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Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. The Sidney High School auditorium will be transformed into Kansas, The Yellow Brick Road and Oz for the Missoula Children's Theatre production of the Wizard of Oz on Friday and Saturday. The cast performed two student shows for kindergarten through 8th graders on Friday. A public performance will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. Chris Wilkinson and Theresa Egloff – the Missoula Children's Theatre touring actors and directors – cas...
Two men have been arrested for an investigation into counterfeit that was being passed in the area. A joint investigation by the Sidney Police Department, Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office, WING Drug task Force and the Scottsbluff Police Department led to two arrests. Tony A. Christensen, 22 of Englewood, Colo., and Briana Sifuentez, 19 and listed as homeless, were arrested in Dalton on Thursday. The arrests came after search warrants were executed near Leyton High School. The school was placed on lockdown as standard procedure when there is p...
Returning from the Colorado Cowboy Gathering in Golden, Colo., this past weekend, Deb and I decided to take the roads less traveled. Instead of the more direct Interstate 76 we traveled north on Highway 85 out of Brighton, through Fort Lupton, past Fort Vasquez to Highway 34 then headed east through northeastern Colorado's sandhills following the south fork of the Platte to Fort Morgan. I had traveled this Highway 34 route several times before, as a teenager, when I'd visited my grandparents in...
Ongoing Cancer survivor support group meets every third Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dorwart Cancer Care Center. Great Topics and food. Call Leslie @ 250-1113 if questions. Friday, Jan. 30 The Unboxed Theater Workshop will be held on Jan. 30 from 7-9 p.m. at the Sidney Fine Arts Center Performance Hall. An introduction to independent theater productions and a historical review of Commedia Delle’ Arte are planned. Saturday, Jan. 31 The Missoula Children’s Theater production of “The Wizard of Oz” will held Saturday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. at the Sid...
More than 50 people turned out to listen to Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson discuss the organization's strategy for supporting legislation to reduce property taxes for farmers and ranchers on Monday night at Buffalo Point Restaurant. "Nebraska farmers and ranchers account for less than 3 percent of the states population, but now pay nearly 30 percent of the total property taxes collected statewide," Nelson said. "There are several bills that can be supported to address the property...
Today, I’d like to bring to your attention an article that appeared in the Jan.-Feb. edition of Touchstone magazine. The article was written by Dr. Randall B. Smith, a professor who holds the Scanlan Foundation Chair in Theology at St. Thomas University in Houston. Professor Smith’s article is called “The Coming Perfect Storm.” In it, he discusses five points that I quote here: •The cheapening of the notion of religious conscience into a type of feeling •The loss of a proper sense of moral good such that the burden of proof has shifted fro...
Compiled By The Sidney Sun-Telegraph Staff These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 50 years ago January 27, 1965 "Councilman questions wisdom of restricting licenses in city liquor decision delayed" An ordinance proposing that a limitation be put on the number of liquor outlets in Sidney was tabled at Monday night's meeting because Councilman Dean Wilson said she had some questions...
