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West Elementary in Sidney held their spring concert on Thursday evening before an appreciative audience. The students also presented retiring teacher Sue Wilson with gifts....
Beau McCoy had to laugh when asked what he might do about the persistent wind, if elected governor. The candidate recounted how, on his drive toward Sidney on Tuesday, he could have saved gas by putting the truck in neutral, allowing the tailwind to push the vehicle down the road. With less than two weeks to go before Nebraska's May 13 primary, however, McCoy was quite willing to brave 40 to 60 mile per hour gusts to visit again with local residents. In addition to the wind and the big issue tal...
Wind whipped through the MAC tournament on Thursday. It forced drives to veer sharply into the trees. It stalled approach shots lofted toward the green. And it caused golfers to doubt each and every decision. There was, however, one consolation. "It was good to your back," Creek Valley's Wyatt McMillan reported. The Storm finished the day in second place behind a solid Bayard lineup. Lane Godfrey led the squad with an 83, taking third on the leaderboard by winning the tiebreaker over the...
You see Donna Wiedeburg at every Sidney school event, taking pictures and encouraging the students. Besides recording sports and other activities, she serves as an assistant coach for the Red Raiders' cross country squad. Wiedeburg started running in the army, urged on by her husband--now a member of Sidney's sheriff's department. She is a veteran of Desert Storm. She has also been a Sidney Public Schools fixture for the past 11 years. 1. How many miles do you cover following Sidney teams...
Sidney Visitor's Center director Ramona Joyce and Bert Kollath of Technik Manufacturing out of Columbus, Neb. steady the screen while Nebraska tourism's Karen Kollars threads wires on the new kiosk installed at the center. The Sidney Visitor's Center was one of five locations selected by the state to host the kiosks, which feature touch screen guides to sites and activities across Nebraska....
Sam Gingerich played the role of a tree as a group of friends took advantage of a break during Saturday's Pine Bluffs invite to have a little fun....
Oh, how I wish that I could begin this with a nonchalant “once upon a time.” It was many years ago, to be sure. In Erie, Pennsylvania, for some project during my television days, I read that the city’s minor league baseball team had a game that evening and headed to the ballpark. Every time one of the home nine who happened to be of African-American heritage stepped to the plate an old couple behind me couldn’t help but comment. “Black as the ace of spades,” they said about one. “All you see is teeth,” they mentioned when another cracked...
St. Patrick's Church entertained a gathering on Sunday with a concert by their choir and bell choir in celebration of Easter....
Injury, illness and other factors deprived Potter-Dix of several key point scorers. Entering Saturday's invitational at Pine Bluffs shorthanded proved a minor hindrance, however, as the Coyotes managed to several podiums from the likes of Cheyenne Central and Rawlins. Potter-Dix even registered four firsts. Kate Woten won the 3200 meter run in fine fashion. On the boy's side, Jake Johnson dominated the 800, Bryant Knigge challenged the meet pole vault record and the 4x400 team raced to a comfort...
The UNL Extension office hosted a farm safety day for Cheyenne County second graders at the Lodgepole Youth Camp on Thursday. Hundreds of young people learned from experts to handle everything from farm equipment to common items with care. Chris Harms proves that the safety helmet for an ATV is not tight enough to protect this young man's head....
A fiery sunset silhouetted Sidney's skyline on Wednesday....
Chanda DeMasters can be found organizing many of the youth related activities around Cheyenne and Kimball Counties. If not directly responsible for them, the UNL Extension representative works alongside members of 4-H to help bring about successful projects, such as the fair or farm safety day. Although a Sidney resident for the past 16 years, you can still find traces of her Colorado upbringing--and her years in 4-H. 1. What drew you to this? The youth. I grew up in 4-H. I enjoy all the 4-H...
Close to 100 second graders from North Elementary celebrated Earth Day and Arbor Day by picking up trash in downtown Sidney on Tuesday. The project was coordinated by Keep Sidney Beautiful, which provided garbage bags and plastic gloves....
Sun-Telegraph press operator Steve Buxton explains the newspaper production process to a group of seniors visiting from Kimball High School on Wednesday morning....
Tom Carlson returned to the campaign trail this week following one of the more contentious legislative sessions in recent memory. "You couldn't relax until the final vote," he said during a stop in Sidney on Monday. But the state senator (R-Holdrege) and gubernatorial candidate claims a significant achievement: passage of LB 1098, the water sustainability bill, which was signed into law by Gov. Dave Heineman on April 16. The measure created a fund for water supply management, flood control,...
Two instances—one gleaned recently in a headline the other experienced personally--say a lot about America’s perception of the vast swath in the middle. The headline asked “heartlanders” not to fret over the selection of Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman in the latter’s late night television slot. The one experienced personally occurred years before, when a colleague from California informed me during a conversation over the 2008 election that “middle America” would never vote for a black man like Barack Obama. Now, I’m not interested...
Children young and a little bit older took part in Sidney's Easter egg hunt on Saturday at Legion Park. Hundreds of eager children took part in the annual event. Clockwise: Go! Children take off on the sound of a Sidney Volunteer Fire Department siren; A young participant seems pleased with her growing egg collection; One boy reaches for an egg; Another shows off a pine cone resembling an egg; Two girls race for more; Jennifer Cook, who helps organize the event, shows off some holiday...
All that kept Lane Godfrey from a win at Thursday's Bridgeport Invitational was pernicious thing known as consistency. The Creek Valley senior fired a 40 on the front side and a 40 on the back. His round of 80 was good enough for third place on the course shadowed by Courthouse and Jail Rocks. Meanwhile Godfrey's playing partners, Henry Heeg of Kimball and Czech exchange student Roman Konvicka, wearing Bayard colors, matched him over the first nine. After the turn, however, Heeg shaved off four...
Brett Godfrey chips onto the green during back nine play....
Margaret Lienemann and Sue Hiett from Keep Sidney Beautiful awarded Preferred Roofing & Excavation, LLC owner Travis Arellano with the Community Beautification award. In August of 2012 Arellano purchased what many know as the old skating rink at 2032 Illinois St. and transformed the facility for retail use. The award is given quarterly to a business in Sidney. The KSB committee members nominate local businesses. Contact keep Sidney Beautiful if you would like to nominate someone for the...
For someone with a couple of decades as a building contractor under his tool belt, Brad Rowan has an impressive resume. He has worked on skyscrapers in San Francisco and enforced code in a number of small towns. He oversaw construction on projects in five different countries. Before taking the position as Sidney's Chief Building Official, he directed work on a housing project at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. But Rowan is a small town Nebraskan at heart, born in Falls City. 1. So...
With a month remaining before the state's primaries, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jon Bruning must balance the demands of a campaign and of his role as Nebraska's Attorney General. In Sidney to visit with Cabela's employees on Tuesday morning, he also took a moment to discuss law enforcement concerns over Colorado's marijuana laws. "I met with Sheriff [John] Jenson about that issue," Bruning said. "We need to provide additional resources." Bruning has served as the state's Attorney...
I’ve never been inside a Ford Mustang—never driven one, never caught a ride in the passenger seat. It hardly seems possible, I know. The iconic muscle car turns 50 on Thursday, the anniversary of its appearance at the New York World’s Fair. Ford sold an astonishing 400,000 plus of the pony when the half year model debuted back in 1964 and more than 9 million in all. My sister owned one, but tumbled it down an embankment before I had a chance to slide in. A friend also had one, but he gutted it for use on the track. About a decade ago I knew...
Stacie Hermes demonstrated the techniques necessary to spin fibers the old fashioned way on Saturday morning at Sidney's public library. Hermes brought two types of spinning wheel to the class and instructed a small but rapt audience the steps that turn wool into yarn....
City electrical worker Casey Smith checks the status of units behind Fox Theatre on Wednesday as work continued on projects converting downtown power lines....
