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Laddie 'Bud' Rae Cline
(Obituary ~ 09/04/12)
Laddie 'Bud' Rae Cline Dec. 7, 1931 - Sept. 1, 2012 BENKELMAN, Nebraska -- Laddie "Bud" Rae Cline passed away at his home in Benkelman on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. He was 80 years old. Bud was born in Benkelman to Martin O. and Mayme (Strayer) Cline on Dec. 7, 1931. He graduated from Benkelman High School in 1947...
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Veryl E. Walters
(Obituary ~ 09/04/12)
Veryl E. Walters March 5, 1929 - Aug. 3, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Veryl E. Walters passed away Friday, August 31, 2012, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. He was 83 years old. Veryl was born on March 5, 1929, at Lebanon, Nebraska, to John and Audra (Tipton) Walters. He graduated from Danbury High School in 1946...
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McCook Piecemakers Quilt Club presents 'Braid in a Day' program
(Community News ~ 09/04/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook Piecemakers Quilt Club will present the program, "Braid in a Day - and 3 More" on Sunday, Sept. 9, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 312 Seminole Drive in McCook. The program is from "Quilt in a Day" series and will be presented by Patricia Knoechel (Elenor Burns' sister)...
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Mini cheerleaders
(Community News ~ 09/04/12)
Courtesy photo/Lloyd Shields Little cheerleaders take to the field and demonstrate their techniques, during halftime at the McCook/Scottsbluff football game Friday night. The girls were taught by the McCook High School cheerleaders at workshops the previous week...
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Surgical robot by UNL grad students wins national competition
(Community News ~ 09/04/12)
LINCOLN, Nebraska -- A team of graduate students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Surgical Robotics Lab won first place in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 2012 Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition, Graduate Student Robotics category, with their project, "Miniature In Vivo Surgical Robot for Single-Incision Surgery."...
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On the Court Record Sept. 4, 2012
(Features ~ 09/04/12)
This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...
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Nebraska NRDs assist state at Kansas v Nebraska trial
(Local News ~ 09/04/12)
PORTLAND, Maine -- Staff of Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) in Nebraska's Republican Basin have played a key role in helping the State of Nebraska defend itself against the State of Kansas in a lawsuit filed in the US Supreme Court. The trial, before Special Master William J. Kayatta, Jr., was held in Portland beginning August 13. It concluded on August 23...
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Nebraska Tourism debuts new online photo gallery
(Local News ~ 09/04/12)
LINCOLN, Nebraska -- The Nebraska Tourism Commission continues to make its website more accessible and useful, and now the beauty of Nebraska can be more easily shared through an improved online photo gallery. The new gallery can be accessed at photogallery.visitnebra ska.com/start/...
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Tree rebates available for fall planting
(Local News ~ 09/04/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The City of McCook Tree Rebate Program has begun its fall season. The program offers rebates to citizens who purchase trees between the dates of Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, 2012. Rebate requests for the fall season need to be submitted by Dec. 10, 2012...
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Kids' program
(Local News ~ 09/04/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- McCook Christian Church is coordinating an open house Wednesday at 4 p.m. to kickoff their Wednesday Night Kids Program. The event is free to attend and focuses on children ages five to fifth grade. Activities include a 40 foot inflated obstacle course, bouncy house and other games and prizes...
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Hayes Center opens grocery store distribution warehouse
(Local News ~ 09/04/12)
HAYES CENTER, Nebraska -- Maxine Moul, the director of Nebraska USDA Rural Development, helped the community of Hayes Center open a new grocery distribution warehouse during a ceremony Friday afternoon. The new distribution warehouse for Scott's Grocery Store in downtown Hayes Center was built with funding provided to the village of Hayes Center through a Rural Development grant program designed to facilitate and finance the development of small and emerging rural, private business enterprises...
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It's dry, and getting drier
(Local News ~ 09/04/12)
A Maywood/Wellfleet, Nebraska firefighter watches the prairie fire that scorched pastureland in central Frontier County Sunday afternoon. Behind him, a M/W fire truck kicked up a cloud of powder-fine dust as it pulled off the county road, passed tree skeletons and rolled into the pasture northeast of Red Willow Lake. ...
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Compliance a dicey matter for governors across the nation
(Editorial ~ 09/04/12)
Nebraska Department of Insurance presents programs outlining the state's options for implementing the Affordable Care Act.
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Blue moon
(Column ~ 09/04/12)
"Once in a Blue Moon," is a phrase that I have heard as long as I can remember. I figured that the meaning was self explanatory -- something that didn't happen very often. Just one of those things that we accept and don't think much about. Then last week the wife of a friend from high school days was filling us in on her husband's misfortune. ...
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Mary Jane Lee Cemer
(Obituary ~ 09/04/12)
Mary Jane Lee Semer Nov. 19, 1936 - Sept. 2, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Mary Jane Lee Semer, 75, died Sunday (Sept. 2, 2012), at Hillcrest Nursing Home. Services are pending with Carpenter Breland Funeral Home in McCook
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Early woes doom Bison in loss to Scottsbluff
(High School Sports ~ 09/04/12)
Deja vu all over again for the McCook High School football team Friday night, Aug. 31, in a 17-7 loss to Scottsbluff. The outcome of Friday's game at Weiland Field was basically decided by a few plays, this time mostly in a six-minute stretch to start the game when the Bearcats scored twice to build a 14-0 lead. ...
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