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A recent discovery at the High Plains Museum has given us a delightful look at high school life and culture 100 years ago in McCook. John Hubert ’45 has unearthed a copy of The Megaphone, February 1911, from the school room in the Carnegie Library portion of the High Plains Museum. The newspaper was donated, [...]
One cold, snowy Denver December day, Chancey P. “Pete” Dunn ’55 applied for a job promising islands and palm trees. After he was hired, was asked where, exactly, he would like to work.
Wally Hampton‘81 uses his 1965 Piper Cherokee 180 to fly dogs from over-crowded shelters to rescue organizations that will adopt them out. Hampton is part of Pilots-N-Paws, an organization that coordinates the flights.
The City of McCook and the Alliance for the Encouragement of the Visual and Performing Arts will use a $254,300 CDBG award to remove material and architectural barriers within the historical Fox Theater. The project will include a variety of renovations, including adding wheelchair accessible seating, relocating a heating, ventilating and conditioning system and also [...]
A new addition to the McCook Elementary School building was funded by district money and by a grant obtained from federal stimulus funds. Two new special education rooms were added to the northwest part of the building, and a bathroom in the school’s preschool was revamped to make it handicap accessible. While not ready by [...]
