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Bison girls swim team wins first dual
(High School Sports ~ 01/10/06)
The final home meet for the McCook High School Bison swim team proved to be a splashing success, said coach Lori Jumps. The McCook girls team won its first dual of the season with a score of 60 points to rival North Platte's 44 points. Jeff Klug made his first appearance this season for the Bison boys team and Matt Hall posted yet another school diving record...
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Rod Alberts
(Obituary ~ 01/10/06)
Sept. 13, 1949--Jan. 5, 2006 SIDNEY -- Rodney Bruce Alberts, 56, died Thursday (Jan. 5, 2006) at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Denver, Colo. He was born Sept. 13, 1949, to John and Phyllis (Poore) Alberts in McCook. He graduated from McCook High School in 1967. He graduated from McCook Junior College in May 1969. He completed his education at Peru State College, receiving a bachelor's in music education...
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Dwight W. Stateham
(Obituary ~ 01/10/06)
April 23, 1953--Jan. 7, 2006 OBERLIN -- Dwight W. Stateham, 52, died Saturday (Jan. 7, 2006) at the Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. He was born April 23, 1953, to Elmer Ray Stateham and Cecelia Wanda Slade in Duncan, Okla. He graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1971...
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Letha Alberta Redden
(Obituary ~ 01/10/06)
May 7, 1937--Jan. 9, 2006 INDIANOLA -- Letha Alberta Redden, 68, died Monday (Jan. 9, 2006) at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born May 7, 1937, in Buckland, Kan., to Jim H. and Jessie M. (Scofield) Wright. She married Frank David Redden on July 17, 1954, in St. Francis...
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Richard H. 'Dick' Bearly
(Obituary ~ 01/10/06)
March 4, 1944--Jan. 7, 2006 ATWOOD -- Richard H. "Dick" Bearly, 61, died Saturday (Jan. 7, 2006) at Infinia at Colby Inc. in Colby, Kan. He was born March 4, 1944, to Richard Harrison "Bud" and Harriet (Haskell) Bearly in Odessa, Texas. He graduated from Atwood High School in 1962. He attended Fort Hays State University and Wichita State University and received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in 1968...
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Shirley A. Darling
(Obituary ~ 01/10/06)
July 29, 1940--Jan. 8, 2006 ALBION -- Shirley A. Darling, 65, died Sunday (Jan. 8, 2006) at the Boone County Health Center in Albion as the result of a stroke during her battle with cancer. She was born July 29, 1940, to Theodore and Millie (Bannister) Schafer. She graduated from Albion High School in 1958...
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School names price for bus barn
(Local News ~ 01/10/06)
The McCook Public Schools is offering to sell its West Q Street bus barn site, to whomever comes up with at least $250,000 in the next 120 days. Board members voted un-animously at their regular monthly meeting Monday evening to offer for sale the 2 3/4 acres of land and the buildings it owns in the 800 block of West Q, for a price sufficient to build a new bus barn building south of the junior/senior high track on Westridge Avenue...
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Let it snow!
(Local News ~ 01/10/06)
McCook Chamber of Commerce and business people create their own "snowball" fight in anticipation of Friday's "Let it Snow" deadline. December shoppers will receive complete or partial refunds from participating businesses if 6 inches of snow falls on Weiland Field on Friday. ...
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Feedlot can use road ditch for storm runoff
(Local News ~ 01/10/06)
Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning approved a Danbury feedlot operator's request to use a county road ditch to transmit storm water runoff to the Beaver Creek. Marty Conroy of McCook, a project manager for rdg Geoscience and Engineering Inc., McCook, told commissioners during their regular meeting that feedlot owner /operator Mike Daffer has done a good job creating a plan by which excess storm water would be pumped from an existing storm water collection pond on his feedlot property into the county ditch and then into the Beaver Creek.. ...
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Osborne's Class I remarks heat up race for governor
(Editorial ~ 01/10/06)
In the toughest political battle of his career in public service, Tom Osborne is discovering that every word about every subject will be scrutinized by his opponents and their supporters. Osborne, who gained fame as the coach of championship football teams at the University of Nebraska, had easy sledding in his congressional races in the 3rd District, cruising to lopsided victories in every election...
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Conservation ignored
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/10/06)
**Dear Editor, Dale Helms wrote about the Republican River Model ignoring the effects of conservation and placing all of the burden of compliance on groundwater irrigation. He is correct in that is what it does. There is a reason the State of Nebraska intentionally ignored conservation. However, the full explanation of why, is too long for the paper to let me publish here. So for those of you who are interested, please go to http://www.waterclaim.org and click on The Model and Conservation link...
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Why we fight
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/10/06)
**Dear Editor, I promised myself that I would have no further comments on any of Mike (Hendricks)' liberal pacifist columns, but the Saturday column takes the prize. First, I can't image what significance any comments made prior to September 11, 2001, would make in dealing with the battle we are presently fighting. Fortunately today's leaders live in a post-911 mindstate. They understand that we need to take the fight to the enemy and not wait for them to attack us again...
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Newspaper takes neutral stance on bond vote
(Local News ~ 01/10/06)
HAYES CENTER -- While voters in the Hayes Center school district cast ballots today for or against building a $2.8 million free-standing gym and classroom facility, it seems a side issue of the election became support of the county's only newspaper...
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McNutt re-elected commissioner chairman
(Local News ~ 01/10/06)
McCook resident Earl McNutt will serve another year as chairman of the Red Willow County board of commissioners, reappointed to the position Monday morning by fellow commissioners Steve Downer of rural Bartley and Leigh Hoyt of rural McCook. Hoyt was re-appointed to serve as vice-chairman...
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County looks at networking courthouse
(Local News ~ 01/10/06)
Holes in the floors or holes in the ceiling -- that's what Arnie Schuster needs before he can expand computer capabilities at the Red Willow County courthouse in McCook. Schuster, of Valley Tele-phone, McCook, told Red Willow County commissioners during their meeting Monday morning that he needs to determine if there is a void between the courthouse's floors and ceilings through which he can run cabling to network computers in the courthouse...
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