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During a pre-sale open house in mid-January 2010, Cassie Spencer helped her four-year-old daughter, Leah, cross the horizontal ladder on the playground at District 8, the rural elementary school three miles southwest of McCook, Nebraska.
District 8, also known as the Fitch school district, was last used for classroom instruction in 20072008, after which its ownership transferred to the McCook school system. Proceeds of the sale were used to purchase new reading curriculum for the McCook school district. Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette
McCook Daily Gazette Friday, Feb. 25, 2011