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Leaders support Work Ethic Camp
(Local News ~ 02/20/03)
From Washington to Lincoln, an outcry has risen over a proposal in the Nebraska Legislature's appropriations committee to close the Work Ethic Camp. In a teleconference with U.S. Senator Ben Nelson and later in the morning with Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, State Sen. Tom Baker and Lt. Gov. Dave Heinemann, members of the McCook Chamber of Commerce Legislative Committee were promised support for the McCook Work Ethic Camp...
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Every voice counts
(Column ~ 02/20/03)
Dear Editor, I feel you have a right to know why I have chosen to be involved in the lawsuit against the city of McCook. When I was asked some 15 to 18 months ago to quote a price for a new backhoe to the city of McCook, I thought I would have a fair chance to do business with our city. ...
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Bush can't stop
(Column ~ 02/20/03)
Dear Editor, I feel I must respond to Kirt Matson's response to Mike Hendricks' column in the Open Forum of Feb. 13. First of all, in my opinion, Mike is right on. How many innocent people do you think will die if your great leader gets his way? Like in Afghanistan, where we killed more civilians than Taliban with our bombing. How many of our own troops will die needlessly?...
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Enjoys Web cam
(Column ~ 02/20/03)
Dear Editor, Having left McCook around 1952, and having a mother who still lives there, we appreciate your scene looking down Main Street (Norris) Ave. It seems that most of my brothers also look at your Web pages practically every day. I think it's called "roots."...
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Life's a gamble
(Column ~ 02/20/03)
Dear Editor, I want to take this time to bring up the casino gambling issue again. Like many others, I have been sitting on the fence wondering which way I would climb over if this would come to a vote in Nebraska. It seems our law-makers all know the word Tax. Every time we turn around, they're raising our taxes, such as on land, house and home, cigarettes and most of all, fuel tax...
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Who should pay?
(Column ~ 02/20/03)
Dear Editor, One subject you didn't touch in your editorial on 2-19-03. Why should the people outside of the McCook city limits pay 1/2 cent sales tax to pay on a debt that the taxpayers of McCook brought on themselves, by voting in the City Council that made the debt for them? ...
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Work Ethic Camp
(Column ~ 02/20/03)
What in the world is Harold Clarke thinking? How could the state's chief prison official propose to shut down one of the most promising programs of criminal rehabilitation in Nebraska history? We're talking, of course, about the Work Ethic Camp in McCook. ...
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Taking a bow
(Local News ~ 02/20/03)
J. Gordon Christensen takes a bow from the organ loft at St. Catherine's Catholic Church Sunday afternoon in Indianola as the final note of his organ recital faded to memory. More than 200 area residents of all ages attended the premier event of the Republican Valley Renaissance Project. ...
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River settlement depended on well drilling moratium
(Local News ~ 02/20/03)
ELWOOD -- If it appeared late last year that the Middle Republican Natural Re-sources District board of directors imposed well drilling moratoriums in a hurry, it's because the settlement of the Kansas vs. Nebraska/Colorado Republican River lawsuit depended upon them...
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Body discovered at fire scene
(Local News ~ 02/20/03)
Red Willow Western firefighters and law enforcement officers discovered a body in a burned-out hut Wednesday morning, after the owner of the shack told them his friend may still have been inside. Red Willow County Sheriff Gene Mahon said late Wednesday afternoon deputies transported the body of Robert M. Scott, 46, of 212 E. Second, McCook, to Scottsbluff for an autopsy that will determine the cause of his death...
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Faye Killough
(Obituary ~ 02/20/03)
BEAVER CITY -- Faye Killough, 75, formerly of Red Cloud, died Tuesday (Feb. 18, 2003) at Christian Homes in Holdrege. She was born Nov. 26, 1927, to Floyd and Zola (Ingram) Corbett in Red Cloud. She spent her early years in Webster County. She graduated from Jewel County High School in Kansas in 1945. She attended Kansas Wesleyan College in Kansas. She taught school for several years...
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Cynthia J. Cleveland
(Obituary ~ 02/20/03)
STRATTON -- Cynthia J. Cleveland, 44, died Monday (Feb. 17, 2003) at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. She was born March 18, 1958, to Leroy and Betty (Biodrowski) Trainor in Colorado Springs, Colo., and graduated from Aurora Central High School in Aurora, Colo. After graduation she worked with Wackenhut Security for several years...
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Charlie Park
(Obituary ~ 02/20/03)
EDISON -- Charlie Park, 58, died Tuesday (Feb. 18, 2003) at his home in Edison. He was born Feb. 11, 1945, to Bennie and Nettie (Penrod) Park in Danbury. He lived in a number of communities in Nebraska and Colorado while growing up. On May 21, 1965, he married Jeri Bash of Alma in Phillipsburg, Kan. ...
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