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Nelson: More than $4.8 million in stimulus funds for green job training
(State News ~ 01/21/10)
January 20, 2010 -- Today, Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson welcomed an announcement by the U.S. Department of Labor that Nebraska will receive a total of more than $4.8 million to fund job training in wind, biofuels and green sustainable building technologies. The funds are made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009...
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Mavis M. Petersen
(Obituary ~ 01/21/10)
Sept. 29, 1917 - Jan. 19, 2010 KEARNEY -- Mavis Maureen Petersen, 92, died Tuesday (Jan. 19, 2010) at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born Sept. 29, 1917, at Culbertson the daughter of the late Joseph and Rena (Brown) McNeice. Mavis grew up at Culbertson where she graduated from Culbertson High School in 1935. She was baptized in the Culbertson Presbyterian Church...
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Bison senior has gold-medal mat dreams
(High School Sports ~ 01/21/10)
It took McCook High School senior Nate Morgan over three years to amass 99 victories in a standout prep wrestling career. It took Morgan just 11 seconds to reach that magical 100th win. Morgan claimed the 100th win of his prep wrestling career with a fast pin over Kyle Helberg of Hill City, Kan., last Saturday in a 119-pound match at the Decatur Community Invitational at Oberlin, Kan. Morgan pinned Helberg in just 11 seconds...
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Vernice Eleanor (Harsh) LeMon
(Obituary ~ 01/21/10)
April 8, 1917 - Jan. 18, 2010 Vernice Eleanor (Harsh) LeMon, 92, died Monday (Jan. 18, 2010) at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born on Easter, April 8, 1917, on the family farm seven miles southwest of Bartley, the daughter of the late J. A. and Anna (Bremer) Harsh. She graduated from rural school and Bartley High School where she was class valedictorian in 1933...
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Public meeting on Red Willow Dam set Feb. 18
(Local News ~ 01/21/10)
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans a public meeting in McCook to keep the public up to date on activities at Red Willow Dam. The reservoir elevation of Hugh Butler Lake Wednesday was 2553.84 feet, content of 6,223 acre-feet. The target elevation is between 2,554 to 2,552 feet in elevation to allow additional investigation on the upstream face of the dam, and to assure the safety of the downstream areas...
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Proposed water tax takes cue from Qwest Center
(Local News ~ 01/21/10)
State Sen. Mark Christensen planned to introduce a water bill this morning that could make a big splash -- or at least cause a few ripples. Speaking at the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce Legislative conference call, Sen. Christensen said his bill would use 70 percent of sales taxes collected from rapid response areas in the Republican River Basin -- those closest to the river -- for a water solution fund...
- Out with the old (Local News ~ 01/21/10)
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Open-meeting laws should apply to NSAA
(Editorial ~ 01/21/10)
LB1021 is one of those proposals that seems like a no-brainer. State Sen. Bill Avery's bill would require the Nebraska School Activities Association to abide by open-meetings and public-records law. You mean it doesn't already? No, the NSAA is a private, nonprofit corporation and, as such, is not required to open its records for public scrutiny, publish advance notice of meetings or conform to other state requirements...
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The second star in the Winter Circle
(Column ~ 01/21/10)
Now on to our second star in the Winter Circle, or Hexagon. Beautiful orangish-red Aldebaran (al-DEB-a-ran), the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Taurus, the Bull. Its name in Arabic means "follower" probably because it seems to follow the Pleiades (PLEE-a-deez) star cluster across the sky rising at about the same place on the eastern horizon. It is a red giant star with a diameter about 36 times greater than our sun...
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