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Region IX Tournaments: MCC teams ready for postseason
(College Sports ~ 03/04/05)
Brandon Butler named NCCAC Player of the Year The McCook Community College men's and women's basketball teams head into their final games of the year as they will compete in the Region IX playoffs this weekend. The MCC men finished the season with a record of 17-13 overall and a 4-2 Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference record...
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Meixner birth
(Births ~ 03/04/05)
Jeremiah and Becky Meixner of McCook announce the birth of their daughter, Olivia Marie Meixner, Feb. 19, 2005, at Community Hospital of McCook. She weighed 7 pounds, 1.6 ounces and was 20 inches long. Her brothers are Devon, 4, and Kameron, 2. Grandparents are Kevin and Cheryl Harpham of Columbus and Norman and Hannelore Meixner of McCook. Great-grandparents are Darrell and Rosella Heuertz of Roseland and Delbert and Helen Harpham of Harvard...
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State hoops: Wauneta-Palisade girls reach Class D2 semis
(High School Sports ~ 03/04/05)
LINCOLN -- Janae Harris scored 17 points and Stephanie Padilla 13 on Thursday night to key Wauneta-Palisade's 54-35 win over Overton in the first round of the Class D1 girls basketball tournament. The Broncos (18-4) advance to the 9 p.m. semifinal game Friday against Humphrey St. Francis. The game will be played at Pershing Auditorium...
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Wauneta-Palisade boys will open state tourney vs. Spencer-Naper
(High School Sports ~ 03/04/05)
LINCOLN -- After their big win against Cambridge on Tuesday in the Nebraska Class D1-6 district championship game, the Wauneta-Palisade boys basketball team will face Spencer-Naper in the first round of the Class D1 state tournament. The first-round game is slated for Thursday, March 10 at the Lincoln High School gym...
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Horse-drawn hobby becomes unique vintage vehicle service
(Features ~ 03/04/05)
WAUNETA -- LuAnn Rector has always wanted a horse-drawn carriage. But the expenses associated with a carriage aren't easy to justify -- unless ... the hobby could double as a business. After a lot of research, LuAnn and and her husband, Rod, purchased a brand-new top-of-the-line midnight-black and brilliant-white "Vis-à-Vis Classic" carriage, and, in December, started "RL Carriage."...
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Forecaster: Season hard to predict
(Local News ~ 03/04/05)
GOODLAND, Kan. -- While the weather outlook for the upcoming week or two is easy to predict -- highs near 70 and cooler with a chance of rain next week -- the outlook for the upcoming spring and summer season is much harder to figure out. According to Jerry Killingsworth, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Goodland, a weak El Niño this winter is making it hard to determine what might happen this spring...
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Congratulation s to high-flyers
(Editorial ~ 03/04/05)
McCook shares the pride in Steve Fossett's around the world solo flight without stopping or refueling. Fossett endeared himself to McCook area residents in 2002 when he came here for the first High Plains Freedom Flight. The adventurer took part in the freedom flight as a favor to his friend, John Kugler, a McCook businessman and balloon enthusiast. ...
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VSA: It hits early and often
(Column ~ 03/04/05)
A study needs to be done, research needs to be completed, a solution needs to be found for a reoccurring dilemma: Video Store Amnesia. Nearly everyone knows what I'm referring to. You're standing in the video rental store, trying to find something you haven't seen six times or know the lines backwards and forwards...
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Use diplomacy
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, Diplomacy should be used to solve the problems in Iraq. There is a peaceful solution, if only the insurgents quit attacking. Now that the Iraqi people have been allowed to vote, and they have the democracy, why are they so upset? They should pay taxes like everyone else in America. And be allowed to carry guns. And live on Social Security...
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Better use?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, With all the problems the city of McCook is facing regarding water and sewer matters, I was wondering how the City Council can justify increasing the pay, vacation time and retirement benefits for the city manager. Couldn't that money have been better used by paying for the improvements and penalties the city is facing?...
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Research first
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, And members of the Middle Republican Natural Resources District: It appears the wellfield to serve Bartley, Indianola and Cambridge will become a reality. My request to the NRD board is that you insist that approximately 600 acres of irrigated land be turned back to dryland in the immediate area...
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Uninformed
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, Mr. Biegler knows not of what he speaks. ("Stem cell bias" http: // www. mccookgazette.com /story/1090524.html): n ASCs have not cured neurologic disorders such as spinal cord injury, Parkinsons, Alzheimers, MS and ALS. So the hype associated with ASC therapy is equal to or greater than the ESC hype. Additionally, up to 40 percent of bone marrow transplant recipients (ASC) perish due to graft-versus-host disease...
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Foe to fluoridation
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, Bravo to Dr. Nielsen! He is absolutely correct about fluoridation. Aside from the obvious wisdom of not using public drinking water as a vehicle to deliver highly cumulative people-treatment substances, consider the following: 1) 90 percent of tooth decay occurs where fluoridation was never claimed to be effective; the pits and fissures of teeth, i.e., the chewing surfaces of the molars...
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Extravagant love -- Community Lenten service explores story of danger, deception, betrayal
(Local News ~ 03/04/05)
Defining extravagant love was the task set for the Rev. Clark Bates of McCook Christian Church Friday afternoon at the fourth Community Lenten service at McCook Church of the Nazarene. Using the text from the Gospel of Mark 14:3-9, Bates delved into the love story found in the midst of danger, deception and betrayal...
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Water tower bids below estimates
(Local News ~ 03/04/05)
The cost of refurbishing and improving McCook's water system continues to come in under engineer's cost estimates. The McCook City Council will be asked to approve a bid award for the painting of the city's water towers for $766, 442 -- 40 percent less than the original engineer's bid of $1.28 million...
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I. Mae Curry
(Obituary ~ 03/04/05)
April 24, 1917-March 3, 2005 COLBY, Kan. -- Idella Mae Curry, 87, died Thursday (March 3, 2005) at Lantern Park Manor in Colby, Kan. She was born April 24, 1917, to Wiley Elmer Purcell and Mary Etta Huston in Haswell County, Colo. She graduated from Levant High School in 1935 and went to beauty school in Kansas City...
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Transaction Tax: Has its time come?
(Editorial ~ 03/04/05)
Remember the "Transaction Tax?" It's an idea which originated in McCook in the early 1990s, and eventually gained legislative consideration in a bill introduced by State Sen. "Cap" Dierks. What the plan proposed was that all transactions -- no matter how large or small -- be subject to a very small "transaction tax." Under the purest form of the plan, there would be no exceptions or exemptions. ...
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How to treat people
(Column ~ 03/04/05)
This is an absolute mystery to most people. It's also the reason for so many failed relationships, both of the friendship kind and the romantic kind. Most people think they can just continue to do what they've always done and everything will be OK. But a relationship doesn't just involve one person, it involves two. And the relationships that seem to work the best are those where both people anticipate the needs of the other and act accordingly, without having to be asked or told...
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Thanks for obits
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, Thank you very much for the Web site you have. I was able to locate some of my ancestry who had moved to the Kansas-Nebraska area in the late 1800s because of it. I was very pleased to see that your staff had listed obituaries for several years. Again, Thank You very much...
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Sales tax unfair
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, In his address on the third of March, Alan Greenspan proposed the implementation of a national sales tax. Such a tax is identified by different names: a Value Added Tax. consumption tax, or a flat tax. Let's take a look at the effect of implementing such a tax. Greenspan did not suggest a rate, but for purposes of discussion, we will consider a 4 percent rate...
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God bless troops
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/04/05)
**Dear Editor, I would like to thank you for printing the letters from Sgt. Jeff Tidyman, USMC. His letters are a classic example that the truth is always more interesting and exciting than fiction. I would like to share a brief paragraph from the book, titled "A Table in the Presence" by Lt. Carey H. Cash (a chaplain serving with the U.S. Marines in Iraq), page 202...
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Much work remains in Lincoln
(Column ~ 03/04/05)
Members of the Legislature continue to move forward with morning bill discussions and afternoon committee hearings amongst scheduled breakfasts, conference calls, lunches, meetings, and evening engagements. I will reiterate that it is a busy session with significant amounts of work yet to be accomplished. ...
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CSI McCook? -- Science dramas draw students to studies for real-life careers
(Features ~ 03/04/05)
This week -- unravel the mystery: With the FBI facility in New Haven beckoning, LeeAnn stays anchored in McCook and performs the critical gas chromatograph Mr. G is counting on, but the results aren't what she expected. Monica -- who nearly reached her own digital melting point at the refractometer last week -- responds to a medical emergency call, then tries to stabilize her own adrenaline high in the lab where her analysis is hauntingly paralleling those of a Nobel-peace prize winner...
- Justin M. Sis (Obituary ~ 03/04/05)
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