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Sunday storms hammer area
(Local News ~ 06/20/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Hayes Center, Nebraska, village clerk watched storm after storm after storm approach and hit her community Sunday evening. While McCook residents scurried for their basements because of a definite threat of a tornado about 8:30 p.m., Hayes County residents were bracing for the next of at least four severe late-spring storms that would pound their area throughout the evening and on toward midnight...
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Banquet, reception will mark George Norris, REA milestones
(Local News ~ 06/20/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- As a tribute to McCook's most famous citizen, the George W. Norris Foundation and the Norris Institute are joining to host a banquet and reception in honor of Sen. Norris' 150th birthday and the 75th anniversary of REA, the rural electric agency which Norris inspired with his legislative leadership...
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Airport fence price coming down to earth?
(Local News ~ 06/20/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The $1.7 million price tag on the FAA mandated wildlife fence at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport may finally be coming back down to earth. Public Works Director Kyle Potthoff told members of the Airport Advisory Commission, Thursday afternoon during their regularly scheduled meeting at Heritage Senior Center, that it seemed as if a light-bulb had come on over the heads of some FAA decision-makers...
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'Camping on the Creek'
(Local News ~ 06/20/11)
Cambridge, Nebraska, residents and neighbors celebrate the community's annual "Medicine Creek Days" with a parade Saturday morning. The parade theme, "Camping on the Creek," inspired the Sayer family to recreate a river bottom camp site on a float. Smokey Bear rode an all-terrain four-wheeler that Cambridge Fire and Rescue personnel can use in rough terrain along any creek bottom. ...
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City manager government best for city like ours
(Local News ~ 06/20/11)
With a change is city leadership, the idea of doing away with the city manager form of government -- going to a system where the mayor runs the city and is elected by the voters -- has been mentioned a few times. It may surprise those who haven't lived in McCook all their lives that McCook used to have an mayoral form of government, but voted in the city manager form of government on June 7, 1949...
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George the Giant Killer
(Column ~ 06/20/11)
George Norris was born in Ohio in 1861, the first year of America's great Civil War. By the time he was three years old his father and only brother had died, and George was raised in a household of women. At a young age he was fascinated by politics and the workings of the law. He was an avid reader, first following the campaign of Rutherford B. Hayes in the newspaper, and observing trials at the local court house whenever he got the chance...
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Cycling for children's hearts
(Local News ~ 06/20/11)
Cross-country bicyclists Nick Busta, second from left, and Nels Matson, third from left, visit Thomas Poore, second from right, at Poore's Tinker Tom's bicycle shop in McCook, Nebraska, Monday on their 3,800-mile trip from San Francisco to New York City to raise $75,000 for the Children's Heart Foundation. ...
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Nebraska adopting new drunk driving laws
(Column ~ 06/20/11)
This week I want to highlight two measures approved during the 2011 legislative session to update Nebraska's drunk driving laws. Both bills represent a common sense approach to dealing with the challenges presented by motorists who choose to drive drunk...
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International trade benefits Nebraska
(Column ~ 06/20/11)
Opening markets around the world is critical to Nebraska's continued economic development. Trade creates opportunity for Nebraska farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and small businesses to expand, generate jobs, invest in new technology, and continue growing our economy. For example, Nebraska exported more than $5.7 billion in merchandise to international markets in 2010, directly supported almost 20,000 jobs...
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Just when you think you've seen it all
(Column ~ 06/20/11)
The 1993 flood that hit Nebraska was one of the worst in our history causing millions of dollars in damage to public, private and agricultural property and facilities. As governor at the time I thought I'd seen it all but then along comes the Great Flood of 2011 which is shaping up to be even worse...
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