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OMAHA (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused Union Pacific and BNSF Railways of price fixing. Oxbow Carbon & Minerals LLC said in its lawsuit that the two biggest railroads in the western U.S. worked to avoid direct competition with each other to keep rates high, and that Union Pacific has refused to ship coal from its Oxbow’s Elk Creek Mine in western Colorado to avoid competing with BNSF. The lawsuit brought by Oxbow and six of its companies also said the railroads’ fuel surcharges aren’t based on actual costs and sim...
HASTINGS (AP) — Walking into the Diorama Hall at Hastings Museum, it won’t be the mounted animals or the tail of the prehistoric dinosaur that catches the eye this month. Instead it will be the 36,000 brightly colored paper cranes hanging from the museum’s light well. The cranes were installed Tuesday and are on display through May 5 in association with Brain Injury Awareness Month, held every March. “Our goal was to get 36,000 because that would be one for each person in Nebraska living with a disability from a brain injury,” said Jacquie C...
In the Sundays preceding Easter my church has been looking at part of the life of Jesus, with a special emphasis on photos and videos of the places where Jesus lived and taught. This week, we are thinking about the mountains. Many of our favorite Bible Stories take place in the Mountains of the Holy Land. Noah’s Ark landed on Mount Ararat, Moses heard God call him from a burning bush on a mountain, and later received the Ten Commandments on a Mountain. Many of the turning points of Jesus’ ministry were on mountains, including His tem...
Remember the 1950s horror movie “The Bad Seed”? Any remake should cast Monsanto in the title role, because whenever something scary is being done to our food, you can usually find Monsanto lurking in the shadows. During the past two decades, this biotech behemoth has used its political connections to obtain a monopolistic grip on the creation, sale and proliferation of Frankenseeds — the seeds of corn, cotton, soybeans and other crops that have had genetically modified organisms spliced into their natural DNA structure by corporate lab techs...
When my six-year-old daughter Catherine is acting up, all I have to say is “Knock it off, or Daddy’s gonna make pasta!” She actually likes pasta. (Other than peanut butter and jelly or bologna and cheese, it’s the only food she will eat.) It’s my making it that scares her. It started a few months ago, when we ordered a new pasta maker. We’ve had them in the past, mostly ordered off of Saturday infomercials, but they have always burned out after a couple of months. This time, my wife ordered a brand of pasta maker from Italy at the recommendat...
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 ‘Burlington has a wreck’ Two Engines Ditched and Several Cars Smashed Up in Yards February 28, 1913 At 5:40 Saturday morning a wreck occurred in the Burlington about one hundred feet east of the house track switch. A southbound ore train, a double-header, became uncontrollable because of frosty rails and ran into a southbound extra freight. The latter could have made it to safety...
Bonnie Franklin, ‘One Day At a Time’ star, dies NEW YORK (AP) – Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” has died. She died Friday at her home in Los Angeles due to complications from pancreatic cancer, family members said. She was 69. Her family had announced she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September. Franklin was a veteran stage and television performer...
Arthur P. Lenzen 1920 to 2013 Arthur P. Lenzen, 92, of Sidney, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at Sidney Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be Tuesday, March 5, at 10 am. at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, in Sidney. Visitation will be Monday, March 4, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Gehrig-Stitt Chapel. Rosary and Wake Services will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday evening. Gehrig - Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service is in charge of arrangements. Memorial contributions may be made in Art Lenzen’s nam...
Four individuals face sentencing Wednesday morning in Cheyenne District Court, including two Sidney men who have changed pleas to amended drug charges. Leland Blake, 57, and Donald Schlieker, 50, have both entered guilty pleas to. Schlieker originally pleaded not guilty to two Class III felony counts of unlawful delivery of marijuana and Class III possession of a defaced firearm. Blake at first faced two Class II felony charges of delivery of Vicodin (hydrocodone), a DEA Schedule III controlled substance. Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub ha...
Editor’s Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in the Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. Leland V. Nelson spent his formative years in the area of Platte County, Neb. Like kids from western Nebraska, he walked the miles to school as well as getting to school by horsepower –one way or another. On more than one occasion, Leland’s horse drawn wagon was faster t...
Sidney’s North Elementary School held its first “Grab your Hat and Read with the Cat” reading party to celebrate National Read Across America Day. The school will also be hosting a Dr. Seuss/Read Across America book exchange during parent/teacher conferences at the school next Tuesday, March 5 from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Wednesday, March 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. as well. Read Across America Day usually takes place on March 2, Dr. Seuss’ birthday, but this year schools around the country... Full story
Looking for an exercise routine that strengthens your body while calming your mind? Chera Steele teaches a yoga class at the Cheyenne County Community Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. that does just that. Steele said that participants need their own yoga mat and a water bottle, towels and yoga blocks if they wish to use them. Yoga mats are also on sale at the center. Class members should wear comfortable workout clothes and come barefoot or with socks if their feet...
