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WHITMAN, Mass. (AP) — The late-winter storm that buried parts of the country was forecast to be little more than a nuisance for most of New England. Try telling that to Connecticut and Massachusetts residents who spent two days shoveling as much as 2 feet snow. “The forecast was 4 to 6 inches and I think I’m looking at about 12 to 14 inches,” West Roxbury resident Mark Spillane said as snow continued to fall Friday. “I did not expect to have to bring out the snow blower.” The storm was centered far out in the Atlantic Ocean, and by the time it...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market isn’t just growing. It’s accelerating. Employers added 236,000 jobs in February and drove down the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent, its lowest level in more than four years. The gains signal that companies are confident enough in the economy to intensify hiring even in the face of tax increases and government spending cuts. Last month capped a fourth-month hiring spree in which employers have added an average of 205,000 jobs a month. The hiring has been fueled by steady improvement in housing, auto...
LINCOLN – Joe Imus says that rather than scout other teams, he’d just as soon work on improving his own Spalding/Spalding Academy Knights. And right now, things are clicking on all cylinders for Imus’ club, which outraced top-seeded Leyton to the tune of a 68-51 romp in Friday afternoon’s Class D2 boys basketball semifinals inside Lincoln’s Pershing Center. “We don’t spend a lot of time scouting,” said Imus, whose club advanced to today’s championship game opposite Wynot (24-3), which knocked of...
LINCOLN – Guns, drugs and flying lanterns were among legislative bills debated during the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee hearings, Thursday, Feb. 28. LB390, sponsored by Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial would remove the Nebraska governor’s powers to take guns and ammunition under the Emergency Management Act. “It’s the times of emergency that you need (guns) the most to protect your own self,” he said. He said he got the idea for the bill from the National Rifle Association that reacted to gun seizures during the aftermath o...
Over the past several decades the knowledge of the presence and the work of the Holy Spirit has tended to be revived in the modern church. We live by the Spirit we discern by the Spirit we are led by the Spirit and even, it seems we disagree by the Spirit. For the Spirit is said to be speaking on both sides of any contested issue. Part of the problem is the very fact of talking about Spirit or wind. It is quite hard to pin down, and has remained so, as far as definitions are concerned, for a considerable period of time. Many years ago in the...
My journey to Nebraska was filled with changing landscapes and exhaustion as I drove half-way across the county. I drove through the mountains of Georgia and Tennessee, the hills of Kentucky and the flatter land of Indiana and Illinois. I stopped in Illinois to visit a friend and to get some much-needed rest. After packing and storing most of my stuff for days, I was tired. I enjoyed the visit, and the sleep, but after only 12 hours off the road, it was time to move on. The flats and hills of Iowa greeted me soon. The windfarms that were scatte...
Editor, “I listened on the radio the other day about the new swimming pool and they want some opinions and input so here is mine: I’m confused with my math on this 1/2 cent sales tax. It was presented to the voters as follows: 50% to street funding to fix our deteriorated streets 30% to the swimming pool 12% to the golf course 5% to storm-water projects 3% to park improvements 100% TOTAL NOW, if this would generate 10 million dollars in ten years that would make as follows: $5 million...............street fund $3 million.......
It all started with a picture taken at the hospital shortly after the birth of our twin girls. Livvy and Catherine were a Caesarean birth, and as I was in the delivery room, I had to be outfitted in full surgeon regalia: scrubs, hat and mask. Afterward, one of the nurses asked if I’d like a picture with my two new daughters, and I agreed, sitting in a rocking chair with a tiny twin in each hand. The picture sits on the mantelpiece of the girls’ room. They never noticed it until one night when I had to convince one of them at bedtime to tak...
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 ‘Sidney Tourists’ March 1, 1913 H. R. Fuller and wife are touring on he Pacific coast, an outing they had planned for some time. Before returning they will visit Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Fresno and nearer home will stop a Mount Rosa and Denver/besides a umber of lesser places all along the route. Here’s hoping they will have a delightful trip and...
WEEPING WATER, Neb. (AP) — The family of a woman seriously injured in an eastern Nebraska school gym accident has issued a statement. The husband of Lori Williams issued the statement Friday through The Nebraska Medical Center, saying Williams has undergone several operations since being taken to the Omaha hospital on Sunday. Tim Williams also expressed gratitude for the “thoughts, prayers and kind gestures from family members and friends during such a trying time for our family.” The statement does not give Lori Williams’ age or residen...
LINCOLN – Nebraska would become one of only two states in the country that offer tax credits for renewable energy generation under a bill introduced by Sen. Jeremy Nordquist of Omaha. The Legislature’s Revenue Committee heard testimony March 6 on LB 411. The bill would offer a new tax incentive for solar, wind, biomass and landfill gas energy producers just as the federal tax credit on renewable energy production is set to expire at the end of 2013. “Us having something like this in place would make us a magnet for renewable energy devel...
Based upon weather forecasts for a major winter storm event, the City of Sidney has declared a snow emergency effective at 10 p.m., Friday, March 8. The snow emergency shall remain in effect until further notice. During the issuance of a snow emergency no vehicles shall be parked or remain to be parked on any portion of an emergency snow route. The issuance of a snow emergency is to help facilitate the ability of snow removal equipment to clear these routes as quickly as possible. The emergency snow routes are designated by red and blue signs...
MCCOOK — McCook Community College has done its part in preserving a piece of history. The logo of McCook Community College on the gym floor at True Hall, the college’s original gymnasium, has a place of honor in the lobby at the new, state-of-the-art, $10 million MCC Event Center. Darin Morgan, director of physical resources at MCC, said he and his staff spent about 45 days dismantling the gym floor piece by piece to preserve the logo. “It was very tedious, it didn’t want to come up very easy,” he told the McCook Daily Gazette. The floor was...
This past February Sidney resident Ada Johnson turned 102-years-old. Johnson said she holds close memories of riding horses on her family’s ranch and creating a wonderful life with her late husband, Ward. Johnson was born and raised in Cheyenne County on a ranch about 25 miles southwest of Sidney. She had three older sisters and her parents had another daughter and a son several years later. “I loved the horses,” said Johnson with a smile on her face almost as though she could still pictu...
Students at Sidney’s North Elementary enjoy Dr. Seuss Day this week. Activities highlighted things that a reader might find in the books The Lorax and Bartholomew and the Oobleck . Children enjoyed getting their hands gooey while making Oobleck green goo in the lunchroom and then after washing their hands, they went on to play a few Dr. Seuss games on computers in the lab. In other rooms, children made colorful masks and mustaches, while other children drew their versions of the truffula tuft tr...
Falling is the second leading cause of accidental death for seniors in the U.S. and injuries from falling are the leading cause of seniors’ visits to the emergency room, according to the National Institutes of Health. “Seniors who exercise and practice balance activities can avert the devastating effects of a fall. Therefore, one of the most important elements of a senior fitness program is balance training,” according to results from a New England Journal of Medicine study. Researchers also...