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James 'Jim' Clarence Buchholz
(Obituary ~ 08/25/09)
June 30, 1948 - Aug. 23, 2009 OBERLIN -- James "Jim" Clarence Buchholz, 61, died Sunday (Aug. 23, 2009) at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. He was born June 30, 1948, in Denver, Colo., to John Gregory and Lois (Harris) Buchholz. He lived on a farm near Roggen, Colo., before moving to Sterling, Colo. ...
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Erma A. Hoeme
(Obituary ~ 08/25/09)
April 20, 1918 - Aug. 23, 2009 SCOTT CITY, Kan. -- Erma A. Hoeme, 91, died Sunday (Aug. 23, 2009) at Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City. She was born April 20, 1918, in Red Willow County to Henry and Dorothea (Wall) Hofman. On Sept. 20, 1942, she married Robert W. Hoeme Sr. in McCook. He died July 19, 1998, in Garden City, Kan. She was a homemaker. She had lived in Scott County since 1942, after moving from McCook...
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County finds items to cut
(Local News ~ 08/25/09)
Red Willow County's fair board cut $5,500 more from budgeted expenditures Monday morning to help commissioners maintain the county's $.036 tax levy. Fair board member Jay Schilling told commissioners during their weekly meeting that fair board members reduced building and grounds repair by $3,500 and shifted $1,000 in building supplies from the fair budget to the Kiplinger Arena budget...
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Direct hit
(Local News ~ 08/25/09)
A bolt of lightning strikes McCook Monday night, knocking out electricity for an instant in this view from Heritage Hills Golf Course. The west water tower is visible just to the right of the strike. The airport reported .65 of an inch of precipitation overnight, with unofficial reports of as much as 2.5 inches near Culbertson. ...
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Hauxwell anniversary
(Anniversary ~ 08/25/09)
The family of Richard and Jeanie Hauxwell hosted a family celebration July 25 and 26, in Omaha in honor of the couple's 50th wedding anniversary. They were married Aug. 25, 1959. Their family includes five children, Susie and husband, Kevin Marks, Stephani and husband, Ron Olson, Mark and wife, Julie Hauxwell, Brent and wife, Loretta Hauxwell and Gregg and wife, Danica Hauxwell. They have 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren with another on the way...
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Lab experiment gone wrong triggers disaster drill
(Local News ~ 08/25/09)
A life-threatening situation Saturday in McCook was as real as possible. The mock disaster at the National Guard Armory in McCook included the Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department and Hazardous Materials Response team, Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department and the 72nd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team of Lincoln, training for a disaster that in seconds could cause harm to students and families in any community...
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Sometimes demolition most important part of development effort
(Editorial ~ 08/25/09)
If you want to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs. The same applies to economic development. A story on page one today explains that McCook is among Nebraska cities sharing more than $1.6 million for neighborhood revitalization. The purpose is to purchase, redevelop and rehabilitate foreclosed, abandoned and vacant properties that are already or are becoming uninhabitable to return safe and decent affordable housing units to the market...
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NRDs conspiring with the state
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/25/09)
The State of Nebraska and the Republican River Basin (RRB) NRDs have been holding policy discussions in executive session secret sub-committee meetings again. Shortly after the Arbitrator ruled on June 30th that Nebraska was not doing enough to keep itself in compliance, the RRB NRD managers were summoned to Lincoln to hold discussions with the Governor's representatives and with the Attorney General's office. ...
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Cape Cod
(Column ~ 08/25/09)
The boss called me in and noted that I had not made a choice to go to a new duty station named Otis AFB. Indeed he was correct I had declined a chance to live on the East Coast of the United States. Our squadron in Great Falls, Mont., was closing and my two other available choices, Forbes AFB near Topeka and Shilling AFB near Salina, both in Kansas, were both comfortably close to my native Nebraska. ...
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