Stories from Monday, March 5, 2012

Gas prices have risen steadily in the last month and Nebraskans are rightfully concerned and asking why. First, the rapid rise isn't a result of domestic oil production. We're producing more oil in the U.S. now than we have since 2003. As a matter of fact, under the previous Administration domestic production of crude declined every year, whereas since 2009 domestic production has increased every year...

CURTIS, Nebraska -- Agricultural producers will have to do more with less to feed a hungry world, according to an expert who will speak at an upcoming event in McCook. Local irrigators, producers, farm managers, agronomists and bankers are invited to attend the 26th annual Southwest Nebraska Water Conference, Wednesday, March 14, at the Red Willow County Fairgrounds Community Building in McCook...

McCook Community College officials say goodbye to an old gymnasium and hello to a new logo at ceremonies Friday night at True Hall. Jon Olsen, from left, co-athletic director for MCC, and Michelle Gill, interim vice president for MCC, present basketballs signed by the men's and women's basketball teams at the final game in True Hall, to Ryan Purdy, interim president of the Mid-Plains Community College Area. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County, Nebraska, commissioners Monday morning approved the application for a $35,000 loan from the county's revolving loan program. Jeremy Bain, owner of JLB Welding of McCook, will use the 10-year, 3 percent-interest loan to purchase land on County Drive 716 west of Orscheln's...

NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- The Transportation Division of Mid-Plains Community College officially unveiled their latest custom car project, a 1963 Chevy Nova, Friday at the Platte River Mall in North Platte. Even before its "official" unveiling, the hotrod received accolades and took first place in its class at the Tri-City Street Rods annual auto show in Grand Island recently...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook Area Chamber of Commerce has accepted the resignation of Pam Harsh as executive director. "Pam has served the chamber as director since 2004 and we wish her the best in all of her future endeavors," according to the release from the board of director...

Is the voter ID bill a solution for a problem that doesn't exist? Opponents say it is, and several Nebraska lawmakers have lined up amendments in an effort to filibuster and block LB 239, which would require voters to show a government-issued photo ID before casting a ballot...

In early June1882 nothing existed on McCook's town site to prevent an unobstructed view, nothing more than an occasional cacti and a few blades of sparsely grown grass. Looking north, from the river, not a tree or a bush could be seen looking across the land but the sloping hill upon which McCook now stands. ...

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