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The simple answer to the question, Why is eating healthy SO hard?, is… IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE! So many of us tend to think that if we want to eat healthy that it will be too expensive, take too long to make the meals, has to be food you have never heard of, or food that is not readily available to you. These thoughts can be true if you make them true, but all you have to do is change your way of thinking and develop a meal plan that will work for you! Some say, “I don’t like healthy foods and I can’t find them.” Why try to make a menu or pla...
Farmers received no relief from a new Farm Bill in 2012, but one senator from Nebraska has introduced a bipartisan regulatory relief for Nebraska farmers that could save producers up to $3.4 billion. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) announced that she has introduced the Farmer’s Undertake Environmental Land Steward (FUELS Act) that would modify the rules set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The current Oil Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule applies to any facility that has a fuel storage capacity of more than 1...
March is not just a month for watching college basketball and hunting for four leaf clovers. Nationwide it is also recognized as National Nutrition Month. One disease that seems to be affecting people worldwide and more intensely the U.S. population is obesity. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention representatives, more than one-third of the U.S. adult population is considered to be obese and obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents over the past 30 y...
Looking for a workout where you set your own pace and bike indoors? Spinning classes are offered at the Cheyenne County Community Center every day of the week except on Friday and during the weekend and the classes are a great way to improve cardiovascular health, stamina and leg strength, said instructor Kiersten Richards, activities director at the center. There is a class to fit almost anyone’s schedule with classes at 5:45 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 1... Full story
KEARNEY (AP) — The Great Platte River Road Archway has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection so its finances can be reorganized. Wednesday’s filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Omaha said the tourist attraction owes more than $20 million to bondholders and other debtors. The filing will let the archway remain open and pay 10 staff members while the financial problems are addressed. “We had a conversation with the bond managers about two months ago and told them we were at the end of the line,” said Joel Johnson, who leads the archway founda...
OMAHA (AP) — Nebraska’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in January, matching the 3.8 percent unemployment seen in December, the state Labor Department reported Thursday. The rate was less than half a percentage point lower than the 4.1 percent in January 2012 and was less than half the national rate of 7.9 percent in January, the department said. In December, Nebraska’s unemployment rate was the second-lowest in the country, trailing only North Dakota. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics had not released its compilation of states’ January...
A.J. Cloud knows it isn’t cheap to keep the Sidney Coyotes’ UNIFYed Special Olympics basketball players up and going. So last week, the Coyotes hit the streets to raise money. The only difference was bit more persistence on Cloud’s part. When the fundraising smoke had cleared, the local Coyotes, clients of the Sidney Office of Human Development, had enough to make do for the remainder of the winter — with Cloud leading the way. The team raised about $2,400, with about $2,000 being collect...
The City of Sidney will join the nation this year in competing in the Cans for Cash City Recycling Challenge this April, according to a press release this Tuesday from Cheryl Jones, Director of Keep Sidney Beautiful. Jones said that the challenge entails recycling the most aluminum beverage cans and the top cities in the nation are rewarded for their efforts. The event will take place April 1 through April 30 and the winners will be announced in June of this year. To participate in the citywide campaign, drop off any aluminum cans at the U.S....
City of Sidney Mayor Wendall Gaston asked the city swimming pool committee to come together to discuss the results and options presented by the swimming pool consultant team of Doug Whiteaker from Water Technology, Inc., Jeff King with Ballard*King and Associates and Chuck Musgrave, an architect with Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture (a partner with Water Technology, Inc.) this past February. “We’ve been at this for probably a year and a half trying to come up with a general idea of what we migh...
There’s nothing like coming to the realitization that you have had someone con you. It’s even worse when you realize that it could have been potentially much worse. When a person representing Verizon Phones called Fritz Guenther’s cell he never for a moment considered he would be duped and cheated. The call came from 800-569-8440 and a representative claiming to work for Verizon asked if he would be willing to answer a three question customer relations survey. Guenther admits he was deep into... Full story
Panelists at a gun violence discussion at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln agreed that a lack of access to mental health care and family dysfunction are the roots of American gun crime. Point Blank: A Conversation About Gun Violence in America featured seven experts in law enforcement, psychology, constitutional law and policy to address issues involved in gun violence Tuesday, March 5. Discussion moderator and UNL Law School Dean Susan Poser began the evening by citing United States gun violence statistics. According to the Centers for...
NEW YORK — What record? There were no signs of a celebration on Wall Street after the Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high Tuesday. Like on any other day, traders rushed out the doors of the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell and down the stairs of subway stations. Nearby office workers did the same. Maybe the memories of the financial meltdown are too fresh, or outlook for the economy is too uncertain. But the only indication that something historic had transpired was the six television news cameras that faced th...
Darrell Dykman, a Lodgepole farmer and owner and operator of his beekeeping business Queens Choice Honey, will be giving a presentation this Saturday, March 9 at the Sidney Public Library. He will be presenting on one of his biggest pastimes, beekeeping. The program is part of the library’s ongoing yearly educational series. The informational session will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and will include information on the bees, as well as the tools used in keeping the bees, said Dykman. “I have a PowerPoint geared toward basic beekeeping and I...
A car accident occurred on 10th Ave. and Illinois St. in Sidney yesterday at around 5 p.m. According to a Sidney Police Department report, one driver was traveling southbound on 10th Ave. and entered the intersection at Illinois with a green light. The other driver was driving westbound on Illinois and said that the sun’s glare prevented them from seeing that the stoplight had turned red, and ran his vehicle into the other. Both vehicles were severely damaged and towed from the scene, a... Full story
Cindy Rohm celebrated her and her husband’s new ownership of the Coffee Cure in Sidney Regional Medical Center Tuesday morning by a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, as well as hospital staff. “Sidney Regional Medical Center appreciates the efforts of the Coffee Corner Team for providing the ‘Coffee Corner Cure.’ We believe this is a very important addition for our guests, staff and those in our community,” said Jason Petik, CEO of Sidney Re... Full story
The cases against two accused Cheyenne County murderers are headed in different directions as a result of hearings this morning before Judge Derek Weimer. A July 15 trial date has been set for Larry G. Martinez, 53, Sidney, who is charged with Class IA felony first-degree murder, and felony use of a weapon to commit a felony, while Craig A. Johnson, 47, Sidney, also facing first-degree murder charges, will have a second competency evaluation before he can be arraigned on his charges, which is... Full story
BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — Fred Butler was married for 65 years, raised five children, served in the Army during World War II and worked for years for the local water department, but the fact he never earned a high school diploma always bothered him. Not anymore. The 106-year-old was awarded his honorary diploma Monday during an emotional ceremony attended by school officials, state lawmakers and Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon. “I thank everybody who is responsible for this,” he said, wearing a mortar board hat and tassel and holding the prized document...
Lisana Eckenrode is the newest reporter at the Sidney Sun-Telegraph. Her appointment was announced by Sun-Telegraph Publisher Hank Bond on March 4. Eckenrode came to Sidney from North Georgia where she was a staff writer at Fetch Your News. Her news assignments included covering breaking and hard news, health issues, festivals, community events, public meetings along with police and government. In her last professional outing in the media before relocating to the upper midwest she worked as a...
A Nevada man finds himself in Cheyenne County Jail after his Saturday morning arrest on felony drug charges. John Lee Longshore, 58, Carson City, remains in custody on $50,000 bond (or 10 percent) after his Monday presentment before Cheyenne County District Judge Randin Roland on a Class IV felony count of methamphetamine possession. According to his arrest affidavit, Longshore actually made it easy for authorities to make the arrest. Nebraska State Patrol was called to locate Longshore and his...
Cheyenne County Community Center and The Book and Coffee Corner staff are teaming up with mom and photographer, Heather Hausmann to hold their first “Bridge to Imagination” Lego Competition on March 16 at the community center. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. that Saturday and all participants are asked to bring no more than 5 lbs of small Legos to compete with, said Hausmann. There is no cost to participate and the age groups range from 5 to 7-year-olds, 8 to 11-year-olds and 12-14...
After almost redundant discussion on the application for a condition use permit from Pine Bluffs Gravel and Excavating Inc. for the proposed use of a gravel mine to operate a ready-mix concrete batch plant at the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday morning, commissioners decided to table the matter until April 15 when hopefully both parties will have reached an understanding. The meeting of the two groups started out with Sidney Attorney Don Miller, representing Pine Bluffs,... Full story
Four individuals face sentencing Wednesday morning in Cheyenne District Court, including two Sidney men who have changed pleas to amended drug charges. Leland Blake, 57, and Donald Schlieker, 50, have both entered guilty pleas to. Schlieker originally pleaded not guilty to two Class III felony counts of unlawful delivery of marijuana and Class III possession of a defaced firearm. Blake at first faced two Class II felony charges of delivery of Vicodin (hydrocodone), a DEA Schedule III controlled substance. Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub ha...
