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It was a time to grip the short bottoms. The uniforms were drenched. The legs were getting heavy from playing a two hour-plus game. And everything showing on the Sutherland gymnasium scoreboard was hardly in its favor. Even so, the Leyton High School boys’ basketball team is heading back to the state tournament. The long drive back to Cheyenne County Tuesday night had me drawing comparisons with what I had just witnessed: Gary Oltmann’s team refusing to lose in taking a 74-68 tri... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — A combative President Barack Obama blamed Republican lawmakers Friday for failing to stop automatic spending cuts from beginning to kick in late in the day, arguing he can’t perform a “Jedi mind meld” to get Republicans to agree on a deal. But he and GOP leaders displayed no appetite for letting the fight shut the government down later this month. Meeting on the day that $85 billion in federal spending cuts were to begin to take effect, the nation’s top government officials made no progress on how to avoid what they all agree...
SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — A huge sinkhole opened up under a man’s bedroom and swallowed him as he screamed for help. He was missing Friday and feared dead. Officials lowered equipment into the sinkhole but didn’t see any sign of life. Jeremy Bush, who was at the home near Tampa, said it took him only seconds to get to his brother’s room about 11 p.m. Thursday. He jumped into the hole and dirt was quickly up to his neck. “The floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I didn’t care. I wanted to save my brother,” he said. “But...
CSC announces President’s, Dean’s lists Chadron State College has announced the names of 623 students who qualified for the institution’s fall 2012 academic honors lists. The President’s list, which requires all A’s, consists of 239 names. Another 384 students met requirements for the Dean’s list by earning at least a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale. Students must be enrolled in 12 credit hours of coursework during the semester to qualify. Area students name to the President’s list are Heather Gonzalez, Chappell; Kristen Juelfs, Potte...
DALTON – The Leyton Public Schools Foundation is pleased to announce they are the recipients of a $5,000 DuPont Pioneer Grant toward its “Seedlings of the Future” scholarship Program. “In order to feed and produce the fuel and fiber needed for a dramatically growing global population, we need young people who are passionate about the agriculture industry,” said Steve Reno, Pioneer Western business director. “We are very proud to support this local scholarship program that will help make the dr...
Inside the Beltway, everybody’s talking about sequestration — and not only about whether it will happen (various supposed “high-level” sources say they are not optimistic that it will be avoided) and what it will mean, but also — it being the Beltway — which side of the aisle will pay the price. The president is running a campaign to convince people that the results will be dire, that they should be avoided in favor of a sensible mix of spending cuts and revenue increases, and that the Republicans’ insistence that all of the savings come from c...
When I accepted the assignment of writing a column I had no idea it would become as important to me as it has, because when I began this column I told myself I would not make this a frivolous blurb about nothingness. Though I have to admit I have had a few that I feel are just that, frivolous blurbs of nothingness. I can honestly say that was due to avoiding columns like the next few I will have, because I had to figure out how to say what I needed to in order to help someone else. I want to help by letting you (my reader) know you’re not a...
OMAHA – Girl Scouts of the USA, the premiere leadership program for girls, will be celebrating its 101st anniversary on March 12, 2013. Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska, the statewide Girl Scout council, is asking everyone in Nebraska to support girls in their communities by making a $101 online donation in honor of this anniversary. The council’s online Give to Girls campaign, the goal of which is $101,000, will raise funds specifically to support camp opportunities and financial assistance, to ensure that every girl in Nebraska can par...
The City of Sidney, in partnership with its wholesale electric power supplier, the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN), is in its third year of its ENERGYsmart Refrigerator Recycling Program. The program, partially funded by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Grant Program, will pay residential electric customers $35 to recycle old, inefficient refrigerators and freezers. Recycling older, inefficient refrigerators accomplishes multiple benefits, including saving up to $125 a year on...
LINCOLN – A special committee to analyze state aid to education could be formed if a bill heard in the Education Committee of the Nebraska Legislature is passed. Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm presented the bill (LB323) Tuesday that would create a group of people, representing the schools of Nebraska, to discuss annually and create a report with suggestions as to how to address the state aid formula. Four people testified in support of the bill and nobody testified against or neutral to the bill. In presenting his bill, Haar cited suggestions r...
Today is March 1. To most people it’s just the beginning of the month, just another day. But to dietitians and other health related individuals it’s the start of National Nutrition Month, a month dedicated to educating others on nutrition and promoting healthy eating habits. This month-long campaign was created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (previously known as the American Dietetics Association) and focuses on the importance of making smart, informed food choices and gives people the knowledge and motivation to start dev...
Sidney Middle School National Junior Honor Society President Will Castner, in a combined effort with Sidney Middle School Student Council President Annalise Lecher, has done all the research needed for installing a new flagpole in front of the middle school. They have started donation efforts and have a plan to make the new flagpole become a reality. According to middle school students and staff the current flagpole “has chipped paint, leans to the street and is unable to be displayed at h...
New owners and operators of the Coffee Corner and the Book Corner, Cindy and Jason Rohm, celebrated their new ownership by a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday morning with the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, as well as family and employees, in attendance. Cindy Rohm is a transplant from Santa Barbara and was employed with Cabela’s before working at the coffee shop under its previous owner Barb Meier. Rohm said that she had been starting to think that she would love to own a c...
Joe Aikens, Sidney Assistant Police Chief, has been chosen to serve as Interim Police Chief for the Sidney Police Department and will begin his new position tomorrow, according to a press release this morning from Gary Person, City of Sidney City Manager. He will be filling in for Sidney Police Chief Mike Brown, who announced in February that he would be resigning to return to Kansas to be with family members battling through illnesses. Chief Brown’s last day serving the City of Sidney is t... Full story
