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Members of the winning Nebraska One Box Pheasant Hunt new team are pictured from left, back row, Todd Fenton, Allen Strong, Rudy Haynes, Casey Williams and Kent Leibhart. Also pictured are scorekeeper Zach Hammond and dog handler Tehl Keslar, in front, and local guides Joe Franssen and Pat Berggren, at right.

Holyoke hunters on winning One Box Pheasant Hunt team

Holyoke’s Allen Strong was captain of the first-place new team, Cattlemen’s Brawlers, in this year’s Nebraska One Box Pheasant Hunt in Broken Bow, Nebraska, earlier this month.

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NFR Gala spurs another fun event

“Let’s do that again,” said many of those who attended last year’s National Finals Rodeo Gala.

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Support work of Hospice on Colorado Gives Day

Presented by Community First Foundation and FirstBank next Tuesday, Dec. 5, Colorado Gives Day is an annual statewide movement to celebrate and increase philanthropy through online giving.

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The Sunbeam harmonica band is pictured from the early 1900s. Sunbeam School District #10, organized in 1916, was a one-room, white, wooden-frame building 3 miles south of Haxtun. The school was closed in 1949, and the students then went to Haxtun. The Sunbeam school building was sold in 1954 and was moved south of Haxtun and was used for storage. — Source: Phillips County Museum