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special to the sun-telegraph CASPER, Wyo. — Former Sidney resident Shelby Garska, now a sophomore at Caspet College, has been named to the women’s All-Region IX North squad. Garska, the daughter of Travis, Stephanie and Jonel Garska, is a sophomore guard for the Thunderbirds squad, currently 24-7 after winning their Region IX opener against Lamar, 46-37, Monday night. Garska was one of two T-Birds picked to the team, joining teammate Shelby Stewart. Also named to the team were Jasmine Davis and... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans controlling the House are moving to take the roughest edges off across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect. Even as the military would bear a $43 billion cut over just seven months, the new GOP measure released Monday would give the Pentagon much-needed funding for readiness. It would also ease the pain felt by critical agencies like the FBI and the Border Patrol. The effort is part of a huge spending measure released Monday that would fund day-to-day federal operations through S...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world moved closer Tuesday to tightening sanctions on North Korea for its latest nuclear test after U.N. diplomats said the United States and China had reached agreement on a new draft resolution to punish the country. In response, Pyongyang threatened to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War. The U.N. Security Council held closed consultations on North Korea and non-proliferation Tuesday morning as tensions on the Korean Peninsula soared again over the February test. The U.N. diplomats, speaking on c...
LINCOLN – Making sure employees under age 21 won’t serve alcohol to other minors was the purpose of a bill in the General Affairs Committee Monday, March 4. Another alcohol-related bill would increase beer taxes. Under the LB444, introduced by Sen. Bob Krist of Omaha, employees who sell alcohol would have to complete a training course to do so. Underage workers could sell in a licensed retail establishment as long as another authorized person who is at least 21 was on the premise, essentially supervising the sale. Krist said the leg...
LINCOLN (AP) — A 10-year-old Nebraska boy cared for his father for more than a week after the man slipped and hit his head in their home, and it wasn’t until the boy’s school called authorities that his father was taken to the hospital where he died, authorities said Monday. The boy, Peter Asumani, told a police investigator he couldn’t communicate with his father but that he fed and gave him liquids. The investigator went to the family’s home Friday after the boy’s principal called police to report he hadn’t been in school for four days, Li...
LINCOLN (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker said alcohol problems in Whiteclay inspired him to propose a bill Monday that would increase a beer excise tax by 5 cents per gallon. The increase would generate about $2.3 million over each of the next two years, Sen. Al Davis of Hyannis told the Legislature’s General Affairs Committee. The panel took no action on the bill. The money would be split evenly between the State Patrol Cash Fund and county law enforcement agencies. Davis said the money would allow law enforcement agencies to hire workers to com...
Over the past few articles I’ve written about how we developed a no-till cropping system for our farm. After a few years of using no till on our dry land acres, we adopted our irrigated acres to no till production practices. We found the same benefits on our irrigated acres as we did on our dry land acres, so it made sense to put our irrigated acres into no till crop production. After 20 years of no-till crop production I am very pleased that we adopted this practice on our farm. I really feel the no-till crop production practices kept us f...
Editor, I would like to share a few quotes from one of our greatest presidents – Abraham Lincoln – also know as ‘Honest Abe.” “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” “Don’t interfere with anything i... Full story
The so-called “sequester” is the latest showdown to grip the attention of Washington and the nation. The House of Representatives voted twice to replace these arbitrary cuts before the March 1 deadline with commonsense reductions and reforms. However, these cuts are now in effect because the President and the Senate have yet to propose and pass a viable alternative. The sequester was passed as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which raised the debt limit in exchange for $900 billion in spending reductions. The bill also created a bip...
Water is Nebraska’s most precious natural resource and during the last few years we have experienced both extreme flooding and prolonged drought. I would like to share with you the work of the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources and their dedication to the sustainable use and proper management of our water and related land resources. The Department’s staff of over 100 is directed by Brian Dunnigan and has major responsibilities for regulating the use of the waters of our streams (also referred to as surface water administration), dir...
BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — Fred Butler was married for 65 years, raised five children, served in the Army during World War II and worked for years for the local water department, but the fact he never earned a high school diploma always bothered him. Not anymore. The 106-year-old was awarded his honorary diploma Monday during an emotional ceremony attended by school officials, state lawmakers and Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon. “I thank everybody who is responsible for this,” he said, wearing a mortar board hat and tassel and holding the prized document...
The annual board meeting of the Lodgepole Valley Youth Camp took place Jan. 28, 2013. New member elected were Cynthia Gill and Lynn McKinney. The officers for 2013 are president Gary Hawkins, vice president Jennifer Hellie, treasurer Bridget Reece, maintenance treasurer Jennifer Hellie, secretary Michelle Pritchard and correspondence secretary Joyce Jensen. Other board members are Bernice Russell, Brian Kurz and Carol Williams. The board’s accomplishments for 2012 are new lights in kitchen and main lodge were installed, ceiling in kitchen a...
John H. Van Raay 1931 to 2013 John H. Van Raay, 82, of Potter, passed away Friday, March 1, 2013, at the Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff. Rosary Services will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday morning, March 6, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. Both services will be in the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with Father Art Faesser officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made in John’s name to a Cancer related organization or to the chu...
Marvel Brauer Seelye 1933 to 2012 Marvel Brauer Seelye, our amazing Mother and Grandmother was born in Sidney, during a blizzard on March 5, 1933 to Georg Ernst and Ann Catherine Brauer – 80 years ago today. Marvel was also the granddaughter of the late Fritz and Albertina Brauer, German immigrants and early pioneer settlers of Sidney. Marvel passed away on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, in Tulsa, Okla. at the age of 79. Marvel was an exceptional student and excelled in all areas of concentration. S...
Rodney Hazlitt 1951 to 2013 Rodney Eugene Hazlitt, 61, of Pierce, Colo., passed away Feb. 27, 2013, at North Colorado Medical Center. He was born on April 24,1951, in Sidney, to Harry and Lillian (Carlson) Hazlitt. Rodney grew up in Sidney where he attended school. He moved to Pierce in the fall of 1992. Rodney was a big Nebraska Cornhuskers fan and appreciated his nephew Ken getting him a schedule of the games each year. He could tell you where all the good places to eat were located. Rodney was a kindhearted person who never met a stranger...
Lisana Eckenrode is the newest reporter at the Sidney Sun-Telegraph. Her appointment was announced by Sun-Telegraph Publisher Hank Bond on March 4. Eckenrode came to Sidney from North Georgia where she was a staff writer at Fetch Your News. Her news assignments included covering breaking and hard news, health issues, festivals, community events, public meetings along with police and government. In her last professional outing in the media before relocating to the upper midwest she worked as a...
A Nevada man finds himself in Cheyenne County Jail after his Saturday morning arrest on felony drug charges. John Lee Longshore, 58, Carson City, remains in custody on $50,000 bond (or 10 percent) after his Monday presentment before Cheyenne County District Judge Randin Roland on a Class IV felony count of methamphetamine possession. According to his arrest affidavit, Longshore actually made it easy for authorities to make the arrest. Nebraska State Patrol was called to locate Longshore and his...
Cheyenne County Community Center and The Book and Coffee Corner staff are teaming up with mom and photographer, Heather Hausmann to hold their first “Bridge to Imagination” Lego Competition on March 16 at the community center. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. that Saturday and all participants are asked to bring no more than 5 lbs of small Legos to compete with, said Hausmann. There is no cost to participate and the age groups range from 5 to 7-year-olds, 8 to 11-year-olds and 12-14...
After almost redundant discussion on the application for a condition use permit from Pine Bluffs Gravel and Excavating Inc. for the proposed use of a gravel mine to operate a ready-mix concrete batch plant at the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday morning, commissioners decided to table the matter until April 15 when hopefully both parties will have reached an understanding. The meeting of the two groups started out with Sidney Attorney Don Miller, representing Pine Bluffs,... Full story