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First Day hike Saturday
(Local News ~ 12/31/21)
RED WILLOW SRA, Neb. — Mother Nature isn’t exactly cooperating this year for the Nebraska Games and Parks’ First Day Hike. Frigid temperatures and the area’s first snow of the season is predicted for Saturday, Jan. 1. But the First Day Hike is still planned for Saturday, Jan. 1 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Red Willow State Recreation Area, north of McCook. Participants are encouraged to dress very warmly from head to toe and to wear snow boots if possible...
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2003 annexation study on City Council agenda
(Local News ~ 12/31/21)
McCOOK, Neb. — Parts of South Street, Ravenswood Road and the residential Highlands Subdivision west of the golf course are some of the areas identified in a 2003 study for annexation. The McCook City Council will be asked to review these areas again at its meeting Monday, 5:30 p.m. at the City Council chambers at the Municipal Building...
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2021 in review: Pressing on, despite the pandemic
(Local News ~ 12/31/21)
McCOOK, Neb. — McCook, like the rest of the world, cautiously emerged in 2021 from the first round of COVID-19 in 2020, armed this year with vaccinations in January and later, booster shots. Several new construction projects were completed this year, including a new, multi-pump gas station and drive-through coffee kiosk, an outdoor pavilion between the Keystone Business Center and the Fox Theater and a remodeled lower level at Walsh Brady Hall on the McCook Community College’ campus...
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When the Liberty Bell came to McCook
(Column ~ 12/31/21)
I’d like to think that if the Liberty Bell came to McCook today everyone would be there to greet it and marvel over the fact that it had survived all these years. It is, after all, 270 years old having been ordered by the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1751 to commemorate the anniversary of William Penn’s 1701 Charter of Privileges which was Pennsylvania’s original constitution...
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Macy Shane Thomas
(Obituary ~ 12/31/21)
Macy Shane Thomas Aug. 5, 1968 - Dec. 29, 2021 MINDEN, Neb. — Macy Shane Thomas, 53, of Minden, formerly of Beaver City and Stamford, Neb., died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 2021), in Gibbon, Neb. He was born Aug. 5, 1968, at Norton, Kan., to Melvin Samuel and Merrilee Kay (Lockwood) Thomas...
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