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DALTON — Rachael Ernest finished with a double-double Monday night, scoring 15 points and hauling in 11 rebounds as the Leyton High School girls basketball team opened Minuteman Activities Conference tournament play with an easy 50-9 win against visiting Minatare. LHS (6-4) rolled to a 12-4 lead at the first stop, and the Warriors were never tested, stretching the advantage to 25-6 at halftime and 42-8 going into the fourth period. Kaitlyn Berner added 10 points and Katy Ernest nine. Creek Valley also advanced by knocking off South Platte, 5...
All it took was just one look from coach Tyler Shaw Monday night, and the Sidney High School girls basketball knew instinctively what to do. Having a big lead against Ogallala shaved to single digits midway through the second period, Shaw got off the bench and stopped play. Following the timeout, the Lady Raiders (10-3) got the message, going on an 11-4 run to close the first half, en route to a 66-35 victory at Cabela’s Activities Facility. “I think we got a couple layups after that tim...
The struggles have come and gone for his club, and following a weekend sweep, Sidney High School boys basketball coach Erik Kohl is hoping the tide has turned on the 2012-13 season. “We’re now executing the little details,” Kohl said Monday night after the Red Raiders improved to 8-6 with an easy 63-35 blowout win against visiting Ogallala at Cabela’s Activities Facility. “I think we have the mindset now that we are going to compete at a high level.” Monday’s game, postponed Friday night due to...
The Sidney High Plains Art council in conjunction with the Nebraska Art Council is pleased to announce the return of the Missoula Children’s Theater to Sidney, Ne. Auditions for the production of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ will be held on Monday, Jan. 28 at the Sidney High School Auditorium from 3:45 until 5:45 p.m. Approximately 60 roles are open for local students to fill. All students from grades kindergarten to 12th grade are invited to come out and audition. No advanced preparation is necessary. Among the roles open to try out for are Jack,...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Lance Armstrong has finally come clean. Armstrong confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped Monday, just a couple of hours after a wrenching apology to staff at the Livestrong charity he founded and has now been forced to surrender. The day ended with 2 1/2 hours of questions from Winfrey at a downtown Austin hotel, where she said the world’s most famous cyclist was “forthcoming” as she asked him in detail about doping allegations that followe...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – John Elway has been down this lonely road before. The quarterback-turned-front office executive has now been a part of two playoff runs that ended not in the confetti-filled celebration expected of the AFC’s No. 1 seed but with a painful introspection about what all went wrong in a stunningly early exit from the postseason party. Elway experienced it as a player in 1996, when the Denver Broncos were upset at home by the Jacksonville Jaguars, 30-27, then bounced back to...
LINCOLN – The dry conditions that began in May and then escalated into a drought of historic proportions is the state’s top agriculture story of 2012, Nebraska Farm Bureau said in releasing its annual list of the Top 5 Nebraska Agriculture News Stories of the Year. “The drought has gripped Nebraska from border-to-border and every farmer and rancher in the state has been impacted in some form or fashion,” said Steve Nelson, Nebraska Farm Bureau president. “It was and is still clearly on the minds of our members as they look at the prospect...
The field pea meetings have all been scheduled and times and places have been finalized, so I wanted to pass this information on to growers around our region. These meetings will cover production of field peas and marketing of field peas. Field pea meetings this coming week are scheduled in Gering at the Farm and Ranch Museum on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 beginning at 1:00 p.m. On Thursday, January 17, 2013 there will be a field pea meeting in Albin, Wyoming. This meeting will be held at the Albin Community Center conference room beginning at...
The beginning of a new Congress is typically a time of great excitement and an opportunity for lawmakers to refocus their priorities as we look ahead to the next two years. I remain optimistic about what can be accomplished in the 113th Congress, which began on January 3rd, however much of our business from the previous Congress remains unfinished. Before we can move forward, Congress must pass a responsible, long-term Farm Bill; agree to real spending reductions and reforms to stop the out-of-control growth of government and debt; and enact...
Last year’s attempt at a new five-year farm bill to replace the expiring policy was uprooted when the clock ran out. While I was pleased with the Senate-passed legislation, it never made its way to the President’s desk. The result was a last-minute extension of the current policy enacted in 2008 for yet another year. While this development was far from ideal, the alternative—reverting to policy from the 1940s—was a much worse option for farmers, ranchers and consumers. The archaic policy would have been difficult for the Department of Agricul...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential Senate Democrat says he will back President Barack Obama’s choice of Chuck Hagel for the top job at the Pentagon. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a statement Tuesday that he met with Hagel for 90 minutes on Monday and the Republican reassured him on issues ranging from Israel to gay rights. Schumer said he found Hagel’s responses to be genuine and not stated to quiet his critics. The Democrat urged his Senate colleagues who also had concerns about Hagel’s nomination to support him. The meeting occurre...
Alexis Blaine Wheeler 1994 to 2013 Alexis Blaine Wheeler passed from this life to her eternal home in Heaven on Jan. 10, 2013. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Scottsbluff with Fr. Vince Parsons as celebrant. Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Scottsbluff. Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at Jolliffe Funeral Home in Scottsbluff. A rosary has taken place at St. Agnes Catholic Church. In lieu of...
Jeanette Geller Pritts 1934 to 2013 Jeanette Geller Pritts, 78, of Guide Rock, Neb. , and formerly of Dalton died late Thursday evening, Jan. 10, 2013, at the Blue Hill Care Center in Blue Hill, Neb. Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in the United Church of the Plains, Presbyterian site in Dalton with Pastors Eric Ahlm and Matthew Froeschle officiating. Private family interment will precede the services in the Dalton Cemetery. Memorials have been established to the...
Eugene Patterson ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement as it unfolded across the South, has died at 89. Patterson, who helped fellow whites to understand the problems of racial discrimination, died Saturday evening in Florida after complications from prostate cancer, according to B.J. Phillips, a family spokeswoman. Patterson was editor of the Atlanta C...
Ione Lenora Cucarola 1920 to 2013 Ione Lenora Cucarola, 92, of Sterling, Colo. went to be with the Lord on Jan. 13, 2013 in Cheyenne, Wyo. Ione was born in Otis, Colo., on March 22, 1920, to B.J. and Edna (Hawkins) Slack. She had four younger brothers. Ione and graduated school in Potter. In 1937, she married Kenneth Wickstrom and moved to the family farm north of Potter. Later they moved to Sidney where they owned and operated the Silver Dollar for 18 years. Two children were born of this...
Sidney School District board members were informed of the fund-raising activity planning and the successful implementation of drug and alcohol screening at Sidney Middle School. New board member Doug Means also joined the board and committees for 2013 were formed. Tom Von Seggern was appointed once again as board president and Steve Mattoon was reappointed as board vice president. Deanna Kantor was reappointed as board secretary and Geri Anthony as treasurer. “Anytime you replace the s...
The Sidney Schools’ Teammates Mentoring program is a completely volunteer program that matches up youths with adults, offering the child another responsible caring adult in their life. Both adult and child volunteer to be a part of the program that was brought back to the Sidney Schools two years ago for children in the fifth through eighth grades. When her daughter brought home the flyer and paperwork on how to become a mentor, Rhonda Douglas signed up to be a mentor and was paired quickly. R...
President Obama’s nomination of former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel for the position of U.S. Secretary of Defense on Jan. 7 has lead to concern by members of congress and pointed questions lingering to be answered as the process moves forward. “The work of protecting our nation is never done and we still have much to do. Chuck Hagel is the leader that our troops deserve; he is an American patriot,” Pres. Obama said when announcing Hagel’s nomination. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), who was just sworn...
LINCOLN – Gov. Dave Heineman called Tuesday for ridding Nebraska of its individual and corporate income taxes and making up the difference by ending as much as $2.4 billion in sales tax breaks for businesses, and all goods and services – except for food – are on the table. The Republican governor unveiled his tax overhaul plan and budget proposal in his annual State of the State address to lawmakers. “Are we going to be satisfied with a mediocre tax system that won’t create the jobs of the future for our sons and daughters?” Heineman as...
Sidney City Manager Gary Person would like to draw to the attenion of Sidney residents an envelope that a lot of residential customers received in the mail last week. “The envelope said it’s a notification for all Sidney water customers and gives you every impression that it comes from the City of Sidney, but it does not,” Person said. Person said that instead he believes the notices were sent out by a company trying to sell customers insurance on their residential line. If looked at close...
Preliminary findings from a Sunday autopsy indicate that the Saturday-evening shooting death of a Sidney man was an accident. Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub, in a press release issued late Monday night, said that 28-year-old Donald L. Vizina, 28, died at a friend’s house at 1836 3rd Street in Sidney, after a shot was fired in a bedroom. The friend, who located Vizina in the bedroom with the firearm, apparently called 911 after a shot was fired. Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office and Sidney Police Department responded to the call at aro...
Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy, potentially Nebraska’s next Governor, briefly stopped in Sidney out at the WNCC Aviation Maintenance Building for a brief explanation about Gov. Dave Heineman’s address to the state of Nebraska, unveiling the “well kept secret” of tax reform discussed in Omaha. City Manager Gary Person was at the airport to greet and listen to the Lt. Gov. speech.Read more in Wednesday’s edition of the Sun-Telegraph....
