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Early this month, the Nebraska Department of Eduction released the Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) results. The assessment gives insight into how students who tested are performing academically as part of the COVID-19 recovery effort. NSCAS English Language Arts and Mathematics assessments were given in grades three through eight. According to the Dec. 6 press release made available in the Dec. 13 Sidney School District Board of Education meeting, the assessments are...
Semester 1 Straight “A” Honor Roll, eighth grade, Jake Agin, Hannah Balandran, Cameron Baldwin, Calista Bowen, Emma Brosnan, William Castner, Theodore Drewes, Samantha Kaus, Thomas Kokjer, Annalise Lecher, Alex Linneman, Brenda Maytorena, Zackery Means, Abbey Mills, Makayla Morgan, Maddison Porter, Yeager Price, Hanna Ringleman, Logan Sherman, Chea Stuart (Aguas), Reilly Svoboda, Berkley Timmens, Mitchell Verhulst, Alexandra Wamsley, Samantha Wamsley; seventh grade, Emma Alexander, Bailey Bagnell, Matthew Benzel, Kara Birner, Charlie Bro...
Chadron State College students are often drawn to northwest Nebraska for its hunting opportunities. For a certain group of students on campus, however, a big buck or a tom turkey is not the object of their pursuits. Rather, they are hunting area soils for the elusive bacteriophage, or phage for short. CSC is one of a limited number of institutions throughout the nation that is discovering the organisms hidden in the dirt through a special project of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education Alliance. The program is commonly r...
Potter-Dix Public Schools 2012-2013 Second quarter Honor Roll Second quarter A honor roll, 12th grade, Christina Garlach; 11th grade, Tiffany Lewis, Katelyn Woten; eighth grade, Emmalea Bush, Brooke Glass; seventh grade, JT Herboldsheimer, Kaden Vowers. Second quarter B honor roll 12th grade, Cody Aure, Devan Baker, Luke Johnson, Bailey Long, Amanda Maas, Conner Wolff; 11th grade, Taylor Juelfs; 10th grade, Cooper Hicks, Ryley Hicks, Rebekah Hutchinson, Jake Johnson; ninth grade, Sam Bogert, Coby Hicks, Regyn Hicks, Austin Lewis, Cortney...
Leyton Public Schools Honor Roll for second nine weeks A honor roll, sixth grade, Janessa Carley, Destinee Henke, Danielle Higgins, Joshua Kruse, Shelby Miller; seventh grade, Taylor Borges, Paige Ernest; eighth grade, Taylor Berner, Hope Dykman, Brianna Weyerts; ninth grade, Tanner Bellmyer, Caitlyn Deal, Zachery Deal, Katelyn Higgins, Jessica Houk; 10th grade, Kaitlyn Berner, Dani McKay, Jared Westman; 11th grade, Alex W. Frerichs, Zachary Jones, Josh Reimers, Carly Rushman, Seth Schuessler; 12th grade, Rachael Ernest, Grace Harvey. A-B...
MAC action at Creek The parent-teacher conference change is necessary because the MAC Jr. High Basketball Tournament is Feb. 7 and Feb. 9, and Creek Valley is hosting the tournament. Both facilities are going to be used for the tournaments. We will run a Friday schedule on Thursday, Jan. 31, with a 2:37 p.m. dismissal for the students. Thursday, Feb. 7, will revert to a regularly scheduled day, with a normal dismissal (3:25 at the high school). Creek not in session Creek Valley Schools will not be in session on Friday, Feb. 15, due to Winter...
Leyton’s annual fourth through eighth grade Spelling bee was Wednesday, Jan. 16. Taylor Borges won the event, and Abbe Draper was second. The remaining finalists will attend the Cheyenne County Spelling Bee with the first and second place winners on Feb. 6 in Sidney. From left to right are Taylor Borges – seventh grade, Abbe Draper – eighth grade, Taylor Berner – eighth grade, Drew Brenner – eighth grade, Zach Hellie – eighth grade, and Raina Hartwig – fifth grade....
The Haven and Virginia Smith Scholarship applications are now available from Kathy Ford, guidance counselor at Creek Valley High School. This Scholarship is to be awarded to a student using the following guidelines: a. Applicant must be a graduating senior from one of the Nebraska High Schools selected to be part of the Endowment Scholarship Program. b. Applicant must have a “C” average to be eligible. c. Applicant must be able to demonstrate a financial need. Such as: have other members of family in college that places a financial burden on...
Creek Valley Seniors and parents are invited to participate in the FAFSA Completion Day on Feb. 25, 2013, at Sidney High School Guidance Office. EducationQuest Foundation, a free non-profit organization, will help complete and file your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Please call EducationQuest at 800-666-3721 to setup an appointment. Appointments are needed to receive assistance on this day. Individual appointment will be scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Items to bring to your appointment include the following: *PIN numbers...
The Cheyenne County Family and Community Education Council has established a one year $100 scholarship to be awarded to a student whose desire is to attain a college degree with a major in a Human Science related field (i.e. Food & Nutrition, Human Development, Textiles & Design, Housing, Home Management and Vocational Education). The recipient will receive $50 each semester provided all requirements are met. Applications are available at the Cheyenne County Extension Office, 920 Jackson St. in Sidney and are due no later than April 1. Please...
Walmart awarded 20 area teachers with $50 reward cards to purchase classroom supplies that will help students throughout the school year. Walmart would like to honor all our community educators for the dedication they show each day to the well being and educational development of area youth. The Teacher Rewards will donate up to $4.5 million to provide 90,000 teachers across the United States with reward cards that will help offset the cost of classroom expenses. “We are proud to honor our community’s teachers, who give time and often the...
Sidney High School 2nd quarter honor roll STRAIGHT A, seniors, Lauren Gull, Taylor Kaus, Madison Malzahn, McKenzie Rosdail, Mikala Sweetser, Madison Verhulst; juniors, Casey Baldwin, LaNaya Gutierrez, Jason Hagerman, Brendan Holly, Karli Jones, Karson Langley, Jennifer Myers, Calder Rosdail, Lucas Rosenbaum, Jaide Wachtel; sophomores, Jordan Coe, Alli Ehler, Hayden Lienemann, Manjesh Mogallapalli, Andrew Myers, Tanner Nienhueser, Savanna Rosenbaum, Ashley Stafford, Madisen Stafford, Sara VonSeggern; freshmen, Ryan Birner, Abigail Heller, Mia...
KEARNEY – Twenty-eight county officials from 17 counties received Certificates of Achievement from the NACO Institute of Excellence. The officials were honored during a presentation at the Nebraska Association of County Officials’ annual conference in Kearney earlier this month. The NACO Institute of Excellence is collaboration between NACO and the University of Nebraska. It provides leadership development for appointed and/or elected county officials. The institute includes face-to-face wor...
MONROE, Conn. (AP) – For her son’s first day of school since last month’s massacre at his Sandy Hook Elementary, Sarah Caron tried to make Thursday as normal as possible. She made his favorite pancakes, and she walked the second-grader to the top of the driveway for the school bus. But it was harder than usual to say goodbye. “I hugged him a lot longer than normal, until he said, ‘Mommy, please,’” she said. “And then he got on the bus, and he was OK.” Her 7-year-old son, William, was among more than 400 students who escaped a gunman’s rampage...
The UNL Extension Office in Cheyenne County is looking for students between the ages of 5 and 7 to become part of the Clover Kids program. The next meeting will be at the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds at 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15. Clover Kids is a 4-H program for children ages 5-to 7-years old. Children participate in hand-on activities designed to build lots of different life skills. The most important like skills for this age group are respecting self, communicating, solving problems, thinking critically and choosing healthy...
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...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) – The chiming of bells reverberated throughout Newtown on Friday, commemorating one week since the crackle of gunfire in a schoolhouse killed 20 children and six adults in a massacre that has shaken the community – and the nation – to its core. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy gathered with other officials in rain and wind on the steps of the Edmond Town Hall as the bell rang 26 times in memory of each life lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The gunman also killed his mother befor...
Dr. George Griffith, Chadron State College professor of English and humanities, reassured the institution’s master’s degree graduates of the value of their degrees while delivering their commencement address Friday afternoon, Dec. 14. Griffith, who in his 37thyear at CSC has been employed longer than any other faculty member, interspersed humor and sincerity while addressing the class of 67 graduates in Memorial Hall. The professor noted that compared to the undergraduate class, which received degrees later that afternoon, members of the master...
In the past few years, Americans have done a pretty good job of whittling down their debt load. If you’re in this group, you may now have a chance to use your lower level of indebtedness to your advantage – by investing for the future. Consider the numbers: In 2007, just before the financial crisis, the country’s household debt service ratio was about 14 percent. (The debt service ratio is the ratio of debt payments, including mortgages and consumer debt, to disposable personal income.) But by 2012, this figure had dipped below 11 perce...
Students of Chadron State College’s rangeland management program often study how the land has evolved throughout history. Now they are watching with excitement as land east of CSC’s main campus is being transformed to the new facility that will serve their program and others in the Department of Applied Sciences. Workers from Sampson Construction have been moving dirt in recent weeks to prepare for the construction of the Coffee Pavilion of the Rangeland Complex. The pavilion, which will ser...
Hastings – Central Community College-Hastings recognized 160 midyear graduates Nov. 27 at a graduation reception in their honor. Dr. Marcie Kemnitz, dean of health occupations at CCC, was the keynote speaker. Other speakers were Dr. Greg Smith, college president; Bill Hitesman, campus president; and Dean Moors, executive director of the Central Community College Foundation. The area December graduates are, Associate of Applied Science Degree, Sidney, Xin Hu, hospitality management and culinary arts; and Associate of Science Degree, Chappell, C...
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) released the following statement on changes to school lunch regulations allowing more meat and grains in meals: “I appreciate the Department of Agriculture’s decision to allow for more grains and meat in school meals. These changes are a step in the right direction and should be made permanent. However, parents and local officials will need additional flexibility to implement the school lunch program to effectively meet their budgets and the nutritional requirements of their students. These dec...
