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Payne era begins for MCC spikers
(College Sports ~ 08/29/06)
The McCook Community College volleyball program has a new coach in Gary Payne. Gary Payne joins the MCC staff and takes over the MCC volleyball program this fall. Payne graduated from Chappel, Neb., in 1988 where he played football, basketball and ran track...
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Bison 9th girls volleyball team splits matches
(High School Sports ~ 08/29/06)
COLBY -- The McCook High School freshman girls volleyball team split a pair of volleyball games Monday night in Colby. McCook dropped to Hays-Thomas More Prep in two sets 25-15, 26-24 and defeated Colby in two sets 25-22, 25-9. McCook's next match is Sept. 7 at North Platte against the North Platte Blue squad. The match begins at 5 p.m...
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Richard Anderson
(Obituary ~ 08/29/06)
June 1, 1936 - Aug. 27, 2006 WALLACE -- Richard Anderson, 70, died Sunday (Aug. 27, 2006) at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. He was born June 1, 1936, south of Wallace to Howard and Clara Lee Anderson. He attended high school at the Curtis School of Agriculture and graduated in 1954...
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E. Marie Williams
(Obituary ~ 08/29/06)
Sept. 27, 1913 - Aug. 26, 2006 KEARNEY --?E. Marie Williams, 92, died Saturday (August 26, 2006) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born Sept. 27, 1913, to Warren and Agnes (Beery) Bratt. She graduated from Beaver City High School in 1931...
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Elsie 'Mae' Karp
(Obituary ~ 08/29/06)
April 29, 1915 - Aug. 27, 2006 Elsie "Mae" Karp, 91, died Sunday (Aug. 27, 2006) at McCook Community Hospital. She was born April 29, 1915, to John and Emma (Crocker) Reiners at Indianola. She graduated from Red Willow High School in 1932 and Beauty School in 1939...
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Big helmet boosts Bison gridders
(Local News ~ 08/29/06)
As big as the heart of Bison football, a 20-foot-tall inflatable football helmet will funnel McCook's fightin' Bison football players, coaches and student managers onto Weiland Field this season. The custom-made red-white-and-black helmet and the fog machine that wraps players in a ghostly gray-white haze made their debut at the Bison football scrimmage Aug. 24...
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School may sell bus barn for jail site
(Local News ~ 08/29/06)
McCook Public Schools board of education members will consider selling the Q Street bus barn property to Red Willow County during a special board of education meeting Wednesday evening at 6 p.m., in the junior high conference room. The bus barn property is the county commissioners' and county and city jail committees' second choice for the location of the proposed city-county public safety center and county jail...
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Fair promises more revenue to balance budget
(Local News ~ 08/29/06)
Red Willow County Fair manager Deb Lafferty agreed to generate $4,500 more in revenue to offset the $4,500 that commissioners agreed not to cut from her 2006-07 budget during an hour-long discussion at the commissioners' regular meeting Monday morning...
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Man of honor
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/29/06)
The war on terrorism has no political or geographic boundaries. The enemy is hiding in places we don't even know existed. Most of the enemy in Iraq and Afhanistan have been killed. Yet, some of them are still alive! They are uncivilized and uneducated. They will do anything to destroy our values...
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Like water in the Sea of Galilee
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/29/06)
In December 1994-January 1995, I took a trip to Israel and Egypt. I even consulted with Bruce Crosby of the Gazette about what type of camera to take. Virginia Trail and I traveled with a BYU study tour group. Our guides were Gary and Leisel McBride. (They later became the directors of the BYU Jerusalem Center.)...
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Heartland Band tradition survives Air Force axe
(Editorial ~ 08/29/06)
There are two ways to lose weight. One is by going on a diet. The other is by amputating a limb. We're glad the U.S. Air Force changed its mind and decided to the former. In July, we used this space to plead for that branch of the military to do just that, and keep the Heartland of America Band at Offutt Air Force Base in business...
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