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The Sidney High School prom will be held on Saturday at the Holiday Inn. The dinner begins at 6:00 p.m. and the prom starts at 9:00 p.m. This year, however, the school decided to break from tradition. Students did not select presiding royalty. as Principal Chris Arent says, “Everyone is a king and queen on this prom night.” Their decision is in line with current trends. More students and schools seem to be focusing on equality, hoping to avoid hurt feelings, jealousy or other issues. A school in Waterbury, Conn., WF Kaynor Technical High School...
Wrestlers and coaches of the Sidney Federation Wrestling Club proudly displayed their awards and medals received at the Rocky Mountain Nationals in Denver, the Midwest Classic Nationals Wrestling Tournament in Kearney and the Iowa Wrestling Dual. Results of the Midwest Classic (in no particular order) were: Drew Sykora: sixth-place in 6 and under Chance Houser: second-place in 6 and 8 and under Matthew Cabbage: seventh-place in 7 and under Patrick McCartney: sixth-place in 6 and under Colby... Full story
Registration of Kindergarten students for the school year 2013-2014 will be held on Wednesday, April 24 at the Creek Valley Elementary in Chappell. Kindergarten Round-up will be from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Kindergarten room. The Creek Valley Elementary is located at 6th and Hayward. There will be snacks; story time, games, and music, there will also be time to meet your teacher and fellow classmates. The school nurse will be there to give hearing and vision checks. There will be a short informational meeting for parents at 3:00. Please bring the...
The traffic problem around Sidney Public Schools continues to vex Superintendent Jay Ehler. He encourages parents to obey the rules about dropping children off for the safety of the children. Ehler says that the school board has applied to the council to place new signs around the schools to encourage parents to obey rules about drop off and pick up. Ehler hopes that people will consider their actions around the facilities: are they parking on wrong side of street? Are they stopping in no parking zones? Ehler said that there has been a problem...
Editor, If people really want a shelter in Sidney, there are a few things to consider: 1. Without support from the community and cooperation from local government and law enforcement, you will fail, and then everyone will say you never existed. (What an insult to all the wonderful volunteers, event organizers, local businesses that supported and participated in events, and the generous donors who made the shelter possible!) 2. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Consult with rescue experts (not local vets) who know what works. Experimenting with old i...
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment,” Loa Tzu. I was struggling with what exactly to say this week in light of all the tragedy that has happen in such a short time. I chewed over many different approaches to my thoughts on the bombing in Boston and the loss of life, the implication it is an act of terrorism, the anger that has since poured from the thoughts and mouths of people from the east coast to the west coast, all over the social media and television. I have thought them out very carefully because some of my tho...
During the big health care fight, the right told older Americans that Obamacare was grabbing money from their Medicare and giving it to young people. Now it tells young workers that Medicare and Social Security are draining their take-home pay to support retirees sitting around the pool. The story, it would seem, moves from the young taking from the old to the old taking from the young. The one constant here is the motive: to weaken public support for government programs offering Americans a modicum of economic and health care security. We can...
It was inevitable that the Boy Scouts of America would face the moment of decision. Over the past few years their opposition to the admittance of openly gay and lesbian members caused a rift, not only within the organization, but also among the groups sponsors and supporters. So today’s decision by the Boy Scouts to submit a proposal to their board stating that no young person be denied membership based upon sexual preference alone hardly comes as a surprise. The proposal continues the ban on openly homosexual adult members, presumably to assua... Full story
OMAHA (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of an Omaha woman’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against a Massachusetts bookseller. Helen Abdouch had claimed that Ken Lopez and his online book store improperly used her name and position as executive secretary on John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign to sell an autographed hardcover copy of “Revolutionary Road” she says was stolen from her. The book included a personal note of best wishes from author Richard Yates to Abdouch, dated Aug. 19, 1963. The lawsuit cited a 1979 Nebr...
LINCOLN – Nebraska lawmakers adopted an amendment to a bill Tuesday that would require physicians to give written information about an STD when providing treatment to a patient with such infections. The written information, detailing chlamydia and gonorrhea and the treatments of these sexually transmitted diseases, could then be delivered to the patient’s partner. The amendment (AM764), sponsored by Sen. Beau McCoy of Omaha, passed with a 37-0 vote. The underlying bill (LB528), sponsored by Sen. Sara Howard of Omaha, would allow medical pra...
The Cheyenne County Art Guild’s Artist of the Month for April is Sidney’s very own, Ben Ramsey. Ramsey said that he has been painting ever since he was a kid and that his passion has carried on throughout his life. Although as a child he favored drawing “airplanes and Army guys,” he admitted, one of his main focuses as an artist has always been landscapes and wildlife. “He had the good fortune in having parents who encouraged him and who later augmented a scholarship to the Art Instructi...
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s preliminary March unemployment rate of 3.8 percent matched the revised rates for the three previous months, state officials said in a report released Friday. The rate was two-tenths of a point lower than in March 2012 and half the national March rate of 7.6 percent for this year, the Nebraska Labor Department said in a news release. The 3.8 percent was the second-lowest figure in the country, trailing only North Dakota’s 3.3 percent for March. Nonfarm employment rose by nearly 4,000 jobs in March. According to the state...
BOSTON — The Red Sox and the Bruins both scrapped their games. The famous Bull Market at Faneuil Hall was closed, and there were more pigeons than tourists on City Hall Plaza. Even the Starbucks at Government Center was shuttered. The killing of one suspected Boston Marathon bomber and the manhunt for another brought life in large swaths of the notoriously gridlocked Beantown to a screeching halt, leaving residents and tourists alike frustrated and angry. “It took me an hour and a half to find a coffee this morning,” Daniel Miller, a finan...
WATERTOWN, Mass. — With Boston virtually paralyzed, thousands of officers with rifles and armored vehicles swarmed the streets in and around the city on Friday, hunting for a 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing after his older brother and alleged accomplice was killed in a furious getaway attempt overnight. During the long night of violence, the brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a car chase a...
City of Sidney staff may be closer to hiring a new police chief than some might expect. According to City Manager Gary Person applications for the position were due April 15 at 5 p.m. “With two days of mail now passing since the deadline, we believe we have received all of the applications that we are going to receive,” said Person. “But should there be one that comes in with a proper postmark we would still honor it.” The city has received nine applications to date. Six of the applica... Full story
