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Dear Editor, That was an excellent story written by Will Castner about the history of the Sidney elementary schools (Jan. 20 edition). Having attended the Sidney schools from 1940 to 1953, I would like to add to Will’s story (Will’s grandfather Lloyd Castner was a classmate of mine). None of the schools I attended are in Sidney anymore, the high school being torn down when the new one was built several years ago. We lived on the southwest corner of 12th Avenue and Linden Street when I started school. Across the street north, where the fire dep...
Dear Editor, Every New Year brings about ambitious goals, a feeling of accomplishment from the previous year and a general sense of excitement about the possibilities that lie ahead. The year 2015 is no exception. Our community is faced with an important decision on Feb. 10 about whether or not we are going to move forward with a new elementary school bond issuance. My work experience at Cabela’s and now Adams Industries has taught me to realize that if I want to be a part of positive change in my community, all I have to do is get involved a...
Dear Editor, Early on Christmas morning and 20 miles west of Sidney, my car blew a fuel pump and quit running. Sidney people came to our aid in spite of the holiday and stormy weather. Thank you to several people at the rest area – Dave from Almost Free Towing, Lee and Tom at Sauders Automotive, the staff at Perkins, two policemen and Wayne and Carrie at Sleep for Less motel. This thoughtfulness and extra effort over 48 hours left my daughter and I thankful for these kind and generous people in Sidney. Teri Hlava Lincoln, Ne...
Vivek Ranadivé coached his daughter’s National Junior Basketball team at Redwood City, south of San Francisco, in Silicon Valley. Because Vivek had grown up in Mumbai, where he had played cricket and soccer, Vivek knew very little about basketball. His daughter’s team was composed of twelve-year-old girls, who were short, white, and displayed no talent. They could barely shoot, dribble, or jump, and yet they won most of their games, losing only in the championship game. How? Malcolm Glad...
Dear Editor, We are starting a new year and our council will be working on the new water park. I would like to remind council that back in November 2012, the voters voted for a ½-cent sales tax to help pay for our deteriorating streets, a new swimming pool and to upgrade the golf course. The golf course has already spent their share of the tax money plus. Now, council wants to build a water park. One of the reasons they said we need a new pool was the current pool was too small and it leaked. And, we needed a bigger pool so they could have...
Dear Editor, I read the “Letter to the Editor” the other day (Jan. 6 edition) about looking back on 2014. It brought some thoughts to “my” mind! If the jury had found Nancy Gipfert “not guilty” of inflicting the damage on the boy, then the question still stands: “Who did it?” Mike Hebert Sidney...
Dear Editor, It seems with all the other positive notable news that was 2014, you would not have had to plaster Nancy Gipfert’s story again on the front page. Many of us believe Nancy was unjustly accused and unfairly treated. If your comeback is that news is news – what about the murders, drug busts, etc.? Why not use one of their pictures instead of drawing attention to a very controversial misdemeanor case? Or, here is a novel idea, print the positive happenings! Pam Wieser Sidney...
The time has come for me to bid you all adieu. I'm leaving Sidney to take a job in Bristol, Conn., with ESPN as a program assistant with the radio department. Before a couple of weeks ago, I had full intentions on staying in Sidney for a year or two. But then I received a call from an 860 area code. For as long as I can remember, I've loved sports and loved watching ESPN. My mom was very protective of her son. The scope of mediated text I could consume was very very narrow. I couldn't listen to...
The two Communist holdouts from the Cold War dominate the news again: Cuba on one page, and North Korea on the other. First, President Barak Obama wants to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba after five and a half decades of Communist rule. Then, the FBI has traced “one of the most punishing cyber-attacks on a major American corporation in recent memory” back to the Guardians of Peace, all because of a new movie that mocks Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator. Both Cuba and North Korea...
Della sold her hair to buy “a platinum watch fob” for Jim, her husband, and he sold his watch to buy “tortoise shell combs” for Della’s hair. On Christmas Day they opened their presents, and neither he nor she could enjoy his or her gift. Without her long hair, she no longer needed the combs, and without his watch, he no longer needed a watch fob. That is the plot that the American author O. Henry reveals in his splendid short story, The Gift of the Magi. “The Grinch hated Christmas....
Dear Editor, It was quite disappointing to see all three Republican Nebraska Representatives (Adrian Smith, Jeff Fortenberry, and Lee Terry) and both Senators (Deb Fischer and Mike Johanns) side with President Obama, Joe Biden and Harry Reid to pass the Omnibus Bill last week and fund Obamacare and most of the other things Democrats want for most of another year. Sixty-seven conservatives of the Republican House and 18 conservatives from the Senate voted against this bill. Yet all five of Nebraska’s senators/representatives voted with Harry R...
On Nov. 23, a week ago last Sunday, another Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts into outer space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and after a six-hour flight they docked at the International Space Station 268 miles above the Pacific Ocean. The three included the Russian cosmonaut Anton Schkaplerov, the European Space Agency astronaut from Italy Samantha Cristoforetti, and NASA’s Terry Virts. They joined the three others already there: NASA’s Barry Wilmore and two Russian cos...
Dear Editor, On Friday evening, Nov. 21, Margo and I had the distinct pleasure of attending another Nebraska Music Educators Association All-State Final Concert. We can’t begin to express how proud we are of all of the Nebraska high school students who performed in the jazz band, chorus, orchestra or band presentations. It was an extraordinary evening. We appreciate the Nebraska Music Educators Association for continuing to organize and promote these concerts. We appreciate all of your hard work. For all who helped put the event together, a...
Dear Editor, I see the school board wants to have another election for a new elementary school. Are they going to keep having elections until they get the count to come out right? They keep wanting a K-4 school. It should be a K-6 with room for additions and expansion, and move it out of the flood plain. I have seen the land under water before they built the ditch and after they built the ditch. I am not saying that we don’t need a new school, but in yours plans there is no mention of expansion for the 500 to 600 new homes that are going to b...
Dear Editor, I would like to commend Wendy Pemberton of Della’s Cafe for all of her diligent work this summer in beautifying her corner of 10th Avenue and Illinois Street with her floral arrangments. I, for one, have truly appreciated it. Diane Merritt Sidney...
Dear Editor, I have seen the new swimming pool layout in the newspaper and would like to know who added all of the additions to it? Two years ago, the voters went to the polls and passed a half-cent sales tax that was going to help pay for our deteriorating streets, golf course and swimming pool. The golf course has already spent their 12 percent, or $1.2 million-plus to upgrade the course. The streets are being worked on. The swimming pool was approved for 30 percent, or $3 million. Now, it’s up to $6.2 million. We are told that the costs have...
Billy Graham will celebrate another birthday this week, his ninety-sixth. As far as I know, he still lives, despite a lifetime of poor health: “hernias, retina clots, pleurisies, headaches, nauseas, removal of a salivary gland, urinary infections, ulcerative colitis, jaw abscesses, tumors on the forehead,” plus “cysts, polyps, infections, pneumonia, chronic high blood pressure, spider bites, and a series of falls that have broken eighteen of his ribs.” When he was twenty-six, he came down wi...
Dear Editor, On the weekend of Nov. 1-2, former members of the Army stalked the fields of Nebraska. The quarry on this mission: pheasants! Thanks to a small army of volunteers from the High Plains #278 Pheasants Forever chapter, four combat wounded Army veterans were able to enjoy an experience new to them – a wild pheasant hunt. These brave American heroes had survived numerous combat related injuries. Chuck was an Abram’s tank commander and one of the first into Baghdad. He survived 18 IED explosions. James took shrapnel from the landmine tha...
Dear Editor, I have been interested in the articles about Boot Hill. Kathy Wilson and all of the committee have completed a very impressive project. I lived in Sidney for 80 years and I do appreciate the work and effort that has been done on this history. The stories I heard are the ones my father, Harvey Vizina, told me. There are only two members of the third generation Vizina family still living. However, we have members of the next three generations who continue to make their homes in Sidney. I now reside at the Western Nebraska Veterans...
Dear Editor, As November 4th approaches, a vote cast by “R” or “D” affiliation has significant ramifications. Voting should be for the best person to help Nebraska grow and prosper. Which candidate actually has farm experience? Small business experience? Which candidate has focused on the citizens of Nebraska for support? Which has relied on money from out-of-state big PACs who care nothing about Nebraska except registering “win” in a party’s column? Chuck Hassebrook grew up on a family farm, worked by his family for over a century. He a...
Dear Editor, Seeing the Sun-Telegraph photo (Oct. 27 edition) of one of our top Sidney Red Raiders cross country runners struggling to reach the finish line at the state championships, well, was painful. Albeit, our Red Raiders boys’ and girls’ cross country teams performed with a mindset like the true champions that they are at state. The boys had to overcome some adversity in hot, humid late October conditions, yet finished in the top 10 teams. The girls were just two teams away from winning it all. Their third-place finish speaks vol...
Dear Editor, Regarding the article in Wednesday’s Sun-Telegraph on the Pony Express memorabilia and the farm equipment pictured, I want to clarify that these items are owned by the village of Lodgepole and the Lodge Pole Depot Museum. Other items mentioned in the article, the movie posters, telegraph poles, the Ford Bronco and many other collectible Pony Express items were generously donated to The Lodge Pole Depot Museum by Joe Nardone. These items will remain on permanent display at this museum. Laurel Talich-Abrams Presid...
Fierce opposition has met the slightest steps forward in humankind’s war upon any of the several viruses that inflict us. Fear of the unknown, religious persuasions, and lack of knowledge of the scientific method have each contributed to that opposition. For example, in Boston in 1721, another smallpox epidemic broke out. Cotton Mather, the pastor at the old North Church, had learned of inoculation as a means to prevent the disease, but he could convince only a single one of Boston’s several doctors, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, to try the pro...
Dear Editor, Just a healthy and exuberant “way to go” to the Sidney High School girls’ and boys’ District cross country champions! Championship teams such as the Red Raiders often use words like chemistry, togetherness and “one heart beat” to define themselves. Thanks to both teams for battling, for staying positive and winning together. We are pulling for you in taking your championship attitude to the state cross country meet this Friday in Kearney. You rock State!! Stan Fox Sidney...
Dear Editor, The League of Women Voters has been encouraging active participation in government for 94 years, and the structure of Nebraska’s unique unicameral legislature makes it clear the “second house” in our state is made up of our citizens. Therefore it is essential that all eligible persons register to vote, learn about issues and candidates and cast an informed vote. The League of Women Voters of Nebraska offers one nonpartisan tool to help with making informed choices. It is VOTE411.org, a website where voters can easily find personali...
