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Anita Ellen Drain
(Obituary ~ 03/08/11)
June 20, 1948--March 2, 2011 OREM, Utah -- Anita Ellen Drain, 62, passed away due to prolonged health issues on March 2, 2011. She was surrounded by loving family members. Anita was born on June 20, 1948, in McCook, Nebraska, to Raymond and Roberta (Haining) Drain. ...
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Building destroyed
(Local News ~ 03/08/11)
Red Willow Western Rural Firefighters extinguish the remains of a car inside a garage owned by Scott Martin northeast of McCook Monday afternoon. Firefighters responded to a call of a garage on fire at approximately 3 p.m. Upon arrival the building was fully engulfed in flame. ...
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Jail expert: Keep it simple
(Local News ~ 03/08/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County commissioners learned during their weekly meeting Monday that jails aren't rocket science. Loren Anderson of Treanor Architects P.A., Topeka, Kansas, said that a jail just has to be designed to keep staff at the safest level. "Keep it simple and efficient," Anderson told commissioners...
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Council advised to wait until funding available to improve vacant lot
(Local News ~ 03/08/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- After coordinating with several local groups Doug Joyce of the McCook Community College and Rex Nelson of the McCook Economic Development Corporation told the McCook City Council that patience was the best approach for the vacant lot at Norris Avenue and B Street, formerly home to the Romanoff building...
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Tale of two cities
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/08/11)
The zeitgeist of false pride is palpable in the raging war between the public unions and 'We the People.' The discourse in Madison, Wisconsin, exemplified by many within the ranks of the public sector unions, demonstrates a spirit that labors not to improve working conditions or negotiate a fair wage, but rather exerts a seemingly indefatigable force to institutionalize attitudes that subvert the republican process and undermine the common good. ...
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Charlie Sheen advice
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/08/11)
Charlie Sheens' advice to America and the reaction from dictator Moammar Gadhafi to the rebukes of President Obama and Hillary Clinton, remind me of the words from a classic rock and roll song. Quote: "You can't even run your own life, I'll be damned if you run mine."...
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Groundwater Week recognizes valuable resource
(Editorial ~ 03/08/11)
Subtract one component from Nebraska's natural resources, and you'd have a very different state. Without the massive Ogallala Aquifer, "The Great American Desert" might be just that, suitable at best for grasslands instead of the crops irrigated by the wells and reservoirs at the heart of the Republican River Compact dispute...
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MCC women bow out of Region IX Tournament
(High School Sports ~ 03/08/11)
CASPER, Wyoming -- A second-half scoring spurt was a key to McCook Community College bowing out of the National Junior College Athletic Association Region IX Tournament Monday, March 7. The MCC women watched Otero Junior College of La Junta, Colorado pull ahead late in the second half, and the Indians couldn't catch up in a 68-58 loss. The Region IX women's action is being contested at the Swede Erickson Thunderbird Gym at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming...
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Roughing it in California
(Column ~ 03/08/11)
Mea culpa! A reader very correctly pointed out that the dam and reservoir north of McCook is located on the Red Willow Creek, not the Medicine as I had written. It makes me wonder how the mind can twist around well known facts. I know not why but notice that it happens more often as I get older. Yes by all means fix the dam!...
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