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In the early going of Thursday night’s Cabela’s Holiday Shootout matchup with host Sidney, Gothenburg’s boys basketball team succeeded in playing to its strengths, building a 17-9 lead behind the inside play of 6-foot-8 sophomore Tanner Borchardt. That’s when the host Red Raiders began doing what they do well — knocking down 3-point shots and using their defense to jump-start the transition game. SHS quickly erased the deficit and gradually pulled away to a 58-49 victory. Erik Kohl’s cl...
Karissa Segelke and Kylee Price provided the offensive lift, and the Sidney High School Lady Raiders’ defense held up just enough to frustrate Brittyn Munster in the final seconds in holding on for a 46-43 win Thursday evening against Gothenburg in the opening round of the Cabela’s Holiday Shootout. Segelke and Price combined for 20 of SHS’s 27 second-half points, and Tyler Shaw’s club improved to 6-1 by using a 6-0 run midway through the fourth quarter to reverse a 36-34 Swedes lead. Segelke... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) – The student’s attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive. People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn’t hear. He experienced “a tunnel vision of concentration.” While two teachers and three students were injured when the glass shattered in the 2001 attack on Granite Hills High School, Agundez confronted the assailant and wounded him before he could get inside the school and use his secon...
When historians look back at 2012, they likely will see it as a year of monumental change for Chadron State College. The year included a long list of significant highlights. The institution broke ground on two large construction projects, transitioned to a new president, set an enrollment milestone, and implemented a new general studies program. CSC’s offerings also received high marks from a variety of national news and information services. In early September, the college staged a c...
In December 2001, my father sent his first-ever Christmas card to me. He even signed it, “Love, Dad.” Unprecedented. Throw some tinsel on my head and watch me sparkle like a snow globe; that’s how happy I was. Dad came from the “show, don’t tell” school of parenting. He supported his family and shoveled the snow from the walkway before any of us were out of bed. His love was to be understood. His postscript on that 2001 card made clear that despite the arrival of his one-time-only Christmas greeting, nothing had changed. “I got a card from the...
The tree is down, no more stress of fitting time in to shop,the presents were a hit, the sweet tooth is under control and we are all alive and healthy waiting on a new year to begin. With the approaching New Year on the horizon and Christmas now done and over, this time of the year always brings out different aspects in people. For me it is a time of gathering, sorting, understanding, reflecting and renewing, a practice that is me for more years than I care to tell. It is a time for me to gather thoughts and ideas, lessons and failures, goals a...
Editor, Our downtown business community continues to see growth and expansion. We are so fortunate to have very few vacant store fronts within our downtown area. Congratulations to all who are involved in making this happen. I ask that we all make a New Year’s resolution to not park in front of our store fronts or other business store fronts. We need to keep these parking spots available for the customers shopping within our downtown. It takes all of us here to make this happen. What does it say to the customers when we use the store front p...
Norman Schwarzkopf WASHINGTON (AP) – Truth is, retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf didn’t care much for his popular “Stormin’ Norman” nickname. The seemingly no-nonsense Desert Storm commander’s reputed temper with aides and subordinates supposedly earned him that rough-and-ready moniker. But others around the general, who died Thursday in Tampa, Fla., at age 78 of complications from pneumonia, knew him as a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure who preferred the somewhat milder sobriquet gi...
Warren James Ellison 1923 to 2012 Warren James Ellison passed away peacefully on Dec. 7, 2012, in Chandler, Ariz. Memorial services have taken place at Village Oaks/Ameritas in Chandler on Dec. 15, 2012. Warren’s final resting place will be in Nebraska. Memorials have been established in Warren’s name to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) or Hospice of the Valley. Memorials can be sent to Jim and Gail Ellison, 1645 Yucca Drive, Gering, NE 69341. Warren was bor...
WASHINGTON – Amid partisan bluster, top members of Congress and President Barack Obama were holding out slim hopes for a limited fiscal deal before the new year. But even as congressional leaders prepared to convene at the White House, there were no signs that legislation palatable to both sides was taking shape. The Friday afternoon meeting among congressional leaders and the president – their first since Nov. 16 – stood as a make-or-break moment for negotiations to avoid across-the-board first of the year tax increases and deep spend...
January Council To Test The Waters For New Pool SIDNEY – When approached about the condition of the city’s public pool a few months back, Mayor Wendall Gaston realized things weren’t going swimmingly. “It’s been remarkable that the pool has been able to stay open,” Gaston said, “but it’s getting old enough where the repairs are becoming a problem. And one of these years, we’re going to be told, ‘You know, we just can’t put it back together again.’” Saddled with that prospect, Gaston was asked to spearhead a pool committee. That organizat...
Just because we have passed the ‘season of giving’ it does not mean that is what has to happen – we stop giving. Something the ‘Fun Committee’ from 21st Century Equipment hasn’t forgotten; the employees are holding a food drive until the end of Feb. “This is the first year we are doing something like this,” service coordinator Kristin Simmons said. “It was kind of a collective idea. We had done a store survey and there were a couple suggestions of trying to do more community service. Our comm...
According to new statistics released by U.S. Census Bureau News and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, new single-family house sales increased 4.4 percent nationally in the month of November. “Housing indicators for the third quarter of 2012 continue to portray a fragile, but steady, recovery in the housing market,” members of the department said. The seasonally-adjusted rate nationally for the month of November was 377,000 houses sold, surpassing not only the estimated Oct...
