Hershberger brings wealth of experience to SST staff

Forrest Hershberger has joined the staff of the Sidney Sun-Telegraph as news editor.

He will be writing sports, local government and features in addition to other duties as assigned.

Hershberger comes to Sidney with more than 20 years of community newspaper experience. He started his career in Sterling, Co., in 1990 as a reporter. He moved to the Alamosa, Co., area in the mid-1990s to work at the Valley Courier, then transferred to the weekly newspaper office. He returned to northeast Colorado about a year and a half later to work at the Julesburg Advocate.

In 1997, he was offered the news edi...