook High in 1998...
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Donald 'Don' Burton Hink
(Obituary ~ 02/25/09)
Aug. 7, 1927 - Feb. 23, 2009 CHAMPION -- Donald "Don" Burton Hink, 81, of Champion, died Monday (Feb. 23, 2009) at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. He was born Aug. 7, 1927, to Edward A. and Pearl E. (Lindsey) Hink, on his grandfather's homestead in Dundy County. He attended the Crete Grade School and Chase County High School before entering the U.S. Army in February of 1946...
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Robert D. 'Bob' Jack
(Obituary ~ 02/25/09)
Oct. 12, 1938 - Feb. 23, 2009 EUSTIS -- Bob Jack, age 70 of Eustis, died Feb. 23, 2009 at the Tri County Hospital in Lexington. He was born Oct. 12, 1938, at Farnam, to Chester and Eva (Lindberg) Jack. Bob entered the Army National Guard when he was in the 11th grade. He graduated from Eustis High School in 1957. He was baptized on June 4, 1961 at the Salem Lutheran Church...
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NSP Air Wing locates missing woman
(Local News ~ 02/25/09)
LINCOLN -- A Seward County woman is safe after spending two hours wandering in a southeast Nebraska field. At approximately 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, the Seward County Sheriff's Office received a call from 25- year-old Miranda Rae alerting them to a situation in which her 48-year-old mentally disabled aunt, had walked away from her home at 206 Pine Street, in Pleasant Dale, Seward County, Nebraska. ...
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Cambridge sculptor helps promote Chicken Dance Trail
(Local News ~ 02/25/09)
Visitors to Nebraska's "Chicken Dance Trail," a Web site that encourages bird-watchers from all over the world to discover birding habitats in Southwest and south-central Nebraska, are being rewarded with collectible pewter pins of a sandhill crane created by Cambridge sculptor Gary Ginther...
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'The Mikado' -- Gilbert & Sullivan farce on stage March 12-15
(Local News ~ 02/25/09)
Southwest Nebraska Community Theatre will take its audience to Japan with this year's musical production of "The Mikado" March 12-15 at the McCook High School Auditorium. The show comes complete with another outstanding set and costumes, with the added attraction of a cast adorned with oriental wigs. Tickets are available at Hershberger Music Co. 202 W. First, and Janssen Kool Honda, 711 West C...
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Outdoor smoking ban hard to justify
(Editorial ~ 02/25/09)
There's no arguing with the facts that secondhand smoke is dangerous, to children especially. Low birthweight, sudden infant death syndrome among children born to smoking mothers, increased number of infections, asthma, chronic respiratory symptoms such as cough and wheezing, dental cavities, middle ear infections -- all among a litany of ills accredited to someone else smoking in the presence of children...
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Trenton boy, 17, allegedly hidden by ex-shelter staff member
(Local News ~ 02/25/09)
A North Platte woman is in custody after she allegedly helped a Trenton boy escape from state custody and hid him in Missouri for three months. She is the daughter of a North Platte judge, and was a staff member in the youth shelter where he lived. Read about it in the North Platte Bulletin...
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A caravan of memories
(Column ~ 02/25/09)
Three pickups, each pulling a trailer and the family van made up the caravan necessary in modern times to move a family of four some 350 miles from the gentle rolling hills of Nebraska to the wide open flatlands of the Texas panhandle. Lisa, Aubrey, Alycia and Luke left Nebraska Friday morning, and arrived in Dalhart, Texas in time for supper...
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