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PITTSBURGH (AP) — In an unlikely partnership between longtime adversaries, some of the nation’s biggest energy companies and environmental groups have agreed on a voluntary set of standards for gas and oil fracking in the Northeast that appear to go further than existing state and federal pollution regulations. The program announced Wednesday will work a lot like Underwriters Laboratories, which puts its UL seal of approval on electrical appliances that meet its standards. In this case, drilling and pipeline companies will be encouraged to sub...
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ banks will remain closed Thursday and Friday as officials try to find a new plan to stave off bankruptcy. Aliki Stylianou, the central bank’s spokeswoman, confirmed the additional two-day closure on Wednesday. The cash-strapped lenders have been closed since Saturday to avoid a bank run. The Parliament this week rejected a plan to take a portion of bank deposits. That has left Cypriot officials looking for alternative ways to scrounge up some 5.8 billion euros ($7.51 billion) that the country’s euro area partner...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Renewing U.S. support for the difficult “work of generations,” President Barack Obama assured Israel on Wednesday that his administration would pursue an elusive Mideast peace that would allow residents of the Jewish state to live in peace and free from the threat of terror. “In this work, the state of Israel will have no greater friend than the United States,” the president declared after meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres during his first visit to Israel as president. Peres, in turn, said he welcomed Obama’s c...
PEETZ, Colo. — Luck often occurs when opportunity meets preparation, but toss in a lack of aggressiveness, and it spelled extra-innings misfortune Tuesday for the Peetz High School baseball team. “We had our chances to win, but we have to swing the bats better,” Bulldogs coach Darrin Fehringer said of his team’s 7-6 loss in 10 innings to visiting Merino on a cold, blustery afternoon. “We just weren’t aggressive when we needed to be.” Peetz (2-1) managed plenty of base runners from the top of it...
Sidney High School athletics director Mike Brockhaus has announced that due to the impending winter weather for Saturday, Sidney’s multi-team Invitational will be conducted Friday at Weymouth Field. Field events will begin at 1 p.m., with running events starting at 2:30 p.m. at SHS. Brockhaus said the meet schedule would be altered by eliminating the 4x2, and perhaps the 3,200-meter run might also be scrapped. Alliance, Ogallala and Sidney are slated to compete in the meet, and Brockhaus was awaiting word from Creek Valley and L...
SIDNEY — Sidney American Legion Post 17’s Senior baseball team will be holding registration for the upcoming summer season this weekend, March 23-24, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. both days, at the Cheyenne County Community Center. Registration fee for each player is $100, according to senior manager Tim Herrera. Also, softball registration will be held this weekend, at the same times listed above. All boys and girls from nine years of age, up to Senior Legion Baseball, are eligible to register. Also, for kids ages 14 and up who are interested in off...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gail Goodrich knew Miami would beat Boston the other night. He knew even a 17-point deficit, the largest they had faced in six weeks, wouldn’t stop LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. “Once they got back in the game, there was no doubt in my mind they were going to win,” Goodrich said of the Heat’s 105-103 victory Monday. “They just are better than everybody else.” So were the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers. Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain and Goodrich were a Big Three to rival what Miami has, the core of a team that racked u...
LINCOLN (AP) — A bill to expand Nebraska Medicaid coverage has advanced for debate in the Legislature, and supporters presented their case Tuesday in anticipation that Gov. Dave Heineman will veto the measure. The committee vote sets up a likely confrontation between lawmakers and Heineman, a Republican who remains firmly opposed to the bill. Sen. Kathy Campbell, who led the introduction of the bill, said she’s “very confident” that the measure’s backers have at least 25 votes to push it through the Legislature. But Campbell said supporters wil...
SCOTTSBLUFF – Regional West Health Services recently announced the upcoming closure of its Restorative Care Unit (RCU). The unit, which opened 26 years ago to provide short-term skilled nursing, is closing due to declining usage and the need for major renovations to comply with new skilled nursing regulations. The last patients will be admitted to the RCU on March 30 and the unit will officially close on April 15, 2013. Hospital President and CEO Todd Sorensen, MD, MS, expressed regret that the decision had to be made. “For the past sev...
Your diet during a health crisis could be the determining factor for recovery time, and your recuperation level. Knowing the benefits of certain foods is a very important educational piece of information when facing a health crisis. Everything from a common virus causing a cold, to cancer, can be affected by the foods you eat. Environmental elements are certainly a factor, along with your emotional state, but the foods you eat may bring a greater emphasis to your recovery than most realize. Fresh fruits and vegetables, work with your body’s own...
Nebraska farmers are among the most efficient and productive in the world. Our producers have embraced new technologies and techniques to produce an abundance of crops, opening the door to increased trade and helping to feed the world. These advances have not only helped American agriculture thrive, but also play a critical role in meeting global food demands of the present and future. By 2050, the Earth’s population is expected to swell to more than nine billion people. To feed this growing population scientists believe we will need to produce...
The Republican National Committee is out with a 100-page analysis of how the party can revive its sagging fortunes. Doubtless many of the recommendations are good ones — more outreach to minority and women voters, better candidate recruitment, fewer debates during the primaries, openness to immigration reform, competing with Democrats in absentee and early voting and much more. Some of these things may help, or at least, as my grandmother would have said about chicken soup for a cold, they can’t hurt. Others sound a little desperate, such as...
The Cheyenne County Genealogical Society is an organization focusing on helping those interested in collecting and preserving family history information. The monthly meetings include guest presenters with helpful information on how to access information from various sources such as government records, internet sites, land records, cemetery records and tombstones, newspaper obituaries, birth, marriage and death notices and many other places. Genealogy is one of the most popular and fastest growing hobbies in the United States. The local chapter...
Patricia J. Fehringer 1929 to 2013 Patricia J. Fehringer, 84, of Sidney, and former Peetz, Colo., resident, passed away Sunday, March 17, 2013, at the Sidney Regional Medical Center Extended Care with family at her side. Mass of Christian Burial services will be at 10 a.m., Friday, March 22, with a Wake Service at 6 p.m., Thursday evening. Both services will be in the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Sidney with Father Art Faesser officiating. Burial will follow in the Sacred Heart Cemetery i...
Levoine E. Bowker 1919 to 2013 Levoine E. Bowker, 93, of Sidney, passed away, Saturday, March 16, 2013, at the Sidney Regional Medical Center Extended Care. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 21, in the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church with Pastor Bradley Heinecke officiating. Military Graveside Honors will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Wednesday, from 1 to 7 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made in Levoine’s name to the Alz...
David Goebel, a representative from Ameresco spoke with members of the Potter-Dix Board of Education (BOE) on March 14 concerning the school’s energy audit and about the improvements that can be made to the current system. In opening, the he summarized what was discussed at last month’s meeting. The boiler at Dix is a single boiler that is unreliable, old and energy-inefficient; it delivers steam to elements that are also nearing the end of their life-cycle. Goebel reminded the board members that they had discussed the advantages in cha...
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Students at Central Elementary in Mrs. Roach’s class and Mrs. Sylvester’s class are keeping up with the Iditarod. Each student has chosen a musher and they are following his or her progress along the Iditarod trail. In Sylvester’s math class, the children are being taught how Pi (3.14) circles tie in to the Iditarod checkpoints. In Roach’s class, the children are participating in “Iditaround Nebraska,” using a map of Nebraska in the fashion of the Iditarod. The children read in their socia...
A Jesus And Me (JAM) Club has been started for the first time by Pastor Ezekiel Koech and his congregation at the Lodgepole United Methodist Church. The weekly event is sponsored by church members and occurs every Wednesday from 3:50 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The club is free and open to school age children. “It is for all the kids in the community,” said Koech. “We had seven kids last week and the kids say they are excited and that they will bring their friends next time. Kids love a place with food and fun.” Paster Koech has been at the Lodgepole chu...
Monsanto’s representative Bob Cummings presented two $2,500 checks to the Cheyenne County 4-H Council as part of their America Farmer’s Grow Communities (AFGC) during the annual spring carnival on March 16. Chris Meyer was the local farmer who was chosen to select the recipient for the check. He chose the Cheyenne County 4-H because he was a part of the council while he was growing up. The award was originally $2,500, but because this is a draught year, Monsanto’s decided to double the award. Cu...
Presiding Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer made a final decision in the City of Sidney’s property nuisance abatement case against Marvin O. Filsinger of Filsinger Excavating and Filsinger Emergency Services this past Wednesday, March 13. The ongoing case involved the plaintiff (the City of Sidney, represented by Ft. Collins, Colo. Attorney Charlie Cuypers) calling upon the defendant, Marvin Filsinger, (represented by Sidney Attorney Don Miller with co-council from Lincoln Attorney C...
