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Tax panel needs courage to propose change
(Column ~ 07/18/13)
The Scarecrow told the Wizard of Oz he wanted courage. The chairman of the Nebraska Tax Modernization Committee says he hopes his legislative colleagues will ask for the same thing when they look at recommendations from the committee later this year...
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Don Kennedy
(Obituary ~ 07/18/13)
Don Kennedy WAUNETA, Nebraska -- Don Kennedy, 79, longtime resident of the Wauneta area, died Wednesday (July 17th, 2013), at the Sunrise Heights Nursing Home in Wauneta. Survivors include his wife, Jackie of Wauneta; sons, Larry and wife, Gracia, of North Platte, Nebraska and Danny and wife, Teresa, of Purdum, Nebraska; daughters, Jannette Lantis of Hershey, Nebraska and Vicki Jussel and husband, Dave, of Waddell, Arizona; mother-in-law, Lucille Spaulding of Benkelman, Nebraska; 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.. ...
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Ernest Purvis
(Obituary ~ 07/18/13)
Ernest Purvis June 24, 1921 - July 17, 2012 GOODLAND, Kansas -- Ernest Purvis died Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at Wheat Ridge Acres of Goodland, Kansas, but maintained his residence at McCook, Nebraska. He was born June 24, 1921, to Charles and Agnes (Karrish) Purvis in Cambridge, Nebraska...
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Snow geese
(Local News ~ 07/18/13)
Peggy Rawn of Bartley, Nebraska, captured this image of a field of snow geese taking flight in early June. She was on U.S. Highway 6 & 34 between Funk and Axtell, Nebraska. The McCook Daily Gazette would love to showcase your weather photos. Readers can contribute to our daily weather page, subject to space and color availability, by emailing photos to editor2@ocsmccook.com or bringing them into the Gazette offices at West First and E Streets. ...
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Dry buses
(Local News ~ 07/18/13)
Joe Leamon of J.L. Construction Inc. and his crew lift the steel for a new bus barn for McCook, Nebraska, Public Schools in the 400 block of West Seventh, behind the former Nebraska Army National Guard building that the school transformed into classrooms. MPS business manager Rick Haney said the $147,000 project will allow nine buses to be stored indoors...
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Am I good at hiding?
(Local News ~ 07/18/13)
Just like bashful human children, a lamb in a herd northwest of McCook, Nebraska, appears to be trying to hide behind his mom's legs.
- Today's Jurascals (Weekend Menu ~ 07/18/13)
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Blogger puts spotlight on Highway 83
(State News ~ 07/18/13)
Award-winning author Stew Magnuson has begun a new blog, The Highway 83 Chronicles, which is devoted to the peoples, cultures, history, natural history, news items and events found along the 1,885 miles of U.S. Route 83. U.S. Highway 83 -- from north to south -- begins near Westhope, N.D., and cuts straight down the middle of the country until it reaches Brownsville, Texas. Very little of it is co-signed with four-lane Interstates...
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Check-in kicks off Hitchcock County Fair
(Local News ~ 07/18/13)
CULBERTSON, Nebraska -- The 2013 Hitchcock County, Nebraska, county fair opened Wednesday evening with livestock weigh-in and open class entries, and continued this morning with dog, cat, poultry, rabbit and pet competitions. Today's schedule included 4-H and open class projects entry and judging and livestock judging and grooming...
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Culbertson shuttle site meets goal
(Local News ~ 07/18/13)
CULBERTSON, Nebraska -- Frenchman Valley Coop met its goal, and its new "Culbertson shuttle site" was ready for wheat harvest 2013. The first truck of wheat rolled across the new inbound scale on Wednesday morning, July 3. The new facility has separate inbound and outbound scales and the capacity to receive 34,000 bushels an hour at two dump sites...
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Disco Discount Days
(Local News ~ 07/18/13)
Dawson, right, waits patiently while his master, Chet DeVaughn checks through Crazy Days bargains with the help of Gary Wiemers of Gary's Country Peddler. Lifetime Eyecare of McCook, upper left, took first place in the costume contest, while D & S Hardware, left, and the Sports Shoppe took honorable mention...
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Alternative-fuel vehicles making progress, face obstacles
(Editorial ~ 07/18/13)
McCook's celebration of the 1970s during "Disco Discount Days" shopping today and Friday, brings back memories of that era, but it wasn't all dancing and parties. A lot of us remember long lines at the gas pumps, thanks to an oil embargo sparked by U.S. support of Israel...
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Whoo, hoo, the fair is here!
(Column ~ 07/18/13)
One more week and the Fair is here. It's all my girls can talk about lately, counting the days till the Fair starts, yapping about it every day. They're SO excited that the summer days have dwindled and Fair time has finally arrived! However, we're not talking about seeing the sheep or pigs, or walking through the quilt exhibits, not even the dunk tank. They're talking the RIDES!...
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Taxed 'til death
(Column ~ 07/18/13)
"Two things in life are certain," Benjamin Franklin noted, "death and taxes." Two hundred years later, Franklin's observation remains as true as ever. During Franklin's time, however, death itself was not always a taxable event. In the years immediately following the American Revolution, the death, or "estate" tax was levied sporadically -- and temporarily -- to finance wars throughout the nineteenth century...
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Albert Francis Gutzman
(Obituary ~ 07/18/13)
Albert Francis Gutzman Oct. 2, 1928 - July 17, 2013 INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Albert Francis Gutzman, Jr. age 84 died at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. He was born near Cambridge in Furnas County on Oct. 2, 1928, to Albert Francis Sr. and Madline (Dolph) Guztman. He graduated from Cambridge High School in 1946...
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On The Record
(Other Record ~ 07/18/13)
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. Activity log These items are taken from reports filed by the McCook Police Department. The locations refer to block numbers, not specific addresses. If you have information about any of these reports, call the police department at (308) 345-3450...
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Water liability
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/18/13)
The State of Nebraska may meet Compact compliance with Kansas with the surface water they delivered, but will fail to meet the provisions of Articles I and IV of the Compact within their own state. The states of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska are to divide the waters of the Republican River Basin between the states, but they are also to divide the waters of their own state. ...
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Mary O'Brien
(Obituary ~ 07/18/13)
Mary Margaret O'Brien Jan. 16, 1921 - July 17, 2013 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Mary Margaret O'Brien, age 92, passed away at the Golden Living Center in Cozad on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Mary was born in Wauneta, Nebraska, on Jan. 16, 1921, to Otto and Alice (Benjamin) Walker...
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Kathleen L. Tuller
(Obituary ~ 07/18/13)
Kathleen Laurel Tuller Jan. 3, 1948 - July 17, 2013 CULBERTSON, Nebraska -- Kathleen Laurel Tuller age 65 of Culbertson, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney on July 17, 2013. She was born on Jan. 3, 1948, in Pueblo, Colorado, to Joseph and Lorraine A. (Michalski) Smith. The family moved to the Denver area where Kathy graduated from high school and later attended 3 years of college in Greely, Colorado...
- It's been five years for this Gazetteer (Column ~ 07/18/13)
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