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As our community has developed a strong economy and a focus on entrepreneurship, businesses have started up and grown with great results. Read more about the success other business owners have found in McCook. And before you know it, you could see yourself here!

Lifetime Eyecare Offers Big City Services in Rural Community

Friday, September 4, 2009

Dr. Robert Stamm and Dr. Dirk Gray, owners of the new Lifetime Eyecare, are proud to be a part of the growing downtown business community in McCook. “We owe a lot of our success and growth as a business to this great community of McCook and to all the businesses that make McCook the economic hub of Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas.”

Heartland Cattle Company Leads in Heifer Quality

Monday, August 3, 2009--Gene O. Morris

The truth has long been known in the cattle industry: the quality of a rancher's beef herd depends upon the excellence and development of his heifer calves. However, it was not until 1990 that this long recognized fact was turned into a professional company with a proven approach to heifer development.

Golight, Inc. Products Assist U.S. War Effort

Thursday, July 30, 2009-- Gene O. Morris

From a countryside location near Culbertson, Neb., a remote control searchlight company serves customers from throughout the world, including the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The company, Golight, Inc., was born 15 years ago on the Hayes County, Nebraska ranchland of Jerry Gohl.

Hormel Competition Sparks McCook Business Activity

Wednesday, July 29, 2009-- Gene O. Morris

With the help of a $25,000 investment from the Hormel Family Foundation and the Invest Nebraska Corporation, a new McCook business is moving ahead with plans for a November opening. "We're making progress," said Stephanie Hagan Dusatko, who is partnering with her husband, Jeff, and her sister, Ashley Hagan, for the launch of a new store called "The Kloset."

Past Meets Future in Keystone Renewal

Wednesday, July 29, 2009-- Gene O. Morris
Get ready, McCook!

After years of standing vacant, the historic, six-story Keystone Hotel is in the midst of a massive, top-to-bottom renovation project, preparing it for use as a future-focused business center. Demolition crews are now at work, knocking down the 87-year-old interior walls to clear the way for rebuilding the inside space of the top five floors.

Gamers awarded $25,000 top prize in a business plan competition

Paul Hammel World-Herold Bureau

The next time a young person is criticized for playing video games late into the night, consider this. Three avid gamers in McCook walked off with the $25,000 first prize Friday in an inaugural competition designed to foster a start-up business in the southwest Nebraska city.

Retail electronic game business wins first Hormel Business Plan Competition

Friday, June 15, 2007-Gene O. Morris

A day of drama and diversity unfolded Friday at the Hormel Center for Business and Technology Friday as potential business entrepreneurs competed for the first $25,000 prize to be awarded in the Business Plan Competition sponsored by the Hormel Family Foundation.

21st Century -- Company celebrates 10th year

Tuesday, April 11, 2006-Gene O. Morris

With 20 new contracts in the works, the president of 21st Century Systems Inc. predicts continued growth for the software developer with offices in McCook and nine other American cities.

Family to open hometown grocery store

Thursday, December 8, 2005-Gene O. Morris

With a combined 62 years in the grocery business, members of the Schmick family are combining their talents as the new owners of Schmick's Market, formerly Sunmart, in McCook.

21st Century settles on 'Silicon Prairie'

Tuesday, August 24, 2004-Bruce Crosby

McCook had the infrastructure in place and the right attitude, but a little luck didn't hurt, either.

It all began to pay off Monday with the official opening of a new high-tech, clean industry for Southwest Nebraska, developing im-portant software for the U.S. military.