Piece by piece

A Hixson Construction crane stands by to hoist pieces of a 148-foot Viaero Wireless cell phone tower at 1100 West B in McCook. The company plans to build a 2,000-square-foot retail store at the same location. Viaero will erect three towers within McCook, each one built to withstand 95-mile-an-hour winds and one-half inch ice accumulation. Viaero Wireless, of Colorado, plans 300 towers across Nebraska by 2008 to achieve its goal of providing the best wireless telecommunications network for rural Nebraskans. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette)

A Hixson Construction crane stands by to hoist pieces of a 148-foot Viaero Wireless cell phone tower at 1100 West B in McCook. The company plans to build a 2,000-square-foot retail store at the same location. Viaero will erect three towers within McCook, each one built to withstand 95-mile-an-hour winds and one-half inch ice accumulation. Viaero Wireless, of Colorado, plans 300 towers across Nebraska by 2008 to achieve its goal of providing the best wireless telecommunications network for rural Nebraskans. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette)