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Serving proudly since 1873 as the beautiful Nebraska Panhandle's first newspaper
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On January 24, 1848 near a little sawmill on the South Fork of the American River in Colona, California, James Marshall raised a fistful of yellow nuggets and started a stampede of fortune seekers with a single word, “Gold!” Sutter’s Mill would forever be indelibly inked on the pages of history and the Gold Rush was on. Over the next seven years more than a quarter of a million people would point their wagons toward California and pin their hopes on the promise of gold. Later discoveries in Co... Full story
Ronda Sue Liddrick will begin fourth grade studies this coming school year. But at the tender age of nine, the Chappell youngster is already a budding entrepreneur and local philanthropist. Liddrick sells fresh squeezed lemonade from a table set up along Highway 30 in the Creek Valley High School parking lot. She uses any profits to help out friends, as well as her church. The location, on Chappell's eastern edge, would not be considered prime by most businesses. Sometimes the lag between customers pulling up can be long. “We hang out t... Full story
Victoria Thomas, a 43-year-old Sidney woman, was arrested Monday for threatening another resident with a knife. She was charged with disturbing the peace and making terroristic threats. Sidney Police Officer Chad Borgmann was dispatched to an apartment building June 24 to investigate a woman allegedly making threats. When Borgmann arrived, Kavin Swain told the officer that his neighbor, Thomas, approached him with a knife, according to the police report. Borgmann gathered from witness statements that Thomas and Swain had been hostile toward... Full story
Rattlesnake bites can be deadly, but Sidney Regional Medical Center has the cure. SRMC recently received several phone calls from worried residents who were under the impression that the center does not keep antidote for rattlesnake poison in stock. "Unfortunately they think we don't carry the anti-venom, when we do," said Rachel Forster, Director of Pharmacy at the Sidney health care facility. The center always carries the anti-venom because Sidney's climate and geography are considered rattles... Full story
The oil pumped from Nebraska fields may not amount to much, at least compared to activity in Texas or the Dakotas. But it's enough to keep the state's regulatory agency busy. “We have produced a half of billion barrels of oil in Nebraska,” reported Stan Belieu, Deputy Director of the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, based in downtown Sidney. The commission was established in 1959, during the original oil boom years, to regulate production in the state. It is one of only three government agencies not headquartered in Lincoln. The... Full story
