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McCook girls dominate top foes to win GNAC
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/19)
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook’s tennis girls won seven of eight against the top two GNAC contenders and left no doubt again about who earned a league title Saturday afternoon. Host North Platte seemed within title reach until all hands were slapped away with four straight stinging defeats...
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Ray Dean Ridlen
(Obituary ~ 05/06/19)
Ray Dean Ridlen June 22, 193 - May 4, 2019 PALISADE, Neb. — Ray Dean Ridlen was born June 22, 1932, in rural Chase County, Neb., to James Pearl and Ethel (Roll) Ridlen. Ray grew up in Chase County and attended country school, later he received his GED. Ray was inducted into the U.S. Army and served during the Korean War. After his discharge, he returned to Southwest Nebraska to farm with his family...
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Harold Maris
(Obituary ~ 05/06/19)
Harold Maris WAUNETA, Neb. — Harold Maris, 97. of rural Wauneta, died Thursday (May 2, 2019), at the Imperial Manor Nursing Home, Imperial. Survivors include sons, Jon Maris and wife, Diana of Page, Ariz., Joe Maris and wife, Rene of Stratton, Neb., and Jeff Maris and wife, Laurie of Wauneta; sister, Evelyn Whitmer of Fort Pierce, Fla.; seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren...
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Indian baseball team sweeps pair on road
(College Sports ~ 05/06/19)
STERLING, Colo. – Sophomore transfer Ricardo Jimenez, (Hialeah, Fla.) hit a pair of solo home runs in Game 1 to back the three-hit pitching of freshman Isaac Vargas (Las Vegas) and also homered in Game 2 as McCook Community College swept Northeastern Junior College Sunday 6-1 and 8-5...
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Trojans second, SV boys third at Harsin
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/19)
ALMA, Neb. — Team scores and all area top six boys’ placers at the Alma Twilight Track-Field Invite Thursday. Girls were featured in Friday’s Gazette. Teams: 1. Bertrand 109.5, 2. Cambridge 80, 3. Southern Valley 78, 4. Wilcox-Hildreth 61, 5. Elwood 54; 7. Arapahoe 47’ 8. Medicine Valley 37, 9. Southwest 24...
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Longhorns outrun DC-S Twilight field
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/19)
BENKELMAN, Neb. — Chase County’s boys swept through the sprints and conquered two field events to take the Dundy County-Stratton Twilight Invite title on Friday. Team scores and all area top five placers from Friday: BOYS Teams: 1. Chase County 242, 2. Perkins County 163; 3. Wauneta-Palisade 74; 4. DC-S 64; 5. Cheylin (Kan.) 42; 6. Wallace 21; 7. Maywood-Hayes Center 15, Rawlins County (Kan.) 13...
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Chase girls win by nearly 200 team points
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/19)
BENKELMAN, Neb. — Friday’s Dundy County-Stratton Twlight: Teams: 1. Chase Couinty 276, 2. DC-S 79, 3. Rawlins County (Kan.) 72, 4. Wauneta-Palisade 56, 4. Perkins County 56, 6. Maywood-Hayes Center 48. 100 meters: 1. Adelaide Maxwell, CC, 12.84; 2. ...
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MCC announces new coach for women's hoops
(College Sports ~ 05/06/19)
McCOOK, Neb. — A man who spent nine years at McCook Community College as an assistant coach with the men’s basketball team, will take over the head coaching post for the MCC women’s basketball program. Brandon Pritchett has been named MCC’s women’s basketball Coach...
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Sure sign of summer at Felling Field
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/19)
All players stood at attention for the national anthem Friday night which officially began another season of baseball and softball games at McCook’s Felling Field. More about the Opening Night festivities will likely appear later this week.
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Bison boys golf into GNAC's top two
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/19)
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Coach Joe Vetrovsky provided these reports as McCook High boys’ golf teams played at two conference tournaments last weekend. “The McCook boys team competed in the Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference golf tournament on Friday at Scottsbluff Country Club in Scottsbluff...
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Survivor Style Show highlight of Cattlemen's Ball
(Local News ~ 05/06/19)
Ann Fornoff PR Volunteer WAUNETA, Neb. — The word “cancer” immediately rocks a person’s mind. Hearing a diagnosis of “malignant cancer” spins a patient’s world into frenzy. An “estimated 1,762,450 new cancer cases in the United States alone” are projected to be diagnosed in 2019, according to the American Cancer Society. ...
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Mr. Theros' guardian angels
(Column ~ 05/06/19)
Before World War II there were a number of Greek restaurants across Nebraska. Trano’s, in Norfolk, was my favorite. Petro’s, in Fremont, was my wife’s favorite. But there were others in Grand Island, Kearney, and McCook as well. And in the ’50s Indianola had its Greek restaurant too, run by two brothers, George and Jim Theros. These men had run a sizeable Greek restaurant in Lexington, but had downsized in Indianola to a very small operation, on the north side of Highway 6 & 34...
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Another timely reminder we don't control Mother Nature
(Editorial ~ 05/06/19)
Weather officials were investigating whether a storm that hit Lincoln Sunday evening was actually a tornado, but if pictures on social media are to be believed, it probably was. C&L Dairy Sweet workers scrambled to safety in a storm cellar just in time to avoid being killed or injured when their Pioneer Park stand was blown away, except for a cheeseburger still on a grill, according to the Lincoln Journal Star...
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ROTC cadets leave UNK as Army officers
(Local News ~ 05/06/19)
TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY, Neb. – More than 500 students participated in Friday’s spring commencement at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Three of them received standing ovations from the capacity crowd inside the Health and Sports Center...
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Esch birthday
(Birthdays ~ 05/06/19)
80th birthday The family of Melva Esch is requesting a card shower in honor of her 80th birthday on May 14, 2019. She has four children, 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Cards of Congratulations will reach her at 1700 Lindberg Rd, #214, W. Lafayette, IN 47906...
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