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Florine Hurst
(Obituary ~ 08/24/15)
Florine Hurst Aug. 28, 1924 - Aug. 20, 2015 COLBY, Kan. -- Florine Hurst, 90, died Thursday (Aug. 20, 2015), at Citizen Medical Center in Colby, Kansas. She was born Aug. 28, 1924, to John Sylvester and Hattie (Cheves) Gregg north of Loving, Texas...
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Georgianna (Towne) Ervin
(Obituary ~ 08/24/15)
Georgianna (Towne) Ervin July 24, 1923 - Aug. 14, 2015 GOLDEN, Colo. -- Georgianna (Towne) Ervin of Golden, Colorado, died Aug. 14, 2015, in Golden. She was born on July 24, 1923, in Frontier County, Nebraska. She was preceded in death by her husband, J. Willis Ervin...
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Donation to Habitat for Humanity
(Local News ~ 08/24/15)
Great Western Bank in McCook recently donated $250 to Southwest Nebraska chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The funds were raised during the month of August by Great Western Bank employees. Each month, employees wear jeans on Fridays to supprt a local cause and at the end of the month, they donate the collected funds to a charity or non-profit group. ...
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Three McCook sites included in Nebraska Passport Program
(Local News ~ 08/24/15)
Lorri Sughroue McCook Gazette McCOOK, Neb. -- There's more to Nebraska than corn -- or football. Just ask Amanda Barker of the Nebraska Tourism Commission, who's been criss-crossing the state since July, checking out all 80 stops on the Nebraska Passport Program. "I get to explore professionally," she joked...
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Brain drain hurts Russian space program, U.S. in turn
(Editorial ~ 08/24/15)
It's probably hard for today's teenagers to relate to the the excitement space nerds who grew up in the 1960s feel when they see the latest photos posted on the NASA website. We're still checking out the photos of Pluto snapped by the New Horizons probe that took so long to reach the planet that it was no longer a planet by the time it arrived...
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Alzheimers fund raiser Tuesday at hospital
(Local News ~ 08/24/15)
A fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Memory Walk will be 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday in the form of a bake sale at the McCook Community Hospital. The bake sale will take place at Prairie View A off of the main lobby. The Alzheimer's Memory Walk will take place on October 3. Funds raised from the fundraiser event will go towards helping local, state and national Alzheimer's patients and care givers. For more information, contact Carrie Boyd-Johnson at (308)-340-0323...
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Few leftovers at Culbertson Mobile Pantry
(Local News ~ 08/24/15)
CULBERTSON, Neb. -- Coordinators of the first-ever "Mobile Pantry" in Southwest Nebraska were overwhelmed by the response to the food distribution in Culbertson Saturday morning. "This was our first Mobile Pantry in the area, and we had to 'guesstimate' the need," said Lea Childress of Omaha. agency relations manager for FoodBank for the Heartland, which provided the truck-load of food. "We guestimated low."...
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Remodeled Brooks Hall full, enrollment up
(Local News ~ 08/24/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- With students back on campus this week, McCook Community College officials are excited about a couple early "key" numbers -- enrollment and residency numbers in remodeled Brooks Hall. According to the latest figures enrollment is up at MCC by almost 6 percent, every bed in Brooks Hall is filled and students are returning to campus with a new enthusiasm...
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City ponders internal loan to buy equipment
(Local News ~ 08/24/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- The 2015-16 proposed City of McCook budget includes just shy of $200,000 in equipment expenditures and city leaders are looking to double that amount and take out a loan to cover the expense. "We've got a lot of equipment thats undergone a lot of repair here recently. ...
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Elizabeth Ann Mines
(Obituary ~ 08/24/15)
Elizabeth Ann Mines June 14, 1931 - Aug. 23, 2015 OBERLIN, Kan. -- Elizabeth Ann Mines, 84, died Sunday (Aug. 23, 2015), at Good Samaritan Society-Decatur County Oberlin. She was born June 14, 1931, in Denver, Colorado, to John and Anna (Fiala) Locy. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1949. She married Donald Mines on Aug. 30, 1950, in Oberlin. She was a homemaker and co-owner of the Bargain Box in Oberlin...
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