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Lila Prior
(Obituary ~ 09/15/09)
IMPERIAL -- Lila Prior, 87, died Sunday (Sept. 13, 2009) at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial. Survivors include her son, Merlin and wife, Janet of Imperial; daughters, Janet Fong and husband, Nelson of Underwood, Iowa, and Marcia Prior-Miller of Ames, Iowa; sister, Fern Peters of Superior; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren...
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Mary Hamilton
(Obituary ~ 09/15/09)
July 6, 1941 - Sept. 14, 2009 CULBERTSON -- Mary Hamilton, 68, died Monday (Sept. 14, 2009) at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born on July 6, 1941, in Hastings to Henry and Margaret (Lovell) McClenahan. She grew up in the Hastings area and graduated from Hastings High School...
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School budget calls for slight tax hike
(Local News ~ 09/15/09)
McCook school board members passed a $20 million budget Monday night, calling for $5.2 million in local property taxes. That amounts to a 1.09 percent increase over last year's tax request, with the money going toward the general fund, bond fund and special building fund...
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Beer garden approved for farm, ranch expo
(Local News ~ 09/15/09)
Red Willow County commissioners Monday approved a beer garden in conjunction with the second annual "McCook Farm and Ranch Expo" scheduled Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 18 and 19, on the county fairgrounds in McCook. At the commissioners' weekly meeting Monday morning, farm and ranch expo promoter Darren Dale of rural Benkelman told commissioners that the beer garden will be located inside the Kiplinger Arena, with security at all doors to keep the beer inside that facility. ...
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McCook man wins restored car
(Local News ~ 09/15/09)
McCook man wins restored car NORTH PLATTE -- Jerry Beckenhauer of McCook is the lucky winner of a 1967 Chevy Chevelle that was raffled by Mid-Plains Community College on Saturday, Sept. 12, at Colonel Cody's Cruise Show and Shine in downtown North Platte...
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New Alateen group begins Sept. 28
(Local News ~ 09/15/09)
It's a sensitive subject, difficult to address. Fear is there. And not a small measure of shame. This is a secret and it needs to remain a secret. But, for some, if it remains a secret, it becomes a deadly secret. Soon, there will be a safe place to share the secret. To share the fear. To share the shame, with others who have a similar secret, who have endured a similar fear, who have learned to shake off the shackles of shame...
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County approves $15.7 million budget
(Local News ~ 09/15/09)
Red Willow County commissioners approved a budget of $15,757,021.61 for 2009-10, down from $16,495,506 in 2008-09, after a public hearing and during their weekly meeting Monday morning. The budget is down, but it requires more personal and real property tax money to fund it than last year...
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Rendezvous to include new 'Grand Ball' event
(Local News ~ 09/15/09)
By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor HAYES CENTER -- The Hayes Center Lions Club will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the "Grand Duke Alexis Rendezvous" with a "grand ball" Saturday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m., in the Legion Hall in Hayes Center. The annual rendezvous commemorates a trip across America by the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, the third son of Russian Czar Alexander II, in 1871-1872, and his hunt for buffalo in Hayes County, Nebraska, with William F. ...
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Drawing lessons from life of Patrick Swayze
(Editorial ~ 09/15/09)
Much -- too much -- has been written about stars like Michael Jackson after their untimely demise, but a closer look at their lives finds much worth examination. Patrick Swayze, who died Tuesday after a noble battle with pancreatic cancer, is one such example...
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Robert 'Bob' Dempewolf
(Obituary ~ 09/15/09)
June 13, 1960 - Sept. 13, 2009 OBERLIN -- Robert "Bob" Dempewolf, 49, died Sunday (Sept. 13, 2009) at Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. He was born June 13, 1960, in Oberlin to Gerald and Marian (Gilbert) Dempewolf. He grew up in Oberlin and attended Oberlin Elementary School and Decatur Community High School, graduating in 1978. After graduation, he lived in Oberlin, where he worked as a plumber...
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Drinking in the season
(Local News ~ 09/15/09)
A hummingbird moth collects nectar from a phlox blossom. Blooming fall flower gardens are abuzz with months, butterflies and insects of all types.
- Ronald R. Cumming (Obituary ~ 09/15/09)
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ACORN funding cut off
(Column ~ 09/15/09)
On Monday, my colleagues in the Senate rose above partisan loyalties to support my amendment that will prevent tax dollars from supporting an organization shrouded in controversy: ACORN. Employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now have been convicted of irresponsible, fraudulent, and at times illegal behavior, and I took action to protect taxpayers...
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Magnificent men in their flying machines
(Column ~ 09/15/09)
They are huge, they are colorful and they make large whooshing noises but gosh they are fun! I'm talking about hot air balloons of which no less than 13 showed up this year for McCook's world renown balloon pilot and instructor John Kugler's annual Balloon Fest. ...
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