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Thank you for choosing The McCook Gazette!

The McCook Gazette is owned by Rust Communications of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The McCook Gazette is printed three days a week, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and publishes a shopper that is distributed every Friday.

Office hours are Monday through Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

We invite members of the community to submit information for publication. To help us get the information we need, we offer the following links to forms.

  • Anniversary announcement
  • Birth announcement
  • Birthday announcement
  • Employment Application
  • Engagement announcement
  • Fact Check
  • Submit a photo
  • Submit a story or a story idea
  • Wedding announcement
Staff members
* Shary Skiles
Publisher
sskiles@ocsmccook.com
(308) 345-4500 ext. 106 Option 8
* Bruce Crosby
Editor
editor@mccookgazette.com
(308) 345-4500 ext 120 Option 7
* Lorraine Sughroue
Associate Editor
reporter@mccookgazette.com
308-345-4500 ext 118 Option 5
* Richard (RB) Headley
Sports Editor
sports@mccookgazette.com
308-345-4500 ext 114 Option 6
* Kenneth Morgan
Sales Representative
adsales5@mccookgazette.com
(308) 345-4500 ext 129 Option 4
Classified Ads
classifieds@mccookgazette.com
308-345-4500 ext. 105 Option 3
Legal Ads
mdglegals@mccooknet.com
308-345-4500 ext. 105
* Brenda Gillen
Business Manager
mdgbusiness@mccooknet.com
(308) 345-4500 ext 105 Option 9
* Sharon Holmes
Circulation Manager
circmgr@mccookgazette.com
(308) 345-4500 ext 108 Option 2
* Russell Kennedy
Production Manager
production@mccookgazette.com
(308) 345-4500 ext 131
* John Clapper
Press Foreman
308-345-4500
About Us
The Gazette has been serving McCook and the Golden Plains of Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas since 1911. The newspaper was founded by Harry Strunk and a partner, Burris Stewart. Apparently depressed over additional debt and family problems, Mr. Stewart committed suicide on the day the second issue was printed.

Mr. Strunk, only 19 at the time of the Gazette's origin, persevered in the face of adversity and continued to serve as the newspaper's publisher until his death in 1960.

First known as the Red Willow County Gazette, the newspaper started as a weekly and evolved into a semi-weekly and tri-weekly publication before becoming a daily in 1924. Five years later, in 1929, the Gazette became the first newspaper in the world to be regularly delivered by airplane. Called "The Newsboy," the plane dropped newspapers in area towns for several months before being damaged in a windstorm and taken out of service.

After serving in the Korean War and graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Harry Strunk's son, Allen, returned to McCook and succeeded his father as publisher. Under Allen Strunk's direction, the Gazette converted to the offset method of printing and became one of the most circulated dailies in the nation in counties with less than 15,000 population.

On Dec. 31, 1986, the Strunk family sold the Gazette to Gozia-Driver Media, a company which was later re-incorporated as US Media Group, Inc. Then, in 1997, the Gazette became part of Rust Communications.

The Gazette's Publisher, Sharyn Skiles, has been with the company since 1988, originally serving as Business Manager. Through the years, she has assumed duties in circulation, advertising, editorial, and production. She became General Manager in 2004 and Publisher in 2007.

The Gazette has 19 full and part-time employees and 28 newspaper carriers, who deliver the newspaper in Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas. The newspaper is published Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons.

The newspaper's slogan -- printed daily in the masthead and inscribed in a plaque at the front door -- is: "Service is the rent we pay for the space we occupy in this world."

Phone numbers

(308) 345-4500

  • Option 2 - Circulation & Subscriptions
  • Option 3 - Classified Ad or Legal Notices
  • Option 4 - Other Advertising
  • Option 5 - Obituary, anniversary, wedding or birthday notice
  • Option 6 - Sports Editor
  • Option 7 - News items
  • Option 8 - Publisher
  • Option 9 - Business Manager
  • Option 0 - if you are unsure of the person you need to talk to
  • Option

FAX (308) 345-7881

Postal address

123 West E Street
P.O. Box 1268
McCook, NE 69001

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