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09.23.09 - West Ward, Romanoff buildings coming down

The vacant, half-block long Romanoff Building on Norris Avenue and B Street finally will be coming down. read more>>


09.22.09 - HUD officially approves funding for Cambridge Memorial Hospital

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced a commitment to insure a mortgage loan to Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge to construct a new 16-bed hospital to replace an existing 51-year-old facility and fund relocation of a primary care clinic to the new facility. read more>>

09.21.09 - Hospital in black despite challenging fiscal year

Community Hospital planned for and received on of its greatest challenges ever in fiscal year 2009, according to Troy Bruntz, vice president finance and chief financial officer. read more>>

09.15.09 - County approves $15.7 million budget

Red Willow County commissioners approved a budget of $15,757,021.61 for 2009-10, down from $16,495,506 in 2008-09, after a public hearing and during their weekly meeting Monday morning. read more>>

09.15.09 - School budget calls for slight tax hike

McCook school board members passed a $20 million budget Monday night, calling for $5.2 million in local property taxes. read more>>

09.09.09 - Superintendent thinks new school is cool

McCook's public school system has met or exceeded the expectations of its new superintendent, a former elementary and junior high principal in Benkelman in 2000-01, who dreamed then of becoming McCook's top school administrator. read more>>

09.09.09 - Final budget approved

The McCook City Council adopted the $26 million 2009-10 city budget unanimously on third and final reading Monday night, reflecting recent revisions that include no water rate increases. read more>>

07.16.09 - Hospital project on track

Community Hospital is on track to begin construction of a new patient wing and surgery addition, president and CEO Jim Ulrich said Wednesday. read more>>

08.24.09 - New College programs paying off in increased enrollment

Almost 10 years ago when McCook Community College faced stagnant student enrollment numbers, officials had to figure out some way to get more students on campus. read more>>

06.29.09 - Cottage Industry Timber Creek Homes adapts to new economic realities in housing market

Stratton - Timber Creek Homes executive could sit on the front porch of one their wonderful, big houses and pout about the stranglehold that today's economy has on the housing market. read more>>

05.06.09 - CAST graduates first class

Nine weeks ago, a group of eight offenders from McCook's Work Ethic Camp began learning how to weld at MCC's new Center for Applied Science and Technology -- CAST -- located in east of downtown McCook. read more>>

04.08.09 - Construction on Phase II of walking trail to begin soon

Construction of Phase II of the Kelley Creek Walking Trail is expected to begin this summer and will begin at Seminole Drive, loop around Kelley Park through Bolles Canyon Road and end up at M Street across from Weiland Field. read more>>

03.12.09 - Schools, WEC partner in new facility

The new Center for Applied Science and Technology welding and machine shop on U.S. Highway 6-34 in McCook opened... read more>>

01.23.09 - City assets top liabilities by $27 million

The City of McCook appears to be in good fiscal shape, with net assets exceeding its liabilities by $27,321,937. read more>>

12.31.08 - 2008 A year in review

Top stories from page one of the McCook Daily Gazette include: read more>>

08.15.08 - New airline opens travel options

McCook's regional airport has had the slogan "Fly everywhere from here" for several years now, but with the return of Great Lakes Airlines to the terminal, and the addition of flights to Kansas City, as well as Denver, that phrase is even truer than before. read more>>

 

Industry News & Events

Area News:

:: West Ward, Romanoff buildings

    coming down

:: HUD officially approves funding

    for Cambridge Memorial

    Hospital

:: Hospital in black despite

     challenging fiscal year

 


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