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July Battle Of The Weeds It’s a constant battle, but the City of Sidney is up to the task when it comes to snuffing out weeds and the eyesores they create. Jeanie Matthes, Code Enforcement Officer for Sidney’s City Police Department says the recent drought has provided weeds a breeding ground. “This season is bad for bindweed,” Matthes said. “It’s just been so hot and dry.” For the most part, citizens have been cooperative. However, Matthes says violations do occur locally, and the steps taken to resolve a violation can be tricky. “Some...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘A Serious Accident’ December 28, 1912 Last Saturday little Harold Edens four years old, son of Gus Edens, living fifteen miles northwest of town, fell through the plate glass window, completing severing the muscles at the back of the neck. Mrs. Edens was alone at the time, with the two children. Leaving the baby in the high chair she ran with the injured child half a mile for hel...
If you are reading this column, I have good news for you: the world didn’t end Friday. In case you missed it, a lot of folks were worried it would. All of this is because of an old Mayan calendar. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, created by Mayans in 3114 BC and carved into stone, contains entries for every single day from that time right up until December 21, 2012. Then it simply stops. The Mayans may have simply run out of symbols or stone, or broke their chisel at that point, or they may have been trying to give us a warning, but as a...
This being the season of giving, it’s worth looking back at some special gifts from November’s election that received little acknowledgement at the time. These victories came in campaigns that had no candidates – no Democrats, Republicans or other party designations. Rather, they were ballot initiatives – policy ideas put to a vote of people themselves. This is an exercise in direct democracy that was first proposed by the historic Populist movement of the 1870s. It’s presently available to citizens in 26 states and hundreds of cities ...
A man made a permanent move into a retirement home. It wasn’t long before he made friends with a special lady. They spent a lot of time together and finally one evening he proposed, asking her to marry him. The next morning he woke up remembering his proposal, but couldn’t remember her answer. So, he went to her and said, “I’m really embarrassed. I know I proposed to you last night, but I can’t remember if you said ‘yes’ or ‘no’.” “Oh, thank goodness!” she exclaimed. “I remember saying ‘yes’ but I couldn’t remember who asked me.” New Year’s res...
While its offense wasn’t clicking on all cylinders, the Sidney High School girls’ basketball team made sure that Cheyenne South could hardly get the ignition to turn. Playing near shutout basketball in the first half, Tyler Shaw’s club didn’t get one phase of its game to complement the other until midway through the fourth quarter of a 37-15 semifinal victory Friday afternoon in the semifinals of the Cabela’s Holiday Shootout. Sidney (7-1) will meet 10-0 and unbeaten Douglas (Wyo.) at 1:30 p.m....
It turns out that Sidney residents were on the “good list” this holiday season, according to Sidney Police Major Joe Aikens. Aikens said that around the holidays there tends to be a pretty prominent increase in domestic violence cases. This holiday season however there were barely any in the Sidney area. “I don’t think we have even had one,” Aikens said. “We had a couple little disturbances at bars but nothing in the nature of serious crime.” This year’s crime rate during the holidays has been a lot better than in previous years, he expla...
Currently, Sidney High School’s boys basketball team and overtime games are anything but bedfellows. Friday night, the host Red Raiders fell prey once more to the extra session, dropping a 60-58 decision to Cheyenne (Wyo.) South in the second semifinal of the Cabela’s Holiday Shootout. South’s Mark DeBruyn, after coming up short on two potential game-clinching shots in regulation, sank a three-point play on an inbounds pass with 10.8 seconds remaining to account for the game’s last points....
