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The cost of crime is increasing. Cheyenne County Sheriff Adam Frerichs reported in the Oct. 18 meeting of Cheyenne County Commissioners the Scottsbluff County Jail is increasing its rates. Cheyenne County sends inmates to neighboring facilities when Cheyenne County's jail is at capacity, or for specific situations such as problem inmates. Scottsbluff County is increasing its rate for Level 3, problem inmates to $100 per day. The commissioners approved giving Frerichs signature authority to...
In recent years, fall included the announcement of the Bell Pole and Lumber challenge grant in support of Table of Grace. In October 2020, Bell Pole and Lumber announced a challenge grant where the company would match up to $30,000, and in January of 2021 Table of Grace Director Sherri Eads announced donations surpassed the goal by nearly $10,000. This year, Bell Pole and Lumber is offering a $20,000 matching grant. Eads said much of the organization's operating expenses are financed by grants...
The Sidney Board of Education commended Sidney High School students Daniel Bashtovoi and Rishi Krisna as National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalists. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recently announced the names of about 16,000 semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for about 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $30 million that will be offered...
— Marva Elwanger leads the Leadership Cheyenne County class into the museum during a tour Oct. 21. Leadership Cheyenne County had its class in Sidney. The theme for the afternoon was history day. The class toured several parts of Sidney including the museum and Boot Hill. The focus of the tours was to showcase Sidney's history to the class....
Lincoln – According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women (after lung cancer.) October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, provides an ideal opportunity to promote healthy habits that can lessen the chances of developing the condition, and teach warning signs that may indicate breast cancer. While heredity can play a part in having breast cancer, about 85 percent of breast cancers occur in women who have no family history of breast cancer. About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop breast cancer d...
OMAHA – Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for mental health services in America is increasing at a time when the workforce in this field is aging and declining. The result is a growing psychiatrist shortage that is becoming a threat to public health. One Creighton University faculty member is addressing the shortage with the Collaborative Care Model—a collaborative, integrated approach or team-based model that brings together primary care providers (PCPs), therapists and mental health specialists to ensure patients achieve long-t...
Behind every agency reaching out to those in need are the costs of meeting those needs. The buildings that house the dry goods and refrigerated products are kept cool by the cost of utilities paid each month. From basic clothes to essential food for the family, Sidney is blessed to have agencies designed to help those in need. We as a community also need to remember to support these agencies, even more so in today’s challenges. Among the outreach programs in Sidney is the Table of Grace. The program has a thrift shop whose revenue supports t...
If you’ve not yet heard, there’s a major push to rid the world of internal combustion engines by the year 2030. You read that right, get as many vehicles powered by fossil fuels off the road as possible in about 8 years. That may seem unrealistic, but General Motors announced in January of this year that it will no long make cars powered by gasoline after 2035. Ford announced in February that 100 percent of its passenger vehicles offered in Europe will be all-electric by 2030, and Volvo ann...
On occasion I’ve watched parts of the Tour de France. It might have been moments of “what if,” but it was just as much curiosity. What does it take to not just race but speed through villages, varying terrain, mountain passes and a pack of cyclists who want the yellow jersey as much as you do. Equally as striking is the roads crowded by spectators. The European two-lane roads frequently looked reduced to a single lane and change because of the number of spectators, hard-core fans cheering on the...
After watching evening news commentators from both sides of the fence, I’ve concluded that few, if any of them really know what kind of national governmental system we have in this country. Far worse than that is the seeming lack of knowledge by our nation’s elected officials. Or, it might be a deliberate distortion of the truth by the liberal media and ignorance on the minimally conservative media. In truth I think the last sentence is most accurate. In order to give you a better und...
If you’re an investor, you probably enjoy the convenience of managing your accounts online. But you’ll also want to make sure that you’re not making it convenient for hackers, “phishers” and others with bad intentions to gain the same access. Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do to protect your privacy. Here are a few suggestions offered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: • Use a strong password or passphrase. You’ll want to pick a password that would be virtually impossible for anyone to guess, employing capital and lowercase l...
The founder of Methodism, John Wesley, once said, “I want to know one thing, the way to heaven – how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way: for this very end He came from heaven. He has written it down in a book. O give me that book! Let me be a man of one book. Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit down alone: only God is here. In His presence I open, and I read His Book, for this end – to find the way to heaven.” What he means is, learn to love reading your Bible! And don’t cop out b...
INDIANAPOLIS — This week, FFA members and supporters from across the country will celebrate agricultural education and agriculture during the 94th National FFA Convention & Expo, Oct. 27-29. Nine Sidney High School FFA members and officers, their sponsor and one chaperone will be flying to Indy today (Wednesday). Students attending are:Sidney Allard (Treasurer, Sophomore), Joslyn Bertrand (Member, Junior), Zoe Fornander (Member, Junior), Angel Helms (Vice President, Junior), Nolan Hofrock (Reporter, Junior), Kord McMillen (President, S...
As shoppers adjust their holiday gift-buying strategies due to supply chain issues, they might want to think about retooling their holiday meals, too. Just as consumers are feeling the supply chain headaches, so too are farmers, food processors and shelf stockers. Nearly everything from fertilizer for fields, feed ingredients for livestock to the harvesting of fresh produce has been impacted by shortages that have slowed the supply chain to a crawl. Erkut Sönmez, associate professor of supply chain management and analytics at the University...
LINCOLN – The Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) has filed a complaint requiring Banghart Properties LLC, a.k.a. Fearless Grain Marketing Storage & Arbitrage, a.k.a. Fearless Grain Marketing, a.k.a. Fearless Grain of Gettysburg, South Dakota, to cease and desist all operations as a Grain Dealer in Nebraska. On September 5, the PSC Grain Department sent the company a letter stating that a Grain Dealer license is required for the company to purchase grain from a Nebraska producer. The letter indicated all grain dealer activity by the c...
Sidney’s Lady Raider Cross Country Team won their first State Championship in school history, securing the Class C Title on Friday in Kearney. The girls finished with 64 points, edging out Lincoln Christian who earned runner-up honors with 67 points. The finish capped an outstanding year for the Lady Raiders’ team, coming on the heels of a C5 District Title win on October 14th. The State Meet was run with perfect weather, and the girls were calm and relaxed prior to start. Head Coach Donna Wie...
Potter-Dix's Coyote Football team finished out their regular season with an 80-to-16 rout over Creek Valley, earning their second straight D6-6 Title and undefeated regular season. The Coyotes' swarming defense held Creek Valley to -27 yards rushing while forcing four turnovers. The Creek Valley Storm, fresh from an inspirational win over South Platte last week, simply did not have the manpower to keep up with Potter-Dix, as they only dressed nine players for the game. The Coyotes again scored...
Sidney’s Red Raider Football team lost their final game of the season, as a late rally by the visiting Mitchell Tigers could not be stopped, and Sidney fell by three points to end their season. Using a four man front on defense, the Red Raiders were able to contain Mitchell’s first drive of the game and force a punt. The Raiders were forced to start three freshmen and multiple sophomores due to injury, but were able to get a rhythm established on offense early, and took their first pos...
It's been a wild year for the Lady Storm Volleyball team, starting the season with five straight losses, going through a few winning streaks, then another five match losing streak in October. But they start off the D2-11 Subdistrict Tournament on Monday against a familiar opponent that they had just beaten in the MAC Tournament last week. Creek Valley is seeded number 4 and matches up against the number 5 seeded Potter-Dix Lady Coyotes in the first round of the Subdistrict Tournament on Monday,...
Leyton's Lady Warrior Volleyball team goes into the D2-11 Subdistrict Tournament on Monday October 25 as winners of three of their last five matches, and the number three seed. Over the Past week, they've knocked off Potter-Dix, Bayard and Minatare, while losing to South Platted and Sedgwick County. However, they go into the first round matched up against number two seed South Platte, with a 22-and-7 record, and two wins against the Lady Warriors this season. But it does not look like an...
Leyton juniors Gabriel Tretter and Axi Benish qualified for the NSAA Class D State Cross Country Meet, and competed on Friday in Kearney. Tretter finished in 28th place with a time of 18:13.6 and Benish finished 105th with a time of 25:40.9. Both are impressive finishes for runners who qualified individually and not with a team, and both athletes look to be back next year and improve upon the work and success they had this year....
The Lady Raider Volleyball team had an active week, starting with a road match against Gering on Tuesday October 19, and ending in tournament action over the weekend. Against Gering, the Lady Raiders opened strong and took the first set 25-to-16. The Lady Bulldogs upped their play in the second set, forcing extra points and putting pressure on the Lady Raiders before Sidney was able to finish off the the set 28-to-26. Sidney then took the final set 25-to-18 for the 3-to-0 match victory....
On Saturday the Lady Coyotes traveled to Minatare for the MAC Tournament Saturday morning, and were knocked out in the first round after Leyton staged a comeback to steal a win from the Potter-Dix squad. The Lady Coyotes started out strong and found a good rhythm early, scoring and placing the ball in all corners and building a lead. Leyton fought back to narrow the contest, but the Lady coyotes were able to pull away and earned the first set victory, 25-to-21. Potter-Dix again started the secon...
Leyton's Warrior Football team had little trouble defeating the visiting Hyannis Bulldogs in Dalton Thursday night, and advanced to the second round of the D2 playoffs with a 47-to-12 win. Leyton broke a five game losing streak in the playoffs with the playoff win, the first hosted in Dalton since 2013. It was an all-around great performance by the Warriors, with the offense scoring early to break out to a 13-to-0 lead in the first quarter while the defense stifled the Bulldogs' running attack a...
During the month of October, Americans from across the country come together to raise awareness about a disease that will affect one in eight U.S. women at some point in their lives: breast cancer. This year alone, nearly 300,000 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. It’s the most common form of cancer among American women, with a new diagnosis turning a family’s life upside down once every two minutes. Because it touches the lives of so many women, chances are you know som...
