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LINCOLN — Groundwater levels rose significantly across most of Nebraska from January 2019 to January 2020, and the state received so much precipitation over that period that a new color was added to the 2019-20 precipitation map included in the recently released 2020 Nebraska Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report. “We ran out of blues, so we had to go to purple,” said Aaron Young, a geologist with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources and lead author of the report. O...
The Nebraska Wheat Board (NWB) is now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 school year Ambassador Program. The goal of the NWB Ambassador Program is to develop college-aged students into better advocates and leaders in agriculture and to help them grow both personally and professionally. The program consists of ambassadors participating in promotional events, school visits, job shadowing and much more. Upon completion of the program, ambassadors will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship. Applications are open to any full-time student enrolled...
The entire Potter-Dix High School speech team qualified for State Speech in at least one event. Results: Team placed 6th out of 22 schools. Zach Rotert D1 State Champion in Humorous Prose Gunnar Oleson 4th place in Duet Acting and 5th place in Humorous Prose Luke Kasten 4th place (partner with Gunnar Oleson) in Duet Acting...
Sidney Police Department March 31 • 3:07 am, Traffic Stop, 10th Ave. & Jackson St. • 6:52 am, Traffic Stop, Pole Creek Crossing & 17J Link • 7:08 am, Traffic Stop, Jennifer Ln. & 17J Link. • 7:31 am, Medical Call, Illinois St. • 9:25 am, Animal Call, Maple St. • 9:36 am, 911 Hang Up/Open Line, 19th Ave. • 9:47 am, Criminal Mischief, Steven Ave. •10 am, Animal Call, Osage St. • 3:37 pm, Harassment • 4:47 pm, Animal Call, El Rancho Rd. • 5:44 pm, Suspicious Person, Safeway, Illinois St. • 6:12 pm, Animal Call, Quince St. •7:22 pm, Agency Assist,...
April has a special significance at Sidney High School. The theme is “86 The Stigma.” Activities are scheduled throughout the month. A meditation session was scheduled Tuesday during the advisory period, Today, April 7, there will be a “QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer)” session. This 60 to 90 minute training session teaches youth ages 14 to 18 the three steps that can help prevent a suicide. On April 12, a 60-minute training called “Talk Saves Lives” will be held at 6 p.m. The session will help understand suicide and ways to help a person in cri...
Teenagers have views of life being wide open, quietly and not so quietly thinking themselves indestructible and spend their time proving how right, or wrong, they are. That all sounds good until life suddenly changes for no apparent reason. What started as minor deformity quickly became a journey that is just getting started. Kobe Peterson is a 15-year-old freshman at Sidney High School. He is also a young man facing a rare disease that has symptoms a teen doesn't want to face, symptoms that...
Penelope Grauberger searches through her bucket of goodies following Saturday's Easter Egg Hunt as her mother LeeAnn Ogle looks on. Easter Egg hunts were held at the softball fields and at the west side of Legion Park....
The B117 COVID variant has been confirmed in the Panhandle. Confirmation was received late today of a teen male, teen female, and female in her 30s from the Nebraska Public Health Lab testing and notification from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Any close contacts identified will be quarantined to slow the spread. This variant was initially detected in the UK and in the US this past December. This variant seems to spread more easily and quickly than other variants which may lead to more COVID cases with the potential for...
The COVID-19 pandemic may end up changing our lives in some significant ways. To cite one example, it’s likely we’ll see a lot more people continue to work remotely, now that they’ve seen the effectiveness of tools such as video-conferencing. Education, too, may be forever changed in some ways. Perhaps just as important, though, is how many people may now think more about the future – including how they invest.If you work with a financial professional, you may have connected with this individual over the past several months through a videoco...
We live in a world that seems angry and confusing, and without GOD it is exactly that, without GOD there is no hope. GOD has and is the answer to all of that anger and confusion. Philippians 4:4-9, speaks about looking to GOD and trusting GOD, and HE will give you peace. This scripture give you direction for your life, it give you HOW you can have peace in a world full of turmoil and confusion. It may sound to good to be true, but GOD didn’t make it hard to find the answers we are looking for. In Psalms 23, the WORD of GOD speaks about about G...
Let’s just cut to the chase. I ran the pick-up off of a bridge. I may or may not have continued to go straight when I needed to turn. This is very far from my normal, but the Lord worked so hard on my humility the other day that I didn’t just eat a small piece of humble pie – I ate the whole pie. It started out as a simple request, “Babe, I think you could help me move some cows from one pasture to the processing pens, by using the feed pick-up to lure them with a bale of hay.” Little did he kn...
Here is the weekly crop of Master Gardener tips from Nebraska Extension in the Panhandle, relevant to local lawn and garden issues in the High Plains and consistent with research-based recommendations. Tread carefully to avoid soil compaction: As you venture out into your landscape and planting beds, be mindful of how wet the soil is. Kids, pets and people walking on soil that has excessive moisture can cause compaction. A compacted soil can continue to cause plant stress throughout the growing season. Walking on wet soil breaks down the soil...
LINCOLN – After a recent discovery of invasive zebra mussels within Marimo or "moss" balls used in aquarium tanks, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is urging the public to take precautions to prevent the spread of this highly destructive species. A container of Marimo balls sold as "Betta Buddy" was first found to be contaminated with an adult zebra mussel at a Petco store in Washington state on March 3. Game and Parks subsequently inspected two Petco locations in Lincoln and found zebra mussels present in several Marimo ball c...
LINCOLN – As anglers, we mean to be good stewards of our environment. Sometimes, though, we leave something behind. It could be a bait container lid that blew off or a small wad of fishing line in a snag. It all adds up, is a direct reflection on anglers, and is an environmental hazard. The problem with shoreline litter is twofold. Litter is just plain ugly and embarrassing. The view of a lake scene is never improved by a misplaced drink container. But the big issue is that litter damages the sh...
On January 28, Cheyenne County's spellers met at West Elementary School in Sidney to determine who was the best of the local field. The contest was unique this year with contestants limited to a classroom and wearing masks, part of the COVID-19 health directives. Judges were at the front of the room with plexi-glas shields between themselves and individual contestants. The January contest came down to three finalists — Aastha Chaudhari and Aadhav Krishna came in first and second places r...
A community Easter Egg Hunt will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 3 at the softball fields. There will be three age groups: birth to 4, 5-7, and 8-10. There will be a free will donation showing of “Peter Rabbit” at the Fox Theatre at 2 p.m. Feel free to bring your empty eggs back to be used next year, or make a monetary donation that will go toward next year’s egg hunt. Prize baskets will be distributed after the Peter Rabbit movie at the theatre to winning ticket holders....
Sheri Eads, left, director of Table of Grace, receives a $1,500 donation from the Sidney Elks Lodge represented by Donna Schluckebier, Esteemed Lecturing Knight and Elks National Fund (ENF) Chairperson. The funds were disbursed to each Elks Lodge from the Nebraska ENF. The Elks Lodge chose to donate the funds to the Table of Grace because of the impact COVID has had on local food banks....
If you’re planning to retire in just a few years, you may be getting excited about this next phase of your life. However, your ability to enjoy retirement fully will depend, at least partially, on the resources you can draw from your investment portfolio. So, while you still have time to act, ask yourself if you’re comfortable with your portfolio’s risk level. Your relationship with risk can change noticeably over time. When you started saving for retirement, you may have been willing to take on more investment risk, which translated into a rel...
There’s a 1988 song by the Christian rock group, Petra called “First Love.” Let me quote you the lyrics: 1) Sometimes I feel I’m pulled in so many wrong directions Sometimes I feel the world seducing my affections It’s not that I don’t know the way It’s just a heart that’s prone to stray But with my weaknesses admitted You will keep all that I’ve committed So I commit my heart to You, my First Love 2) It’s taken me some time to try to comprehend A love that doesn’t change - a love without an end A love that keeps forgiving A love of s...
Each spring, as the planting season approaches, brings fresh questions about irrigation water: How much water will the mountain snowpack provide to the North Platte Valley? What’s the state of the irrigation infrastructure in the valley? What have we learned about the system in the past year? How does the complex system of dams, diversions, checks and canals work? Will groundwater irrigation regulations stay the same as last year? Answers to these and other questions – as well as some fresh new questions – will be provided by presenters at th...
A new Nebraska Extension program will work to connect new and beginning farmers and ranchers with retiring landowners who are interested in transitioning their land to a new owner. Nebraska Land Link is now accepting applications from interested land seekers and landowners, with the goal of providing land access using lease agreements, lease-to-own arrangements, buy-sell arrangements or other creative methods that are mutually beneficial for both parties. Access to land continues to be one of the most difficult challenges facing new farmers,...
In the early months of the pandemic, non-perishable foods like dry beans were flying off grocery store shelves. If you still have some packaged dry beans in your pantry, winter is the perfect time to prepare them. While canned beans are cooked and ready to be heated, served, or used in recipes, packaged dry beans need to be cooked to a palatable texture. For best results, it helps to understand the variables involved with cooking dry beans. Cooking time depends on the type of beans and the seed...
LINCOLN – Nebraska farmers continue to be good stewards of the land, producing more bushels with less resources. Because of this increased efficiency, on-farm grain storage is on the rise. With additional grain bins on farms and on commercial sites, there is a greater risk of fatal accidents. The checkoff organizations of Nebraska’s corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum industries (and their respective associations), remind farmers and agricultural workers to be safe in and around grain bins dur...
The Cheyenne County Republican Committee met March 23, 2021 in the meeting room at the Security First Bank. The first meeting of the new year was spent deliberating over whether to censure Senator Ben Sass. After much discussion the committee decided not to censure Senator Sass, as there is no “teeth” in that measure, and that it would only serve to give him additional publicity. We did instead unanimously vote to approve and pass the same resolution that the Nebraska GOP State Central committee passed, based on 13 points of action or lack of...
Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office March 22 A Sidney man was transported to Sidney Regional Medical Center after the truck-trailer he was driving went off the road between Pole Creek Crossing and Old Post Road. Gary Narjes, 71, of Sidney, was driving a 1989 International truck south on Link 17J when he experienced a medical emergency, causing him to lose consciousness, resulting in the truck he was driving leaving the right side of the road. The truck collided with a reflector post, then a culvert, before coming to rest. The truck sustained d...
