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Sidney wrestling coach John Ganser will take some company with him this weekend to the state finals in Omaha, but he came really close to needing a bigger vehicle. Advancing three qualifiers from their own Class B-4 District held at Cabela’s Athletic Facility, the Raiders darned-near had all but one of their entries reach the final round. Senior Tanner Wintholz (195 pounds) and sophomore Michael Muggli (132) repeated as state qualifiers for the Red Raiders, and senior 220-pounder Scott Kelsey a...
MITCHELL – Draining eight 3-pointers, the Sidney High School girls basketball team improved to 15-6 with a 69-44 victory Saturday afternoon at Mitchell. Sarah Mahr dropped three treys and scored a team-high 14 points for the Lady Raiders, who grabbed a 19-7 lead after a quarter, and never let up. SHS pushed the advantage to 31-15 at halftime and 51-29 heading into the final period. Karissa Segelke added 13 points, Morgan Linneman nine and Katelin Cole eight for Sidney. Mahr hit three 3...
MITCHELL – Sidney High School’s boys basketball team gave up a few big shots early Saturday afternoon at Mitchell, but as the game progressed, the Raiders hit several themselves. Nailing nine 3-point shots and improving defensively over the final three periods, Erik Kohl’s Raiders improved to 14-7 with an easy 74-42 win. “Mitchell hit us in the mouth early,” Kohl said. “They hit some big shots in the first quarter, but as the game went along we got better. We set a goal of multiple quarters of a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to focus on nation-building at home, President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to call for more spending on infrastructure and manufacturing, while also announcing the withdrawal of 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan within a year. The highly-anticipated announcement on the next phase of the troop withdrawal will cut the size of the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan in half by next February. The drawdown puts the U.S. on pace to formally finish the protracted war by the end of 2014. A senior admi...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The original Emancipation Proclamation, a document that changed the lives of countless African-Americans during the Civil War, is on display in Nashville as the fragile historical document makes its only stop in the Southeast on a 150th anniversary tour. The exhibit opened Tuesday — fittingly on the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday — at the Tennessee State Museum and runs through Monday. It’s a rare visit outside the nation’s capital for the original document Lincoln signed in 1863 declaring “forever f...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Some snow-weary Northeasterners struggled to get back to their weekly routines Tuesday as roads remained slick from the weekend storm and many schools were closed again, and some communities were asking for volunteers to help shovel out the elderly and disabled. Many local roads in Connecticut remained partially blocked by snow, especially in the cities. Snow piles have reduced driving lanes, made parking spaces scarce and decreased drivers’ sight lines. Schools in Con...
Bridgeport – A team from Sidney High School will represent the Panhandle for the Nebraska Envirothon Contest at Chalco Hills in Omaha on May 4, 2013. The first place team comprised of, Nick Banaszak, Jessica Campbell, Brandon Christofferson, Jenny Myers and Jaide Wachtel earned the state berth on Tuesday, February 5, 2013. Fifty three students competed in the split regional contest. Schools represented included Sidney, Bayard, Gordon-Rushville, Minatare, Garden County and Banner County at two lo...
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut has caused grief and reflection across the nation. I join all Nebraskans and Americans in mourning the victims and in prayer for their families and friends. Such an act of horror naturally invites debate over what can and should be done to protect children and prevent senseless acts of violence in the future. President Obama and others were quick to insist on new gun restrictions. We all share the goal of reduced violence, but I believe further gun control measures would not...
America has endured times of great challenge and great triumph. At a time when doubt is growing about the prospects of a bright future for America, we must remember that the road to prosperity has never been an easy one. And our success has always been because we, as a people, are greater than the challenges we face. Without a doubt, years of economic recession have taken a significant toll on our country. During this period, unemployment climbed to 10 percent, remaining alarmingly high in January, at 7.9 percent. The financial markets have...
LINCOLN (AP) — The Nebraska attorney general says the majority of complaints his office received in 2012 dealt with mortgages, banking-related issues and scams. Attorney General Jon Bruning announced Monday the top five complaints his consumer protection division received in 2012. The office works to mediate complaints between Nebraskans and businesses. The division logged more than 3,500 complaints and recovered more than $1.1 million for Nebraskans. Mortgage complaints topped the list. Also landing on the top five consumer complaints list w...
HASTINGS (AP) — Children at Hastings Public Schools have the option to eat breakfast every day of the school week at school. The problem, according to district director of finance Jeff Schneider, is the logistics if every student chose to take advantage of the program. “We’d have to start serving breakfast at 6:30 in the morning to get everyone served,” he told the Hastings Tribune. Both Hastings and Adams Central public schools offer a breakfast program to all students, both those who pay ful...
Charges were amended Tuesday morning in two of three pending murder cases before Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer. Jason W. Custer will now face first-degree murder in connection with the November shooting death of Adam E. McCormick of Sidney, while Craig A. Johnson now has a habitual criminality enhancement attached to his second-degree murder charge in the December 2011 beating death of April Smith. In addition, the county’s third accused murderer, Larry G. Martinez was also in court to be arraigned on an amended charge of f...
‘Sparkles’ struts her stuff at the 137th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. The three year old French Briard, owned by Merry Jeanne and Tommy Millner of Sidney, won best of breed over the weekend....
In the Sidney Regional Medical Center/Cheyenne County Community Center’s Get Fit Stay Fit Challenge a total of 246 pounds have been lost in the first month of the challenge, according to Ashley Houtwed, Sidney RMC director of nutrition services. Those pounds lost only account for the weight loss of 36 participants that attended the first weigh-in at the center this Feb. 6 and there are 102 total participants competing in the challenge. “The middle weigh-ins are not required but a way to see how they have progressed,” Kiersten Richards, the C...
A newer restaurant made its way into town giving residents their choice in Mexican food and service with a smile. Luna’s Mexican Restaurant, owned by Ramy Bello and Ruben Cornejo, opened almost nine months ago and offers a customer affordable authentic Mexican food; the business name coming from their 3-year-old daughter. The couple came to Sidney from Denver, but grew up in Mexico, and was in search of a nice quite place to raise their family of six. “We were looking for a small town not too...
Sidney City Council member Aaron Barnes has regretfully informed the council that he will be stepping down from his position as council member this month, with his last meeting being Jan. 20. In a letter Barnes wrote to City of Sidney Mayor Wendall Gaston he said that he must resign because of employment changes and his family’s relocation out of Sidney. Barnes said that he was honored to hold his position and that he will miss the town and the people of Sidney. “I am very honored to have bee...
Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors joined Doug and Tammy Hays at the ribbon cutting ceremony for their business, Bushido Mixed Martial Arts, as the business united with the chamber yesterday at 11 a.m. The ribbon cutting took place at the Youth Center (located on 14th and King St.). Bushido Mixed Martial Arts has officially been open for business since Feb. 4. The Hays have been working in different areas of martial arts for years. Tammy said she started out learning Tai Chi, which...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday voted to approve President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary at a time of turmoil for the military with looming budget cuts, a fresh sign of North Korea's nuclear ambitions and drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 to send the nomination to the full Senate, with all the panel's Democrats backing the president's choice to succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The committee's Republicans were u...
