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The hallways have the inviting appearance of newness while work rooms are overwhelmed with supplies to be put in their place, and the scent of industrial adhesives are still lingering in the air. Meanwhile, the former building is becoming increasingly vacant as the Educational Services Unit (ESU) 13 staff make their move to the new location. Offices are gradually filling with staff, followed by the computers and reference books for them to do their job working with regional schools and...
Christmas and New Year’s Day are welcome opportunities to slow down, connect with loved ones, and look forward to 2021. As we approach the year’s end, I am thankful for the many sacrifices Nebraskans have made in 2020. Despite many difficulties, our state’s residents have displayed inspiring strength and compassion during the pandemic. Healthcare workers have done heroic work this year to keep people healthy. Families have adjusted their routines to protect elderly or at-risk loved ones in th...
Each year the Sidney Public School District is assessed by the State. The District continues to earn a grade of “Great.” “This is the one we do every year,” said Superintendent Jay Ehler. “We will remain in the ‘Great’ category this year as well.” Schools are graded on a four-level scale: Needs Improvement, Good, Great and Excellent. The report card defines the number of students in the District, Facilities, staffing, and student achievements. Sidney students performed better than the averag...
West Elementary Principal Gene Russell is known for his love of students and excitement that sometimes makes relating to children that much easier. He is also known among staff for his focus on details and caring for teachers. On Dec. 14, the announcement was made official. Russell was offered and accepted the position of superintendent of the Ogallala schools. “I am going to miss everything about Sidney: the board, the world class education, the staff and the community,” he said in his res...
— Yards throughout Sidney and Cheyenne County are lit with a variety of holiday themes. There are snowmen, Santas and their elves and reindeer, grinches and displays of "Whoville," and varieties of the nativity scene. We invite residents to tour the area and enjoy the scenery from your cars, and enjoy the season of giving....
Two Sidney residents were recently arrested on drug-related charges following the execution of a search warrant recently. Sidney Police announced Dec. 16 that a search warrant was served at 1229 Jackson St. with the assistance of Cheyenne County Sheriff's Officers, the Western Intelligence Narcotic Group (WING), and the Nebraska State Patrol on Dec. 14. Thomas G. Clark, 34, and Brittany Swanson, 27, were arrested on charges of Possession With Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance, Possession...
Glenis Dee Behrends, age 95, of Lodgepole, NE passed away Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at the SRMC Extended Care Center in Sidney, NE. A private family service is planned with burial in the Pleasant View Cemetery north of Lodgepole. Friends were invited to stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Thursday, December 17, 2020 from 1-6:00 P.M. with family present from 4-6:00 P.M. to sign Glenis’s register book and leave condolences for the family. Memorial contributions may be sent in Glenis’s name dir...
Beloved wife, mother grandmother, sister and friend Emma Barbara (Haupt) Mathewson passed away quietly on December 11th, 2020 at Devonshire Acres Nursing Home in Sterling, Colorado. One of eight children, Emma was born April 19th, 1932 in La Junta, Colorado to Henry Peter Haupt and Katherine Marie (Eirich) Haupt. Emma grew up on her family farm near Sidney, NE and graduated from Sidney High School in 1950 having attended Lutheran schools through eighth grade. Emma married Max Mathewson on June...
Bobbi Jo Johnson, age 48, of Sidney went to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, December 12, 2020 at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, CO. Funeral services were held at 10 A.M. on Saturday, December 19, 2020 at the Evangelical Free Church in Sidney, NE with Pastor Doug Birky officiating. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery at Sidney You may view Bobbi’s Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and stories at www.gehrigstittchapel.com. Services will be recorded and available...
Ada (Nelson) Johnson of Sidney, NE passed away at the age of 109. Due to COVID-19, a service will be planned in the spring so that more family and friends may attend. Updated details will be posted by early March. A graveside burial was held on December 21, 2020 at 2:00 P.M. in Greenwood Cemetery in Sidney. Please take the time to share favorite memories, stories or photos of Ada. They can be posted on her memory wall at www.gehrigstittchapel.com/memorials/ada-johnson/4455830/obituary.php or...
Ronald E. Hadeen, age 83, passed away in Sidney on Tuesday, December 15, 2020. Cremation has taken place and no formal services will be held at this time. You may view Ronald’s Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and stories at www.gehrigstittchapel.com Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service, LLC is in charge of Ronald’s care and funeral arrangements. Ronald Eugene Hadeen son of Herman J. Hadeen and Hazel (Dickinson) Hadeen was born August 16, 1937 in Haxtun, CO. He moved to Lodgepole,...
Joel L. Cure, age 62, passed away peacefully on December 11, 2020 with his wife and step-daughter by his side. Cremation has taken place and no formal services will be held at this time. You may view Joel’s Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and stories at www.gehrigstittchapel.com. Services will be recorded and available on our website for viewing. Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service, LLC is in charge of Joel’s care and funeral arrangements. Joel Lee Cure was born on December 15,...
As the world gets more complex, many question the relevance of Jesus Christ to our world. After all, he was born more than 2,000 years ago, they point out. His world and life experiences were nothing like ours. Really? Jesus was born into a world of conflicting ideologies. For 300 years, the Holy Land had been dominated by Greek culture, one that emphasized philosophy, education and the arts. In 140 B.C. the Jews rebelled against the Greeks in the famous Maccabean Revolt, which established the...
There was a time we would already be hiding presents, guarding the tree from the family pet and double-checking our list of guests and what they will be bringing to the feast of all feasts. We would be worried about having enough ham for the number of guests, and if Uncle Tony will make a fool of himself again There was a time movies like “Jingle All the Way” were more of a docudrama than a funny story of misplaced values. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when employees hurried home C...
The Kolyma Highway begins at the port of Magadan on Russia’s Pacific Ocean, heads north some distance, but then veers to the west, and ends at Yakutsk, a city of 311,000 people, deep in a Siberian wilderness called the taiga. Travelers see only spruce and fir trees in every direction. All together, this highway of gravel, mud, ice, and pavement that cuts through the endless forest extends across 2012 kilometers, or 1260 miles, of the Russian landscape. Early in the twentieth-century, the S...
Have your retirement plans changed because of COVID-19? If so, you have plenty of company. Nearly 40 percent of those planning to retire say the pandemic has disrupted their intentions, according to the Edward Jones/Age Wave Four Pillars of the New Retirement study. You might have been thinking about retiring early – can you still do so? Even without a crisis, it’s not a bad idea to review your important life goals from time to time. So, in thinking about the possibility of early retirement, consider these factors: Your retirement lif...
The beauty of Christmas is a beauty celebrated like no other time throughout the calendar year. Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Christmas gifts, Christmas gatherings all speak of joy and peace. Christmas is in the air. It is good we together come to know this unique and this profound mark Christmas offers us, for it is the birth of the Savior in which we truly find our joy and our peace. This Christmas is, of course, a little different to say the least. The global health crisis with which we are confronted and its accompanying economic...
Results of the 2020 variety trials for dry edible beans and field peas conducted by the University of Nebraska Panhandle Research and Extension Center have been posted on the Nebraska Extension CropWatch website. The direct link for variety trial results for both crops (as well as other crops such as millet, sunflowers and oats) is http://cropwatch.unl.edu/varietytest/othercrops. Or, navigate to the Other Crops Variety Trials page from the main Cropwatch page (http://cropwatch.unl.edu ) by...
The Monthly Performance Award acknowledges other criteria as well as achievement. These criteria are: 1. Superior academic performance, (or), dramatic improvement of classroom work, G.P.A. or attitude toward learning. 2. Exceptional work effort toward a particular class project. 3. Outstanding contribution to the class. 4. Leadership exhibited in the class/school. 5. Citizenship emphasized and modeled. 6. Service to school. 7th grade: Kennedy Hobson. We find Kennedy to be a very positive student who always strives to do her best. The...
The Red Raider Wrestling team had another strong showing this weekend, taking third place overall in the 12-team Sidney/Bridgeport Invite at Sidney High School Saturday. The team earned 122.5 points overall, third behind first-place Gering with 235.5 points and second place Ogallala with 161.0. Co-host Bridgeport had a good showing, earning fifth place with 93.0 points overall. Sidney Head Coach Beau McConnell said his team had a good week of preparation going into the tournament, and looked...
Sidney’s Red Raider Basketball teams traveled on Saturday to Alliance to take on the Bulldogs for the second time this season, and the girls cruised to a 67-to-24 victory while the boys struggled again against the Bulldog defense, losing by a final of 61-to-47. After an easy 54-to-2 win by the Lady Raiders in the Western Conference Tournament earlier, Sidney Head Coach Tyler Shaw substituted early and often, getting valuable minutes to the bench players as the starters and substitutes c...
Nebraska’s Cornhusker Football team closed their regular season with a second half surge to outlast the Rutgers Scarlet Knights 28-21 at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, N.J. Friday night. The game was played in chilly conditions, with a 23 degree temperature at kickoff in a stadium filled with snow from a recent winter storm in New Jersey. A banged-up Huskers squad squared off against an even more banged-up Scarlet Knights team coming off an overtime win against Maryland last week. Nebraska t...
Potter-Dix’s Lady Coyote Basketball team dropped a contest to the visiting Leyton Lady Warriors Friday night in a rescheduled and shortened evening due to the boy’s game being cancelled due to COVID concerns. The Lady Coyotes have been playing better under new Head Coach Shannon Wintholz and faced a limited Leyton team very short on players. But the players Leyton did bring were very experienced, and the Lady Warriors were able to respond to a strong second quarter by the Potter-Dix squad wit...
America is fortunate to have an excellent higher education system, and is home to many of the world’s greatest and most prestigious universities. During any given year, nearly 20 million Americans are enrolled in public and private colleges studying topics ranging from engineering to business to science. Nebraska in particular is proudly home to many world-class universities educating thousands of our young people. It is no wonder that Nebraska consistently ranks among the best states for h...
I absolutely love making homemade Christmas gifts. I enjoy praying over the person who will receive the gift. This year I jumped on the crazy train and decided I was going to give my family a present from the past. Genealogical study has always ranked high on my list of fairly nostalgic (albeit kind of nerdy) endeavors, but it has always fascinated me to see where I came from and the rich history of men and women coming together to produce my ancestors. I bought one of these huge fan charts...
