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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. Robert J. Books (Bob) had received his draft notice just before graduating from high school. The Selective Service Board allowed him to finish his schooling, but within a week his parents took him to North Platte, NE so he could board a troop train. He had been dra...
A new machine has been introduced at the Sidney Rehabilitation and Wellness Clinic with the purpose of helping employers as well as the health of employees. Casey Cortney, owner and physical therapist at the Sidney Rehabilitation and Wellness Clinic, has purchased a Physical Capacity Profile Testing System. This machine helps employees develop a baseline of their health before they begin working for a company. This helps ensure employers that they are placing their employees in a job that will...
Sidney native Audrey Sparks moved to Mason City, Ia. the year her mother,Lolly Sparks, passed away from ovarian cancer 12 years ago. “My mom lived in Sidney practically her whole life,” said Sparks. “My parents got married and moved to Sidney and that’s where she passed away from cancer. People knew who she was and she was a staple at Dairy Queen where she worked.” Sparks said her mother’s favorite activity was fishing, and that she had an unfaltering love of life. “She loved life. She was...
Approximately 190 students from Sidney, Layton, Bridgeport, Potter-Dix, Creek Valley, South Platte and Garden County High Schools attended the Southern Panhandle Sophomore Career Conference on March 22. Western Nebraska Community College (WNCC) has hosted this conference for many years, according to Tricia England, the student services coordinator, “since the WNCC location was at the old Army depot.” England added that the career conference is a partnership between WNCC, ESU 13 and the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce and they rely on inp...
MIAMI (AP) — For the Miami Heat, it has been anything but an ordinary path along the way to this extraordinary 24-game winning streak. There have been blowouts, buzzer-beaters and now a pair of huge second-half rallies. Or, as Dwyane Wade would call it all ... “Fun,” the Heat guard said. These days, everything — even huge deficits — seems like fun for the reigning NBA champions, who haven’t lost a game in nearly two months. And this week has brought perhaps the two most scintillati...
“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying, ‘Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” (Revelation 14:6, 7) With Christianity’s focus today on the Life, Death, and Resurrection ministry of Jesus, how are these truths of the Gospel and the Judgment woven together in the saving...
I mentioned in my first column for the Sun-Telegraph that I would relay the events that led up to my first trip to Nebraska a few years ago. This is from a “note” that I wrote on my Facebook page a year and a half ago. Due to the length of the story, this will be a two-part series. Well, here goes part one: September 10, 2001. I had resigned from my radio station job days earlier, and this was the eve of my last day at the Domino’s on Old Hammond Hwy in Baton Rouge. I went to Papa John’s to visit with my former Domino’s manager and a former co...
In a recent senatorial dustup, Sen. John McCain called Republican colleague Rand Paul one of “the wacko birds” of Congress. McCain (who sometimes appears not too tightly wrapped himself) was giving Sen. Paul a tongue-lashing for having mounted a 13-hour, old-fashioned, stand-alone filibuster over the possibility that murderous drones could be used for targeted assassinations of Americans right here at home. McCain said that the Kentucky senator’s talk-a-thon had veered into the “realm of the ridiculous,” adding, “I don’t think (it) is helpf...
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 ‘Tossed By A Bull’ March 22, 2013 The 14th, Black Friday, was a good day to stay where you were, and nearly everyone had to. A call came from the Carlton ranch that a man, Mr. Eber, had been severely injured by a bull. Dr. Swatzlander, having no other means of locomotion to be secured for love or money, made the trip by walking down the railroad. The sensation was just like bei...
There will be a youth outreach concert on Monday, March 25 at the Sidney High School Fine Arts Auditorium featuring the Seattle band Lybecker. The band will take the stage at 7:00 p.m. the show is all ages and there is no admission charge. The band will be selling CDs and other merchandise at the show. This concert is sponsored by local youth groups, businesses and organizations and the organizer of the event Brad Rusk says “This concert is to give something unique for the local youth of the area. With the limitations of things to do for the k...
