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Despite not playing particularly well, the Sidney Raiders Golf Team looks like a group that can put a bad day behind it quickly. After the round they sat around the table making light of some of their bad holes. Had they been able to avoid bad holes, the story may have been different. The Sidney team finished 5th (365) of the seven teams competing at the Monument Shadows Golf Club in Gering. Cheyenne Central (321) won the meet with the Lions second (336) and Cheyenne East was third with 347. Senior Taylor Barton, despite scoring a nine and a...
As Friday’s Cheyenne County Invite wound down, the woman responsible for placing medals into team envelopes muttered a complaint. The Leyton girls folder was stuffed so full, it seems, their gold from the 4x400 relay would not fit. The Warriors girls squad came away from Friday’s meet loaded with seven firsts and 16 podiums, aided by a one-two-three sweep in the 400 meter dash. “That was our plan,” said Kristine Barnett with a laugh, before admitting the finish was unique in their experie...
As a little girl, I loved fairy-tales. I always loved stories that had happy endings. However, real life is not a “happily every after” fairy-tale existence. Christians will live happily ever after when we are taken to our heavenly home, but in the meantime we face various struggles. We see and hear of these struggles every day... in the world, in our nation and here at home. It seems our prayer lists grow longer and longer. It is easy to become discouraged after a steady diet of bad news in the media, along with our own struggles. I rea...
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 ‘Secretary Of State Warms Sidney With His Smile’ May 3, 1913 Secretary Bryan passed through Sidney last Saturday evening on his way to California and as the train made a ten-minute’s pause, he came to the platform and spoke a short time. Several hundred people were on hand to cheer his appearance. He and his pleasant family were enthusiastically greeted and the Secre...
Students Making Awesome Choices (SMAC) is a program the is designed to educate the sixth grade students at West Elementary about topics and issues that the students will encounter as the journey toward becoming young adults. Some of the topics discussed include drug awareness, digital safety and decision making skills. Emails are sent to parents that outline topics that are covered during class. The teachers hope that parents can use the topics as a springboard for great family discussions. The...
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. Leland Johnston was a ranch kid working in the Nebraska Sandhills near Thedford. He had been doing that since he was about 12 years old. When he was 18 he tried to get into the Army Air Corps but was turned down by that branch of service. The draft board did not turn him...
Toward the end of each month you might catch a man walking around downtown Sidney at a height twice that of a normal person. Ty White’s height however is not due to giant genes or a major growth spurt during high school; instead he conducts projects around the city on his pair of stilts. White recently was recruited by members of the Cheyenne County Ladies Chamber to put up and change the festive street decorations drivers see on the light poles around the downtown area. His mother, Shirley W...
PHOENIX — Jurors were given final instructions Friday in the trial of Jodi Arias, who is charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. They got the case after hearing closing arguments from both sides, with Arias’ lawyer imploring them to take an impartial view of his client and prosecutors describing Arias as a manipulative liar who meticulously planned the attack. Defense lawyer Kirk Nurmi on Friday asked the jury to take an unbiased look at the case and his client — even if they don’t like her — as the mu...
It was the month of May in the year 1873 that the first published newspaper appeared in the frontier town of Sidney, Nebraska. The owner, editor, publisher, and pressman was one man, L. Connell, who distributed the four-column folio sheet under the banner of The Sidney Telegraph. The town of Sidney began as an end-of-track, Union Pacific railroad town in 1867 with all the drama and excitement that towns with those beginnings bring. Gamblers, whiskey peddlers, barrooms and brothels provided all the amenities that many hardworking railroad...
The State of Nebraska’s case against Joshua Rodriguez was decided by a jury trial this Tuesday, April 30 in Cheyenne County Court. The jury of six found Rodriguez not guilty of driving with a suspended license. Rodriquez had initially been charged with operating a motor vehicle during a period of suspension (a Class 3 misdemeanor,) possession of less than one once of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in his vehicle (both infractions.) But according to court documents, his defense counsel, Sidney attorney Donald Miller, moved to s...
