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Articles from the January 2, 2013 edition


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  • Cabela’s Holiday Shootout

    John Roark, Sun-Telegraph|Jan 2, 2013

    If the Sidney High School girls basketball team is looking for a blueprint on how to conduct business in the second half of the season, it got a pretty good lesson Saturday afternoon. Douglas, Wyo., the top-ranked Class 3A squad in the Cowboy State, put on a defensive clinic in the championship game of the Cabela’s Holiday Shootout, stifling the Lady Raiders’ offense in a 51-32 victory. Sidney (7-2), which takes pride in its own defensive schemes, had but one lead in this affair, that being 8-6... Full story

  • Cabela’s Holiday Shootout

    John Roark, Sun-Telegraph|Jan 2, 2013

    As long as Sidney High School boys basketball coach Erik Kohl can figure his own team out, the Red Raiders are likely to put up more struggles. “Right now, if I am coaching against us, I’d play a zone against us,” Kohl said after watching his club fall 52-49 to Gering in Saturday afternoon’s third-place game in the Cabela’s Holiday Shootout. “We are going to have to keep guys in the gym later than they have been recently in practice.” In dropping successive games to close out their own hol...

  • Fifteen tips for a healthy new year

    Casey Cortney, Special for the Sun-Telegraph|Jan 2, 2013

    It’s the New Year, and it’s also time for a flurry of resolutions. You’re probably thinking about how you can become healthier, be more pain-free, and move better than you do right now. Great thought! To help you along, here are 15 tips to improve your health this year: • A gradual, personalized exercise program that takes into account your anatomy and physiology is important. Your physical therapist can conduct an evaluation and assist with this. • Make yourself accountable to someone other than yourself. Log your exercises (either at home o...

  • A tale of war, destruction, and toilets

    Jill Pertler, Syndicated Columnist|Jan 2, 2013

    Before reading any further, be forewarned: this is not a story for the weak of heart. It is filled with snakes, destruction, filth, war and loss. But every word is true. I know. I lived it. The other day my 8-year-old called me into the bathroom. With a frown, he pointed downward. My eyes followed his path to the toilet bowl, which was filled with yellow water and a bright red Matchbox car. When I asked how the car got in the toilet, he motioned toward his sweatshirt pocket – bulging with little metal cars – and I gave silent thanks that onl...

  • Van Ree's Voice

    Hannah Van Ree, Sun-Telegraph|Jan 2, 2013

    For me the year 2012 ended in a different fashion then I am use to. I’m used to getting together with all my friends to enjoy the Seattle Space Needle fireworks show at midnight, and the fun of the town afterward. If you had asked me when I graduated from college last spring where I would be half a year from now, my ideas would have spanned from Seattle to New York City. In all of the destinations that came to my mind however, Nebraska hadn’t been one of them. It’s funny thinking back on it now, but a year ago this December I remember sitti...

  • Laura Mae Nelson

    Jan 2, 2013

    Laura Mae Nelson 1919 to 2012 Angels escorted Laura Mae (Sutherland) Nelson to heaven where she joined her husband, Leonard, just 11 weeks after his arrival there. Laura died on Dec. 27, 2012, (exactly two weeks shy of her 94th birthday) at the Kimball County Manor where the couple had resided since May 2010. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at the Prairie West Christian Church in Potter with pastors Ed Hunzeker and Amanda Esping officiating. Burial will follow at...

  • Doris Eileen Ewing

    Jan 2, 2013

    Doris Eileen Ewing 1927 to 2012 Doris Eileen Ewing, 85, of El Dorado Hills, Calif., and a former Lodgepole area resident passed away Dec. 21, 2012, in El Dorado Hills. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, in the Mennonite Cemetery east of Chappell with Wayne Fraass, P.M.A. Officiating. There is no visitation at the funeral home. You can view the online obituary and share condolences with the family at www.holechekfuneralhomes.com. Doris was born in Chappell to Jesse and Sarah Yoder on Jan. 29, 1927. She attended Deuel...

  • June Erb

    Jan 2, 2013

    June Erb 1934 to 2012 June Erb, 78, of Oshkosh and Chappell, passed away Monday morning, Dec. 24, 2012, at the Miller Memorial Care Center in Chappell. Funeral Services have taken place at the Holechek Funeral Home in Oshkosh with Pastor Ezekiel Koech officiating. Cremation followed the services and private family burial of the ashes will take place at the Oshkosh City Cemetery at a later date. A memorial has been established in June’s name to the Miller Memorial Care Center or Sidney Regional M...

  • Like falling off a log: fiscal crisis averted – for now

    Associated Press|Jan 2, 2013

    WASHINGTON — Past its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that strained America’s divided government to the limit. The bill’s passage on a bipartisan 257-167 vote in the House sealed a hard-won political triumph for the president less than two months after he secured re-election while calling for higher taxes on the wealthy. Moments later, Obama strode into the Wh...

  • Store changes offer consumers a variety to choose from

    Tina Mines, Sun-Telegraph|Jan 2, 2013

    CDs, car stereos, guitars, body jewelry, incense, used DVDs and now antiques – an odd expansion but one that just may work. For the past few months Allan Lundgren owner of Budget and Tammy Temple, owner of Rust N Roses have been one combined business – and soon to be one on the personal front as well. “Me and Tammy are getting married and we wanted to combine our businesses so we’d be in the same place,” Lundgren said. “We had the opportunity to do so with this side,” she refers to the Budget CD...

  • Local businesses show holiday sales growth

    Hannah Van Ree, Sun-Telegraph|Jan 2, 2013

    Though Sidney businesses appeared to see an increase in holiday sales this December, the rest of the nation wasn’t as fortunate. Burt Flickinger, managing director at Strategic Resource Group said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio that his field team spread out across America saw modest to moderate sales on the Saturday before Christmas that became weaker and weaker leading up to Christmas day. While online sales increased by 17 percent this holiday season, Flickinger said that in-store sales... Full story