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  • On the other end of the line

    Ryan Hermens|Dec 28, 2015
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    They often only hear part of the story – how it begins. When interviewing potential new dispatchers, Heidi Gillespie said she reminds them they will be talking to people on the very worst days of their lives, and they won't always learn how the story ends. Traffic crashes, medical emergencies, fires, violence. Those are the things they will hear on the other end of the line. From Potter to Lodgepole, Dalton to Lorenzo, when something bad happens, Gillespie or one of the dispatchers she o...

  • Josephine F. Lang

    Dec 28, 2015

    Josephine F. Lang, 98 of Littleton, Colo. and former Sidney resident, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the Restore Health and Rehab Center in White Plains, Md. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 30 with Wake Services at 6 p.m., Tuesday evening, Dec. 29. Both services will be at the St. Patrick's Catholic Church with Father Jim Heithoff officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Tuesday, Dec. 29,...

  • Community Calendar 12-28-15

    Dec 28, 2015

    Ongoing A memorial account has been set up at American National Bank (Main Bank and Drive up locations) for Tabitha Davis. Donations can be made to: “Tabitha Davis Memorial Fund” to help defray expenses and to benefit twin daughters “Emmersynne Joy & Ellyeaunnah Grace”. … Table of Grace, a ministry of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, is a mobile food pantry that distributes food at various locations throughout the area on monthly basis. The locations and times for registration are: 1st Tuesday of the month – 2:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Ca...

  • 14 local students receive Chadron State honors

    For The Sun-Telegraph|Dec 28, 2015

    Fourteen students with local ties were named to the president's or dean's list for the 2015 fall semester at Chadron State College. Students who were named to the president's list include Barrett Browne, Kelsey Carwin, Natausha Holtz and Andrew Phelps of Sidney, and Katherine Ashmore and Jillian Kepler of Chappell. The president's list requires a student to have a 4.0 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale and be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours of coursework during the semester....

  • Heidemann graduates from UCO

    For The Sun-Telegraph|Dec 28, 2015

    Potter resident Jessica C. Heidemann graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma during commencement ceremonies held Dec. 11-12. Heidemann graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in art - studio art along with approximately 1,246 fall 2015 graduates from throughout the country and world in the ceremony held in Edmond, which is just north of Oklahoma City. The University of Central Oklahoma is the state’s largest metropolitan university, serving more than 17,000 students pursuing degrees in 117 undergraduate and 70 graduate major a...

  • No Till notes: 'Giving'

    Mark Watson, Panhandle No till Educator|Dec 28, 2015

    I’ve met a lot of really interesting and enjoyable people through my travels and involvement with conservation agriculture and continuous no till crop production. Two of my favorites are Brian and Keith Burns. Brian and Keith took it upon themselves to establish Green Cover Seed. Green Cover Seed is a cover crop/forage crop seed distribution business. Brian and Keith decided early on with the establishment of cover crops that someone had to become a distributor of the vast variety of seed needed for these cover crops. They have built their b...

  • UPCOMING SCHEDULE

    Dec 28, 2015

    BASKETBALL Monday, Dec. 28 Cabela’s Holiday Shootout Tuesday, Dec. 29 Cabela’s Holiday Shootout Wednesday, Dec. 30 Cabela’s Holiday Shootout WRESTLING Thursday Jan. 7 Sidney at Western Trails Tournament in Kimball Saturday, Jan. 9 Sidney at Ogallala Tournament...