Business

Corporate challenge comes through for United Way (03/02/10)
A friendly competition among businesses in McCook has paid huge dividends for the McCook United Way. In fact, the support of the competing businesses and their employees provided more than 70 percent of the funds raised in 2009-10 campaign for the non-profit organization that helps fund 15 local agencies...

Winery honors determination of ancestors (03/01/10)
FARNAM -- Gary Wach is in awe of the drive and the determination -- and faith -- that his great-grandparents must have possessed to leave their home in Russia and immigrate to a young, wild America 125 years ago. Gary's great-grandparents, Friedrich Hermann and Maragaretha Minna Nagel Wach, came to America with nine children in tow, and arrived on Ellis Island on June 18, 1885, the same day as the Statue of Liberty, Gary said. ...

Retiring engineer won't miss long hours (02/25/10)

Automotive business passes to next generation (02/09/10)
The legacy of Otto Nilsson -- a man committed to service with a sale and fair, friendly treatment of everyone -- continues into the second half-century of the automotive business that the Swedish immigrant started in McCook in 1950. Annette Nilsson Irwin, Otto's daughter, assumed ownership and control of Automotive Sales and Service in August 2009, moving from Omaha to McCook last summer...

Chamber Santa Cash Auction Saturday (12/16/09)
The value of the dollar has taken a beating in recent months, but Chamber Santa Cash is still a strong currency at the McCook Chamber of Commerce. Only a few days remain for shoppers to exchange their receipts from participating local businesses for the unusual-looking greenbacks. After Saturday's Chamber Santa Cash auction, they will become worthless...

'The Kloset' Hormel winner open for business (11/23/09)
Only five months after winning the Hormel Business Plan Competition, clothing retailer "The Kloset" opened the doors of its much-anticipated boutique at 217 Norris Ave. in McCook this morning. "Our motto is trendy yet affordable," said co-owner and McCook native Stephanie Dusatko, who founded the Kloset together with her husband, Jeffrey Dusatko, and her sister, Ashley Hagan...

Optimism after fire as dealership looks to the future (10/30/09)
IMPERIAL -- Gratitude, mixed with frustration. Discouragement combined with optimism. Determination and pride. Those are only some of the roller coaster emotions that Sid Harchelroad, owner of Harchelroad Motors, expressed when discussing the Oct. 17 fire that consumed the 150 x 150 foot facility at 316 Broadway in Imperial that housed much of his business...

Dance studio bringing vacant building back to life (09/30/09)
A long-standing empty building on West First Street and C Street has been transformed into a photography and dance studio by owners Cody and Amanda Dame. Divine Productions, the photography / videography / disc jockey business, has been in operation for several years as a home-based business and more recently, located at Westview Plaza. However, the dance studio, Spotlight Studios, is a new venture the couple is embarking upon with the help of their new dance instructor Nora Lobjanidze...

Walmart grand reopening Wednesday (09/29/09)
McCook's Walmart Supercenter will open its doors on the finished product of a three-month remodeling project with a a grand re-opening ceremony Wednesday at 8 a.m. McCook Mayor Dennis Berry, McCook Chamber of Commerce Director Pam Harsh and 20-plus-year store associates will join in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. To help with the celebration, a local Boy Scout troop will post the colors as members from the McCook High School Marching Bison Band perform the National Anthem...