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Summer officially begins this weekend, but for the past few weeks – since the school year ended and as temperatures warmed – downtown sidewalks and walking paths have seen increased use. Students, now out of school, are biking, walking and skating to summer camps, afternoons at the pool and other adventures. Combined with the regular pedestrian traffic in and around town, Sidney Police Chief B.J. Wilkinson said those behind the wheel and those on foot need to pay attention to their sur...
A proposed combined law enforcement center in Cheyenne County will likely be narrowed to a new county jail. Earlier this week, Cheyenne County Commissioners asked John Jenson, the Cheyenne County sheriff, to have the consultants who drafted the initial feasibility study refine concept designs solely to a jail. Four months ago, a team of architects and consultants presented a report that examined the current sheriff's office facilities and jail – and also proposed numerous concepts of what a n...
The children of Lyle and Judith Melchior happily announce their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Lyle and Judith were married 50 years ago on June 19, 1965, in Annapolis, Md. at the U.S. Naval Academy. They have been blessed with 3 loving children during their marriage and 2 grandchildren. Their children are Michael, David and Katherine. David works and resides in Sidney. Katherine and her husband Ryan work and reside in San Antonio, TX with their children Skylar and Morgan. Lyle was born in... Full story
On Sunday, June 25, 1950, North Korean bombs fell on Seoul, South Korea’s capital, and the civil war began. It ended three years later, on July 27, 1953, with the same division as it had begun, with the Korean peninsula divided into two parts at the 38th parallel, communist to the North and a democratic-republic to the South. South Koreans now call the war, “the 6-2-5 Upheaval,” but the North Koreans call it “the Fatherland Liberation War,” even though no fatherland was ever liberated. In 2011, Suki Kim, a Korean-American woman, then 41 years...
In the winter of 1945, there were more important things going on in the world than the Sidney High School basketball team's drive for a state championship. Perhaps that's what made the '45 Maroons such a perfect diversion for a distracted community. While La Verne Couch was leading the Sidney High team to its first state championship in front of large and boisterous crowds all season, the bloodiest war in human history still raged across Europe and Asia. Despite the madness of a world at war, it...
The Sidney American Legion squads made a clean sweep of the Gordon Regulators at Legion Park on Wednesday night with the juniors taking the opener 7-3 and the seniors winning the nightcap by the count of 9-1 in five innings. Sidney pitchers Zach Holtz, Brett Jaggers and Jackson Witt combined to stymie the Post 34 juniors in the opener. Holtz – the starter – picked up the win after going three innings while giving up one run on three hits and three walks. Gordon travelled to Sidney with just nin...