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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Flu season is hitting its stride and it may be shaping up to be a bad one in Tennessee. Based on data from the Tennessee Department of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are characterizing the flu as “widespread” in the state and list it among 24 states with high levels of influenza-like illnesses. Dr. Kelly Moore, the medical director of the Tennessee Immunization Program, said that it is still too early to draw final conclusions, but right now, this season seems similar to the last really bad one i...
LINCOLN (AP) — Every two weeks, the Park Middle School multipurpose room becomes a courtroom complete with judicial bench and judge, attorneys and defendants — and their parents. Alissa Harrison, an eighth-grader who loves photography but until recently did not love school, showed up like clockwork twice a month last semester — a defendant working to change her ways. She thinks she has, with the help of the mock courtroom and all those who took the time to make it happen: the judge and the a...
The springtime severe weather season is quickly approaching and that means it’s time for the annual 2013 Nebraska Severe Weather Awareness Poster Contest. The contest, sponsored by Nebraska Association of Emergency Management, the National Weather Service and the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, is part of the annual Severe Weather Awareness Week effort produced by Emergency Management Directors/Coordinators across Nebraska. The poster contest is open to all fourth-grade students in Nebraska public, and private schools and all h...
Attention Doom-sayers – the newspaper industry is not dead. Kevin Slimp our guest editorialist to the right in today’s edition of the Sun-Telegraph goes to great lengths to point out that his personal experience and research affirm my claim. He got terribly upsent with a television news segment dedicated to spewing this opinionated rubbish on CBS’ 60 Minutes. Let’s take a look. When radio first emitted its first signal there came a speech from the mountain top that the newspaper industry would die out. There would be no more print: No more page...
My 13-year-old son received an iPod Touch for Christmas this year. I know my son. Probably as well as I’ve ever known anyone. And I knew, given time, he would lose his expensive gift. In an effort to soften the blow when the device did turn up missing, I had Zachary create a background screen with the words, “If you find this iPod, please email [email protected] to let my dad know you have it.” I had to tell you that story, so you would understand the reference to my son a little further down this column. Now for story number two. In the l...
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 ‘At The Opera House’ January 11, 1913 On Thursday, January 16th at the Tobin Opera House, Jones & Crane will present for one night only their newest and brightest attraction “TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY” Grace Miller White’s famous novel of that name dramatized by the master dramatist of his day, Rupert Hughes, author of “Excuse Me” etc. This play has enjoyed a remarkably pr...
“You will be my people, and I will be your God.” Jeremiah 30:22 There is an old, dumb story about a revival taking place in a small town. As the preacher calls the sinners forward, down the aisle comes the town character who is always fortified by cheap wine. As he walks down the aisle he says aloud “Fill me, Lord! Fill me, Lord!”. Hearing his plea, one of the audience members says loudly, “Don’t do it, Lord, he leaks.” Truth is, we all do! I read a statistic recently that said only 1 in 3 of us make resolutions anymore and most break their r...
Tommy Millner became CEO of Cabela’s Inc. in April 2009. It was a job he didn’t mind relocating for from the Piedmont Triad area of N.C., where he had lived for 25 years, to Sidney, Neb. Needless to say, Sidney was a far different world for the warmer climate native. “I got to Sidney the Friday before Easter. I drove across the country from North Carolina and the whole way I kept hearing about blizzard warnings,” Millner spoke of his unforgettable trek. “I arrived on Friday night, the blizzard...
First and second graders are starting off the new year by getting active at the Cheyenne County Community Center. About 60 kids turned out this year to participate in the annual First and Second Grade Basketball Skills Camp at the center. Community Center Sports Director Kasey Kantor, who serves as coordinator of the event, said that he believes the skills camp was started about six years ago by Jody O’Connell and has been helping young kids edge their way into the game of basketball ever since.... Full story
Historic Downtown Sidney settles in for a long winter’s nap, Friday afternoon, as temperatures dropped to near single digits, winds were brisk and snow fell to clog the streets. Local sports action was canceled as the pace of travel began to diminish to a crawl. The weekend forecast calls for single digit highs and below zero lows....
RED CLOUD, Neb. (AP) — Red Cloud Postmaster Brad Young has come to treasure the three murals displayed in the post office there. “It’s something so unique,” he said. “I’ve been here going on 25 years. After a while the biggest thing is that I would never want anything to happen to them. Maybe that’s the lucky thing about being in a small town; we really don’t have any problems.” Red Cloud is one of four area towns included in a Depression-era government program that placed murals in post offices. A new book from the Nebraska State Historical So...
COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — Platte County residents, like Nebraskans across the state, are spending more money for a chance to match their lucky keno numbers or peel open a top-prize pickle card. The Nebraska Department of Revenue’s annual charitable gaming report shows players spent $247.3 million on keno, pickle cards, bingo and raffles during the fiscal year ended June 30. Total wagers on the games, which must financially benefit nonprofit entities, increased 2.85 percent from the 2010-11 amount of $240.46 million, according to the report rel...
The dedicated volunteer service of Tim Lecher to North Elementary School has landed a $500 grant to the school from State Farm Insurance Company. The company offers the grant to employees who donate their time to local elementary schools. Lecher, whose son Diedrich is a third grader at North Elementary, not only completed the required 40 volunteer hours for the grant during the past year but also hopes to continue his service. Kathy Nienhueser the reading and writing coach at North Elementary...
