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No. 1 McCook Bison host No. 10 GINW Vikings
(High School Sports ~ 10/21/04)
Friday night's matchup at Weiland Field between McCook and Grand Island Northwest might as well be a Nebraska Class B playoff game. Kickoff is 7 p.m. The host Bison, who enter Friday's game with a 33-game winning streak and might be No. 1 in the Class B rankings and No. 6 overall by the Omaha World-Herald, but they still have not clinched a playoff spot...
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Regular season nearing the end for area high school football teams
(High School Sports ~ 10/21/04)
This week should prove to be a sorting stick as far as playoff seeding is concerned. It should also be a great week for area football programs. Four of the five area teams ranked in the top ten are in action on Friday, with plenty of area teams looking to pick up late season wins...
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Fall tradition
(Local News ~ 10/21/04)
Hannah Knott, 7, and David Durner, 8, rake up the leaves on the lawn of David's home in McCook, but they were more interested in jumping in the pile than uncovering the grass. Winds expected Friday will probably clear more of the colorful fall decorations from area trees. (Bruce Crosby/McCook Daily Gazette)... -
How about playing real games yourself?
(Column ~ 10/21/04)
Experts have been warning against the sedentary life the majority of Americans have developed over the past couple of decades. Mostly, they seem to be concerned about the children and their video games. A new commercial on television shows a mother yelling at her kids -- "you can stay up an hour later -- if you play your video games." Or "no desert until you play your video game."...
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Southwest patrons can work together
(Editorial ~ 10/21/04)
Someday soon, we hope, the new Southwest School District 179 can resolve its differences and go forward with a united front to serve the educational needs of the young people in a major portion of Red Willow County, as well as parts of Frontier and Furnas counties...
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Let's talk
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/21/04)
**Dear Editor, I have tried to contact a Mr. Robert Horton of Lebanon to answer his questions in the Open Forum on Friday, Oct. 15. I was unable to find an address or a telephone number for him. I do hope he will call me so I can answer his questions...
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Another big cat
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/21/04)
**Dear Editor, The picture and article of the mountain lion sighting described in the Oct. 9-10 issue of the Gazette brought to my mind a mountain lion sighting that took place in Southwest Nebraska long before the Pine Ridge hunter killed one in 1991...
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New light on Old West -- Dusty essay sheds new light on Hitchcock County history
(Local News ~ 10/21/04)
By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor CULBERTSON -- Hitchcock County once stretched all the way to the Colorado line, and squealing pigs alerted some of the county's very first settlers to the flooding Blackwood Creek. The county's first sheriff thumped a disgruntled voter in the head with a 2x4 and he and election officials rolled him up in a buffalo robe and left him for dead outside the election hall. ...
