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McCook Bison girls advance to B-5 semifinals vs. Holdrege
(High School Sports ~ 02/22/06)
Jillian Bryant becomes all-time scoring leader for MHS girls KEARNEY -- The McCook High School girls basketball team advanced to the Nebraska Class B-5 semifinals with a 53-50 victory over Hastings Tuesday night. The Class B-5 district tournament is being played at the University of Nebraska-Kearney Health and Sports Center...
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Boys sub-district roundup: Cambridge, Eustis-Farnam slated for Class D1-11 finals at McCook
(High School Sports ~ 02/22/06)
Cambridge's boys battled it out with Hitchcock County Tuesday in the second round of the D1-11 sub-districts in McCook. The Trojans won over the Falcons 71-54. Cambridge will take on Eustis-Farnam for the D1-11 championship Thursday night at 7:45 p.m. in the McCook gym...
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Garrett Nokes wins average in steer wrestling at Dixie Rodeo
(High School Sports ~ 02/22/06)
COLORADO SPRINGS -- The Dixie National Rodeo in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 9-16, allowed several of ProRodeo's cowboys and cowgirls to launch themselves into the ProRodeo Cowboys World Standings and deposit a well-earned paycheck. Reigning World Champion Matt Austin of Wills Point, Texas, continued his winning ways with another successful ride. Austin rode Flying 5 Rodeo's Spiderman for 89 points on the last day of the rodeo to win...
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Jail vote guarantees issue will get close look
(Editorial ~ 02/22/06)
We'll bet you could almost hear the jaws drop all over Southwest Nebraska. Reuben Hoff Jr., chairman of Red Willow County's Jail task force, claimed he wasn't as surprised as most of us around McCook were that the City County voted Monday night to work toward building a joint safety and dispatch center with Red Willow County...
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County to begin jail plans with city
(Local News ~ 02/22/06)
By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor Red Willow County commissioners seemed surprised, but pleased, that McCook's city council members voted Monday evening to proceed with a joint city-county public safety center. Reuben Hoff Jr., the chairman of the county's jail task force, said before the commissioners' meeting Tuesday morning that the city's decision surprised him, but, at the same time, it didn't. ...
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School board members brought up to speed on technology, improvement
(Local News ~ 02/22/06)
It was class time for members of the McCook Public Schools board of education, as, during a nearly three-hour session Tuesday evening, they learned about a new student information system, planned technology upgrades and the district's school improvement action plan...
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Making ag attractive -- Hayes Center hears how Mead created a magnet school
(Features ~ 02/22/06)
HAYES CENTER -- Hayes Center's school district wants to create a "school within a school" that focuses on agriculture education, and those interested in the concept learned Monday morning how the Mead school district developed and operates its "ag sciences magnet school."...
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Robert Irvin Howey
(Obituary ~ 02/22/06)
Nov. 2, 1921-Feb. 20, 2006 ARAPAHOE -- Robert Irvin Howey, 84, died Monday (Feb. 20, 2006), at Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge. He was born Nov. 2, 1921, at Denver, Colo., to Earl S. and Marguerite (Crane) Howey. He grew up in Fairplay, Colo., and graduated from Fairplay High School...
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Anna Galene (Dooley) Wiley
(Obituary ~ 02/22/06)
Oct. 27, 1912-Feb. 20, 2006 ATWOOD -- Anna Galene (Dooley) Wiley, 93, died Monday (Feb. 20, 2006), at Atwood Good Samaritan Home. She was born Oct. 27, 1912, at Fullerton to Byron and Anna Jane (Adams) Dooley. She attended school in Fullerton, graduating from high school in 1930...
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Candice L. Baltzell
(Obituary ~ 02/22/06)
April 6, 1947--Feb. 14, 2006 Candice L. Baltzell, 58, of McCook, died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, following a brief illness. She was born on April 6, 1947 in Kankakee, Ill., the daughter of Orville and Eve (Elliott) Borchers. ...
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Heading off disaster
(Column ~ 02/22/06)
Most people are surprised to learn that I am, by nature, shy. In fact, there was a time when I was literally scared of the sound of my own voice, and nothing could compel me to speak up for myself. I got over it. You may have noticed. Getting over it didn't come easily. It happened, as most things do, a little at a time...
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