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Owners make plea for lower valuations

One homeowner contends that a nearby junkyard is affecting the valuation of her property.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Commissioners approve loan for new walk-in clinic

Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning approved a $70,000 loan from the county's revolving loan program to Quality Urgent Care P.C., the emergency care walk-in clinic under construction on North U.S. Highway 83 in McCook.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Program gives old house new lease on life

The windows were old, the siding outdated and the walls showed more than a few years of use.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Fifty years on the job: Manager Jim Phinney started with MPPD in 1959

With a bronze of Sen. George Norris, father of the REA, looking over his shoulder, Jim Phinney shows the hard hat he wore on his first day on the job June 7, 1959.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Boom businesses brace for barrage of buyers

Brendon Dame of McCook, checks out the cornucopia of fireworks with his father, Roger Dame.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Part-time soldiers have big impact in state

The National Guard has a big impact on Nebraska's economy -- including a major investment in McCook -- but will soon be forced to cut back, according to officials.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

County trims funds for pre-trial diversion

Wanting to encourage neighboring counties to share expenses, Red Willow County commissioners cut their county's contribution, from $12,000 to $8,000, to the juvenile pre-trial diversion program run by Lutheran Family Services.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

New Miss Nebraska has local ties

The daughter of a McCook businessman is Nebraska's newest "Miss Nebraska." Brittany Jeffers of Lincoln was crowned "Miss Nebraska" during the state pageant June 6 in North Platte.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

McCook's Sutton Home, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, subject of new book

The only structure in Nebraska designed by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Sutton House in McCook, is the subject of a new book that will be available in July.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Council approves service lines to new Guard Center

A contract will be offered to an irrigation company to extend city water and sewer lines to the proposed Guard and Reserve Readiness Center by the airport.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Yes, we made it home

BRAN friends from across Nebraska: Ronda, Peg, Michelle, Candy, Diane and Mark. For those who have been following the trials and tribulations on this year's BRAN ride, my riding partner, Candy Crosby, and I both made it home safe and sound Saturday evening.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

A soldier on loan

The Museum of the High Plains board of directors voted unanimously at its board meeting Thursday morning to loan the museum's sculpture of a World War I soldier to Trenton Klimper, the McCook Boy Scout who wants to create a war memorial in Norris Park.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

Omaha World-Herald

Nebraskan sentenced for sex crimes

A Kansas judge has sentenced a southwest Nebraska man to nearly six years in Kansas prison for indecent acts with two young girls.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

Omaha World-Herald

Ben Nelson Regional Airport?

The McCook City Council will consider renaming the southwest Nebraska town's airport in honor of one of its native sons, U.S. Sen.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

54 down, 400 miles to go

The first day of BRAN is over and there were enough memorable moments to fill a small notebook or at least a few pages, but we'll just hit the highlights.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Judge hands down guilty verdict for big yellow house

Only the outline of the second-floor portico roof remains on the big yellow house at 301 E. First, McCook, after the roof, which was pulling away from the house's west wall, was removed in March.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Fifty golden years

I write this on the eve of Ann and my wedding anniversary, number fifty. I feel humbled at achieving this significant milestone that seems to be a decreasing achievement in today's society.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

McCook man wins $100,000 Wild 10s Prize

John McRae of McCook won $100,000 playing the $10 Scratch game Wild 10's from the Nebraska Lottery.

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Sun Jun 07, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

State applies for federal transit grants

Several public transportation projects in Southwest Nebraska will receive federal stimulus money if Nebraska's application for nearly $5.3 million in transit projects in rural areas is approved by the Federal Transit Administration.

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Fri Jun 05, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Fire under investigation

A deputy Nebraska state fire marshal investigator is assisting the McCook Fire Department investigate what McCook's fire chief is calling "suspicious circumstances" surrounding a fire that burned a house at 910 E. Fifth in McCook Thursday afternoon.

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