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Bison win 60th straight regular season game
(High School Sports ~ 10/26/07)
McCook sprints past GINW; MHS opens playoffs vs. Alliance at home GRAND ISLAND -- It didn't take long for the McCook Bison to make a statement in Thursday night's Class B-5 district game against Grand Island Northwest -- about 10 seconds. That's how long it took for Bison junior Matt Berry to run back the opening kickoff 81 yards for the first score of the game...
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MCC volleyball team falls to Colby CC
(College Sports ~ 10/26/07)
COLBY -- The McCook Community College volleyball team dropped a three-set match to Colby Community College at Colby Thursday night. McCook hosts Central Community College-Columbus, the No. 16-ranked team in NJCAA Division II, at 7 p.m. tonight. CCC-Columbus features Allison Smith, a 6-foot sophomore from McCook High School...
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Marker to commemorate cattle drive days
(Local News ~ 10/26/07)
CULBERTSON -- The Culbertson Community Improvement Program and the Nebraska Humanities Council plan a ceremony to place a marker commemorating cattle drives through Hitchcock County Sunday, Nov. 4, at 3:30 p.m. The marker will be placed at the corner of Highway 17 and Wyoming Street, at the Culbertson ambulance barn, in remembrance of cattle drives that followed "The Western" trail from Texas to Canada between 1874 and 1894...
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Vandal damage
(Local News ~ 10/26/07)
Cambridge sculptor Gary Ginther wipes gently at the royal blue "SW" painted by vandals on the ribs of the "Prairie Bull" bronze that he created for McCook's "Bison 2000" celebration and the High Plains Historical Society; the buffalo sits on the front lawn of the museum on McCook's main street. ...
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Take precautions to prevent spread of staph infections
(Editorial ~ 10/26/07)
At least one football game in Nebraska was postponed because of a staph infection, and as cold weather sets in, and more of us move indoors, precautions will become even more important. The concern is MRSA -- methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- a bacteria that can't be controlled with the usual antibiotics...
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Bladders know know rules
(Column ~ 10/26/07)
Traveling as a parent is a whole different experience than traveling as a business person. I've never overheard a businessman say to a traveling companion, "No you can't pee now, we're taking off!" Surely a business person never felt the need to ask a flight attendant if they had any peanut butter & jelly sandwiches...
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Fire comes to Southern California
(Local News ~ 10/26/07)
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- All last week, weather forecasters had predicted a Santa Ana -- the hot, dry wind that slams into Southern California from the deserts of the Great Basin at this time of year. By the weekend, most people had set aside thoughts of the weather as Californians are prone to do, and had gone about their usual Saturday chores. ...
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