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District tournament play: Season ends for Juniors
(Community Sports ~ 07/21/05)
In any sport, teams always cringe at the thought of losing their final game. But in reality only one team can finish the season with a bang. Unfortunately, that came true for the First Central Bank American Legion Juniors sooner than expected. The Juniors dropped their final game of the season Wednesday night at Jaycees Sports Complex to Holdrege 4-1...
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McCook Football League starts play Friday night
(Community Sports ~ 07/21/05)
Four games to be played at Weiland Field Weiland Field will get its first test of the 2005 season when the McCook Football league season kicks off Friday night. Games will be played at 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. The MFL is sponsored by McCook Clinic PC. McCook High School football coach Jeff Gross, who is directing the MFL, said 170 young gridiron prospects registered...
- Morell victorious at Girls Junior Amateur tourney (High School Sports ~ 07/21/05)
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Roland 'Stretch' Welch
(Obituary ~ 07/21/05)
March 17, 1914-July 19, 2005 KEARNEY -- Roland "Stretch" Welch, 91, died Tuesday (July 19, 2005), at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was born March 17, 1914, at Manning, Iowa, to Benjamin and Abel (Deitz) Welch. He graduated from Gray High School in Iowa in 1931 and earned a bachelor of arts in accounting from Morningside College in Iowa in 1937. ...
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Council seeks ways to take sting out of bills
(Local News ~ 07/21/05)
The McCook City Council worked late into the night Wednesday for the first of three planned budget workshop sessions for the $26,582,973 2005-06 budget. The 2005-06 budget is a 16 percent raise, or $3,696,126 over last year's budget. The council held a conference call with Jon Burmeister, Senior Managing Consultant for Public Financial Management of Des Moines, Iowa, on the city's water and sewer enterprises...
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Speakers support cell phone proposal
(Local News ~ 07/21/05)
The Nebraska Service Commission held its final public hearing on a Viaero Wireless application to receive Universal Service Fund money to provide seamless wireless coverage to rural Nebraska. The hearing was conducted in Council Chambers in McCook's Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday...
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Avoid dangers associated with record heat wave
(Editorial ~ 07/21/05)
From year to year, we forget how hot it can get in the Republican River Valley. But -- on days like Wednesday, July 20, 2005-- we are shocked back to sizzling reality. During the afternoon hours the temperature sky-rocketed to 110 degrees in McCook, and -- making it even worse -- the wind died down to a whisper. ...
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Recreational?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/21/05)
**Dear Editor, The article Tuesday pointed out the riverbed is not open to the public and this is where wildlife finds their only water. I agree with this of course, as I respect nature. Ironically, our town just completed a new sewage treatment plant a couple of years ago and the outflow is treated with ultraviolet lights to kill bacteria to prevent it from entering the waterway as the Republican River has been designated a "Recreational Waterway" by some governmental entity...
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Sticky fingered
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/21/05)
**Dear Editor, I agree with Nadine Meints about someone stealing flowers from the cemeteries. I too had three arrangements stolen from my husband's grave. I don't live in McCook, but I went to the cemetery and put out plants. A friend went out to pick them up, and they were gone...
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Hugs U Wear
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/21/05)
**Dear Editor, I wanted to take a minute and thank you for the wonderful article regarding my daughter Hailey ["Hailey's 'Hugs u Wear'" (http://www. mccookgazette.com/story/1110599.html)]. We talked long and hard about cutting her hair and she has been wanting it cut for awhile. My nephew's battle with leu-kemia clinched the deal for all of us...
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It was so hot ...
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/21/05)
**Dear Editor, My van had temp gauge maxed out at 120 degrees, at noon, and didn't come down to 118 degrees till 5 p.m. I was putting ice on both ends to keep from getting heat stroke. Doctor told me the second heat stroke ain't near as much fun as the first one and that one nearly killed me so I do my best to not tempt fate...
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Blondes and ankles and rock 'n roll
(Column ~ 07/21/05)
It has taken seven years, but Brad has finally admitted that having a wife with blonde tendencies sometimes has its advantages. He was really disgusted with me last Sunday as we pulled away from the Comstock festival grounds to make a shower/shopping trip to Broken Bow. We'd made it about a mile when I realized I'd left my cigarettes behind at camp...
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Coolest place in town
(Local News ~ 07/21/05)
Grins and giggles, sun screen and beach towels ... the Indianola swimming pool is the "coolest" place in town when the temperatures rise to triple digits. Taking advantage of the cool water were a crowd of kids trying to out-splash each other; Kimberlyn McConville, who bounced eight-month-old Delanie Kritschfield; and Shelby Kircher, carrying Cidney Foster on her shoulders. ...
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Fatal accident
(Local News ~ 07/21/05)
Officers and emergency crews work at the scene of a fatal accident Wednesday morning about 4.5 miles west of McCook. Harlan D. Grafel, 80, of Herndon died at the scene of a near head-on collision with a pickup truck, above, driven by Brad Houlden, 53, of Cambridge. ...
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Escape reported
(Local News ~ 07/21/05)
NORTON -- At approximately 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday evening, July 20, 2005, staff from the Norton Correctional Facility -- East Unit, located in Stockton, Kansas verified that an inmate had escaped from the facility. The inmate is identified as Anthony M. ...
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