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It seems like it was just yesterday that I first stepped into these offices and began my beat on the news side. Today, I find myself at the sports desk, while still keeping an eye on certain items on the news beat. Whereas I parachuted into this slot at the end of our fall sports coverage, winter sports season — always a busy time — has arrived. And after a few weeks at it here, I have determined with certainty that basketball is a much different beat than I have previously experienced. Bac...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Though nobody would discount an eight-game winning streak in the NFL, there’s a not-so-little secret about the one Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos are currently enjoying. Quite simply, they haven’t played anyone all that good since the streak started back in October. Nobody the Broncos have beaten over their longest winning streak since the 1998 Super Bowl season would be in the playoffs if they started today. Only one – Cincinnati at 7-6 – currently has a winning record. All of which adds yet another layer of...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – One day after his suspension in the NFL’s bounty probe was overturned, Jonathan Vilma moved forward with his defamation claims against Commissioner Roger Goodell, while Drew Brees and other teammates went on the offensive against Goodell and the league office. “What I would like to see is a level of accountability on the part of the NFL and Commissioner Goodell in regards to mishandling of this entire situation,” Brees said after practice Wednesday. “We as players hold ourselves and are held to a very strict code of conduc...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Cheaper gas drove down a measure of wholesale prices in November for the second straight month, a sign inflation remains mild. The producer price index fell 0.8 percent last month, the steepest drop since May, the Labor Department said Thursday. That follows a 0.2 percent decline in October. The index measures the cost of goods before they reach the consumer. Gas prices fell last month by the most in more than three years. Food prices, however, rose by the most in nearly two years, pushed higher by costlier beef and v...
LONDON (AP) – Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far at life expectancy and the biggest health threats. The last comprehensive study was in 1990 and the top health problem then was the death of children under 5 – more than 10 million each year. Since then, campaigns to vaccinate kids against diseases like polio and measles have reduced the number of chi...
NEW YORK (AP) – To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it’s a monster. We’re talking about the conifer, the umbrella term for cone-bearing trees like the spruce, fir, pine, cypress and cedar. Apart from their Yuletide popularity, they play big roles in the lumber industry and in healthy forest ecosystems. Scientists would love to identify the billions of building blocks that make up the DNA of a conifer. That...
The Dalton-Gurley Crewsaders were presented with a check today from the Cheyenne County Ladies Chamber, Dress Down Day, in the amount of $925.38 to be used towards the purchase of a 2-seated fire truck rocker. The DG Crewsaders are in the process of raising money to replace the playground equipment, which was very old - the wooden jungle gym was rotting – with new equipment for the areas children to enjoy. The DG Crewsaders, once an affiliation of the Dalton Jaycees, were formed 5 years ago i...
Here’s a disturbing statistic: One out of every five Americans over the age of 65 has been victimized by a financial scheme, according to the Investor Protection Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to investor education. If your parents are in this age group, should you be concerned? And can you help them avoid being “scammed” so that they maintain control over their finances? The answer to the first question is “yes” – you should be concerned. Of course, as the numbers above show, most aging Americans are not being swindled, which sugge...
Traditions. In life there are things which generate traditions. Sometimes it is birthday tradition or maybe even each holiday will have family traditional holidays. I can say when I was younger even my microscopic family had holiday traditions. The two largest at our house were Thanksgiving and Easter. Christmas, when I was a child, was not a big deal as I had to go off to another town each holiday. When my wife Marilyn and I married Christmas became an important element of our lives. From that very first Christmas when Carol had just come...
The South Platte Natural Resources District received a clean bill of health in its financial practices, according to the annual audit results presented to the board of directors at the District’s December board meeting. Presenting the report, Rachel Smith from Rauner and Associates, told the directors the District’s audit resulted in a Qualified, or clean, opinion showing no significant problems. The audit, examining the 2012 fiscal year ending in June, showed the District holds $3,080,875 in combined net assets, including $387,024 total lia...
John Francis Shelley John Francis Shelley, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., passed away on Dec. 5, 2012. Services will be graveside at Riverside National Cemetery on Jan. 11, 2012, at 2:30 p.m. John was retired from the U.S. Navy. His spouse is Cora Wells Shelley; daughters are Barbara Gerry, Margaret Warren and Brenda Scroggs; and sons are Donald Osborne, James Shelley and Chris Wells....
The Great Books for Great Kids campaign, Runza has hosted for 10 years, gave the Sidney Public Library a wonderful gift of $404.27 to purchase new children’s books. Jeff Heller, manager of the Sidney Runza, presented the check to Library Director Doris Jensen in Nov., just in time for the reading programs offered during Dec. Later this month, Dec. 19, the ladies at the Sidney Public Library will be hosting an open house, a great time to see the new books purchased. Pictured from left are F...
Two Sidney men separately charged with felony criminal sexual assaults on a child were sentenced this week in Cheyenne County District Court. Nathan J. Brauer, 29, was sentenced by Judge Derek Weimer to serve a term of 24 to 36 months in the Nebraska Department of Corrections after being found guilty on a Class IIIA charge of third-degree sexual assault on a child. Court documents show that Brauer — between May 16 and June 16, 2011 – made advances and touched a child, who at that time was four years old. Investigators interviewed the chi... Full story
First in a series On the minds of many and in the spotlight of many media debates is the method of mining for oil and natural gas called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” With this method of mining many people are concerned with the possibility of contamination of drinking water and local wells, sink holes and onset of seismic activity. Stan Belieu, Deputy Director of Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Sidney Office, broke this information on mining down. “Hydrolic fracturing is the process of allowing oil, gas or water in rock, to make...
The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, RMBO, brought community members together on Tuesday not only to explain their current bird conservation efforts, but to also expose the public education opportunities that they provide. RMBO and the Nebraska Environmental Trust held the Kimball County Conservation Informative Workshop at Kimball Event Center this Dec. 11 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. In attendance at the workshop were resource professionals, landowners and representatives from the Game and Parks...
Boxes began to show up throughout Sidney stores at the beginning of November to collect toys for the annual Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots toy drive. You can find donation drop-off boxes at Larry’s Clothing Co., Cosmic Quarter Arcade, Sonny’s Super Foods, Walmart, Points West Community Bank and the Cheyenne County Community Center, Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Cheyenne County coordinator Amanda White said. Though the Toys for Tots drive has been present in Cheyenne County for yea...
LINCOLN – Take-back programs for electronics in Nebraska could save taxpayers almost $2 million and create over 700 new private-sector jobs, according to new projections by The Nebraska Product Stewardship Coalition, an alliance of state and national organizations committed to shifting Nebraska’s waste management system from one focused on government funded waste diversion to one that relies on producer responsibility. Electronic waste is the fastest growing component of Nebraska’s waste stream, contributing 7,550 tons to landfills each year,...
