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Whereas the Sidney High School girls basketball team waited a full first half before kicking in a long rally against Scottsbluff, the Lady Raiders Saturday evening wasted little time the second time around. Trailing 9-5 early, Tyler Shaw’s Raiders scored the final 12 points of the first period, then kept up the pace the rest of the way in an easy 55-32 win at Cabela’s Athletics Facility. “We shot the ball better tonight,” Shaw said of Saturday’s win, after his team struggled mightily the night... Full story
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hezbollah is behind an attack on a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out by a terrorist cell that included Canadian and Australian citizens. In the first major announcement in the investigation into the July 18 bombing that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said one of the suspects entered the country with a Canadian passport, and another with one from Australia. “We have wel...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For the second time in less than two weeks, the Greek government invoked rarely used emergency laws to order strikers back to work Tuesday — in a move designed to end a seamen’s walkout that has left islands without ferry services and supplies for six days. The decision by conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to declare ferry crews under civil mobilization came after their unions voted to extend the strike until early Friday. Seamen who refuse to comply risk arrest and jail time of up to five years — althoug...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens carried off the Lombardi Trophy. Their beaten opponent has a better chance of doing it next season. San Francisco running back Frank Gore insisted the 49ers were the more talented team even after losing 34-31 to the Ravens in Sunday’s Super Bowl. The scoreboard said otherwise, but when the conference champions meet at the Meadowlands next February — yes, outdoors in the dead of winter for the NFL crown — the Niners easily could represent the NFC. Again....
There was a gradual progression on our farm to adopting a no till cropping system. Our father passed on to us the value of conservation farming practices. He worked closely with University of Nebraska researchers and allowed them to do research on our farm studying stubble mulching practices and soil erosion on our farm. We continued down this path of trying to leave more residues in the field in our winter wheat/ summer fallow rotation. Cheatgrass was always a problem, and at the time the best way to control this problem weed was to plow,...
“The signup period for the 2013 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program (DCP) and Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE) will begin Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013,” announced Cheyenne County Farm Service Agency Executive Director, Brad Fraass. These programs were extended for 2013 by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. The 2013 DCP/ACRE program provisions are unchanged from 2012, except that all eligible participants may choose to enroll in either DCP or ACRE for the 2013 crop year. Eligible farmers and landowners will receive direct pay...
Editor, Contracts signed in the private sector are good as gold or result in lawsuits. Contracts with government are apparently not worth the paper they’re printed on. Case in point, Social Security. Social Security was a contract between the government and Social Security enrollees and enforced by the government for workers, individual or employed. Our federal government took the funds paid into the Trust Fund and spent it on all sort of activities other than retirement benefits and replaced it with IOUs at an unrealistic interest rate d...
Accountability and risk. There was a time in the late 1960s or early 1970s when Lyndon Johnson put his presidency on the line with the civil rights movement. His advisors and many from his political party felt he shouldn’t do that and the president, being as he was – Texan and unafraid said, “Well what’s the presidency for if you can’t put it on the line? – to make people’s lives better, to improve their station and to provide opportunity.” This, in my opinion, is the way it should be about anything. If you take a political office or if you are... Full story
Last week’s decision by Japan to amend a nine-year restriction on certain beef imports is a promising sign for Nebraska beef producers. Beginning this month, the Japanese will be able to import high quality American beef from animals aged 30 months old or younger. Japan halted its U.S. beef imports in 2003, when a single case of BSE was detected in the United States. In 2005, Japan resumed limited imports, only allowing beef from animals 20 months old or younger. Lifting these restrictions opens opportunities for Japan’s import of more saf...
GERING (AP) — A 33-year-old western Nebraska man has been given 30 to 48 months in prison for sexually assaulting a child. Scottsbluff radio station KNEB says Keith Van Winkle, of Minatare, had made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded no contest to reduced charges in Scotts Bluff County District Court. Van Winkle was given credit for 254 days already served. He was arrested after a 7-year-old girl told school officials in May about being molested three years earlier....
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday Chuck Hagel “seems clueless” on U.S. policy toward Iran and he urged the Obama administration to reconsider its defense secretary nominee. In a statement, the South Carolina lawmaker stopped short of saying he would filibuster the choice if the president pushes forward as expected. No Democrat has come out in opposition to Hagel, two Republican senators back him and several others, including Sen. John McCain, say they wouldn’t support a filibuster. “Chuck Hagel is a good man, but...
The signup period is under way for the Kimball Hospital Foundation’s 17th Annual Bowling Tournament, set to begin Friday, Feb. 15 at the Kim Bowl. Up to $1,000 in prize money is up for grabs for bowling a perfect game in the 9-pin no-tap tournament. In the 9-pin no-tap format, the bowler gets credit for a strike even if he or she knocks down just nine pins. If more than one bowler rolls a perfect game, the $1,000 will be split. In addition to the $1,000 perfect game prize fund, bowlers can win cash prizes paid on a 1 of 6 ratio. The 9-pin n...
U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) recently met with Potter-Dix High School students during their weeklong Close-Up trip to Washington, D.C. In addition to providing an update on current issues in Congress, Johanns took questions from the students and reminded them of the importance of becoming involved in their communities at a young age....
SIDNEY — Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single-car accident Sunday evening. According to reports, Tyson C. Bockhahn, 21, was taken to Sidney Regional Medical Center after the 2003 Mercury SUV he was operating left the roadway on County Road 32 south, at about 9:22 p.m. Sunday. The vehicle struck a curve sign and a reflector post, before crossing the road and coming to a rest in the left ditch. Bockhahn was transported to SRMC, where he was treated for injuries. No citations were issued, and damage to the Bockhahn vehicle was...
LINCOLN – Gov. Dave Heineman said Monday he’s looking for a lieutenant governor who will make a commitment to not run for governor in 2014. He is considering a number of people and will make a decision in the next few weeks, he said. Most of this week, he’ll be focused on tax reform. Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned Saturday after phone records obtained by the Omaha World-Herald, and subsequently other media, revealed thousands of calls were made to women other than his wife on his state cell phone. Heineman said he talked to Sheehy when the c...
WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama declared that his defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel, would be the first former enlisted man to lead the Pentagon, he seemed to overlook four previous defense chiefs who served part of their military years as enlisted men. William J. Perry, who served as defense secretary from 1994-97, was in the Army’s enlisted ranks from 1946-47 and served in Japan as a member of the American occupation force, according to a biography on the website of Stanford University, where he is affiliated with the Freeman Sp...
Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Director Glenna Phelps-Aurich and Taylor Fortin participated in the annual tradition of pulling Sidney Sid (Sidney’s resident stuffed-groundhog) from his improvised tree stump this Saturday morning at 9 a.m. Both Phelps-Aurich and Fortin saw Sid’s shadow, meaning just as if Punxsutawney Phil had seen his shadow, Sidney is bracing for six more weeks of winter according to national folklore. Just as in previous years a Groundhog Day drawing was hosted by bot...
Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Director Glenna Phelps-Aurich and Taylor Fortin participated in the annual tradition of pulling Sidney Sid (Sidney’s resident stuffed-groundhog) from his improvised tree stump this Saturday morning at 9 a.m. Both Phelps-Aurich and Fortin saw Sid’s shadow, meaning just as if Punxsutawney Phil had seen his shadow, Sidney is bracing for six more weeks of winter according to national folklore. Just as in previous years a Groundhog Day drawing was hosted by bot...
Cheyenne County Commissioners approved a notice to the public of finding no significant impact and notice of intent to request release of funds for a community development block grant for Adams Industries Industrial Park Development Project at their meeting Monday morning. In attendance at the meeting was Don Adams and his son Zach Adams, owners and operators of Adams Industries, Inc., as well as Gary Person and Megan McGown representing the Sidney-Cheyenne Economic Development Partnership.... Full story
