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McCook Humane Society

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TOURING CLASSROOMS School bells are ringing this week and the president of the Nebraska State Education Association is touring classrooms across the state. Dur-ing a stop in North Platte, Jenni Benson talked about efforts to launch a non-profit group to keep the educators in the state and to better develop the educators who work with our children daily. “We started a new 501(c)(3) this past year to help with professional development, to look at the whole child and also the whole teacher,” Benson says.

“We’re doing some things with kids who are struggling. We need some support systems in place to help them.” Classroom safety is a concern of parents and residents throughout the state, and Benson stresses educators are also concerned. “Our teachers are also our family members, they have kids in school as well or grandkids, like myself, I have seven grandkids,” Benson says. “We are concerned about the safety and security of our students, of our faculty.” Benson says it’s vital to provide younger generations with tools outside of the classroom, whether that’s through established programs like FFA or Skills USA, or a relatively new program called Educator Rising. “(That’s for) kids in high school saying, ‘Hey, maybe I want to be a

teacher,’ and we have a lot of programs across the state,” Benson says. “It’s now a club through the Department of Ed and we have 38 chapters in Nebraska.

GREAT WAY TO START THE FISCAL YEAR The latest monthly state tax receipts are again up over forecast. State Tax Commissioner Tony Fulton tells says it is a great way to start out a new fiscal year. “We ended out the month about $20 mil-lion ahead of what the certified forecast was predicting.” says Fulton. “So that is certainly good news.” Fulton also cautions that, overall, it was a pretty small month in respect to revenues coming in to the state’s treasury, “but nevertheless, we’re off to a good start.” Net

state receipts for July are up almost 8 percent over the certified fore-cast. Net individual income tax receipts are up almost 21 percent over the forecast while net sales and use tax receipts are up 7.3 per-cent. However, Net corporate income was almost 26 percent below the forecast. Fulton says that is because corporate revenue is a small number compared to sales and income tax revenue.

REVIEW OF PROPOSED PATHWAY A federal judge has ordered the U.S. State Department to conduct a more thorough review of the Keystone XL pipeline’s proposed path-way after Nebraska state regulators changed the route. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris of Montana said in a ruling Wednesday that the

State Department must supplement its 2014 environmental impact study of the project to consider the new route. The Nebraska Public Service Commission rejected pipeline developer TransCanada’s pre-ferred route in November 2017, but approved a different pathway. Last month, the State Department declared the pipeline would not have a major impact on Nebraska’s water, land or wildlife. It’s not clear whether the additional review will delay the project. Tran-sCanada spokesman Matthew John says company officials are re-viewing the judge’s decision.

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McCook Humane Society

100 South Street, 345-2372

Hours: M-F: 2-5, Sat: 12-4

QUOTE OF THE DAY

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is

less than the one you are capable of living. ~Nelson Mandela~

SPORTS The McCook Lady Bison softball team will face Gothenburg

in their season-opener tonight at the Jaycee Sports Com-

plex. The JV game will start at 5 p.m. with the varsity game

to follow. The MHS girls then hit the road for games in Hast-

ings next Monday and Thursday and their first tournament

in Holdrege a week from Saturday. The McCook Community

College volleyball team will host their alumni scrimmage

tomorrow night at the Graff Events Center. MCC coach

Hayley Kobza is hoping their can play two matches. The

MCC Baseball, Softball and Golf teams open practice next

week.

The eighth-ranked Nebraska-Kearney volleyball team has

been picked first in the 2018 MIAA preseason coaches’ poll.

Head coaches vote on the makeup of the poll and cannot

vote for their own squad. Note 11 schools returned a ballot.

Just 36 points separates the top five teams and includes

the Lopers (108 points; eight first place votes), Missouri

Western State (94; two first place), Central Oklahoma (92),

Central Missouri (85) and Washburn (72; one first place).

Northwest Missouri State (67) and Lindenwood (60) are

sixth and seventh, respectively. UNK and MWSU shared the

2017 MIAA regular season title and with the Lopers beating

the Griffons in the MIAA Tournament finals. Since joining

the league in the fall of 2012, Kearney has won or shared

the regular season title four times.

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