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McCook sets COVID-19 protocols for Friday night
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/20)
McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High School officials have announced these COVID-19 safety protocols for the Bison football home opener Friday night: — At Weiland Field, 6-foot sections have been marked with blue tape to illustrate social distancing. Families may sit together, please keep 6 feet of distance between groups...
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Bison set to light up Weiland with heavy Cards
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/20)
McCOOK, Neb. — These Cardinals certainly can’t be compared to chicken wings when they rumble into Weiland Field Friday night. Nope, there’s plenty of fiber all across the Crete front lines which tip scales at 370, 265, 255 and multiple 225s. “And a linebacker at 220? I guess that’s what you notice is their size,” coach Jeff Gross said while viewing McCook’s first home football foe of 2020. “They’ve got some big beefy kids that can be hard to move.”...
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Bison sets record as spikers dig deep for win
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/20)
McCOOK, Neb. — Can you dig it? McCook junior Peyton Doucet certainly could as she set a school record with 39 digs in one match against Chase County Tuesday night. Yet she and all the Bison were really digging another number with just one digit: Bison victory No. 1 of the 2020 volleyball season!...
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Betty J. McArthur
(Obituary ~ 09/03/20)
BENKELMAN, Neb. - Betty J. McArthur, age 92, passed away Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman, NE. Services are pending with Carpenter Breland Funeral Home of McCook, NE.
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Eva Mae Schmitz
(Obituary ~ 09/03/20)
Eva Mae Schmitz August 13, 1928 - September 1, 2020 CURTIS, Neb. - Eva Mae Schmitz, 92 of Curtis, NE died September 1, 2020 Eva was born August 13, 1928 in McCook, Neb. to Frank and Emma Kahler. Eva grew up in Maywood, Neb. and graduated from Maywood High School. She was married to Cloid Schmitz on Sept. 6, 1947. Eva Mae was a homemaker beautiful seamstress and always had a big garden...
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Trojans top Whippets, Dusters and Indians
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/20)
CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Cambridge’s Chloe Besler (45), Macy Jones (51) and Jordan Cross (56) teamed to finish 151 while winning a home golf quadrangular on Tuesday. The Trojans outgolfed Broken Bow (190), Minden (200) and Holdrege (217) at Cross Creek Golf Course where they won a triangular to start their season last week...
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Longhorn double block on a Whippet
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/20)
Chase County sophomore Giselle Acuna (29) and Jerzee Milner (11) go for the block against Minden's Maylee Kamery in a loss to Minden at Tuesday’s McCook Bison Triangular. Longhorn Joee Clevenger (2) looks for a chance to assist. The Whippets won 25-16, 25-13 despite Clevenger's four kills, eight digs from senior Kora Weiss and Alexis Richmond with seven to lead Chase...
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Defendant pleads not guilty to 15 counts in underage sex trafficking ring
(Local News ~ 09/03/20)
BEAVER CITY, Neb. -- The first of 10 defendants arrested in an alleged underage sex trafficking ring pleaded not guilty to all 15 charges against him in Furnas County District Court in connection with alleged incidents involving a minor female from June 2019 through January 2020...
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Farmers market and more
(Local News ~ 09/03/20)
A number of locally-produced products joined the usual garden produce at the weekly farmers market Saturday morning in Westview Plaza in McCook.
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Top-rated Tigers join busy football Friday
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/20)
Following a canceled week one, the area’s highest-rated Dundy County-Stratton Tigers make their season debut at home against Bertrand Friday evening. The Tigers are No. 1 among all Class D-1 teams in Omaha World-Herald state football rankings. DC-S returns most of its top offensive talent after reaching last year’s state semifinals before losing at Burwell...
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MPCC facilities receive facelifts
(Local News ~ 09/03/20)
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Mid-Plains Community College campuses in McCook, North Platte and Imperial have new looks for the fall semester. MPCC’s temporary switch to remote learning in March due to COVID-19 put the college ahead of schedule construction-wise as the quiet campuses allowed crews to start early on a series of planned improvements...
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If not you, then who? If not now, when?
(Column ~ 09/03/20)
There is a crowbar sitting in the corner of my bathroom at home. In fact, it has been there a few days, slightly hidden among the robes hanging from the hooks. Now, most people would be asking themselves, “Why is there a crowbar in my bathroom?” I quit asking “why” a long time ago after locating my missing dish soap on the trampoline or discovering three bags of marshmallows had disappeared overnight...
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Take suicide's warning signs seriously
(Editorial ~ 09/03/20)
With the ongoing pandemic isolation and resulting disruptions of routine life, September’s observance of National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month is more important than ever. If you, or someone you know is thinking of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255...
- Rosalie Ann (Wiese) Liggett (Obituary ~ 09/03/20)
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