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The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services received reports of two cases of travel-related Zika virus. These are the first cases in the state. One is in Douglas County and the other is in Sarpy County, and both people are females in their 20s who recently traveled to Zika-affected countries. Neither one was hospitalized. Zika virus is spread to people primarily through the bite of a mosquito. Although the virus usually causes mild illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have also been reports of...
MEDFORD, Mass. – A Chappell resident was recently named to the fall 2015 semester dean’s list at Tufts University. Abigail McFee of Chappell, a member of the class of 2017, earned the honor for the fall 2015 semester. Dean’s list honors at Tufts University require a semester grade point average of 3.4 or greater....
Although snow abounds in Sidney this week, the city's aquatic center is on track to be completed on time in late May. On Dec. 9, construction crews applied concrete for the new 2,100 square foot leisure pool as part of the Sidney Outdoor Aquatic Center Project. The total cost of the new state-of-the-art outdoor swimming pool/aquatic center is approximately $5.4 million. The application of the concrete that was applied on Dec. 9 is a product and process called Shotcrete. Concrete is mixed to a...
Average retail gasoline prices in Nebraska have fallen 4.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.79 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 1,150 gas outlets in Nebraska. This compares with the national average that has fallen 2.5 cents per gallon in the last week to $1.80 per gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com. Including the change in gas prices in Nebraska during the past week, prices yesterday were 17.6 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 11.2 cents per gallon l...
Daniel Bashtovoi, a sixth grader at West Elementary School in Sidney, won the Cheyenne County Spelling Bee on Thursday. Bashtovoi competed against the top-six spellers from schools throughout the county. The competition was open to all students in fourth through eighth grades. He will next compete at the Midwest Spelling Bee in Omaha on March 12. A victory there would send him to the national championships in Washington, D.C....
The TeamMates mentoring program of Sidney held its annual appreciation dinner for its mentors at Buffalo Point earlier this month, at which time the group presented Security First Bank and Security First Insurance with its "Friends of TeamMates" award. The award was given for their continuous support over the years, such as the annual tailgate party held every fall, along with various other projects. Tracy Miller and Clem Schumacher accepted the awards. Suzanne Hince, the executive director for...
Augustus Cowan of Sidney won the Peetz Plateau School District's annual spelling bee on Friday. Caroline Lindahl also of Sidney, took second place in the contest. Virginia Splichal, spelling bee coordinator, commended each of the contestants for qualifying for Friday's spelling bee. "What makes your presence here more special, is that yours is often referred to as the auto generation due to technological advances in every day life," she said. Qualifiers from the fourth through eighth grades...
For The sun-telegraph The Sidney Rotary Club is now accepting applications for the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Camp. The camp is available to students who are currently sophomores or juniors or of that age group. The Co-ed RYLA Camp will be held July 17-22. Known as Great Plains RYLA and sponsored by Rotary District 5630 for over two decades, attendees stay at the Halsey 4-H camp for six days. The Sidney Rotary Club will underwrite the selected applicants’ tuition, room and board, and provide transportation. While there, they will meet m...
Average retail gasoline prices in Nebraska have fallen 4.9 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.83 per gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 1,150 gas outlets in Nebraska. This compares with the national average that has fallen 6.5 cents per gallon in the last week to $1.82 per gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com. Areas nearby Nebraska and their current gas price climate: Lincoln - $1.94 per gallon, down 9.3 cents per gallon from last week’s $2.03 per gallon. South Dakota - $1.83 per gallon, dow...
After receiving 20 applications from 18 states and an in-depth review of a dozen semi-finalists, City of Sidney officials are set to interview three finalists for the city manager position in late January. The three finalists are: Cheryl Beatty, assistant city manager and finance director of Junction City, Kan.; Dan Dean, former town manager of Mead, Colo.; and Ed Sadler, city manager of Webster City, Iowa. The finalists have been selected from a well-qualified group of applicants and each has s...
AMES, Iowa – A Sidney resident has was honored academically at Iowa State University. Scott Robert Kelsey, an agricultural systems technology major, was named to the fall 2015 dean’s list at ISU. More than 8,370 ISU undergraduates have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the 2015 fall semester dean’s list. Students named to the dean’s list must have earned a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded course work....
SEWARD – Concordia University, Nebraska named 260 students to its honors list for the fall 2015 semester, which includees sophomore Carly Rushman of Gurley. The top 25 percent of undergraduate students who complete at least 12 credit hours on the traditional A-F grading scale, receive no failing grades in the semester and earn a semester GPA of at least 3.5 qualify for the honors list. Concordia University, founded in 1894, is located in Seward and serves more than 2,600 students. The university offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate a...
CRETE – A Chappell resident was named to the dean’s list at Doane College for the fall 2015 semester. Hannah Schievelbein, a Creek Valley High School graduate, was one of 243 students named to the dean’s list. Students must achieve a minimum 3.7 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and hold 12 graded hours to qualify for this academic distinction. Schievelbein is a freshman at the school. Doane College Doane is the oldest private liberal arts and sciences college in Nebraska, and has campuses in Crete, Grand Island, Lincoln and Omaha...
Sidney's Kaden Vowers, center, was earned the outstanding wrestler award at last week's tournament at Chase County. He went unbeaten in the 113 weight class with five wins in the tournament. Pictured, from left, are: Cody Frankum, Vowers and coach Beau McConnell....
Brad Fraass, Cheyenne County executive director for the Farm Service Agency, reminded foreign investors who buy, sell or hold a direct or indirect interest in agricultural lands in the United States that they are required under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to report their holdings and transactions to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture has delegated the responsibility for collecting this information to the Farm Service Agency. According to Fraass, foreign investors buying or selling land must...
Average retail gasoline prices in Nebraska have risen 0.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.88 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 1,150 gas outlets in Nebraska. This compares with the national average that has fallen 6.5 cents per gallon in the last week to $1.90 per gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com. Areas nearby Nebraska and their current gas price climate: Lincoln - $2.02 per gallon, down 2.9 cents per gallon from last week’s $2.05 per gallon. South Dakota - $1.82 per gal...
I’ve been busy building my PowerPoint presentations for the No till On The Plains and High Plains No till winter conferences. I’ve been asked to speak about water conservation at each of these conferences. I’ve always thought that our limited groundwater supply would be a driving force in the adoption of continuous no till crop production practices in our region on irrigated acres. Surface water irrigation is a moving target as the levels of surface water fluctuate with the snowfall in the mountains and precipitation during the growing seaso...
Three local students are among those named to the dean’s list at Central Community College for the fall 2015 semester. Those named to the dean’s list are David Bacon of Sidney and Aftan Bartels and Brandy Collins, both of Chappell. The students were enrolled at one or more CCC locations, which include the Columbus, Grand Island and Hastings campuses; Holdrege, Kearney and Lexington centers; and learning centers in about 50 central Nebraska towns. Students on the dean’s list earned a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.99....
Ten students with local ties were named to the dean’s list at the University of Nebraska at Kearney for the fall 2015 semester. Sidney students named to the dean’s list include Ashley Stafford, Meghan Wiedeburg, Michaela Flick, Sara Wright, Chase Harmon, Thomas Arellano, Madisen Stafford and Sara Von Seggern. Rachael Ernest of Dalton and Alex Humpfer of Lodgepole were also named to the dean’s list. Students who are on the dean’s list must have completed 12 credit hours or more of classes with a 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale. Dean’s list stud...
The first baby of the year born at Sidney Regional Medical Center was Shaleigh Grace Dickinson. She was born at 7:48 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 11, and weighed 6 pounds and 15 ounces. Her parents are Kristin and Wade Dickinson of Lodgepole. As the parents of the first baby born this year at SRMC, the Dickinsons will take home a gift pack of various items from 11 local businesses....
Western Nebraska Community College announced that the following students were honored in during the fall semester. Those locally who were named to the President’s List include Dani McKay of Dalton, Rebekah Carlson of Gurley, and Julie Aprill, Christopher Buckley, Tiffany Harms, Woo Joo Lee, Rose Nelson and Tyson Segelke of Sidney. President’s List honorees must have a 4.0 grade point average. Those locally who were named to the Dean’s List include William Lohman of Chappell, Kelsey Westman of Dalton, Kathryn Ernest of Lodgepole, Tiffany Lewis...
Average retail gasoline prices in Nebraska have fallen 3.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.87 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 1,150 gas outlets in Nebraska. This compares with the national average that has fallen 1.8 cents per gallon in the last week to $1.97 per gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com. Areas nearby Nebraska and their current gas price climate: Lincoln- $1.97/g, down 3.7 cents per gallon from last week’s $2.01/g. South Dakota- $1.89/g, down 2.3 cents per gallon fro...
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) is now accepting entries for its 13th annual Agriculture Week in Nebraska poster contest. The contest, open to all Nebraska students in grades 1-6, highlights the diversity of agriculture and raises awareness of the importance of agriculture in our state. This year’s contest theme is “Agriculture: Growing Nebraska.” “Agriculture is Nebraska’s number one industry, and we want to give students the chance to share their art, passion and knowledge of agriculture through this contest,” said NDA Directo...
Motorists will be rewarded at the pump this year, spending $17 billion less compared to 2015 as the national yearly sags for a fourth straight year to $2.28 a gallon, according to GasBuddy’s 2016 Fuel Price Outlook. Aside from a national average that’s forecast to be lower than 2015, highlights include: • $325 billion will be spent on gasoline in the U.S. in the year ahead, $17 billion less than last year. That’s considerable given that consumers saved $134 billion on gasoline in 2015 versus what was paid for gas in 2014. • The ‘winter-blend’ t...
A Utah-based company announced the acquisition of two Cabela’s businesses, and it will keep those operations in Sidney. Worldwide Trophy Adventures (WTA), a free hunting and fishing consulting service in St. George, Utah, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures and Trophy Application and Guide Service (T.A.G.S.) businesses. WTA also announced in a press release that it will continue to operate an office in Sidney, retain the current staff of 19 employees and “maintain a close partnership with Cabela’s.” According...
