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Republican River tour takes on new sense of urgency (05/02/08)
LINCOLN -- An early June water and natural resources tour will visit the lower Republican River basin in Kansas and Nebraska to help answer water use questions in the basin. The annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce water and natural resources tour is June 3-5, beginning and ending on UNL's East Campus...

Groups make pitch to board of education (04/30/08)
Three groups made their pleas for changes -- or enhancement -- before members of the McCook Public Schools board of education during a special board meeting Tuesday evening. Superintendent Dave Schley told members of the public that the board has "lots of things on their plate," but that they'll look at everything. The board is faced with, he said, requests that would require "way more money" than is available...

NRDs study pipeline to Kansas (04/30/08)
A pipeline to send water to Kansas is an idea being floated by the three Republican River Basin natural resources districts. The concept is still in the talking stages, but a preliminary engineering study done by the Miller & Associates engineering firm in Kearney initially identified nine possible well sites in the Upper and Lower Republican River districts...

Injection well finally gets approval from state (04/23/08)
The drinking water treatment plant in McCook has been on-line for nearly two years, but the process to dispose of the waste from the plant wasn't resolved until April 8. That's when the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality approved the permit for McCook to operate a Class I non-hazardous waste injection well at the sewer treatment plant...

NASA scientist visits town where he learned how to fly (04/22/08)
Twenty five years after Dick Trail of McCook taught him to fly, Mike Wusk prepared to leave McCook with three other members of his NASA atmospheric study crew this morning on their way back to Virginia from Alaska. Their plane is equipped with downward looking Lidar (light detection and ranging) laser, coupled with a telescope, to study pollution from the Pacific Rim and Europe that collects as a brown haze over the Arctic...

Council turns down cell phone tax (04/22/08)
After hearing from the public and discussing it among themselves, McCook City Council members unanimously shot down a proposal to impose a 3 percent occupation tax on cell phones usage in the city. City staff had recommended the cell phone tax, as landline telephones are taxed as a utility and cell phones should be treated the same way. It was also suggested as a way to boost declining utility revenue in the General Fund budget, which pays for city salaries and services...

Christensen: Override doubtful (04/03/08)
There may not be enough votes to override Gov. Dave Heineman's veto of a increased gas tax that lawmakers approved in the state budget, said Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial. Christensen said he voted in the increase, that would raise fuel prices about a penny per gallon, because he believed in a self-funding system -- where those who use the roads pay for the costs -- and that the increase would help fund roads in western Nebraska...

State offering $500 reward for information on hoop net fishing (03/25/08)
LINCOLN -- Nebraska Wildlife Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person using a hoop net to catch fish from the Republican River near Orleans. Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Conservation Officer Rich Routh said it is unlawful for anyone to possess or use a hoop net in Nebraska except licensed commercial fishermen may use them in the Missouri River. ...

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