- McCook's Jen Chmiel wins GNAC girls No. 2 singles (High School Sports ~ 05/08/06)
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McCook's Brandon Crick tops field at GNAC boys golf
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/06)
Bison place 6th in team standings KEARNEY -- McCook High School senior Brandon Crick posted a three-stroke victory to claim medalist honors at the Greater Nebraska Activities Conference boys golf tournament Friday. The tournament was played at the Meadowlark Golf Course in Kearney...
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GNAC boys track meet: Bison boys take 2nd place
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/06)
NORTH PLATTE -- McCook's boys track team finished second in the GNAC meet in North Platte Friday. Kearney took first in the conference for the 19th time in the 20-year history of the conference. Norfolk came in third, with Scottsbluff taking fourth and Columbus fifth...
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GNAC girls track meet: Miller shatters shot put mark; Bison girls 5th
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/06)
NORTH PLATTE -- McCook's girls track team finished fifth in the GNAC meet in North Platte Friday. Kearney won the meet, with Scottsbluff taking second and Norfolk third. North Platte finished fourth. Kim Miller took top honors in conference in the shot put with a new school record effort of 42 feet, 4 1/2 inches...
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Vernon L. Schauer
(Obituary ~ 05/08/06)
April 22, 1926 - May 4, 2006 Lexington -- Vernon L. Schauer, 80, of Lexington, died Thursday (May 4, 2006) at Plum Creek Care Center in Lexington. He was born April 22, 1926, in Scott City, Kan., to Louie and Anna (Troester) Schauer. As a young boy the family moved to Cambridge, where he attended school until the tenth grade. After school he joined the U.S. Merchant Marines. Upon returning to Cambridge, he worked for a local filling station and helped his father on the farm...
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James Cody Raburn
(Obituary ~ 05/08/06)
April 8,1934 - April 11,2006 OMAHA -- James Cody Rabum was born in Lebanon, Neb., on April 8, and was united with the Lord on Tuesday, April 11,2006. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Edith (Edye) Marie Raburn. He was preceded in death by his father. Harry Clifford Raburn; his mother, Pearl Savanna Raburn; brothers Clyde and Clifford; and sisters Clayda, Neva Martin, and Majestic Carfield. Clyde and Clayda were infant twins...
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Oberlin's Richards brings home 5th-place medal from Ulysses
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/06)
ULYSSES, Kan. -- Decatur Community High School-Oberlin senior Jonathan Richards shot a 79 and brought home the fifth-place medal from the Ulysses Invitational golf tournament Saturday. The tournament was played on the par-72 Brentwood Golf Course. Richards shot a 41 on the front nine and a 38 on the back nine...
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Chase County boys, girls sweep Dundy County Twilight track crowns
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/06)
BENKELMAN -- Chase County's girls and boys track teams won the Dundy County Twilight Friday. Both Perkins County teams took second. Wallace ended the day in third for the boys side, with Atwood following in fourth and Dundy County fifth. Wauneta-Palisade took sixth, Hayes Center was seventh and Maywood took eighth...
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McCook 8th grade boys track team competes in Dutch Zorn Relays
(Community Sports ~ 05/08/06)
GOTHENBURG -- The McCook Junior High School eighth grade boys track team competed in the Dutch Zorn relays April 28. The A team of Greg Younger, Stephan Sprinkle and Eric Stensvad took the gold in the discus and the A team of Austin Huffman, Greg Younger and Garret Wagner won the shot put...
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Bison 9th, 10th grade track teams complete season at North Platte invite
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/06)
NORTH PLATTE -- McCook's ninth and 10th grade boys and girls track teams finished their season in second and third place in the North Platte invite Tuesday. North Platte took first in both the girls and boys divisions. Gothenburg finished second for the girls side, with McCook taking third and Cozad fourth. Lexington came in fifth and Ogallala sixth...
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St. Pat's, McCook Junior High track results from season-ending events
(Community Sports ~ 05/08/06)
NORTH PLATTE -- McCook St. Pats track team competed in the North Platte invite Tuesday. St. Pats girls finished fifth and the boys took sixth. McCook's seventh and eighth grade girls and boys both finished fourth in the meet. Natalie Sis took second in the 195 hurdles for St. Pats. Teammate Kelli Montey took third in the triple jump and Becky Goodenberger followed in fourth...
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Official: Laptop returned only after repeated contacts
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
LINCOLN -- A March 9, 2006, letter to a former Nebraska board of education member about her failure to return a state-owned laptop computer was not the first inquiry about the missing laptop. Dr. Doug Christensen, Nebraska commissioner of education, said this morning in Lincoln that Kathy Wilmot, one of seven candidates for the 44th Legislative seat, was contacted first about the laptop within the first couple months after she left the state board of education in December 2002. ...
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Man involved in standoff committed for treatment
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
The McCook man who held police at bay for five hours May 2 was committed for treatment to a mental health facility following a mental health board hearing Friday. The man, whose name will not be released by officials, was committed for an indefinite length of time, according to Red Willow County Attorney Paul Wood...
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Andrew Carnegie, Patron Saint of Libraries
(Column ~ 05/08/06)
Andrew Carnegie, whose name has become almost synonymous with philanthropy, especially in the building of public libraries, was at one time known as one of the most ruthless examples of the Gilded Age "Robber Baron Class" of the late 1800s. Carnegie was born in 1835 to a very poor weaver in Scotland. ...
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We should vote, because we can
(Editorial ~ 05/08/06)
You've probably heard the stories before: They are a great argument for turning out the vote; the problem is, they're not true. It's also not true that John F. Kennedy would have lost the election had one voter in each Illinois precinct changed to Richard Nixon in 1960...
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Send council members a bill
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/08/06)
We hope that our City Council will reject the generous offer and check presented by Bill Bauer on behalf of the McCook Gun Club. It was rather rude to question this most generous gesture by commenting on the check not being certified. The McCook Gun Club is not responsible for the costly and poor decisions that have been made by some of our City Council members...
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When Mom was the center of the university
(Column ~ 05/08/06)
Our fondest memories of mothers spring from childhood. In those life-forming years, mom serves as the center of our universe, supplying us with the essentials of existence: food, clothing, shelter, discipline, purpose and -- most important of all -- love...
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Wilmot says she made first move to return equipment
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
A former member of the Nebraska State Board of Education said she, not the State Department of Education, made the first contact about returning a laptop computer she had used during her term of office. Kathy Wilmot, now a candidate for the District 44 seat on the Nebraska Legislature, was targeted by a postcard campaign about the computer on Friday...
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