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Sidney Regional Medical Center is moving ahead with plans to consolidate and expand its facility. Plans include moving Extended Care to a new wing on the west side of the existing hospital. The new facility will include a “Memory Care” wing among its four wings, and 63 beds. The Extended Care facility is currently located on Osage Street in Sidney, adjacent to the “old hospital.” SRMC administrator Jason Petik recently addressed the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners on the project. He said...
Jack Eugene Taylor, age 70, of Lodgepole, passed away peacefully at this home, with family present, on Friday afternoon, August 19, 2022. Services will be held at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, August 25, 2022 at First United Methodist Church in Sidney. Interment will be in Pleasant View Cemetery in Lodgepole, NE. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials can be sent to PO Box 37, Lodgepole, NE 69149, for either the Night of Hope Walk for Cancer and/or the Sidney Elks Lodge #1894 Scholarship...
On the south side of Legion Park is a place of memories, of days gone by when swimming and teens strutting the status was the game of the day. It is also a place of gently placed floral arrangements that inspire emotions of relaxation and calm. The paths between the flowers have a basic design of the continental United States, including boundaries between states with specific recognition of Nebraska. The Living Memorial Gardens board was recently presented with a matching grant to expand the...
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” On Sept. 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, signed the framework of their new country. On Aug. 15, 2022, the Cheyenne County Commissioners sig...
An upcoming documentary offered in Sidney and Bridgeport spotlights the story of a teen cheerleader paralyzed after a suicide attempt. My Ascension documentary screening event with a panelist discussion to follow will be offered at: • Sidney Fox Theater, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., September 8; • Morrill County Community Hospital Training Center (901 Main Street, Bridgeport), Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. September 27; A suicide attempt left 16-year-old varsity cheerleader Emma Benoit paralyzed but propelled her on a mission to use her pai...
Eileen was a devoted mother, sister, grandmother, great grandmother, and caring friend who left us on August 12, 2022, following a prolonged struggle with complicated health issues. Eileen was a Nebraska girl through and through. She was the second of four children born to Hilbert (Hib) and Gertrude Borcher in Sidney, Nebraska on August 28, 1929. She attended school during her formative years at the county school at Bunker Hill before moving to Sidney and graduating from Sidney High School in...
James E. Haskell, 80 of Annandale, Virginia, passed away on July 21, 2022. A funeral service will be held 10 a.m., Saturday, August, 27, at the Kowanda Church in Garden County. He was born in Lodgepole, Nebraska in February 1942, to James and Gladys Haskell who farmed on a small dryland wheat farm. Jim graduated from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln with a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics, and later he would earn his PhD in the same subject from Kansas State University. After graduation Jim would spend his entire career working f...
LaDonna L. Jung, age 87 of Sidney, NE passed away Tuesday, August 16, 2022 in Kimball, NE. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Friday, August 26th in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney with Pastors Chad Rademacher and Phil Found Pastor Emeritus officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery in Sidney. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Thursday, August 25th from 1-6 P.M. In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial donations be made in LaDonna’s name t...
“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings You have ordained praise (strength),” Psalm 8. See also wisdom Proverbs 8. Three to five year-old children are like little sponges, soaking up every bit of information around them. Sorting out proper responses may cause their psychology and intellectual information to collide in social situations. However, their emotions (coping devices) are rock solid. A Sunday School teacher asked her class, “What is a lie?” Instantly a little boy replied in a confident...
Recently, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced plans to overhaul the organization due to major public mistakes it made throughout the days of the COVID-19 pandemic. This upheaval at the CDC comes as no surprise to me, because many of the truths I have shared with my readers about COVID-19 and the vaccinations over the course of the past three years were falsely rejected by the CDC even though the facts said otherwise. The CDC has been proven wrong on so many...
Several years ago, I was scolded by a friend when I did a u-turn on a street I thought was empty and he didn’t see my bike. Oddly enough, some time later, I almost laid down the same bike to avoid a collision in a very touchy intersection. No, it wasn’t a motorcycle. It was the other two-wheeled variety. It wasn’t clumsiness. It was the risk of riding on a city street. (P.S.: I don't ride that bike much anymore.) Not long after that I heard a proposal for cyclists to have softer rules at an in...
It’s no secret that this has been a tough year for the stock market. But if you own bonds, you may also have some concerns. What’s happened is that the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates to fight inflation. This can cause the value of your existing bonds to drop, because investors will want to buy the newly issued bonds that pay the higher rates. Still, bonds continue to offer you some key benefits. For one thing, as long as you hold your bonds until maturity, you’ll continue to receive the same interest payments. Also, bonds...
In her book How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, author Susan Beaumont discusses the liminal spaces many of us are facing. She writes, How do you lead an organization stuck between an ending and a new beginning – when the old way of doing things no longer works but a way forward is not yet clear? Beaumont calls such in-between times liminal seasons – threshold times when the continuity of tradition disintegrates, and uncertainty about the future fuels doubt and chaos. In a liminal season, it simply is not helpful to pretend...
LINCOLN – Gov. Pete Ricketts recently announced MetalQuest and 21st Century Equipment as the recipients of the Developing Youth Talent Initiative (DYTI) grants for 2022. Launched by the Governor in 2015, DYTI introduces middle school students to careers in industries such as manufacturing, information technology, engineering, and healthcare. DYTI is administered by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED). “The Developing Youth Talent Initiative encourages partnership between pri...
The opening of the 2022-23 school year means the return of Fall Sports, and the Sidney Red Raider Cross Country, Volleyball and Football teams will be challenged this week as they start their seasons. On Thursday August 25, the Red Raider Cross Country team travels to Scottsbluff for their first competition of the new season, with the Girl's team looking for a quick start as they defend their State Title, and the Boy's team also looks for a strong start as they try to improve from Runner's Up...
Sidney's Lady Raider Golf team opens their season on Tuesday, August 23 at Hillside Golf Course as they host the annual Sidney Invitational, and expect the best of the Panhandle teams to have a strong season as they open their season. First-year Head Coach Tyler Shaw is focused on improvement for the team and wants to make sure the girls are having fun and are relaxed as they compete. Senior Aubree Larson, who qualified for the State Tournament last year, returns as the team's leader. The team...
The Cheyenne County area schools are gearing up for the start of the Fall Sports season this week, and all of the teams look to get a strong start and have successful campaigns. Potter-Dix starts off on Thursday hosting a Volleyball Triangular in Potter against Leyton and Minatare. The Lady Coyotes look to improve on last year's 11-and-18 record, and face off against a Minatare team they had success against last year and a tough Leyton team that will show the Lady Coyotes where they stand as...
Sidney Police Department August 18 12:45 a.m., Agency Assist, 2600 block El Rancho Road. 4:34 a.m., Traffic Stop, 17J Link and Interstate 80. 5:11 a.m., Traffic Stop, East Illinois Street and 17J Link. 7:14 a.m., Medical Call. 8:24 a.m., Follow-Up, Police Department. 8:34 a.m., Code Violation, 1500 block Elm Street. 9:12 a.m., Fraud, 2100 block Elm Street. 9:17 a.m., Theft, 100 block Cabela Drive. 10:13 a.m., Citizen Contact, Police Department. 1:06 p.m., Animal Call, Cheyenne Villa. 1:12 p.m., Criminal Mischief, 800 block 13th Avenue. 3:54...
With the permission of my wife, of course. So buckle up and prepare for another series of politically incorrect articles. After watching the serious over reach of the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party In Power, aka FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a Lago residence, I can not remain silent. Yes, this might be dangerous as it could induce the radical left into requesting their army of political correctness enforcers to raid my home, subject me to a strip search and put me...
