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Bison boys squeeze by Sidney
(High School Sports ~ 01/09/06)
The McCook High School boys basketball team continued its winning ways by edging out Sidney 67-65 Saturday night. Combined with Friday's 52-33 win at Hershey, the Bison boys have won three straight games and improved to 5-6. The McCook varsity girls rebounded from a 53-32 loss to Hershey Friday and routed Sidney 74-31 Saturday...
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Three Bison wrestlers place at Scottsbluff
(High School Sports ~ 01/09/06)
SCOTTSBLUFF -- On Saturday the McCook High School varsity wrestling squad traveled to Scottsbluff for a very tough tournament. Some of the top teams from Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado competed. Overall the Bison team had three placers, the most they have had at one tournament this year...
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Broncos rough up Roughriders
(High School Sports ~ 01/09/06)
WAUNETA -- Wauneta-Palisade's boys overwhelmed Southwest Saturday 98-47. Andrew Isom led the Broncos to the win with 24 points. Russell and Trevor Ridlen each scored 19. Marc Klima had 12 points. Landon Ruggles tallied 20 points for the Roughriders...
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McCook Chiefs compete in Hays tourney
(Community Sports ~ 01/09/06)
HAYS, Kan. -- The McCook Chiefs homeschool boys and girls basketball teams traveled to Hays, Kan., on Thursday and Friday for the Stan Clark basketball tournament. The boys lost to Reno County's A team 65-36, then defeated Syracuse 66-55 and Manhattan 77-37...
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Rice crowned Miss Rodeo Nebraska
(Local News ~ 01/09/06)
She was crowned with a gold-lettered white cowboy hat instead of a tiara, but after six months of being a "lady in waiting," 20-year-old Ashley Rice of Wilsonville was officially coronated Miss Rodeo Nebraska 2006 Saturday night at the Republican River Valley Event Center, with nearly 250 in attendance...
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Despite living far away, Biff Morrison had major influence on our community
(Editorial ~ 01/09/06)
Even though he lived many miles away, Biff Morrison made significant contributions to McCook during the past decade. His parents, Frank and Maxine Morrison, spent their final years in McCook, and while they were here Biff visited them often. During those visits, he made a number of investments, including homes facing Norris Park and the three-story brick building at Norris and C, now known as the Morrison Building...
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Congratulations to auxiliary unit
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/09/06)
**Dear Editor, It is an honor to recognize an area American Legion Auxiliary Unit for its diligence in making membership a Number One priority. Each of the 339 Units in Nebraska has been challenged to make Membership a main objective and bring our numbers higher on the chart...
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Repeating history
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/09/06)
**Dear Editor, We are, indeed, repeating history. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, Walter Cronkite declared the Vietnam War to be lost. The U.S. mass media kicked off an orgy of defeatism. The national will to continue the war was lost, and, seven years later, so was the war itself...
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Little green men
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/09/06)
**Dear Editor, If you see little green men with pointed ears jabbering with their antennas on, they might be suspected militants escaped from prison farms. They might be trying to destroy our American values and way of life. On the other hand, if you see a man dressed in a shirt and tie with huge ears and an American flag lapel pin, it could be President Bush...
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Prime suspect?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/09/06)
**Dear Editor, In the continuing debate over stream flow depletions, irrigation is the prime suspect, but have you given much thought as to the amount that conservation causes? Our irrigators are being asked to make up all the stream flow depletions, when they are not responsible for 100 percent of it...
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Is profiling bad?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/09/06)
**Dear Editor, I hear all the rhetoric about "radial profiling" and the "Patriot Act," so I got to thinking; is profiling really that bad? In Iraq, there is no profiling of terrorist or good people alike. I am sure if the terrorists were fair-skinned, they would be profiled instantly...
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Thompson birthday
(Birthdays ~ 01/09/06)
The family of Evelyn Thompson is requesting a card shower in honor of her 85th birthday. She was born Jan. 12, 1921. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 1006 West L, McCook, NE 69001.
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Roma Arline Schauer
(Obituary ~ 01/09/06)
Nov. 13, 1928--Jan. 5, 2006 Roma Arline Schauer, 77, died Thursday (Jan. 5, 2006) at her home in McCook. She was born Nov. 13, 1928, in Bethune, Colo., to Chester Lee and Bernice (Jeffers) Spahr. On Oct. 7, 1946, she married Reuben Schauer at Bethune. They made their home in Burlington, Colo., and Oshkosh for many years before moving to McCook, where she and her husband owned and operated Schauer Oil Company...
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New programs, facilities welcome McCook Community College students back
(Local News ~ 01/09/06)
The spring semester at McCook Community College began today and college officials are looking forward to implementing more im-provements on campus as well as enhancing existing programs. The second semester of MCC's graphic arts program is set with five new course offerings. Graphic Arts students will take classes in illustration and typography this semester as well as classes in desktop publishing, business and professional speaking and business math and calculators...
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