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STORIES
Bates
won’t run again
for District 27 board
[NOV.
14, 2000] Lincoln
attorney William Bates, current president of the board of Elementary
School District 27, has announced that he does not intend to run for
another term at the April 2001 election. "It’s time for new
blood. I don’t want to monopolize the market," he said.
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STORIES
'Did
my vote get counted?'
[NOV.
14, 2000] Has
the thought crossed your mind, "How would I feel if my vote had
been cast in Florida or one of those areas where so many spoiled
ballots were thrown out — where I wasn’t sure if my vote was
counted." With this in mind, Lincoln Daily News contacted
Sally Litterly, Logan County clerk and recorder, and asked a few
simple questions. Litterly happily reported the following:
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COLUMN:
the em space
The
waiting game
[NOV.
14, 2000]
During
an election year before I was eligible to vote, I saw a political
cartoon that I’ve remembered ever since. The picture could
summarize many elections, but I suppose I enjoyed it initially
because the message was easy to understand.
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Volunteer
Plumbers needed! Habitat House completion date reset to mid January
Click
here for more info and pictures from the local Habitat for Humanity project
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SPORTS
NEWS
Girls
basketball: Mount Pulaski 65, Maroa-Forsyth 42
[NOV.
14, 2000]
Mount
Pulaski’s ladies basketball team traveled to Maroa yesterday afternoon to
compete against Maroa-Forsyth. Maroa-Forsyth won 65-42, leading at the end of
each quarter.
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TECHLINE
Coping
with copious spam
By
Jim Youngquist
[NOV.
14, 2000] There
are few people denying that email is one of the great inventions of the 20th
century. It allows any average user with a computer or an internet appliance and
a low-cost internet connection to communicate across town or across continents
and oceans with any other internet user almost instantaneously. You can email a
single message to multiple people at one time, carbon copy it to hundreds if you
like, and everyone likes the price tag.
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LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
LDN
reader would like to see ISU sports coverage
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letter]
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LAW
& COURTS
Court reports
[NOV.
14, 2000] The Law
and Courts page includes a new set of weekly court reports, marriage licenses and
dissolutions. In court reports, the Lincoln Daily News does not list the names of the individuals unless convicted and
age 18 or older.
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ORGANIZATIONS
Bulbs
planted for spring beauty in Mason City
[NOV.
14, 2000]
Saturday,
Nov. 11, with fair but cool weather conditions, seven brave Garden
Angels and two Angel husbands helped to get 600 spring bulbs into
the ground before the snow comes. Mason City Rotary Club donated the
flowering bulbs and sought two clubs to do the plantings.
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