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Marjorie A. Cotton
(Obituary ~ 11/18/14)
Marjorie A. Cotton Aug. 26, 1914 - Nov. 15, 2014 McCOOK, Neb. -- Marjorie A. Cotton, age 100, died Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, at the El Dorado Manor in Trenton, with her granddaughter, Nikki, at her side. She was born in Bethany, Nebraska, on Aug. 26, 1914, to Edward L. and Ellen (McKinnon) Smack. Marge attended school and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1932...
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On the record
(Other Record ~ 11/18/14)
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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Patricia (Pat) Kitt
(Obituary ~ 11/18/14)
Patricia (Pat) Kitt WAUNETA, Neb. -- Patricia (Pat) Kitt, 80, died Sunday (Nov. 16, 2014), at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Nebraska. Survivors include her husband, Bob, of rural Wauneta; children, Annette Forney and husband, Michael, of Castle Rock, Colorado, Kenneth Kitt of rural Wauneta and Ronald Kitt and wife, Orla, of Ogallala, Nebraska; sister, Colleen Gage and husband, Roger, of Kearney, Nebraska and three grandchildren...
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McCook FFA compete, place at national convention
(Community News ~ 11/18/14)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Nick Cole, a senior at McCook High School and a member of McCook FFA, was selected as a national finalist for the National FFA Proficiency Award in Agriculural Services- Entrepreneurship/Placement. Cole was one of four who competed in this award at the national finals Oct. 29 - Nov. 1 at the national FFA Convention and Expo in Louisville, Kentucky...
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'Cricket County' dinner theater set
(Local News ~ 11/18/14)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Memorial United Methodist Church is hosting two dinner theater and one dessert theater performance this weekend, promising a hilarious time in a unique theatrical setting. Director Tami Pochop of McCook and 23 cast members have been working diligently in recent weeks on "A Cricket County Old Folks' Christmas," written by Eddie McPherson. The play brings an all new story to the familiar Cricket County setting of previous dinner theater performances at the church...
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'A Christmas Carol' MCC play opens Friday at Fox Theatre
(Local News ~ 11/18/14)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Cast members enter the final week of preparations for this year's production of McCook Community College's "A Christmas Carol.'" MCC officials, actors and support personnel moved the production into the historic Fox Theater over the weekend in preparation for opening night Friday...
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Sale of city lot advances
(Local News ~ 11/18/14)
McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook City Council approved the second of three required readings authorizing the sale of approximately half a city lot to City Councilman Mike Gonzales and his wife, Monday evening. The Gonzales family is looking to purchase 3500 sq. ft. of Norris Avenue property directly south of their residence and north of the recently completed McCook Public Library parking lot. The sales received second round approval at a price of $1,540...
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Haigler gun show this weekend
(Local News ~ 11/18/14)
HAIGLER, Neb. -- The Cornerstone Center for Community Service in Haigler, Nebraska, plans a gun show and craft show Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 22 and 23, at 251 E. Norman Street in downtown Haigler. Vendors will offer guns, ammo, hunting and fishing supplies, and handmade gifts, jewelry, candles and canned and baked goods...
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College ready for high school events
(Local News ~ 11/18/14)
McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook Community College is hosting three pre-Thanksgiving events aimed at high school students, with two this week and one next week. On Wednesday, MCC Family and Consumer Sciences Department hosts the District 11 Fall Leadership Conference of Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). ...
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Local man admits to assault of officer
(Local News ~ 11/18/14)
McCOOK, Neb. -- A McCook man pleaded no contest recently to a felony offense for assault of a police officer stemming from an incident at Community Hospital in February. The offender, 33-year-old Wesley E. Nichols of 209 E. Second Street, will face sentencing on the Class 3A felony for third degree assault of an officer at 9:15 a.m. on Dec. 1, 2014, in Red Willow County District Court...
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Facing felony for leaving scene of an accident, woman cited for leaving scene again
(Local News ~ 11/18/14)
McCOOK, Neb. -- A local woman awaiting sentencing in less than two weeks on a felony offense for leaving the scene of an accident was cited Friday for leaving the scene of yet another accident. The driver, 61-year-old Darla G. Wilson of 1111 W. Third Street, is scheduled for sentencing at 1 p.m., on Dec. 1, 2014, in Red Willow County District Court on a Class 3A felony for leaving the scene of a personal injury accident...
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Hydrogen cars are becoming closer to reality
(Editorial ~ 11/18/14)
The car will cost $57,600 and Toyota plans to sell only 700 of them over the next couple of years. They won't be all that cheap to operate and you'll be lucky to find a fuel station -- there are only a couple dozen of them in the world. Still, after years of talk, it was exciting to hear that the first production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is going on the market...
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Unionized Postal Service model of incompetence and inefficiency
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/18/14)
In the Age of Internet the U.S. Postal Service is typically called "snail mail" ... A euphemism that, while expressing the pace of the thing, does little to reveal why this cadre of drones moves mail slower than molasses travels uphill in the winter. The cause is an entrenched culture of self-serving stupidity, one that propagates and preserves inefficiency to a degree reserved especially to Fed Gov Inc...
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Our eyesore
(Column ~ 11/18/14)
Allow me to share a phone call from a concerned lady. She was somewhat upset at the sale, in progress, of city property both the price tendered and the possible future use of the partial residential lot. I share her concern in part. The small piece of presently unused and bare property is located between the new concrete parking lot of the public library and the residence just to the north. ...
- Jurascals (Weekend Menu ~ 11/18/14)
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