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Winning button unclaimed
(Local News ~ 08/14/08)
INDIANOLA -- The winner of $300 in an Old Settler's Day button drawing has not yet come forward, according to event organizers. The winning button is No. 150. The owner should call Michelle at (308) 364-2215 to claim the prize.
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Nebraska football players go through live scrimmaging
(College Sports ~ 08/14/08)
LINCOLN -- The Nebraska football team practiced for 2 hours and 45 minutes Wednesday on the grass fields next to the Hawks Championship Center. The Huskers donned full pad in temperatures that reached the upper 80's. NU offensive line coach Barney Cotton said the Huskers were able to go through some live scrimmaging at the end of the practice...
- Championship softball (High School Sports ~ 08/14/08)
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UNK adds women's soccer for fall of 2009
(College Sports ~ 08/14/08)
KEARNEY -- The University of Nebraska-Kearney athletic department announced today that women's soccer will be added as an intercollegiate sport in the fall of 2009. The soccer team will play its home games at Ron & Carol Cope Stadium at Foster Field...
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Norman Ray Keith
(Obituary ~ 08/14/08)
Dec. 23, 1929 - Aug. 1, 2008 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Norman Keith died at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Grand Junction on Aug. 1, 2008, at the age of 78. He was born Dec. 23, 1929, near Danbury, Neb., to Clarence and Anna (Farber) Keith. He was raised in Colorado and Danbury and graduated from Danbury School. Norman moved to Grand Junction in 1965, and worked as a mechanic and machine operator for the Grand Junction Drainage District until retirement in 1993...
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Vera Horn
(Obituary ~ 08/14/08)
Aug. 26, 1920 - Aug. 13, 2008 CALLAWAY -- Vera Horn, 87, of Cambridge, formerly of McCook, died Wednesday (Aug. 13, 2008) at Cambridge, Neb. Funeral services will be Friday, Aug. 15, 2008, at 1 p.m., in the United Methodist Church in Callaway with the Revs. Doug Jones and Jerry Schwarz officiating. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Callaway...
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Senator sees opportunities for Midwest in high oil prices
(Local News ~ 08/14/08)
TRENTON -- Standing beside a new well northeast of Trenton Wednesday morning, U.S. Senator Ben Nelson said that the high price of oil is creating opportunities for increased oil production at home. Nelson wants America's focus on oil production to switch from "the Middle East" to America's "Midwest." Drilling at home can produce almost immediate results, he said, reducing the country's reliance on foreign sources of oil and decreasing prices at the gas pump...
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Surveyor disputes statement attributed to him during county board meeting
(Local News ~ 08/14/08)
HOLDREGE -- A statement made by an Indianola-area farmer during a Red Willow County commissioners' public hearing Monday, accredited to a surveyor from Phelps County and reported in a Gazette news story Tuesday appears to be erroneous. The surveyor, Brian Langenberg, R.L.S., of Tagge Engineering Consultants Inc. of Holdrege, said he does not disagree with the location of the section line of land involved in an argument between Phil and Janice Bamesberger and Stan and Steve Quigley...
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Qualifiers
(Local News ~ 08/14/08)
Members of the McCook City Fire Department catch their breath after qualifying for the world championship firefighter challenge. Shown from left, Curtis Hensley, Mike Schoenemann, Mark Kool, Mike Bieber and Dan Hartwell. The team qualified during a competition in Omaha and will travel to the world championships in Las Vegas in November. (Courtesy photo)...
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Practice your mosquito defense
(Editorial ~ 08/14/08)
Football practice has started, the dog days of summer seem to be past, for the time being, at least, but one negative aspect of warm weather is still with us. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services reported two more cases of West Nile virus this week, bringing the total for the year to five...
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Just in time for a planetary parade
(Column ~ 08/14/08)
I wish I could tell you how the Perseid meteor shower went, but, since I am writing this well in advance of the event we will just have to wait until next week. Starting this week we are just in time to watch a planet parade. Mercury will start a brief two-week visit to the evening skies this week, joining Saturn, Venus and Mars as evening objects. These are all extremely low in the west after sunset, however, and might be tough to see...
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Typo'ing history
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/14/08)
My book review, "Jerusalem the Eternal City," was published in the Gazette on Aug. 8, 2008. Authors David Galbraith, Kelly Ogden and Andrew Skinner carefully state in it that Ottoman control of Jerusalem and Palestine was from 1517 to 1917. British conyrol of Palestine (Israel) began Nov. ...
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