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Time to shift gears into summer storm preparation mode
(Editorial ~ 05/09/17)
Utility crews are still repairing power lines taken down by the April 30 snowstorm, but the overnight thunderstorm was a reminder that a different type of weather is of a greater concern this time of year. A major storm dropped large hail in the Denver area Monday afternoon, grounding flights out of DIA, destroying the roof on a mall and pounding cars throughout the area...
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Celebration time
(Column ~ 05/09/17)
Ah, life in the fast lane. This past week your OLD correspondent celebrated 80 years alive on this green earth. Time to reflect a bit. The first 20 years a time of very rural childhood, school including four tough years at the then new Air Force Academy not fun but worth the effort. ...
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Donna Joyce (Fickenscher) Brubaker
(Obituary ~ 05/09/17)
Donna Joyce (Fickenscher) Brubaker Aug. 20, 1929 - May 7, 2017 LINCOLN, Neb. — Donna Joyce (Fickenscher) Brubaker, 87, formerly of Maywood, Neb., passed away May 7, 2017, in Lincoln. Donna was born Aug. 20, 1929, to Paul and Irene (Bellamy) Fickenscher of Moorefield, Neb. She grew up in Moorefield and graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis, received her teaching certificate from McCook Junior College and taught at rural Bluff View elementary school in Frontier County.. ...
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Perfect attendance students at MPS
(Community News ~ 05/09/17)
MCCOOK, Neb.— The McCook Educational Foundation has announced the following students with perfect attendance in the McCook Public School system for the 2016-2017 school year. Kindergarten; Hope Cacy, Eli Ingels, Trinity Solorzano and Lanie Soundy First grade; Cassidy Felker, Marcus Ingels, Juliet Malleck, Benjamin Messinger, Adan Solorzano and Blake Willis...
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'Riders fight off Raiders, Trojans for title
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/17)
Team scores and all Gazette-area top four placers at Thursday’s Alma Twilight Invite: Girls Teams: 1. Cambridge 140, 2. Bertrand 107, 3. Red Cloud 74, 4. Southern Valley 51, 5. Arapahoe 49, 6. Alma 34, 7. Southwest 28, 8. Medicine Valley 23, 9. Franklin 21...
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Hitchcock golfers win home invite
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. —Heritage Hills proved to be a great home for Hitchcock County Falcons on Monday. Led by Blaine Teeter, the Falcon golfers scored a 14-stroke win in their Hitchcock County Invitational featuring six area schools. Top 10 medalists Teeter (84), Darian Hutto (93) , Cole Bingham (97) and Chris O’Byrne (109) delivered the Falcons’ championship...
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McCook golfer medals at SWC tourney
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/17)
BROKEN BOW, Neb. — A group of McCook JV golfers showed they could compete with varsity during Friday’s Southwest Conference tournament. Tanner Unger even earned a league medal, firing 92 to finish 15th overall. McCook placed seventh overall (392) even though most of the top varsity players competed at Saturday’s GNAC invite...
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Bison girls push Bearcats again
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/17)
KEARNEY, Neb. — Nobody’s stayed on the Bearcat tails like McCook tennis girls competing against Class A Kearney this spring. The Bison were challenging those Bearcats again on Monday at Kaerney’s own JV Invitational. Junior Haley Potthoff beat her Kearney Gold foe and four others while winning the No. 1 singles championship...
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MPCC rodeo team wins region
(College Sports ~ 05/09/17)
The Mid-Plains Community College Rodeo Team will enter the College National Finals Rodeo as the number one men’s team in the Great Plains Region. MPCC has been sitting at the top of the leaderboard in the men’s team standings since September. It won its first rodeo ever as a team during the MPCC Stampede and consistently placed high at subsequent competitions...
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Tigers run wild in McCook league opening win
(Community Sports ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. – The Ruggles Angus Cardinals stayed in it until the end, but the First Central Bank Tigers pulled away late in a 10-3 victory on Monday at Felling Field. The game was 3-3 with the First Central Bank Tigers batting in the top of the fifth when Payton Dellevoet delivered a go-ahead RBI-single to give his Tigers the late-game lead...
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Sehnert, student to be honored at MCC graduation
(Local News ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — A long-time McCook resident will be honored at McCook Community College’s Commencement Friday which will feature a faculty award, a student speaker, and degrees presented to the 2017 graduates. Ceremonies are set for 10 a.m. Friday at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center...
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County hires consulting firm to study Hillcrest Nursing Home
(Local News ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — At their weekly meeting Monday morning, Red Willow County commissioners hired an Omaha health care management and consulting firm to study operations at the county-owned Hillcrest Nursing Home. Hillcrest has struggled financially for about five to six years, to a point where, in mid-2012, commissioners borrowed $1.1 million from McCook National Bank to pay construction and bond payments. ...
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Committee to interview eight candidates for commissioner
(Local News ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — On Wednesday evening, a three-person committee will interview eight applicants for the vacancy on the Red Willow County board of commissions created when District 3 Commissioner Vesta Dack resigned in early April. County clerk Tami Teel said the committee — she and county treasurer Sue Wesch and county attorney Paul Wood — will begin interviews of all eight applicants at 7 p.m., Wednesday, in the Community Building on the county fairgrounds...
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System would end advance-class threat to GPAs
(Local News ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — Students taking a more difficult course at the high school should not be penalized grade-wise. That’s the thinking about a new grading scale that the administrative team at McCook High School is working toward. Currently, dual-level classes at the college, or honor and advanced classes at the high school, are graded the same way as other classes. ...
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Expert: New outlook on garden chemicals
(Local News ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — David Lott of North Platte, a Nebraska Extension district horticulture educator, told gardeners during a workshop in McCook April 20 that horticulturalists are looking differently at the use of chemicals on lawns and in gardens. “Our attitude is changing,” Lott said. “We’re not depending as much on chemicals,” trying to avoid, he said with a grin, the creation of “squirrels with glowing, green eyes.”...
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New state standards require more of students
(Local News ~ 05/09/17)
McCOOK, Neb. — New state standards in English/language arts and math that McCook Public School teachers at McCook Public Schools have been implementing are more rigorous than used before. Teachers from McCook Elementary, Central, the junior high and high school explained the new Nebraska Department of Education standards to the McCook Board of Education Monday at the regular meeting. Later in the meeting, the board unanimously approved the changes...
- Oh, what a difference a few days can make... (Local News ~ 05/09/17)
- Donald “Doc” E. Schamel (Obituary ~ 05/09/17)
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