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Sports shorts; Season ends for McCook Titans
(Community Sports ~ 08/10/04)
Season ends for McCook Titans HASTINGS -- The McCook Titans baseball team placed second in a tournament at Hastings over the weekend and closed out the season. The Titans posted a 13-13 record, including a second-place finish at Kearney, a third-place finish at North Platte and fourth at McCook...
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Suzanne Irene (Wolters) Hodge
(Obituary ~ 08/10/04)
Jan. 6, 1947-Aug. 6, 2004 BOLINBROOK, Ill. -- Suzanne Irene (Wolters) Hodge, 57, died Friday (Aug. 6, 2004) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Bolinbrook, Ill. She was born Jan. 6, 1947, at McCook, to Herman "Pete" and Joan Wolters. She spent her youth in Rawlins County, Kan., and graduated from Atwood High School. She earned a bachelor's degree at Boise State University and was a civil servant working for the federal government for many years...
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Charles H. 'Chuck' McDonald
(Obituary ~ 08/10/04)
May 30, 1934-Aug. 8, 2004 LINCOLN -- Charles H. "Chuck" McDonald, 70, died Sunday (Aug. 8, 2004). He was born May 30, 1934, at McCook, to Floyd and Lillian (Brisbane) McDonald. He served in the U. S. Air Force and was a member of the Red Devil Squadron during the Korean War...
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Richard M. Griffing
(Obituary ~ 08/10/04)
Sept. 3, 1932-Aug. 8, 2004 Richard Merrill Griffing, 71, died Sunday (Aug. 8, 2004) at Community Hospital of McCook. He was born Sept. 3, 1932, in Thornburg, Kan., to George G. and Bessie (Logan) Griffing. He graduated in 1949 from Smith Center High School in Kansas...
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Settlement ends no-win situation for Nebraska
(Editorial ~ 08/10/04)
From the start, the storage of low-level radioactive waste has been a problem for all Americans. It was doubly worse for Nebraska, which turned out to be the fall guy for five mid-American states stretching from Louisiana through Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska...
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That's what special friends are like
(Column ~ 08/10/04)
A financially struggling teacher and his wife had a 4-year old son when she gave birth to another child, who was promptly hospitalized with illness. In a state of post-partum depression, the young mother took her own life. "The gaping void in my life was complicated by the fact that our 4-year-old thought that his mom was coming back soon...
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Thanks, Fair Board
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/10/04)
**Dear Editor, I want to thank the Fair board for bringing the Family: Simple Grace -- the Jim Hitch family, for church night. It was so refreshing to see a family that is so talented instrumentally and vocally. They are the best musical group that has been to the Red Willow County Fair in a long time...
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Two words
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/10/04)
**Dear Editor, There are two words that can sum up John Kerry's four months in Vietnam: "It's Showtime!" Want to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Go to irnnews.com, if you dare! (Swift Boat Veterans for Truth). Sincerely, **George Anderson...
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Authorities want no surprises in emergency drill
(Local News ~ 08/10/04)
The drill will involve a distraught parent who enters a school with dynamite on his body, and he and his brother will start taking hostages. "Since 9-11 and Col-umbine, it is important to test ourselves and the responses of first responders," Red Willow County Sheriff Gene Mahon told members of the McCook Public Schools board of education during a regular board meeting Monday...
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Commissioners unanimous on anonymous idea
(Local News ~ 08/10/04)
Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning tabled indefinitely discussion of an anonymous caller's complaint about care at Hillcrest Nursing Home until the caller can come forward and shed more light on the situation. Commission Chairman Earl McNutt said County Clerk Pauletta Gerver received a phone call Aug. ...
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County buys culverts, parts for rural roads
(Local News ~ 08/10/04)
Red Willow County commissioners purchased culverts and related connecting bands Monday morning from a company in Schuyler. The bid from Midwest Services and Sales was $537 lower than the next bid. Commissioners had re-quested bids on 36 30-foot 16-gauge culverts that are 24 inches in diameter; six that are 30 inches in diameter; and 20 that are 36 inches in diameter; and 18 bands that are 24 inches in diameter, six that are 30 inches in diameter and 20 that are 36 inches in diameter...
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Water project
(Local News ~ 08/10/04)
A trail of 16-inch blue-green pipe leads from the Arapahoe water tower to a new water field north of town.The new water line will be 44,000 feet long. Installation, by the Starostka Group of Grand Island, will begin the middle of the month.
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