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This Tuesday Sidney’s AmericInn became a Best Western Plus Sidney Lodge after being awarded the title of a Best Western Plus from the world’s biggest hotel franchise, according to a press release by sales manager Christine Stephens. The worldwide entitling process began in 2010 when Best Western hotels were given the chance to earn the designation of Best Western Plus or Best Western Premier if they met specific criteria based on design and services. To earn the title of Best Western Plus a hote...
North Elementary School’s Students of the Quarter for second quarter 2012-2013 were awarded with $25 Chamber of Commerce gift certificates by American National Bank Vice President Bill Butkus last Friday at the school. Students to receive the honor (from left to right) were Joel Johnson, Jakob Chacon, Chloie Lane, Lacie Vach, Reese Riddle, Lexee Butts, Mitch Deer and Samantha Mrnak. Not pictured were award winners Maddie Ball, Eleizia Blehm, Charles Shank and Emilee McCarron....
Cheyenne County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Brad Fraass, urges producers who want to purchase coverage through the Noninsurable Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) to do so before the sales closing date of Friday, March 15, 2013. “Purchasing NAP protection is an easy way for producers to practice risk management,” said Fraass. “2012 has proven that natural disasters can directly affect the profitability and recovery of agricultural operations,” he said. In order to meet eligibility requirements for NAP, crops must be...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Landing in Nigeria’s largest city, one of the first thing visitors see as they peer out of their airplane’s windows is the moss-covered metal carcasses of what used to fly in Africa’s most populous nation. Workers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos call it “the graveyard,” an overgrown field filled with about a dozen cargo and passenger airplanes long since abandoned and left to rot by insolvent airlines. At least 65 abandoned airplanes, ranging from small commuter jets to one massive Boeing 747, sit at air...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver apologized Thursday for anti-gay comments he made to a comedian during Super Bowl media day, saying “that’s not what I feel in my heart.” “I’m sorry if I offended anyone. They were very ugly comments,” Culliver said during an hour-long media session. “Hopefully I learn and grow from this experience and this situation.” He said he would welcome a gay teammate to the 49ers, a reversal of his remarks to Artie Lange two days earlier...
LINCOLN (AP) — Nebraska football season ticket prices will remain the same on a per-game basis in 2013. The athletic department announced today that public season ticket holders will pay $56 a game for eight home games, or $448 total. University faculty and staff will pay $53 a game, or $424 total. Students will pay $23 a game, or $184 total. Single-game prices will be $60 each for non-conference games against Wyoming, Southern Miss and South Dakota State. The non-conference matchup with UCLA and Big Ten home contests against Illinois, N...
Here’s hoping Punxsutawney Phil has a fantastic Saturday. This weather has been brutal enough. ------- It’s always this time of year that the mind starts wandering toward baseball; Major League pitchers and catchers report to spring training in a few short weeks. Being a Cardinals fan, the past week or so has been a time of reflection with the passing of Stan Musial. I really wanted to pen a column about Musial last week, but instead, I preferred to do a lot more reading of what others had to... Full story
Groundhog Day is almost here. For most of its history – which, according to some reports, dates back to the first celebration in 1886 or 1887 in Punxsutawney, Pa. – Groundhog Day held little significance for most Americans. But that changed in 1993 with the release of the movie Groundhog Day, in which a semi-embittered meteorologist, played by Bill Murray, is forced to re-live the same day over and over again. He repeatedly makes poor choices, until he finally learns from his mistakes and is granted the ability to move on with his life. Sin...
Two weeks ago I saw Steven Spielberg's recent movie, Lincoln, and came away impressed. Sally Fields did an admirable job playing Mary Todd Lincoln, and Tommy Lee Jones played Thaddeus Stevens, but it was Daniel Day-Lewis, playing Abraham Lincoln, who was mesmerizing, riveting. It was if I was watching the real Abraham Lincoln, with all of his diffidence, hesitations, awkward mannerisms, ugliness, and squeaky voice fully displayed, with warts and beard and over-sized ears. Critics agree that Day-...
Recently, a reader wanted to know whether I was aware that Creators Syndicate, which distributes my column, identifies me as a “liberal” on its website. Is this really the first thing you want readers to know about you? she wondered. Her intentions were kind. I assured her I’m fine with it. I already had been a columnist for five years when, in 2008, Creators started identifying all of us by our politics to give newspaper clients a better idea of who we are. At first, I bristled. I was afraid the label would alienate conservative readers who t...
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Patty Andrews never served in the military, but she and her singing sisters certainly supported the troops. During World War II, they hawked war bonds, entertained soldiers overseas and boosted morale on the home-front with tunes like “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B” and “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio, died Wednesday at 94 of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, said family...
Wesley E. ‘Wes’ Jensen 1919 to 2013 Wesley E. ‘Wes’ Jensen, 93, of Sidney, passed away at the Sidney Regional Medical Center Extended Care on Monday afternoon, Jan. 28, 2013. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1, in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church with Pastor Eric Alm officiating. Burial with Military Honors will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Thursday from 1 7 p.m. with family present from 4 to 6 p.m. Memorial contrib...
The cast has been called for the 2013 Missoula Children’s Theatre production of Jack and the Beanstalk. There will be a show for school children this Friday between 9:15 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. and the children will be preforming for the public on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. in the Sidney High School auditorium. Great photo opportunities will be allowed during the kids practice at the Sidney High School Auditorium between 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday night. The cast includes: farmers, wonder beans, merchants, circus performers, main characters a...
At the Sidney High School basketball games taking place this Friday night in Cabela’s Athletic Facility gym, a big mass of the crowd will not be wearing their usual Sidney supporting attire but instead t-shirts supporting a different cause. That cause is Cystic Fibrosis awareness. Sidney High School cheerleaders have teamed up with local adults and have been selling t-shirts and will continue to sell them at the game to raise money and awareness for the disease. Friday night is being called P...
One hot topic creating much discussion among U.S. leaders and politicians is health care along with Medicaid. Discussion of President Obama’s Medicare decisions have undergone heated debate ever since their induction. Last week U.S. Senator Mike Johanns cosponsored the American Liberty Restoration Act regarding health care laws. This bill targets the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which was signed into law by President Obama in March of 2010. Obamacare was created with the idea of decreasing the amount o...
Deb Lorenz-Hendrickson isn’t the first to greet each customer or lookie loo as they walk through the doors of the Moose-n-Goose, but rather her 2-year-old companion, Putz. Hendrickson moved her antique and framing shop to Sidney about a year ago, having been in business in Lodgepole for 11 years with a previous year in Chappell. Her decision to move to Sidney was because of the increased foot traffic she would have and “I outgrew my building and it was the right time. “I was waiting for my ki...
Note: This article was written from many different, but very reliable, historical sources. The collection of history comes from sources such as The City of Sidney, The University of Nebraska, the Official Nebraska Government, The Nebraska Historical Society and the Cheyenne County Historical Society’s websites. First in a series Saying Sidney has a colorful history would be an understatement. The many changes the town has seen from being a simple outpost established to protect against hostile N... Full story
