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Joel Herman Ashby III
(Obituary ~ 11/10/17)
Joel Herman Ashby III May 2, 1983 - Nov. 5, 2017 SIOUX FALLS, S. D. — Joel H. Ashby, 34, Sioux Falls, died Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. Visitation with family present will be 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, at Heartland Funeral Home, Brandon. A memorial service will be 11 a.m., Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, at Celebration United Methodist Church, Brandon. A private interment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery...
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Frisch birth
(Births ~ 11/10/17)
Everett Gentry Frisch Tyler Frisch and Shasta Dunn of Dannebrog, Neb., announce the birth of their son, Everett Gentry Frisch, born Oct. 29, 2017, at St. Francis Hospital in Grand Island, Neb. He weighed 8 pounds and measured 20 inches long. He has one sister, Emmersen Jo Dunn, 2. ...
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Making homemade fruit leather
(Column ~ 11/10/17)
In one of my earlier articles I wrote about my GG Grandfather, John C. Eckert, sending peach leather to his homesteading children in Nebraska who quite obviously had no fruit trees at the time. Peach or any other kind of fruit leather was made by boiling down the fruit to a thick concentrate. ...
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Bison made district volleyball final before
(High School Sports ~ 11/10/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High School’s volleyball team made some great history this season, but the 1980 Bison can say “been there, done that” when it comes to making a district final. Coach Al Cuellar’s team took the wind from Holdrege Dusters while moving just one win from a Class B state tournament spot...
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Pronghorns shoot past MCC men
(College Sports ~ 11/10/17)
GILLETTE, Wyo. – The McCook Community College men’s basketball team dropped the first game of the Gillette Classic Thursday night to the host school 96-72. The Pronghorns are the two-time defending Region IX champions and finished last year with a 32-4 mark and a berth in the Sweet 16 national Tournament...
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No. 1 Trojans sweep Eagles from state
(High School Sports ~ 11/10/17)
The Southern Valley Eagles rally around coach Jessi Thalheim as they took on undefeated No. 1 Hartington Cedar Catholic in Thursday’s Class C-2 state tournament opening round at Lincoln Southwest High School. The Trojans prevailed in three sets 25-16, 25-12 and 25-14. ...
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Time is right: Bison coach made history
(High School Sports ~ 11/10/17)
McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook head volleyball coach Dennis Troester is retiring after 44 years of coaching, including 39 as a head coach. News of Troester’s retirement was revealed yesterday in a McCook Public School press release. He finishes his career with 765 wins, 21 conference championships, 12 district titles, seven state titles and five state runner-up finishes...
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McCook residents step up to challenge of Big Give McCook
(Editorial ~ 11/10/17)
By any measurement, the Big Give concept is an unqualified success. It’s appropriate to head into the Thanksgiving season by taking stock of our blessings, thinking about those we could help, and doing something about it. Thursday’s Big Give, which brought in $110,865 from 655 donations, and counting, offered just that opportunity...
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Unanswered prayers
(Column ~ 11/10/17)
Garth Brooks had a hit song several years back that dealt with the topic of this week’s column. In the song was a line, “Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers” because the song was about a lost love he had grieved over for some time until he found a new love that was much better than the one he had lost...
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Engineering International Inc. experience growth, adds staff
(Local News ~ 11/10/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — After starting as a one-man enterprise in 2009, a McCook-based engineering firm has grown into an international company with six staff members and offices in both McCook and Lincoln. The company — Engineering International, Inc. — was launched by Jeff Tidyman, a professional architectural engineer, upon his return to Southwest Nebraska following his second tour of duty in Iraq...
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Priest reblesss cemetery after vandalism incidents
(Local News ~ 11/10/17)
TRENTON, Neb. — After vandals removed the heads from statues of Mary in the Trenton Cemetery in September, Catholic priest Father Christopher Miller has reblessed the cemetery. The Hitchcock County News reports that Father Miller and a group of local parishioners and residents gathered at the cemetery Nov. 2 for the reblessing ceremony...
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Negotiations, presentations on school agenda Monday
(Local News ~ 11/10/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — Salary negotiations for teachers at the McCook School District will begin Monday night, with a closed session after the regular McCook Board of Education meeting. The board will meet for its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the junior high conference room, with no voting items on the agenda...
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'Explosive' item turns out to be road flare
(Local News ~ 11/10/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — Two volunteers raised $1,400 for the McCook animal shelter with a rummage sale of donated merchandise in late October. As impressive as the sale proceeds are, they weren’t the only exciting things to happen during the sale. Andrea O’Dea and Levina Fritsche, both members of the McCook Humane Society board of directors, were very pleased with the amount and quality of donations to the sale. ...
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Big Give McCook tops $110k
(Local News ~ 11/10/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — Bigger and better. Organizers for Big Give McCook were hoping the second annual 24-hour fund-raiser Thursday would be bigger and better. It was definitely bigger, raising more funds than last year and involving more non-profit groups. And the Community Chest committee hopes it was better for both donors and the local organizations which benefitted from the philanthropic event...
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World War II vet remembers devastation of the Philippines
(Local News ~ 11/10/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — By the time Elmer Kathka got to the Philippines in 1944, all the vegetation was gone, he remembered. That’s because it had been the site of fierce battles since 1941 when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded the island only 10 hours after bombing Pearl Harbor...
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Abused and distorted
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/10/17)
This past legislative session, Senators Friesen, Erdman and I led a successful filibuster of LB 496, the legislation sought to expand the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF), adding private construction cost of housing projects (outside of Omaha and Lincoln) to the total cost that property tax dollars could be used for to fund supposed redevelopment projects...
- Opal Nadine (Williams) Moody (Obituary ~ 11/10/17)
- James Martin “Jim” Hegwood (Obituary ~ 11/10/17)
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