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Mary Jane Lee Cemer
(Obituary ~ 09/05/12)
Mary Jane Lee Cemer Nov. 19, 1936 - Sept. 2, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Mary Jane Lee Cemer passed away Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was 75 years old. Mary Jane was born on Nov. 19, 1936, at rural Palisade, Nebraska, to Sidney Jane and Belle Harriet (Taplin) Coker. She graduated from Palisade High School in 1954...
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Harold Clarence Kamla
(Obituary ~ 09/05/12)
Harold Clarence Kamla Aug. 3, 1920 - Aug. 30, 2012 IDALIA, Kansas-- Harold Clarence Kamla, 92, died Aug. 30, 2012, at Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman, He was born Aug. 3, 1920, in Cheyenne County, Kansas. He was a farmer. He is preceded in death by his wife, Frances (Walz) in 2000...
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Joan Phyllis (Zorn) Deeds-Hatch
(Obituary ~ 09/05/12)
Joan Phyllis (Zorn) Deeds-Hatch July 27, 1929 - Sept. 1. 2012 BIRD CITY, Kansas -- Joan Phyllis (Zorn) Deeds-Hatch, 83, of Bird City, died Saturday (Sept. 1, 2012) at Atwood Good Samaritan Center. She was born July 27, 1929, at Benkelman, Nebraska...
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On the record
(Community News ~ 09/05/12)
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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Vietnam War vet Mike Helm is candidate for American Legion National Commander
(Community News ~ 09/05/12)
NORCATUR, Kansas -- Michael D. Helm, a veteran of service in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, is proudly announced by the Department of Nebraska as a candidate for the high office of national commander of The American Legion. A 41-year continuous member of Jack Helt Post 313 at Lebanon, Neb., Helm served with the 82nd Airborne Division in Ft. Bragg, N.C., and earned his Ranger tab during the winter of 1972...
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Downtown McCook the focus of a new steering committee
(Editorial ~ 09/05/12)
An impressive cross-section of McCook leaders and citizens will help reshape the heart and soul of our community.
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Listen, and you will hear
(Column ~ 09/05/12)
I grew up with an insatiable appetite for words. In an effort to satisfy that hunger, I read everything, and I mean absolutely everything I could get my hands on, including items I had no business reading during my tender years, or adult years for that matter...
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Art contest deadline Sept. 10
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Hillcrest Nursing Home Open House Committee encourages area artists to enter their art contest which will be judged and on display for the facility's open house next week. Deadline for entries is Monday, Sept. 10. There are three divisions, adults, teens, and 12 and under, with three ribbon placings in each division. The artwork may encompass any of the following categories: water, oil, sketch or photography...
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Sheehy guest speaker Tuesday at SPUCC
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy is the guest speaker at the Sept. 11 meeting of the South Platte United Chambers of Commerce dinner at the Keystone Business Center, 402 Norris Ave. Registration is due no later than Thursday. Dinner is at 6 p.m., preceded by a social hour beginning at 5:30 p.m. Dinner tickets are $15. Call (308) 345-1200 for more information or to register for the event...
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Benefit tickets
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
Tickets are still available for the concert to benefit 6-year-old, first grader Isaiah Casillas and his family of McCook, Nebraska, as Isaiah and his doctors and neurosurgeons fight the "high grade undifferentiated neoplasm" cancer growing in Isaiah's brain. ...
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The clouds move in ...
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
And they move out just as fast. A promising bank of clouds swept over Trenton, Nebraska, Tuesday afternoon, but quickly moved on and then fell in on themselves, leaving Southwest Nebraska without rain -- again. How much ya wanna bet on the forecast of "slight chance of thunderstorms" Thursday and Friday?...
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MCC welcomes new faculty, staff
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- There are a number of new faces at McCook Community College this semester including: Summer Dickinson will teach English; She received her M.A. in English from Fort Hays in 2011 and has been at York College since 2007, where she developed that school's first English composition course for on-line students as well as designing curriculum of Development English and English composition courses...
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Trenton man sentenced in sexual assault case
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
TRENTON, Nebraska -- A 24-year-old rural Trenton, Nebraska, man was sentenced to spend the next 36-60 months in the Nebraska penitentiary following his conviction in August of first degree, first offense sexual assault of a minor, a Class II felony...
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Construction progressing rapidly at Red Willow Dam
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
MCCOOK, Nebraska -- The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that construction activities related to extensive modifications at Red Willow Dam are progressing at an accelerated rate. "The contract completion date for Red Willow Dam modifications is currently Nov. ...
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Nothing too out-of-date for this VK repair man
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- If there was a patron saint for those old televisions or turntables, it would be Roy Donner of McCook. Nothing is too old or out-of-date for Donner to take a look at. From dog training collars to jukeboxes, pinball machines or exercise machines, if it doesn't work, Donner's your man...
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City reworks water and sewer rate increases
(Local News ~ 09/05/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook City Council reduced their previously approved 3.5 percent water and sewer rate increases for the upcoming fiscal year, prior to the item's second of three required readings, Monday evening. Following discussion prompted by input from citizens, councilors unanimously approved a water rate increase of 1.75 percent and a sewer rate increase of 3.25 percent...
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Oberlin blanks Cambridge
(High School Sports ~ 09/05/12)
Grant Strunk/McCook Daily Gazette Decatur Community running back Zach May (7) drags Cambridge defensive lineman Dester Besler (72) for extra yardage during high school football action at Oberlin, Kan., last Friday night. The host Red Devils blanked Cambridge, 26-0...
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