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Before, during and after
(Local News ~ 01/17/12)
"Sandy" poses for "before, during and after" photographs at the McCook, Nebraska, Humane Society Animal Shelter. Animal shelter officials are absolutely outraged that someone dropped the little dog over the top of an 8-foot chain link fence into the shelter's outside kennel on a night when temperatures plunged to the low 20s recently. ...
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MCC staff, faculty brace for changes
(Local News ~ 01/17/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- After last week's announcement that two of the colleges top officials are leaving, McCook Community College faculty and staff returned to classes Monday as the spring term opens amid a flurry of change. Mid-Plains Community College CEO Dr. ...
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High prices send more to the McCook Pantry
(Features ~ 01/17/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- With high food prices squeezing wallets, more people than ever are showing up at the Food Pantry. Dorothy Henton, Pantry coordinator, said approximately 1,500 more people were served in 2011 than in 2010. Numbers showed that the Pantry gave out food to 3,146 households last year, that fed 10,106 people. In 2010, 2,761 visited the Pantry, with 8,763 people helped...
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Teacher, retiree appointed to City Council
(Local News ~ 01/17/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Mayor Dennis Berry appointed Bruce McDowell and Janet Hepp to fill the two vacant City Council seats, Monday evening, during the council's regularly scheduled meeting at council chambers. The appointments were unanimously approved without comment by fellow City Councilmen Mike Gonzales and Jerry Calvin...
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Silence is not always golden
(Column ~ 01/17/12)
"November five four Tango Tango you are cleared to depart runway one eight. Upon reaching three thousand feet turn right to a heading of two seven zero and climb to one one thousand." Do we were cleared to fly by the simulator instructor. For once, our twin Cessna rapidly accelerated and took off into a clear blue sky. I had just made the turn to the west when the fire light came on for the left engine...
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Radon, lung cancer related as leading causes of death
(Editorial ~ 01/17/12)
It's been 48 years since U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Luther L. Terry issued the first warning about smoking being linked to lung cancer, but the message still needs to be heard. Lung cancer now surpasses breast cancer as the number one cause of death among women, probably because while advances have been made in breast cancer detection and treatment, lung cancer has one of the lowest survival rates of any cancer...
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