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Clarence 'Junior' Cress
(Obituary ~ 10/10/11)
Clarence 'Junior' Cress Sept. 17, 1930 - Oct. 8, 2011 He was born Sept. 17, 1930 in Cheyenne County, Kansas. He was a mail carrier. Surviviors included his wife, Geraldine "Jeri" (Smith) Cress of Lakewood; sons, Pat Cress of St. Francis, Kansas and Dan Cress of Aurora, Colorado; daughter Gloria Riemer of Lakewood; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren...
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Catherine 'Kay' Marie (Lane) Hanes
(Obituary ~ 10/10/11)
Catherine 'Kay' Marie (Lane) Hanes Aug. 1, 1922 - Oct. 8, 2011 CENTENNIAL, Colorado -- Catherine "Kay" Marie (Lane) Hanes, 89, died Saturday (Oct. 8, 2011 ), at Porter Hospice in Centennial. She was born on Aug. 1, 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. On April 8, 1956, she married Richard "Dean" Hanes in Cambridge, Nebraska...
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Shirley Joan Miner
(Obituary ~ 10/10/11)
Shirley Joan Miner CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Shirley Joan Miner died Saturday (Oct. 8, 2011) at Cambridge Manor. Rosary will be Wednesday, 7 p.m. at Carpenter Breland Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Indianola, Nebraska. Burial will follow at St. Catherine's Cemetery,...
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Rocky Lee Courange
(Obituary ~ 10/10/11)
Rocky Lee Courange Aug. 3, 1961 - Oct. 7, 2011 HAYS, Kansas -- Rocky Lee Courange, 50, died Friday (Oct. 7, 2011), at Hays Medical Center. He was was born Aug. 3, 1961, in McCook Nebraska, to Irvan and Maralyn (Magers) Courange. He and his four siblings were raised in California for a short time until moving to Traer. He attended Oberlin Elementary and graduated from Decatur Community High school in 1979...
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Martha 'Peg' Frack
(Obituary ~ 10/10/11)
Martha 'Peg' Frack BEAVER CITY, Nebraska -- Martha "Peg" Frack, 86, of Holdrege, Nebraska, formerly of Norton, Kansas and Hendley, Nebraska, died Friday, (Oct. 7, 2011), at Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings, Nebraska after a year and a half battle with lung cancer...
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Virginia L. 'Ginger' Baker
(Obituary ~ 10/10/11)
Virginia L. 'Ginger' Baker Aug. 19, 1930 - Oct. 7, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Virginia L. "Ginger" Baker, 81, of Cambridge, died Friday (Oct. 7, 2011), at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She was born at home on Aug. 19, 1930 in Palco, Kansas to Roy G. and Irene E. (Gibson) Morton. She attended school at Palco Consolidated School...
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Working with all sides
(Column ~ 10/10/11)
When I was governor we occasionally liked to move the Capitol around the state for a few days as a way to get people closer to their government and for the government to get closer to the people. We called it "Dome on the Roam" and it really seemed to work to help bring people together to work on problems that faced all of us...
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NRD receives grant to monitor wells
(Local News ~ 10/10/11)
CURTIS, Nebraska -- The Middle Republican Natural Resources District was recently awarded a grant for $17,000 from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. The grant will allow the Middle Republican NRD to protect and monitor 51 wells for nitrate levels across the District on an annual basis. ...
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Harmonica musician still playing at 91
(Features ~ 10/10/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Martin Fortkamp was a skinny 14-year-old when he began to play the harmonica. Laying in bed late at night, blowing in, blowing out, he would pick out notes to the same song over and over. His father gave him the harmonica, no small feat considering this was 1934 and every spare dime was needed...
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Community Hospital healing garden receives major gift
(Local News ~ 10/10/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska --Members representing the McCook National Bank and the Graff/Thomas family met recently at Community Hospital to pledge $40,000 to fund the Garden Atrium in the healing garden which is under construction during Phase 2 of the hospital project. ...
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State recognition of mentally ill is long overdue
(Editorial ~ 10/10/11)
Bureaucracies move slowly, but it's heartening when they do the right thing. In this case, it's too bad it took two years of legal battles to bring the agency around, but the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is doing the right thing today...
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Columbus' quest
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/10/11)
Good fortune smiled upon Christopher Columbus (originally Colombo) -- at first. Born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy, he knew that he did not want to weave wool cloth like his parents, Comieco and Susana Colombo. His brothers, Bartholomew and Diego, agreed with him...
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$ocial $ecurity or $tealing $avings
(Local News ~ 10/10/11)
What is cost, hauling mail off, for jobs there ... and back, then closing small post offices, devastating rural people? 'Twould be more efficient to build a refinery there for Alaska, Canada, North Dakota oil, than pipe the profits to Texas. Name anyone in all of $ocial $ecurity whose money has been $aved for ... and returned to? Plus interest! If anybody but Congress had foisted this pyramid ponzi chain letter on the people of the USA they would be punished for fraud...
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Texas longhorn cattle trail
(Column ~ 10/10/11)
In 2011, because of the severe drought in Texas and the Southwest, there has been a huge influx of Texas cattle into the (relatively) greener pastures of Nebraska, a movement not seen, perhaps, since the great cattle drives in the last quarter of the 19th Century...
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Bison girls miss state meet trip
(High School Sports ~ 10/10/11)
LEXINGTON, Nebraska -- McCook High School's girls softball team couldn't overcome Scottsbluff in the 2011 Class B-6 District tournament. The Bison lost twice to the Bearcats, including a 5-1 loss in the district finals Friday, Oct. 7, at the Optimist Complex in Lexington...
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Wild football roller coaster ride ends on high for Bison
(High School Sports ~ 10/10/11)
LEXINGTON, Nebraska -- The McCook-Lexington prep football battle Oct. 7 may go down as one of the most exciting in the history of the two gridiron rival's respective histories. Bison head coach Jeff Gross probably won't soon forget his team's 16-13, double-overtime thrilling win...
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Bison girls poised to battle for state golf title
(High School Sports ~ 10/10/11)
NEBRASKA STATE CLASS B GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 10-11 at Riverside Golf Club, Grand Island Monday's Opening 18-Hole Results Team Standings Top 10 Individuals McCook Individual Scores Elkhorn South Individual Scores...
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