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More thoughts, musings, loose threads...
(Column ~ 06/14/12)
You know how sometimes you have a bunch of good ideas all jostling against each other, jockeying for position in your mind, trying desperately to work their way through the barest sliver of an opening to explode into the clear? And then, without warning or explanation, something unexpected comes busting through the clutter, silencing some and shaming all the rest?...
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Alvin Ray Brown
(Obituary ~ 06/14/12)
Alvin Ray Brown April 30, 1932 - June 11, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Alvin Ray Brown of McCook passed away Monday, June 11, 2011, near Trenton, Nebraska. He was 80 years old. Alvin was born on April 30, 1932, in Johnstown, Nebraska to Cecil Ray and Anna C. (Thompson) Brown. He attended school in Johnstown where he was a member of the football team. He later graduated from Milford Technological School with a degree in carpentry...
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On the Record
(Local News ~ 06/14/12)
This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...
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Boys earn lessons in the garden
(Features ~ 06/14/12)
LORRI SUGHROUE CULBERTSON, Nebraska -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least not for Ramona Wilkinson's grandsons. Wilkinson keeps them busy hoeing, planting, weeding and watering at her yard and at their own garden in Culbertson. It's all part of her way of teaching them a valuable life lesson: if you want to play, you have to pay...
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Premier Bank branch to change ownership
(Business ~ 06/14/12)
PURDUM, Nebraska -- Greg Stine, Chairman of the Board, of Premier Bank, has announced that the Premier Bank has entered into an agreement to sell substantially all of the assets and liabilities of the Purdum branch of Premier Bank to Curtis State Bank. ...
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Bartley native receives special recognition
(Business ~ 06/14/12)
LINCOLN, Nebraska -- Brad Sides, a Bartley native who lives in Nebraska City, received special recognition from a customer of Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, where he has worked for 12 years. "I have been in corporate aviation for 21 years and have experienced maintenance at many other service facilities. Duncan Aviation and Brad Sides made this maintenance event the best I have ever experienced," wrote the customer, who came in with a nose wheel steering malfunction on his corporate aircraft...
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Morthole earns certification
(Business ~ 06/14/12)
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin -- The Certification Board of the American Society for Quality has announced that Ryan Morthole of Community Hospital in McCook has completed requirements to be named an ASQ-Certified Six Sigma Green Belt -- ASQ SSGB. As such, Morthole, who has worked at Community Hospital for 2 1/2 years and lives in Culbertson, has achieved a proficiency in and comprehensive of Six Sigma principles and practices...
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NBDC office open June 20
(Business ~ 06/14/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Nebraska Business Development Center (NBDC) is pleased to announce that North Platte Center Director, Jason Tuller will be having office hours at the Keystone Business Center in McCook, Nebraska. NBDC is pleased to be working with the McCook Economic Development Corporation in order to provide face to face services for McCook and the surrounding areas. The hours will be from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., on June 20. Please contact MEDC at (308) 345-1200 to schedule appointments...
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'Cultivate Healthy Youth' program to receive grant funding
(Business ~ 06/14/12)
OMAHA, Nebraska -- Nine nonprofit organizations in Nebraska, including Cambridge Memorial Hospital and committed to improving the health of their communities -- have been awarded a total of $100,000 in wellness grants from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE). ...
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NPCC's classic car raffle tickets now on sale
(Features ~ 06/14/12)
NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- North Platte Community College's Transportation Division began selling raffle tickets for its latest classic car -- a 1962 Chevy Nova -- this week. The car will be on display at this year's NEBRASKAland DAYS Antique Car show and Parade on Friday, June 15, beginning at 9 a.m. On Friday afternoon, the car will be at Walmart in North Platte from 1 to 6 p.m...
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Tri Valley Medical Foundation and Cambridge Memorial Hospital Auxiliary award scholarships
(Features ~ 06/14/12)
CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Scholarships winners were announced at the Tri Valley Health System Hospital Week Picnic May 10.2012. Close to $18,000 in scholarship were awarded to area students. The Tri Valley Medical Foundation and Cambridge Memorial Hospital Auxiliary awarded College Scholarships to area students pursuing or furthering their education in the medical fields...
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MPCC's spring dean's list released
(Features ~ 06/14/12)
NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Enclosed is a list of Mid-Plains Community College students (all campus locations) who maintain an overall 3.5-3.89 (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average (GPA), which qualifies them for the Dean's List for the Spring 2012 Term...
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Fifth drunk driving charge results in 2nd offense plea
(Local News ~ 06/14/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- A McCook man who was arrested and charged in February with what was at least his fifth offense of drunk driving received his second conviction for DUI second offense, May 15, in Red Willow County Court. The offender, 48-year-old Donald Stuck of 512 1/2 East 7th Street, was subsequently sentenced on the charge to pay a $500 fine, serve 10 days in jail with credit given for two days already served and serve 24 months probation. ...
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Man pleads not guilty to fairgrounds burglary
(Local News ~ 06/14/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- A McCook man accused of burglarizing the Community Building at Red Willow County Fairgrounds pleaded not guilty, June 4 in Red Willow County District Court, to two charges stemming from the crime. The accused, 22-year-old Trevor Dean Gray, was allegedly caught on security camera burglarizing the building with the help of a second unidentified man...
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Welcome rain
(Local News ~ 06/14/12)
A rain storm, which included hail the size of lima beans, hits the back side of the Atwood, Kansas, High School Wednesday evening.
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Volunteers spend second day on grassfire
(Local News ~ 06/14/12)
CULBERTSON, Nebraska -- The man in the yellow bunker gear sounded tired, and a little discouraged, standing on the county road late Wednesday afternoon watching a grass fire that just wouldn't die. Neighbors in a nearby driveway had their bags packed, ready to grab their little dog and flee if the fire refused to give up the fight...
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Extension cord blamed for treehouse fire
(Local News ~ 06/14/12)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- A Nebraska state fire marshal blames an extension cord for the fire that consumed a kids' treehouse and its tree in McCook Wednesday night. No one was hurt in the fire, McCook fire chief Marc Harpham said this morning. Neighbors reported hearing an explosion and then discovered the fire about 9:30 p.m. in the backyard of Angela Hanes' home at 409 E. Fourth...
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Let's not make firefighters' jobs any harder this year
(Editorial ~ 06/14/12)
If you see a firefighter -- and the majority of them are volunteers, especially the rural ones -- give them a pat on the back, or perhaps buy them a cup of coffee. They'll need it. That's because most of them are working their regular jobs in the day while fighting fires at night. City firefighters were at a structure fire last night while rural crews, assisted by crop dusters dropping water, battled a recurring grassfire south of Culbertson...
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Summer officially begins June 20
(Column ~ 06/14/12)
Spring has sprung, fall has fell, summer is here -- and boy is it hot. Well, not exactly poetic, but the version that rhymes is not suitable for family newspapers. Actually summer will be here next week on June 20, at 5:09 p.m. MDT to be exact, when the sun reaches its most northern point from our view. The event is called the summer solstice...
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Things you do for your kids
(Column ~ 06/14/12)
When parents looks back over their years of parenting, it doesn't take long to recall some of the most ridiculous things they've done just for the sake of their kids. Well, that exact thought ran through my dirt-pelted head many a time this last Saturday...
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NRD OKs Ground Water Allocation for next five years
(Local News ~ 06/14/12)
CURTIS, Nebraska -- The Middle Republican NRD Board of Directors approved (7-4) a 60-inch, five-year ground water irrigation allocation at Tuesday night's board meeting after hearing or receiving written testimony from 10 individuals at the 4:30 p.m. public hearing in McCook...
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A day in the life of a city
(Column ~ 06/14/12)
A day in the life of a city All in the same day the city newspaper carried stories about crime, predators, instant millionaires, mad hikers and oppressed artists. YOUNG MEN DIE AND KILLERS GO FREE The front page picture shows a family holding up a photo of their murdered son. Ten witnesses saw who did it but none will testify. This took place in a neighborhood ruled by gangs. Any person willing to testify knows with certainty they will be targeted themselves in retribution...
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