Isolated and proud, there’s more to McCook than meets the eye

photo by Gloria Masoner

Although McCook, like many rural Nebraska communities, can boast of friendly people, excellent schools and low crime, it enjoys some amenities that many smaller communities don’t have, including McCook Community College, an airport with commercial service, a modern hospital and a variety of lakes, rivers, reservoirs and open space for hunting, fishing, camping, boating and wildlife viewing.
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High-tech composit aerospace components are all in a day's work for Minden company

Picture a military aircraft just a couple of clicks from what you’d see in a Star Wars movie or an advanced communications satellite rocketing into space. These are some of the most advanced technologies in the world today – mind-boggling complex structures of the highest-technology materials, in which every component down to the tiniest rivet has been engineered to the nth degree.

That's the kind of work they do at Royal Plastic Mfg. in Minden.
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Kiplinger Arena is fulfillment of a dream for McCook cowboy
by Gene Morris

Picture six full-sized basketball courts, placed side-by-side in rows of three. Then imagine the courts being lifted up and placed inside a building with sidewalls spiraling high into the sky. By taking this mental leap, you are experiencing what it's like to step inside one of the largest indoor equestrian arenas in America's Great Plains. More...
 

Heard any good stories lately?

Storytelling is the ancient art of conveying events in words, images, and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories have been shared in every culture and in every land as a means of entertainment, education, preservation of culture and in order to instill moral values. Storytelling has existed as long as humanity has had language.
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