Stories from Thursday, February 4, 2010

July 11, 1931 - Feb. 2, 2010 LEBANON -- Glema Macy, 78, died Tuesday (Feb. 2, 2010) at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born July 11, 1931, in Lebanon to Truman A. Gay and Clara Mildred Weatherwax. She grew up in Lebanon and Lyle, Kan., attended Hamburg Rural School and graduated from Decatur Community High School prior to attending Kearney State College...

A McCook woman will have more time to clean up property she owns that was declared a nuisance and safety hazard last year. In an update on the property, Dottie Park told the council at the regular meeting Monday night that the person she has contacted to remove a trailer and take down a garage/shed on her property at 305 East 12th will not return her calls...

The city sales tax is doing exactly what it was intended to do, holding down property taxes, said Terry Galloway of the CPA firm Almquist, Maltzahn, Galloway and Luth. Galloway reviewed with the McCook City Council the city's financial statements from last year at Monday night's regular meeting. He added that the city has also done an excellent job maintaining the current property tax levy of $.319044, the same since 2002...

The Norris Park playground probably won't be very busy today, but the same probably can't be said for the Kelley Park sledding hill. McCook was expected to receive three inches of snow by tonight.

Helmets are in the news again, along with important questions of personal safety and responsibility going up against issues of personal freedom. All sides seem to agree, however, that special care needs to be taken when it comes to the safety of young people...

On behalf of Republicans in the 2nd Congressional District and across the state of Nebraska I want to say "Thank You" to the people and businesses of McCook for their friendliness and hospitality in hosting the Nebraska Republican Central Committee meeting last weekend. Everyone I spoke with was cordial and friendly...

Now in our tour of the Winter Circle or Hexagon, onward and, well, sideways. The next stop is actually two stars, Castor and Pollux, the "twin" stars in the constellation Gemini, the Twins. The pair can be found by starting at our last stop, Capella in Auriga and extending a line right and slightly up for about 30 degrees (the distance of three clenched fists held at arms length)...

A bill to refund property taxes collected in the Republican River Basin, taxes later ruled illegal, is not exactly dead in the water but may have trouble going anywhere. LB 898, introduced by Sen. Mark Christensen, called for refunding property or occupation taxes that have been declared unconstitutional and was heard in the Revenue Committee Jan. 29...