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Irrigator fills in creek bed, draws scrutiny of Reclamation
(Local News ~ 05/06/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- A Red Willow County, Nebraska, irrigator whose pivot system sits on land east of Bartley and south of the Republican River has attracted the attention of local flood plain and irrigation district officials as well as a federal water regulator...
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Bankruptcies complicate tax foreclosures
(Local News ~ 05/06/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Nathanial Mustion, the McCook, Nebraska, attorney hired by Red Willow County commissioners to handle the county's tax foreclosures, told commissioners Monday morning that he isn't qualified to handle two of the county's 10 pending foreclosures...
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Sophomore athlete to speak at MCC graduation
(Local News ~ 05/06/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Sophomore Amber Nicole Madigan will address fellow students, staff, faculty, friends and family when she takes the podium Friday as commencement speaker for McCook Community College's commencement ceremony. Graduation is set for Friday at 10 a.m. at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center where 102 graduates are expected to take part. Attendees with mobility issues are encouraged to use the southeast entrance as pick-up and drop-off points...
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Hayes Center church celebrating centennial
(Local News ~ 05/06/15)
HAYES CENTER, Neb. -- Plans are being made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hayes Center, Nebraska, Union Congregational Church on Sunday, May 24 during the Memorial Day weekend. The anniversary celebration will include morning worship service at 11 a.m., a noon lunch, and an anniversary program at 2 p.m. followed by open house and reception...
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'The Starz'
(Local News ~ 05/06/15)
McCook, Nebraska, Senior High's 2015-2016 dance team, "The Starz," poses in front of the MHS gazebo Monday morning. Team sponsor and MHS band instructor Donita Priebe said the team marches with the band and performs at home football and basketball games and, every year in February, at the state dance competition. ...
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Why is the Milky Way missing?
(Column ~ 05/06/15)
One of the great joys of the late spring/early summer is going outside when the sky is good and dark and gazing at the Milky Way. That glowing stripe of massed stars representing the edge of our galaxy spreads across the sky giving us a grand sight and all we need is our eyes...
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No public subsidy for wind power in Nebraska for now
(Editorial ~ 05/06/15)
The nation's only completely public power state has decided the public should not subsidize wind power. Proponents likened the bill, which would have provided $75 million in production tax credits for renewable energy, to subsidies received by the ethanol industry, subsidies that have helped boost the Southwest Nebraska economy...
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Lillian (Farr) Sayer
(Obituary ~ 05/06/15)
Lillian (Farr) Sayer Jan. 26, 1918 - May 5, 2015 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Lillian (Farr) Sayer, 97, the second child of Edward and Millie (Basinger) Farr, was born on the family farm northwest of Holbrook on Jan. 26, 1918. She departed this life at the Elwood Nursing Home on May 5, 2015, at the age of 97...
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Dale Joseph Beals
(Obituary ~ 05/06/15)
Dale Joseph Beals Oct. 24, 1943 -May 5, 2015 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Dale Joseph Beals of Cambridge, born on Oct. 24, 1943, in McCook, to Joseph Ralph and Nancy Jane (Richey) Beals, lost his 33 year battle with multiple sclerosis on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was 71...
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Mary Alice Handel Miller
(Obituary ~ 05/06/15)
Mary Alice Handel Miller Aug. 13, 1939 - May 5 2015 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- Mary Alice Handel Miller was born in Palisade Nebraska, to Raymond John and Alta Zella Lentz Handel on Aug. 13, 1939, and passed away at the Tri Valley Health Hospital in Cambridge on May 5, 2015, at the age of 75. Mary had been fighting diabetes and reduced lung capacity for years and she was finally too weak to fight pneumonia...
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