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BOSTON (AP) — Snow was falling around the Northeast on Friday, ushering in what’s predicted to be a massive, possibly historic blizzard, and sending residents scurrying to stock up on food and gas up their cars ahead of the storm poised to dump up to 3 feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond. Even before the first snowflake had fallen, Boston, Providence, R.I., Hartford, Conn., and other towns and cities in New England and upstate New York towns canceled school Friday, and airlines scratched more than 3,700 flights through Sat...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An electrical device that had been installed expressly to prevent a power outage caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadium’s power company said Friday as it took the blame for the outage that brought the game to a halt for more than a half-hour. Officials of Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., said the device, called a relay, had been installed in switching gear to protect the Superdome from a cable failure between the company’s incoming power line and lines that run into the stadi...
LINCOLN (AP) — Nebraska has signed a contract to play four football games against former Big Eight and Big 12 rival Colorado beginning in five years. Nebraska said Thursday that the teams will meet in Lincoln on Sept. 8, 2018, before a return matchup in Boulder on Sept. 7, 2019. Colorado will host the Cornhuskers on Sept. 9, 2023, and return to Lincoln on Sept. 7, 2024. The games will be the first in the series since both schools left the Big 12 two years ago, Nebraska going to the Big Ten and Colorado to the Pac-12. The football teams last p...
LINCOLN (AP) — Tyronn Lue will be inducted into the Nebraska Basketball Hall of Fame and retired athletic director Tom Osborne and former all-conference player Dave Hoppen will be honored at the Feb. 16 game against Michigan State. Lue spent three seasons at Nebraska and still ranks among the career leaders in 10 categories. Lue played for seven NBA teams in 11 years, winning two titles with the Los Angeles Lakers. He’s now an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics. Osborne will receive the Bud Cuca Special Merit Award, which is given to som...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The NCAA said Thursday a judge should throw out the federal antitrust lawsuit the governor filed against it over Penn State’s $60 million fine and other penalties resulting from the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. College sports’ governing body said in a filing that it disagrees with just about every allegation in the complaint against it initiated by Gov. Tom Corbett last month. The NCAA said the penalties imposed under a July consent decree with the university are unrelated to regulation of economic activ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — At this rate, no one will want to be No. 1. Indiana became the fifth straight top-ranked men’s college basketball team to lose, falling to unranked Illinois 74-72 on a buzzer-beater by Tyler Griffey on Thursday night. The senior forward took an inbounds pass with 0.9 seconds to play and made a wide-open layup. And, just like that, the Hoosiers — who moved into the top spot by beating then-No. 1 Michigan just a few days ago — went down. Indiana coach Tom Crean, whose team has been No. 1 for a total of seven weeks this se...
Morgan Linneman has had quite a decorated track and field career for the Sidney High School Lady Raiders. Now she’ll get the chance to take her talents to the next level. Linneman on Wednesday signed a national letter of intent to attend the University of Nebraska-Kearney on track-academic scholarship. “I considered Nebraska Wesleyan, Midland University and Concordia,” Linneman said, “but I had already had two visits to UNK, plus we stayed there overnight at the state cross-country meet last fa... Full story
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) is encouraging high school students in Nebraska’s Third District to submit their artwork for the 2013 Congressional Art Competition by Friday, February 15, 2013. “I am proud of the efforts and talents of all of the students who have participated in the Congressional Art Competition in previous years,” said Smith. “I hope more students will take advantage of this opportunity so the Third District can continue to share exceptional works of art with visitors to the U.S. Capitol from around th...
Creek Valley Middle School is pleased to administer the ACT’s EXPLORE to all CVMS eighth grade students on Feb. 14. This will be the only date the EXPLORE will be given at CVMS. There will not be a makeup date. The EXPLORE program is designed to help eighth graders explore a broad range of options for their future. It prepares student not only for their high school course work but for their post-high school choices as well. Each participating student receives a report that: • Gives information about their knowledge, skills, interests, and pla...
Skills for lifelong learning, earning and living The Mission of Creek Valley Schools is: “Preparing today’s students for tomorrow’s world”. A vital part of preparing the students is Creek Valley High School’s (CVHS) Career and Technical courses. CVHS Career and Technical Education courses prepares individuals to “learn” through career exploration and technical skill development while meeting academic standards, “earn” as productive citizens in a global society, and “live” as a contributing member of their community. Career and Technical...
Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey is having a bad month. He recently wrote a check to a large donor for nearly $60,000 reimbursing him for the generous gift of trips on a private jet. The paperwork had “fallen through the cracks,” an aide explained. Under investigation by the FBI regarding allegations that he engaged underage prostitutes during visits to the Dominican Republic (the destination of those jet trips), the senator was also recently embarrassed when it emerged that an 18-year-old intern on his staff who was hel...
So I think enough time has passed that the fear of 12-21-12 and the misconceptions that came along with that have passed. While in pursuit of my Bachelor’s Degree in Photography I had to take an English Comp 2 class, as everyone going for a BA knows you have to do, and this particular class was nothing but essays and writing skills. For one of my assignments I had to write an informative paper that would do two things: the first take a topic and clear up misunderstandings and secondly give actualities of the subject. Anyone who has been in c... Full story
First activity of 2013, at the center was held Saturday, Jan. 5. It was the usual Food Pantry of the Plains. There were many who came. There was plenty of food to be distributed, especially baked goods. Special thank you to all those helping in any way. We can always use volunteers to help set up the food, help those shop who need it and also carry out. Monday, Jan. 7 was Pot Luck day with meeting following. The usual good food prepared by the many good cooks. There were 10 members present to enjoy the meal. Short meeting conducted by Margaret...
The first meeting for the 2013 Bunker Hillbillies 4-H Club was held Jan. 20 at the N.R.D. The main business for our meeting was for electing officers for the year. Mike and Melinda Beyer were elected adult leaders. Ethan Nelson was elected president, Dominic Beyer was elected secretary, Riley Devier as treasurer, Felicity Beyer and Dylan Miller as flag bearers and Quentin Miller as communications officer. Anja Nguyen and Rhegan Devier were elected to scrapbook and Time Nguyen as news reporter. The 4-H council representatives are Matthias Beyer...
Winnifred Katherine Davison 1924 to 2013 Winnifred Katherine Davison passed away on Jan. 25, 2013, at the age of 88. She was surrounded by her family in Olympia, Wash., where she lived for the past two years. She was born in Kansas City, Mo., on July 16, 1924, and was raised in Sidney by her parents, Burnell O. Tracy and Jessie K. (Griffis) Tracy. Winnie was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, John H. Davison. After marriage she lived in Dalton from 1951 to 1966 where she taught second grade. The family moved to Lompoc, Calif., in...
Hiram ‘Seedy’ Birdsong 1923 to 2013 Hiram “Seedy” Birdsong, 90, of Sidney, passed away at the Sidney Regional Medical Center Extended Care on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Cremation has taken place. No formal funeral services are planned. You may view Seedy’s Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and memories at www.gehrigstittchapel.com. Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service LLC is in charge of Seedy’s care and funeral arrangements. Hiram Monroe “Seedy” Birdsong, the son of Herbert Monroe...
LINCOLN (AP) — State forecasters expect modest economic and employment growth in Nebraska this year and a drop in farm incomes from their all-time highs, according to a report released Friday. The Nebraska Business Forecast Council said in its latest long-range report that many sectors of the state economy were primed for solid progress in 2014, predicting accelerated job and income growth for Nebraska workers. “Weather conditions and uncertainty about the national fiscal situation will limit economic growth in Nebraska during much of this yea...
Sidney West Elementary School fifth grade student Salena Petluri came out on top once again at the Cheyenne County Spelling Bee held at West Elementary. Petluri beat out 23 other contestants and not only correctly completed her word (renegade) in the fifth round but also spelled the championship word, Olympian, correctly and confidently. Two rows of boys and girls sat patiently waiting to see who would be victorious in a war of words Wednesday afternoon with an audience consisted of parents,...
Their business started out in a two bay shop and had already been established, owned by Don Hoffman, but it is Roger and Betty Sauder who, on July 14, will celebrate the 27th anniversary of the business that brought their family so much success. Back in 1986 Roger Sauder was doing as most of us do, working for someone else, when his boss, Hoffman, decided he was ready to pack in the chips. Sauder seeing his chance to work for himself in an industry he knows well made a very smart move – he j... Full story
Sam Jacoby of Bridgeport Dental Clinic awarded a certificate from the Great Navy of Nebraska to Tom Von Seggern on Jan. 30. Von Seggern was presented this honor due to his courageous efforts saving two little boys from drowning in a pond at Sidney’s Legion Park Jan. 4 at around 3:30 p.m. One of the boys had slipped into the pond while chasing his dog across the iced-over pond. The other fell in attempting to rescue his submerged sibling. Von Seggern and four other city workers came upon the scen...
City of Sidney officials may be issuing a Snow Emergency either later today or early Saturday morning because of recent weather forecasts, according to John Hehnke, City of Sidney Public Services Director, in a press release this morning. A winter storm is forecasted for this weekend and city officials would like to alert residents and ask them to pay attention to local media sources for future alerts from the National Weather Service or the city. “The City of Sidney is closely monitoring forecasts provided by the National Weather Service f...
