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  • Local student selected for national choir

    Tessa Lukesh|Jul 9, 2016

    Every year students from local music programs audition for a chance to go and compete in the Nebraska Music Educator Association's All-State Conference and Clinic-or All-State, as it's commonly known. If students make it into All-State they are also given the opportunity to apply for the National Association for Music Education's (NAfME) All-National Honor Ensembles. NAfME All-National Honor Ensembles represent the top performing high school musicians in the United States. More than 600...

  • Pickin' cherries

    Don Ogle|Jul 9, 2016

    Jake Olson, 9, spent time this week picking cherries and visiting with his neighbor and former principal, Brent Jeffers....

  • Cabelas announces number of employees affected by Quad/Graphics partnership

    Amanda Tafolla-Sutton|Jul 9, 2016

    Cabela’s has released further information on the number of employees affected by the partnership with Quad/Graphics. On May 25, Cabela’s announced it would be transitioning its creative services to an outside company, Quad Graphics. Quad/Graphics is a media and print provider with its corporate office in Wisconsin. Quad Graphics has 54 locations across the country, and global locations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. With questions circulating about the future of Cabela’s the approximate numbers of affected employees were...

  • Evening weather severe, but brief

    Don Ogle|Jul 9, 2016

    A brief but intense weather system rolled through southwest Cheyenne County Thursday evening, producing high winds, heavy rains and the report of a brief land spout tornado. A meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Cheyenne confirmed NWS had received a report from a trained weather spotter that a land spot tornado briefly touched down west of Lorenzo. Responding to the report were Cheyenne County Sheriff John Jensen and Region 21 Emergency Management Director Ron Leal. Sheriff...

  • New Hobby

    Amanda Tafolla-Sutton|Jul 9, 2016

    Jessica Song teaches her daughter, Naomi how to skateboard at the Legion Park pond, Thursday. Jessica used tutorials she found on YouTube to teach Naomi, the Songs moved to Sidney three months ago from China....

  • Cheryl L. Koski, US Navy, 1972-2012

    Larry Nelson|Jul 9, 2016

    larry Nelson Veteran’s History Project Cheryl L. Koski was in college at the University of Connecticut. She learned of a scholarship program offered by the US Navy. The Navy would fund a student’s year in college and would expect two years payback in return. By 1973, she had an wobligation of service to fulfill. In the end, she served forty years. On graduation from college, she reported to a Navy boot camp for Officers at Newport, Rhode Island. Here, she and other new officers were trained like recruits in the basics of the military and the...

  • Richard V. Rolls Obituary

    Jul 9, 2016

    Richard V. Rolls, 83, longtime Sidney resident, died surrounded by his family at Sidney Regional Medical Center after a brief illness, on Tuesday, July 5, 2016. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, July 11th with a Wake Service at 6 p.m., Sunday, July 10th. Both services will be in the St. Patrick's Catholic Church with Father Jim Heithoff officiating. Inurnment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery. Cremation has been held. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel to sign...

  • Gordon W. Loschen - Obituary

    Jul 9, 2016

    Funeral Services for Gordon W. Loschen, age 78 of Alma, Nebraska, will be held on Monday, July 11, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at the Peace Lutheran Church in Alma, Nebraska with Pastor Paul Ferrarone officiating. Interment will be held in the Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery southeast of Hildreth, Nebraska. Gordon passed away on Thursday, July 7, 2016 at the CHI Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. In 1978, he and his family moved to Sidney, Nebraska where he was employed at Midweck Wire and Cable...

  • Billie Frerichs - Obituary

    Jul 9, 2016

    Billie Frerichs, 81 of Gurley, passed away peacefully on Thursday morning, July 7, 2016 at her home at Lake McConaughy. Memorials services will be held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in the Holechek Funeral Home in Sidney. Services will conclude at the funeral home. There will be a reception following the services. Cremation has taken place and there is no visitation at the funeral home. Memorials have been established in care of the family. You can view the online obituary and share...