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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...
The Western Nebraska Community College financial aid staff is hosting several student and parent nights throughout the panhandle in January and February to share important information and answer any questions. “Financial Aid 101” is open and free to anyone planning to attend any college. The session set for Sidney will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 on the WNCC Sidney campus. WNCC’s financial aid presentation includes information on FAFSA forms, scholarships, PELL grants and student loans. There are door prizes at each location, inclu...
Online certification for irrigators is now available through the University of Nebraska Extension website. The certification is a requirement for all irrigators in the South Platte NRD and must be renewed every four years. In past years irrigators would be required to attend a class offered throughout the district to complete the certification. The online course offers two options to obtain certification. The first option is the test out option where a score of 80 percent or better on 50 questions is a passing grade. If the test out option is...
NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Joshua Blauert, of Sidney, recently performed in the annual St. Olaf College Christmas Festival. Blauert is a member of the St. Olaf Chapel Choir and is a music major. He is the son of Arnold Blauert Jr. and Lydia Blauert and a graduate of Sidney High School. The St. Olaf Christmas Festival is one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States. Started in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf College music department, the festival features more than 500 student musicians who are m...
A pair of Sidney residents were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2015 semester at Hastings College. Savanna Rosenbaum and Brenna Geiger were each named to the prestigious list. Rosenbaum also had a 4.0 grade point average this fall. To be eligible for the dean’s list, students must achieve a grade point average of 3.7 to 4.0, on a 4.0 scale, and be registered for full-time course work....
Fourteen students with local ties were named to the president's or dean's list for the 2015 fall semester at Chadron State College. Students who were named to the president's list include Barrett Browne, Kelsey Carwin, Natausha Holtz and Andrew Phelps of Sidney, and Katherine Ashmore and Jillian Kepler of Chappell. The president's list requires a student to have a 4.0 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale and be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours of coursework during the semester....
Potter resident Jessica C. Heidemann graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma during commencement ceremonies held Dec. 11-12. Heidemann graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in art - studio art along with approximately 1,246 fall 2015 graduates from throughout the country and world in the ceremony held in Edmond, which is just north of Oklahoma City. The University of Central Oklahoma is the state’s largest metropolitan university, serving more than 17,000 students pursuing degrees in 117 undergraduate and 70 graduate major a...
Several local students have been honored by the Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) for the fall 2015 academic all-state awards. Sidney students who received the award are: Brenner Keane and Jacob Schaub, boys cross country; Abigail Heller and Mia Hernandez, girls cross country; Alex Linneman and Hunter Secrest, football; Rachel Blauert and Megan Neal, girls golf; Cameron Baldwin and Mitchell Verhulst, play production; and Annalise Lecher and Emily Mahr, volleyball. Creek Valley students who received the award are: Keith Everitt,...
