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MITCHELL — Leyton boys basketball coach Gary Oltmann wasn’t in the mood for horsing around Tuesday night in his team’s post-season opener. Coming out in a full-court press against Banner County, the top-seeded and once-beaten Warriors steamrolled the Wildcats with a 30-2 start, en route to a 65-34 romp in the Mitchell D2-12 semifinals. “We haven’t come right out and started with a press,” Oltmann said. “From the tip, we ran and jumped at them, playing them a man the entire court.” Junior Dylan Brenner and senior Sam Schumacher were big benefi...
What has gotten into the Potter-Dix boys basketball team during this week’s Sidney D1-12 Subdistrict tournament? According to Coyotes coach Chad Miller, the answer is as simple as the shot chart. “Lately, we’ve been getting good shots, but they haven’t been dropping,” Miller said Tuesday night after his fourth-seeded club pulled a mild 62-47 semifinal upset of No. 1 seed Minatare inside Cabela’s Athletic Facility. “We’ve been shooting like 33 percent. Tonight we took care of the basketball, and... Full story
CHICAGO (AP) — Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3-D glasses can do all that and more. In the system, known as CAVE2, an 8-foot-high screen encircles the viewer 320 degrees. A panorama of images springs from 72 stereoscopic liquid crystal display panels, conveying a dizzying sense of being able to t...
A chronic sinus infection is a daily energy drain. They can be very serious, as they can spread to your eyes, and your brain becoming life threatening. They can permeate through a bad tooth and cause you to lose the tooth. Getting rid of an infection is imperative! Your sinuses are thin, air-filled chambers in the cartilage around your nose, sides of your forehead, your eye sockets, and in your cheekbones. If your sinus openings are blocked, infected pus collects in these pockets then pain and swelling occur. Sinusitis is swelling of the...
We all come from somewhere, whether it is a small town, a major city or another country. Where you come from can determine your values and what’s important to you, but it doesn’t define you. Some people may think that if you come from a small town out in the country that you are a “hick” and not as educated as those that come from a metropolitan area. Just as those from the country may see city kids as “stuck-ups.” I remember this one time my high school soccer team was playing Montesano, a town about 45 minutes from Rochester. It had been a ni... Full story
Editor, The administration and their subservient mainstream media continue to publicize that Warren Buffett’s salary is less than his secretary’s. What a hoax. Warren Buffet sets both salaries and if he were to pay himself a salary commensurate with that of CEOs of other large companies, none of which are anywhere near as large as Berkshire-Hathaway, his would be in the multimillion dollar range. He doesn’t need the salary since most of his earnings are from dividends and interest which is a huge amount. An interesting twist to this scena... Full story
Seized by some peculiar muse (clearly one with a sense of humor), I have undertaken to learn the cello in middle age. To the amazement of my teacher, my family and myself, I’ve made incredibly rapid progress. Displaying a fluidity and musicianship that cannot be taught, I burned through the early books and went straight to repertoire that is usually the province of advanced players. Well, no actually, except for the part about trying to learn the cello. It’s been 18 months now, and I’m plugging away, attempting to force my hands, arms, body,...
Bernice Primm 1922 to 2013 Bernice Primm, 90, of Sidney, and formerly of Sioux City, Iowa, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in Sidney. Services took place Saturday, Feb. 16, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Sioux City, with Rev. Gregory Hanneman officiating. Burial was in Graceland Park Cemetery. Bernice was born April 3, 1922, in Sioux City; she was the daughter of John and Anina (Christensen) Hansen. Bernice graduated from East High School. She married James Primm July 7, 1944, in Sioux...
OMAHA – Several Nebraska cities and schools are taking actions well ahead of the expected arrival of a powerful snowstorm that could dump up to a foot of snow in some parts of the state. The storm is expected to hit the southwest and south-central parts of the state on Wednesday evening, with the heaviest snowfall on Thursday as the storm moves east-northeast. The city of Grand Island declared a snow emergency beginning at noon Wednesday, forbidding parking along emergency snow routes. In K...
Further discussion took place at the City of Sidney Planning Commission meeting Tuesday night regarding an ordinance on accessory buildings built within Sidney. City of Sidney Interim Chief Building Official Zoning Administrator Ben Dayton and City of Sidney Attorney J. Leef presented the commissioners with a redrafted version of the requirements. It is proposed that homeowners are allowed to build an accessory building beside their house and it is not restricted to only being built behind the residence. However an accessory building is still n...
The district courtroom in the Cheyenne County Courthouse filled with members of the public Tuesday afternoon during a Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners meeting as discussion continued regarding an application for a conditional use permit from Pine Bluffs Gravel and Excavating Inc. for the proposed use of a gravel mine to operate a ready-mix concrete batch plant. The county planning and zoning commission had previously reviewed the application at a hearing Jan. 28 and had unanimously voted t... Full story