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2 days ago | yorknewstimes.com | Gloria Yoder

One cold dark night in January of two years ago, the phone rang. It was one of the ladies in church, “Gloria, do you know how I could reach your sister Mary Grace right away?”She went on to explain how they were notified a newborn girl had come into the foster system, and her foster mom would need a babysitter for her while she worked five days a week. And now my friend was wondering if Mary Grace would consider babysitting her. Consider?! Doesn’t it look like a dream come true?

2 days ago | yorknewstimes.com | Christian Horn

GRAND ISLAND — The annual all-star circuit got underway with a bang last week, as 11 total area athletes made the trek to Grand Island last Friday for the Striv/Tom Dinsdale Automotive all-star basketball games hosted by GICC. On the girls side, the YNT coverage areas had two representatives in the action as Centennial's Catelynn Bargen suited up for Team Hyundai and Cross County alum Lindee Kelley hit the court for Team Cadillac.

2 days ago | yorknewstimes.com | Evgeniy Maloletka

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2 days ago | yorknewstimes.com | Eileen Ogintz

Let’s hear it for ambitious kids!A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling. For years, he’d been searching unsuccessfully for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the “boy king,” who died as a teenager. His patron, George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and an avid collector of Egyptian antiquities, told Carter he was cutting off his funding after the season.

3 days ago | yorknewstimes.com | Charles Krupa

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