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As a sophomore, Tanner Wintholz was playing football just to take up a spot for Sidney High School’s football team. Following two years of hard work, he’ll be taking up another gridiron spot — on Chadron State College’s roster. Making good on a previous verbal commitment, Wintholz at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday will sign a NCAA Division II national letter of intent to attend Chadron on a football scholarship that will match half the tuition, plus he will receive an ACT-score generated grant. The sig...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to share the blame. “Safety,” he said at his annual Super Bowl news conference, “is all of our responsibilities.” Not surprisingly, given that thousands of former players are suing the league about its handling of concussions, the topics of player health and improved safety dominated Goodell’s 45-minute session Friday. And he often sounded like someone seeking to point out that players or others are at fault for some of the sport’s problems — and need to help fix them. “I’ll stand up....
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the “mountain devil,” could soon join the list of species threatened by climate change — a dubious distinction putting it in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals the government says will lose crucial habitat as temperatures rise. Federal wildlife officials Friday proposed Endangered Species Act protections for the wolverine in the Lower 48 states. That’s a step twice denied under the Bush administration, then delayed in 2010 when the Obama...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful, a change that would ban the sale of almost all candy, high-calorie sports drinks and greasy foods on campus. Under new rules the Department of Agriculture proposed Friday, school vending machines would start selling water, lower-calorie sports drinks, diet sodas and baked chips instead. Lunchrooms that now sell fatty “a la car...
Today the orthodox churches celebrate the “meeting” or “encounter.” Other churches refer to it as the presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple. Under Jewish law, it was a custom and a requirement that the first born male child should be brought to the temple to be dedicated to God and the requirement under that law that mothers be purified forty days after the birth of a child. The Purification Rite was required at one time in some Christian churches as well. It was used to re-establish the woman into the temple community, as giving...
In case you missed it (and it you did, you live in a cave) Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te’o recently got himself in a whole lot of hot water after he received sympathy and attention by announcing that his girlfriend had died. When reporters later discovered that the girlfriend had never existed, Te’o claimed he’d been “catfished”, and that the girl was someone he’d met, and fell in love with, without ever actually seeing in person. The entire relationship was over the Internet. Catfishing is a relatively new term, and basically m...
If you are sensitive to stories of human suffering and economic hardship, let me warn you that the following report contains material that could be upsetting, so discretion is advised. It’s about a fellow named Jamie. He lives in New York City, and he has recently had a very rough go with a large financial institution. Such behemoths can be heartless, so as you can imagine, it’s tough to stand up to them. The giant in this case is JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street’s biggest bank, and it went after poor Jamie Dimon hard. In the end, the bank took...
Editor, A lot of statements have been in the news recently about the Defense Department’s announcement that women are to be included in military combat units as a gender neutral measure. However, to date no one has commented on a basic problem associated with this decision, namely what might likely happen to a woman captured by Muslim forces. Women are treated as personal property in the Muslim communities and have few if any rights of their own. Can you imagine how they might well be ravaged or sexually abused and even killed if captured? I...
subscribe online at www.suntelegraph.com & 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 ‘Man Badly Hurt’ February 1, 1913 When Chris Anderson, working for Clarence Chambers, failed to respond to the supper call Mrs. Chambers went to the barn where she found him lying unconscious in a stall. The man was brought to town to the C. P. Chambers home and given medical care. He remained unconscious all night and it took sev...
Now through Feb. 13, 2013, the public is encouraged to see the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs (ANAC) Traveling Show at the Sidney Public Library. The top 26 artworks awarded – out of a show of approximately 380 artworks – at the ANAC Conference last summer are on display and include one artwork, “Apple Peeler,” an oil painting by Sheila Phelps, President of the CCAG, and one artwork titled “Piper,” a pastel drawing by CCAG member Cindi Egging of Gurley. The Best of Show was won by Tina Simeon of the Art Society of Ogallala for her pencil...
Tickets are now on sale for the annual Be-My-Valentine dinner to be held at the First United Methodist Church in Sidney. The dinner will be on Sunday, February 17th in the fellowship hall on the lower level of the church. There will be two seatings; the first at 5:30 PM, and the second at 7 PM. The dinner is sponsored by the Fusion Youth Group, which is a collaborative effort between the Methodist Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, and Light Memorial Presbyterian Church. The dinner is open to the public. Tickets are $20.00 each and are...
LINCOLN (AP) — Disabled veterans who live in Nebraska would receive a preference when competing for state contracts under a bill presented Friday to a legislative committee. Sen. Charlie Janssen of Fremont, a veteran himself, pitched the proposal to the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. The bill would give a competitive edge to resident, disabled veterans who are vying for state contracts against other resident and nonresident bidders. The federal government has enacted similar preferences. “Our nation’s veterans have uniqu...
The South Platte Natural Resources District, in conjunction with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, is hosting a workshop designed to provide educators of younger children information and materials to introduce younger students to nature. Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education program that builds on children’s sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and the world around them. Through a wide range of activities and experiences, Growing Up WILD provides an early foundation for developing positive i...
One class at the Cheyenne County Community Center is dancing their way to personal fitness. Instructor Nicole Schroeder holds a zumba class on Mondays from 6 - 7 p.m. and starting this month on Thursdays from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the center. “The theme of zumba is ditch the workout and join the party,” said Schroeder. “It’s not like your traditional group fitness class where everybody needs to be doing the same thing and it’s redundant. With zumba it’s really you just need to move. The idea be...
The medical staff at Sidney Regional Medical Center wore red Friday morning, ironically the color of a human heart, in honor of National Wear Red Day to spread heart disease awareness this Feb. 1. According to hospital personnel, staff participated in this national awareness day to increase awareness of the disease and to show their commitment to fighting this preventable, yet deadly, disease. “More women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer combined. Unfortunately, the killer i...
Four games, four close calls — but the previous three meetings between Gering and Sidney high school’s boys basketball teams could have prepared them for the bizarre finish Friday night at Cabela’s Athletic Facility. Both teams wasted double- digit leads, but the host Raiders didn’t lose the grip on their advantage despite the fact everything was crumbling for SHS. And, when Gering’s Joses Palomo was called for shuffling his feet — wiping off a potential game-tying field goal — Erik Kohl’s club had gained a regular-season split with a pulsatin...
It wasn’t pretty, nor flashy, but the Sidney High School girls basketball team’s 31-27 victory Friday night against visiting Gering was better than taking a third straight loss on the chin. “We didn’t shoot the ball as well as we normally do,” SHS coach Tyler Shaw said. “Gering had a great game plan, sitting in a zone and making us shoot the ball from outside. The shots weren’t going in and it got tougher as the game got closer. We just found a way at the end.” The Lady Raiders (13- 5) nearly sleepwalked into another loss, plodding to a 1...
