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McCook, Nebraska ~ Saturday, July 4, 2009
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Fifty years on the job: Manager Jim Phinney started with MPPD in 1959 
Cottage industry -- Timber Creek Homes adapts to new economic realities in housing market
(06/29/09)STRATTON -- Timber Creek Homes executives could sit on the front porch of one of their wonderful, big houses and pout about the stranglehold that today's economy has on the housing market. But they've decided, instead, to take a positive approach and offer a new line of cottages -- smaller and less expensive, but, oh so charming and easily adapted to family size and lot location... 
Cunningham Feed Store -- Arapahoe business stays open, changes clientele
(06/25/09)ARAPAHOE -- During its heyday last century, Cunningham's feed store on Arapahoe's main street sold livestock feed by the train-car load. Now, 60-some years later, the building is still called Cunningham's and is still selling feed -- although not in the same massive quantities, and its clientele are people, not cows and horses... 
Movie Review - Transformers 2
(06/22/09)Movie Review - Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Optimus Prime. Rated PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material... 
Scout spreading dream of Norris Park war monument
(06/18/09)While some teenagers are relishing the lazy days of summer, 14-year old Trenton Klimper of McCook is keeping busy meeting community leaders and giving presentations to local organizations. A self-professed history buff, Klimper is trying to get enough donations and input to construct a war memorial in Norris Park as his Eagle Scout project... 
Therapeutic riding ranch open house Saturday
(06/15/09)PALISADE -- The new therapeutic riding ranch nestled in tall-grass pastureland along the Stinking Water Creek just north of Palisade on the highway plans a grand opening/open house Saturday, June 20. Heidi McGraw of Hamlet welcomes visitors to riding demonstrations and supper at "HIS Haven Ranch," a horse ranch where she and her husband, Kevin, and the riding ranch's mentors will share their faith in God, their love of horses and their belief in the healing powers of both... 
Honor Flight trip 'wonderful experience' for Thunderbird veteran
(06/08/09)Like many World War II vets, Melvin Thielbar of McCook doesn't care to re-hash his wartime experiences very often. When he and the rest of the U.S. Army 45th "Thunderbird" Infantry Division liberated the Dachau concentration camp, he said, "We don't like to talk about that much. Bodies everywhere." Of the hard-fought battle at Anzio, where U.S. troops withstood four months of violent assaults from the enemy before finally pushing through to France, he simply said, "That was tough."... 
Movie Review - The Hangover
(06/08/09)Movie Review - The Hangover Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis. Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content including nudity, and some drug material. It's hard to review an R rated raunchy comedy as I can't really say what they've done as it would ruin the joke and quite possibly offend those who don't want to know. The Hangover is full of offensive type moments that somehow seem hilarious when it's happening to a few guys on the big screen... 
Human nature, community support on menu at expanded Arapahoe sandwich, ice cream shop
(06/03/09)ARAPAHOE -- The Subway sandwich shop in Arapahoe is a study in human nature and a lesson in community support. The sandwich artists at the Subway and Goodrich Ice Cream Shop at the highway intersection in Arapahoe have noticed, since the shop opened in the summer of 2002 and expanded this spring, that men very seldom vary in their selection of sandwich fixings. ... 
Movie Review - Up
(06/01/09)Movie Review - Up Starring the voice talents of Ed Asner and Jordan Nagai. Rated PG for some peril and action. When it comes time to review a Pixar film such as Wall-E, Toy Story, or The Incredibles - I always think I should just skip it. There really isn't much I can say that people don't already feel towards Pixar films. ... 
You can't put a price on experience
(05/29/09)What'll ya give me for 20 years of experience? 20 years, 20 years? We've got 50 years -- How about 60 years, 70 years? How about 80 years ... 90 .... 100? What's 120 years worth? What'll ya give me for 140 years? 140 years of experience auctioneering? Not even the best auctioneer in the world can put a price on that much experience... 
World War II veteran honored on Nebraska Veterans Highway 83
(05/26/09)"At last, my love has come along, my lonely days are over, and life is like a song." Those were the words to the song that World War II Veteran Artie Lebsack, 88, of McCook, Neb., sang to Monica Harvey as he greeted her at his door. His daughters, Patsy Botts of Denver, Colo., and Lori Backer of Boise, Idaho, responded to the invitation for a Veteran to have his picture taken by one of the NEBRASKA VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY 83 signs. ... 
Getting and giving back
(05/21/09)Reality is a tough nut. Last month I learned that if a parent(s) has a job to go to and can not afford child care, the street becomes the babysitter. Another dose of reality: families live at the dump. Reality sucks. Through a very long string of events dating back to 1972 when I adopted a baby in Mexico City , I have always had an interest in orphanages in Mexico. ... 
Old-time soda fountain alive and well in Arapahoe
(05/15/09)ARAPAHOE -- Kayla Chambers celebrated her graduation from high school with a "black and black," her variation of the most popular ice cream treat served at the soda fountain tucked into a corner of the Arapahoe Pharmacy. Kayla stopped by the soda fountain Wednesday, her last full day of school at Arapahoe High School. ... 
New pastor sees two vocations as advantage
(05/13/09)Brett Scollard has always been active in church. Throughout his adult life, however, work kept getting in the way of what he really wanted to do with his life. "My heart is with people and their needs," he explained, "When I was younger, I tried to figure (spiritual) things out for myself, and it was slow going... 
Movie Review - Star Trek
(05/12/09)Movie Review - Star Trek Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content. Running Time of 126 minutes. Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, and Leonard Nimoy. I struggled with this review all weekend. I actually had a chance to watch Star Trek last Thursday morning before the big premiere and wrote a review then that I decided to trash. ...
McCook's Union Bank to become Horizon Bank
(05/06/09) Angie Muhleisen, President & CEO of Union Bank & Trust Company and Janet Latimer, President & CEO of Horizon Bank jointly announced today that the McCook branch of Union Bank will become a part of Horizon Bank. Both Union Bank and Horizon Bank are owned by the Dunlaps, a long-time Nebraska banking family. ... 
Movie Review - X-men Origins: Wolverine
(04/30/09)Movie Review - X-men Origins: Wolverine Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Shrieber, and Ryan Reynolds. Rated PG-13. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the first in a line of possible comic book based movies that will center on each mutant in the X-men comic books. Wolverine is and has been the most popular, so the first movie fittingly kicks off with him... 
Ben Haag to intern for another 'Ben' from McCook
(04/24/09)Ben Haag, a full-time student at North Platte Community College, had some big dreams when he was just a little shaver watching TV with his mom, Mary Sue Haag, formerly of McCook. U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson was there, announcing his candidacy for Governor of Nebraska... 
No corn in Bear Mountain Angus diet
(04/23/09)PALISADE -- Brian Stoller and his fiancée, Tiffany Skow have moved their purebred black Angus cattle for the last time," I don't plan on moving again," said Brian. The couple own and operate Bear Mountain Angus and have settled into the quiet hills of Palisade... |
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