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Sidney High senior Lane Harvey soars through the lane en route to a basket on Friday afternoon against Beatrice at the state tournament in Lincoln....
Peetz High School lost a 65-62 heartbreaker to Ouray on Friday morning in a consolation game in Loveland, Colo. The Bulldogs wrapped up their season at 15-11....
LINCOLN, Neb. – Sidney High School is in the state finals. The No. 3-seeded Red Raiders (22-4) burst onto the state scene today by repulsing a late comeback attempt by the No. 2 Beatrice (21-2) Orangemen to reach the finals of the NSAA Class B Boys' State Basketball Championships on Friday afternoon with a 51-48 victory at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The Raiders will meet No. 4 Elkhorn South (20-5) for the title. Elkhorn South beat top-seeded Gretna 59-58 in the other semifinal on Friday. The c...
The date of April 9, 1865, marked the end of four, long and bloody years of the American Civil War. During those years, while the states were divided among themselves, the nation was also at war with the Native Americans of the plains and the Southwest. Back in April 1865, Bosque Redondo was the name given the so-called reservation near Fort Sumner, N.M., though to the 8,500 Navajo and 500 Mescalero Apache Indians confined there, it seemed more like prison. By 1866, the number of Indians...
The Cheyenne County chapter of Family and Community Education is sponsoring a $200 college scholarship to Cheyenne County high school seniors who will be majoring in an area related to Family and Consumer Science. Applications are available at the Nebraska Extension Office – Cheyenne County, 920 Jackson St., Sidney. The deadline is April 14. Contact the extension office with questions or for an application at (308) 254-4455....
The Western Nebraska Development Network will head to Alliance on March 25. WNDN is a collaboration of service providers, community leaders, business owners and tourism enthusiasts. The WNDN will meet from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at The Gathering Spot, 213 Box Butte, Alliance, with a focus on “Alliance Visitors Bureau – Solar Eclipse 2017” and “Chautauqua.” Other agenda items include representatives from the Ambassadors Group and a guided tour of Carnegie Arts Center. Membership is open to anyone who wants to get to know the service providers...
The staff for U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) will hold local office hours in Sidney and Chappell on Tuesday, March 24. These office hours serve as a convenient opportunity for constituents to meet personally with staff about casework assistance or other issues at the federal level. Brandi McCaslin, Fischer’s Greater Nebraska director of constituent services, will be holding local office hours at the Sidney Public Library from 11 a.m.-Noon and at the Deuel County Courthouse in Chappell from 1-2 p.m....
Ongoing Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Dates of Lenten soup suppers & Lenten worship services are March 18 and 25 Lenten Soup suppers are every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Lenten worship services are every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Lifetree Café Meetings at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will be on break until after Easter. Upcoming meetings will be posted as soon as that information is available. Cancer survivor support group meets every third Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Dorwart Cancer Care Center. Great topics/food/fellowship. Call Leslie at (308)...
LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Tourism Commission has named the 80 featured stops as part of the 2015 Nebraska Passport Program. The program encourages travelers to explore Nebraska, collect stamps from participating attractions and earn prizes. The 2015 Passport features 80 attractions on 10 themed tours. Travelers have from May 1 through September 30 to visit attractions and redeem their stamps for prizes. For each completed tour, participants win a Nebraska Passport T–shirt. Travelers also can receive 20 $1 Nebraska Lottery scratch cou...
Dear Editor, The reigning headliners in the current administration remind me of a variation of an adage: “There is no honor among liars.” With all of the scandalous activities provoked by the former head of the Department of State, the Attorney General’s racial bias and our current President, who spends huge sums of money to hide his past and seeks to make a stupid agreement with the Iranians who have never lived up to the provisions of a treaty in the past, we wonder if there are any in the inner circle who know how to tell the truth. Our ...
If you travel to Jesus’ birthplace in Bethlehem, you’ll discover that it is now surrounded by an Orthodox cathedral. The spot on which he was laid is way down in the bowels of the building. To get to it, you must descend a narrow, steep, cramped and dark stairwell made out of stone into a tight, silent, and dark room about the size of a small living room. This small sanctuary is usually ablaze with candlelight from numerous votives. His tomb isn’t much different. To get into it, first you have to descend a slippery, dark and wet slope down into...
Compiled By The Sidney Sun-Telegraph Staff These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 50 YEARS AGO '1965 stars show is set for this Sunday' March 12, 1965 Rehearsal for the annual "Stars of Tomorrow" show, which is sponsored by the Sidney Kiwanis Club, will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Sidney Junior High School Auditorium. About 36 young people from Cheyenne County and a dozen or so...
LOVELAND, Colo. – The Peetz High School Bulldogs' run at the Colorado basketball state tournament came to an end Friday afternoon, losing 65-62 to the Ouray High Trojans in the consolation bracket. While the loss means the Bulldogs' season is over for this year, the team from Peetz has much to celebrate. Against the Trojans, Peetz cut an early fourth-quarter, 10-point deficit to two with 8.7 seconds remaining. With just over three ticks left on the clock, the Trojans remained up by three. A...