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Clifford D. 'Mose' Riepe
(Obituary ~ 11/15/07)
April 4, 1931 - Nov. 12, 2007 ARAPAHOE -- Clifford D. "Mose" Riepe, 76, formerly of Arapahoe, died Monday (Nov. 12, 2007) at the Veterans' Home in Grand Island. He was born April 4, 1931, south of Arapahoe to George B. and Thelma (Fletcher) Riepe. ...
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Kansas woman brings cowtown character to life
(Local News ~ 11/15/07)
CULBERTSON -- "The Contessa" was brought back to life by Marla Matkin of Hill City, Kan., recently in Culbertson. A "tarnished angel" and "a prairie songbird," "The Contessa" was one of the many women with few options who lived and worked in cowtowns of America's wild, wooly and wicked west in the late 1800s...
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Bids for new school come in too high
(Local News ~ 11/15/07)
BARTLEY -- Southwest Public Schools board of education members instructed their architect Tuesday to try to negotiate a lower price on bids received to build the district's proposed new junior/senior high school in Bartley. The board opened two bids Monday afternoon -- $9,325,000 from Sampson Construction of Kearney, and $9,840,000 from Paulsen Inc. of Lexington -- and discussed them at its board meeting Monday evening...
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Longhorn drives led to local cattle industry
(Local News ~ 11/15/07)
CULBERTSON -- The new marker on a corner in downtown Culbertson commemorates not only the cattle drives that trailed through Hitchcock County and Culbertson in the late 1800s, but also the start of the cattle industry in that area of Southwest Nebraska...
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Rancher opposes LB701 property taxes
(Local News ~ 11/15/07)
A Hayes Center rancher spoke against the property taxes the Middle Republican Natural Resources Districts will levy, as authorized under LB 701. Barry Richards also disputed the statement made in a Nov. 1 press release by MRNRD general manager Dan Smith, that stated the NRD's purchased water from irrigators in order to maintain economic activity and not to meet the requirements of an intrastate compact...
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We've hitched our wagon to the ethanol industry
(Editorial ~ 11/15/07)
Not all that long ago, the closest ethanol plant was a second-hand unit 90 miles away, sitting nearly abandoned because of lawsuits and mismanagement. Today, one large plant is pumping out thousands of gallons of fuel each week near Trenton, another is near completion in Cambridge, and many others are scattered on the horizon...
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Like brother, like brother
(High School Sports ~ 11/15/07)
Fraziers man fullback spots for unbeaten McCook Bison, UNO Mavericks
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