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First and second graders are starting off the new year by getting active at the Cheyenne County Community Center. About 60 kids turned out this year to participate in the annual First and Second Grade Basketball Skills Camp at the center. Community Center Sports Director Kasey Kantor, who serves as coordinator of the event, said that he believes the skills camp was started about six years ago by Jody O’Connell and has been helping young kids edge their way into the game of basketball ever since....
Historic Downtown Sidney settles in for a long winter’s nap, Friday afternoon, as temperatures dropped to near single digits, winds were brisk and snow fell to clog the streets. Local sports action was canceled as the pace of travel began to diminish to a crawl. The weekend forecast calls for single digit highs and below zero lows....
RED CLOUD, Neb. (AP) — Red Cloud Postmaster Brad Young has come to treasure the three murals displayed in the post office there. “It’s something so unique,” he said. “I’ve been here going on 25 years. After a while the biggest thing is that I would never want anything to happen to them. Maybe that’s the lucky thing about being in a small town; we really don’t have any problems.” Red Cloud is one of four area towns included in a Depression-era government program that placed murals in post offices. A new book from the Nebraska State Historical So...
COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — Platte County residents, like Nebraskans across the state, are spending more money for a chance to match their lucky keno numbers or peel open a top-prize pickle card. The Nebraska Department of Revenue’s annual charitable gaming report shows players spent $247.3 million on keno, pickle cards, bingo and raffles during the fiscal year ended June 30. Total wagers on the games, which must financially benefit nonprofit entities, increased 2.85 percent from the 2010-11 amount of $240.46 million, according to the report rel...
The dedicated volunteer service of Tim Lecher to North Elementary School has landed a $500 grant to the school from State Farm Insurance Company. The company offers the grant to employees who donate their time to local elementary schools. Lecher, whose son Diedrich is a third grader at North Elementary, not only completed the required 40 volunteer hours for the grant during the past year but also hopes to continue his service. Kathy Nienhueser the reading and writing coach at North Elementary...
Sidney’s North and South Elementary Schools ended the year 2012 with a pleasant surprise. The surprise however wasn’t from Santa Clause it was from McDonalds. On Nov. 14 this year McDonalds partnered up with the schools for their second year hosting McTeacher Nights. McTeacher Night is a fundraiser for the schools put on by McDonalds, school booster club members and school staff where a percentage of the night’s proceeds at McDonalds is donated to the elementary schools. Nikki Juengst, boost...
Kathy Assad has been bringing the residents of Sidney a mixture of home accents for the past 16 years. From modern to the more traditional in style, Accent Home Décor, formerly known as The Crafty Corner, sells a variety of things to spruce up any home environment and then some. Assad’s store is broken down into several sections, accommodating every room of the house from the kitchen to bathroom, and even includes a baby section and specialized gift section. Assad opened the business in 1997 as...
Editor’s Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in the Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. William “Bill: Tracy Jr. was twenty one yrs old when the Selective Service System caught up with him. There was a war goin’ on and they wanted him in it. He was a young man trying to find his was in Alaska and Washington State when he was notified by his draft board i...
The second of two Ames, Iowa individuals arrested earlier this week on drug-related charges was arraigned Thursday before Cheyenne County Judge Randin Roland. Jessica Carroll, 31, appeared for arraignment on five felony charges: two Class III felony counts of possession with intent to deliver (both marijuana and hashish), Class IV felony possession of marijuana (more than a pound), Class IV felony possession of marijuana without tax stamps, and Class IV possession of a controlled substance (cyclobenzaprine). A status hearing for Carroll, who...
The morning fog and misty air was an issue for commuters Friday morning. The moisture in the air formed can be seen on the trees in Legion Park and also formed a slick layer of ice roads, leaving the air thick and skies cloudy and gray, ushering in the bitter cold that is supposed to be the weekend....
A repeat drunk-driving offender will likely never get his drivers’ license back after being sentenced Tuesday by Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer. Patrick H. Farnsworth, 72, Lincoln, was sentenced to serve a prison term of not less than 50 months, nor more than 60, after being found guilty of DUI — fourth offense. Farnsworth, who was sentenced in June for DUI — third offense — will serve his new sentence consecutively with the June sentencing (59-60 months imprisonment). Farnsworth was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, and his drive...
The City of Sidney’s case against against Marvin O. Filsinger of Filsinger Excavating/ Filsinger Emergency Services for property nuisance abatement emerged as split hairs Wednesday before Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer. Wednesday’s hearing was set in an attempt by the City to file a motion to abate, by Ft. Collins, Colo. attorney Charlie Cuypers. Filsinger, though counsel Don Miller, sought a continuance in the matter, citing the timeliness of the hearing. After some legal jockeying by both sides, Weimer fell in-between on the mat...
The building is much as one would imagine a church to look like; brick, modest in size, fairly ordinary but friendly and inviting. Neither the exterior nor thecanon practiced within the building makes this Presbyterian Church unique in nature from other Christian based churches in Sidney. Quite the opposite, the Christian stance and teachings are what connects this church to other Christian churches of the area. It is Pastor Dixie Anders who leads the congregation at the Light Memorial...
As many commuters around town have noted a small area of 10th Ave. has been blocked off and cones direct traffic into what is normally the turn lane. The cause, “We are helping the Veterans Affairs office there. They are required to put in a fire line into their building. So we are helping with that because we have to tap the water main there on 10th Ave.,” Sidney Public Service Director John Hehnke said. “So we had to cut open the street, make the tap and get the line extended over to outside o...
In a rapidly developing scenario, a Sidney man charged in connection with the November shooting death of Adam McCormick pleaded guilty to an amended Class IV felony count of being an accessory to a felony. Billy D. Fields, 35, 2460 Fort Sidney Road, entered the plea Wednesday afternoon before Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer. As part of his plea, Fields — through his counsel, attorney Don Miller— has agreed to make himself available for interviews involving the shooting, and has als...
Lawmakers raced against the clock this New Year’s Eve and successfully avoided the dreaded “fiscal cliff” for now. But along with this avoidance, an important bill - the farm bill that has been worked on for the past five years - was extended instead of undergoing a new installment. The extension of the farm bill extension threw out the new version that had been progressing and approved through the senate; but it had not been approved by the house. Instead it extended the same programs that...
Gina Hanley thought that last Friday afternoon was just the end of a normal week for her family and her, but that was before she got the call that changed her eased mind to terrified. Hanley had been trying to get ahold of her husband and when she finally did, she was told that her two sons were being driven to Sidney Regional Medical Center. “When I finally talked to him he told me the boys were in the ambulance on their way to the hospital and that Austin had almost drowned. I was in s...
Sidney Sun-Telegraph – Cooper Christensen on Jan. 7 became the first baby to be born at Sidney Regional Medical Center in 2013. The newborn son of Ryan and Tonya Christensen, Cooper weighed 7.5 pounds and was 20.5 inches long at birth. Cooper and his parents received a gift bag filled with surprises from the local area merchants, to help the family begin its journey. Congratulations to Ryan and Tonya – and welcome to Sidney, Cooper....
Two Iowa residents are in Cheyenne County Jail today following their arrest Tuesday on drug charges along Interstate 80. According to an affidavit filed by the Nebraska State Patrol, Jessica L. Carroll, 30, and Benjamin Schneider, 20, were arrested on felony drug possession of marijuana and hashish, with intent to deliver, possession of marijuana (more than one pound) and no drug tax stamps, In the affidavit, NSP trooper Ron Kissler stopped an eastbound vehicle near mile post 56 along I-80,...
On the outside it looks a bit small and fairly ordinary with its bland colored canopy, with the windows still decorated for the holidays, the spray on snow concealing the nature of the business making it hard to see inside, a person could thing it’s just another shop along Main Street. The most color the outside has is the neon open sign and the big yellow sign on the door letting a person know where they are and silently inviting people to visit the Cosmic Quarter. A deceptive silence b...
The Sidney City Council meeting this Tuesday started off a little differently than most. It began with the recognition of heroic efforts by city personnel this past week in saving the lives of two boys. Sidney Mayor Wendall Gaston asked the city workers who helped save 5-yr-old and a 9-yr-brothers from the pond at Legion Park this past Friday afternoon to attend the meeting. “The events of last week showed exactly what quality of workers we have,” Gaston said. “Those kinds of things you never...
Longtime Sidney resident and prominate national farm advocate, who joined then President Jimmy Carter in the Rose Garden, Marian Ruth Loch Lenzen, a resident of the Sidney area for more than 65 years, died Monday. Her life was spent raising her family and telling the story of Sidney to the world. Marian was born in 1928, in Fairbury, Neb., the daughter of Kathrene Bennett and Frank T. Loch. She attended schools in Fairbury and Omaha before moving with her parents and siblings to Sidney in 1945....
There is widespread discussion about hydraulic fracturing and the impact such mining has on the environment – from water contamination by gas and oil to chemical contamination of aquifers and land. Prior articles explained the extensive reasoning the Nebraskan Panhandle is an optimum area to drill for oil and natural gas without the typical worries people have with hydraulic fracturing. Summarizing the past two articles; the area sits on so many rock formations that are tightly compacted it make...
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Sidney’s most interesting architectural sights, with its rough oversized stone and impressive glass windows has Father Arthur ‘Art’ Faesser, a 36 year veteran in the priesthood at the helm. Father Art said the call came to him at a fairly young age drawing inspiration from the church retreats and rallies he attended, as well as the younger priests in Ogallala whom he grew up listening to, even in his teen years. “When I was a senior in high school they had a car...
The main proposals brought up to Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners and Cheyenne County Board of Equalization members Monday investigated to what degree the Cheyenne County Sheriff and SWAT forces should be allowed to assist other counties in the time of an emergency. “We’re proposing an agreement that is already in place in counties north of us,” county attorney Paul Schaub said. Proposed was a county sheriff interlocal agreement between Cheyenne County, Deuel County and Garden Count...
