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Costs force Hillcrest to drop VA
(Local News ~ 04/26/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — Hillcrest Nursing Home will no longer be a contracted Veteran’s Administration facility. The Hillcrest Board of Trustees voted Tuesday at its regular meeting not to renew the contract with the VA, citing increased wage requirements mandated in the contract that reimbursement payments would not fully cover...
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Cast selected for The Frog Prince; shows Saturday
(Local News ~ 04/26/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — Deep in the royal swamp, a selfish Princess makes a promise to befriend a lonely Frog after he retrieves her golden ball from a well. But what happens when the Princess tries every trick in the book to break her promise? The local cast for The Frog Prince includes Linda Johnson (Swamp Frog), Adrienne LaBay (Castle Frog), Anna Miller (011ie the Aspen Tree), as well as Ellisa Kaps the promise-breaker Princess Prim...
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Memorial planting
(Local News ~ 04/26/17)
McCook arborist Bruce Hoffman prepares a Shademaster honeylocust for planting at the Heritage Senior Center Tuesday afternoon. The Augustyn children, including, from the right, sisters Kathy Robles of Kearney and Peggy Andrews of McCook, planted the tree in memory of their parents, Joe and Maribeth, both McCook Public Schools teachers. ...
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Good-bye reception
(Local News ~ 04/26/17)
Vesta Dack of rural McCook, Red Willow County’s Third District commissioner, cuts cake at a surprise reception after fellow commissioners officially accepted her letter of resignation at their weekly meeting Monday morning. Dack is resigning to move with her husband, Dean, to be closer to Dean’s doctors in North Platte. ...
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Probation sentence for sexual assault of child
(Local News ~ 04/26/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — A McCook man was sentenced to probation time earlier this month for sexually assaulting a child last spring. The man, 28-year-old Steven M. Vigneur of 901 East B Street, accepted a plea agreement in January admitting guilt to sexual assault of a child, a Class 3A felony, in exchange for the prosecution recommending a probation sentence. ...
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Most Nebraskans resist addiction to legalized gambling
(Editorial ~ 04/26/17)
Gambling such as keno is growing, and the Nebraska Lottery is adding a new game, but problem gambling is a relatively small problem in the Cornhusker State, at least according to the benchmarks used by the personal website WalletHub. Nebraska is the second best state when it comes to gambling addiction problems, but not so neighboring states South Dakota, which is the second worse, Colorado 15th, Wyoming 22, Iowa 24 and Kansas 36...
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Sen. Chambers officially seated to represent District 11
(Column ~ 04/26/17)
We are two-thirds of the way through the legislative session and Sen. Chambers has officially been seated as the senator from District 11. Last Thursday, the Legislature accepted the recommendation provided by the special committee appointed to review the residency challenge. ...
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Bison golfers conquer cold Holdrege Invite
(High School Sports ~ 04/26/17)
HOLDREGE, Neb. — McCook’s Kade Gray golfed through wet, cold conditions to earn a top 10 finish at Tuesday’s Holdrege Invitational. Gray fired 39 on the last nine holes for a team-leading 81. Coach Rick Haney offred more insights about his Bison team that took seventh among 13 competing...
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Champs, top girls from McCook Junior High meet
(High School Sports ~ 04/26/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — All champions and Gazette-area top four placers at McCook Junior High’s Invitational on Tuesday. North Platte and Cozad joined McCook along with St. Patrick school for the competiton. Eighth grade 100-dash: 1. B. Aiyken, COZ, 13.1; 3. Kaylie Puckett, MC, 13.9 (career best); 4. Alyssa Secord, MC, 14.0. 100-hurdles: 1. Jorlynn Chauncy, MC, 18.0. 195-hurdles: 1. M. White, COZ, 30.6. 200-dash: 1. Aitken, 28.6; 2. Ashley Miller, MC, 31.06; 5. Hayden Johnson, MC, 32.3...
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St. Patrick join Bison in steaming to high places
(High School Sports ~ 04/26/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — Career bests were popping up all over the place during McCook Junior High’s home track and field quadrangular on Tuesday. Bison athletes also won championships in virtually every event from hurdles to power throws and pole vaulting. A glance at all champions and Gazette-area top five placers at Tuesday’s McCook Junior High track-field quadrangular:...
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