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Lucille Spaulding
(Obituary ~ 08/20/13)
Lucille Spaulding BENKELMAN, Nebraska -- Lucille Spaulding, 101, died Sunday (Aug.18, 2013), at the Sarah Ann Hester Home in Benkelman. Survivors include daughters, Jean Blecha of Benkelman and Jackie Kennedy of Wauneta, Nebraska, 8 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 31 great-great-grandchildren...
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Lillie M. Solko
(Obituary ~ 08/20/13)
Lillie M. Solko July 18, 1913 - Aug. 17, 2013 ATWOOD, Kansas -- Lillie M. Solko, 100, died Saturday (Aug.17, 2013), at the Good Samaritan Center in Atwood. She was born July 18, 1913, to Henry Undone and Christina Josephine (Burk) Lintner at the farm northwest of Atwood...
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Gloria Grace VanSkike
(Obituary ~ 08/20/13)
Gloria Grace VanSkike Aug. 16, 2013 - Aug. 17, 2013 OMAHA, Nebraska -- Gloria Grace VanSkike, infant daughter of Joshua and Lisa (Jones) VanSkike of Minden, Nebraska, passed away Aug. 17, 2013, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska...
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on the record
(Other Record ~ 08/20/13)
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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Students in the News
(Community News ~ 08/20/13)
Graduate CLAREMORE, Oklahoma -- Rogers State University has announced its graduating class for 2013. The university awarded 595 degrees, including 337 bachelor's degrees, to students who completed their degrees in the summer or fall of 2012 and the spring of 2013...
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Appreciation scholarship
(Community News ~ 08/20/13)
Paul Wood, president of the McCook College Foundation, presented Norma Stevens with a plaque of appreciation at the foundation's regular board of directors meeting. Norma began serving on the foundation board in 1979, and continues to serve as a director and to be an "active ambassador" for McCook Community College. ...
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Allerheiligen scholarship awarded
(Community News ~ 08/20/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Kelsey Siebrandt was voted by her peers as the 2013 recipient for the Craig Allerheilgen Music Scholarship. MHS music teacher Abbey Misfeldt said the award is given to the senior in choir who showed leadership skills and passion in music and will be pursuing music in post-secondary education,...
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NCTA names Range Science instructor, Aggies rodeo coach
(Community News ~ 08/20/13)
CURTIS, Nebraska -- Bridger Chytka of Hemingford has been named the range science instructor and Aggies rodeo team coach at the University of Nebraska-Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, Curtis, Nebraska. "Bridger will coach student athletes for our intercollegiate rodeo team and will instruct range management, rodeo seminar and animal science courses," said Dr. Douglas Smith, chairman of NCTA's Agriculture Production Systems (APS) Division...
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Norma Jean 'Jeanie' Doyle
(Obituary ~ 08/20/13)
Norma Jean 'Jeanie' Doyle July 17, 1933 - August 17, 2013 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Norma Jean "Jeanie" Doyle passed away Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook surrounded by her family. She was 80 years old. Jeanie was born on July 17, 1933, at Herndon, Kansas, to parents, Otto Merton and Ruby Irene (Parker) Stinnette. She graduated from Herndon High School as Valedictorian of her class in 1951...
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Alley lights cost about $9,000 a year to operate
(Local News ~ 08/20/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Eliminating alley lights would save the city $9,000 annually, according to city officials. During Monday's City Council meeting, City Manager Jeff Hancock said he wanted to clarify his previous comments pertaining to alley lights and said he was speaking about a hypothetical scenario of the city experiencing a budget crunch, "I want to set the record straight, it is not a given thing," said Hancock...
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Council rejects truck wash
(Local News ~ 08/20/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook City Council turned down a special exception needed by a local business to expand its operation, after hearing arguments from neighboring businesses that the expansion could negatively impact their activities. The request came from Randy and Curtis Lashley, who operate a truck and farm equipment repair facility on Drive 716 west of Orscheln Farm & Home, and stemmed from their desire to build a truck washout at their location...
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Listening tour
(Local News ~ 08/20/13)
Sen. Deb Fischer answers a question at Monday's stop at McCook Community College on her listening tour. While she admitted Washington is mired in gridlock, the Valentine Republican said she has been able to work with even liberal senators on issues such as broadband Internet, cellular call completion and water resources. ...
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Wet paint
(Local News ~ 08/20/13)
Jeff Wagner of Colby Canvas, of Colby, Kansas, repaints the "CURVES" sign in downtown McCook, Nebraska, Aug. 16. Russ and Bev Schlager of McCook purchased the Curves club in August 2012, and cut a ribbon in front of the new location, at 416 Norris, in January 2013. Curves offers workout plans and programs to help motivate and assist women live a healthy lifestyle. For more information, contact Bev Schlager at 308-340-6681 or visit www.curves.com...
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Full steam ahead
(Column ~ 08/20/13)
Most readers will know that Grannie Annie, with generous help from this area, has been sending "care packages" to "her" soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. She works through the ministry called Adopt-A-Chaplain and sends copious numbers of flat rate postal packages filled with items not readily accessible to the fighting men in the field...
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Busy summer for EMS calls; fire chief urges renters to buy insurance
(Local News ~ 08/20/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Fire Chief Marc Harpham took a break from what has been a busy August to participate in the monthly Coffee with a Cop meeting hosted by the McCook McDonald's restaurant last week. Chief Harpham said his team had responded to 14-15 calls in the previous two days alone. ...
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Rhode Island's role
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/20/13)
History buffs enjoy visiting Providence, Rhode Island, founded by Roger Williams in 1636. His statue overlooks this city. Most history classes don't cover facts about Dr. John Clarke, a physician and a Baptist minister. His connection to Rhode Island and religious freedom is quite remarkable...
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What's a conservative
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/20/13)
The heritage Foundation, a group that has long championed the traditional American experiment, believes that today's citizen does not have a good understanding of true conservativism because we don't have fair representation in the press and are being demonized by liberals...
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Landowners liable
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/20/13)
If Canada hath oil to export, pipe it to the Atlantic or Pacific, build refineries and sell fuel to the U.S. Eminent domain is for schools, roads, public needs, not casinos, Walmarts, foreign companies! Concentrating the nations fuel supply in one spot is a perfect target for a Pearl Harbor, 9/11 grand slam...
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Being learned everything
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/20/13)
It is nearly September and school will begin. From pre-kindergarten to post-graduate, students will be learned everything from speling to indiferent calculus. They will be learned it because we have the finest teachers money can buy. Every intellectual activity such as business will be studies. Even logic might be considered as an elective...
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Sugary soft drinks linked to aggressive behavior in children
(Editorial ~ 08/20/13)
If obesity, tooth decay, diabetes and other health problems aren't enough to convince parents that sugary soda is bad for children, maybe they'll pay attention to a new study that links soda to aggression, attention problems and withdrawal behavior in young children...
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