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Spikefest tourney champions
(Community Sports ~ 02/27/18)
Big hits were echoing through McCook’s Ed Thomas YMCA on Saturday with the annual Spikefest Volleyball Tournament. The tourney was split into two bracket following some intense pool play. Fuze Elite was on fire throughout its surge to the Gold Bracket championship. Meanwhile, there was plenty of Shake and Bake (pictured here) with that co-ed team capturing a Silver Bracket team title...
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Husker Insider Sean Callahan makes annual stop in McCook
(Community Sports ~ 02/27/18)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Husker fans young and old showed up to McCook’s Coppermill Steakhouse on Monday to listen to Husker Online publisher Sean Callahan during his annual stop in Southwest Nebraska...
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Mildred Marie Myers
(Obituary ~ 02/27/18)
Mildred Myers July 25, 1920 - Feb. 20, 2018 IMPERIAL, Neb. — Mildred Marie Rann, Rucker, Myers was born in a sod house in western Hayes County, Neb., on July 25, 1920, to Power E. and Hannah B. (Vavra), Rann. She graduated from Hayes County High School in 1938 and married Charles Vernon Rucker, June 24, 1939, in North Platte, Neb. ...
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Velora A. Schmahl
(Obituary ~ 02/27/18)
Velora A. Schmahl May 19, 1918 - Feb. 25, 2018 McCOOK, Neb. -- Velora A. (Rogers) Schmahl of McCook passed away on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, at Community Hospital. She was 99 years old. Velora was born on May 19, 1918, to Henry and Elma (Oyster) Rogers at Atwood, Kan. She graduated from Atwood High School in 1936. She then went to work for Foster Farms as a bookkeeper. There she met Wayne M. Schmahl and they married January 11, 1941. To this union two daughters were born, Jean and Janeale...
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Victor Kisela
(Obituary ~ 02/27/18)
Victor Kisela Jan. 10, 1925 - Feb. 23, 2018 BENKELMAN, Neb. — Victor Stanley Kisela was born Jan. 10, 1925, to Anton J. and Agnes B. (Vancura) Kisela in Wauneta, Neb. He grew up on a farm north of Stratton, Neb., with a brother and four sisters. After graduating from Stratton High School in 1943, he enlisted in the United States Navy. ...
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MCC softball team splits first 10
(College Sports ~ 02/27/18)
The McCook Community College Lady Indian softball team split a pair of doubleheaders Sunday and Monday in Kansas, beating Williston (Mont) twice and losing two games to Colby Community College. In Dodge City on Sunday MCC downed Williston 13-11 then lost to Colby 4-1. In Colby on Monday the Lady Indians lost to Colby 1-0 then came back to beat Williston 12-8...
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Rebels ruin Trojans' state quest
(High School Sports ~ 02/27/18)
LEXINGTON, Neb. — Arcadia-Loup City Rebels simply overrran Cambridge’s quest to make the Class C-2 state tournament Monday night. Trailing by seven points early and still down two at halftime, the Rebels unleashed speedy pressure which ignited their 59-46 victory in this C2-5 championship game...
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Bison finish with three more records
(High School Sports ~ 02/27/18)
LINCOLN, Neb. — McCook swimmers certainly didn’t float a quiet farewell to their 2018 season at Friday’s Nebraska State Championship Meet. The Bison broke three more school records, including one that had stood since these qualifiers were in their early grade-school years...
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Our airport
(Column ~ 02/27/18)
Is it a virus? Maybe an itch that just needs to be scratched ever so often. Whichever your columnist was infected, badly infected, a long time ago and the itch continues every nice day even now. This old guy learned to fly the summer of 1953. Then as now, one has to be sixteen years old to go out in an airplane alone, “solo”, in the vernacular. ...
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Holdrege man to be Red Willow County surveyor
(Local News ~ 02/27/18)
McCOOK, Neb. — For lack of a licensed land surveyor in the county, Red Willow County commissioners signed an agreement Monday morning with a licensed surveyor from Holdrege to fill the vacancy created by the resignation two weeks ago of county surveyor Gary Dicenta...
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Opportunity Zones may create investment
(Local News ~ 02/27/18)
McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow County commissioner Earl McNutt told McCook's economic development director he sees "no drawback" in asking to be a part of the federal government's very, very new "Opportunity Zones" program that saves private investors capital gains taxes while they invest in low-income communities and counties like McCook and Red Willow...
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Mistaken idea
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/27/18)
Besides the mistaken idea that more guns will solve a gun problem and another mistaken idea that criminals are easily identified because, I guess, they wear black hats, the one inarguable fact about the controversial arm teachers idea is in the heat of the moment during a school shooting, when police break into a classroom, they are most likely going to identify anyone holding a gun for the shooter and shoot that person...
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