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Local signs of spring emerge: Frogs, flowers, herons and maybe falcon eggs


On this St. Patrick’s Day, the pipes aren’t all that are calling. So are frogs in local wetlands. You’ll hear them when the day is warm enough, especially the chirping of the tiny spring peepers and the washboard sound of chorus frogs.
Nolan Bielinski got to wondering if frogs and toads limit their calls when they’re surrounded by city noises. So, for his doctoral research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he took recorded sounds into wet areas in the Indiana Dunes National Park and around the Chicago area, according to the Great Lakes Research and Education Center. ....

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City employees receive service awards - Sidney Daily News


City employees receive service awards
Sidney Mayor Mike Barhorst, left, discusses some of the major incidents that Sidney Fire Lieutenant Rick Slife, center, and Chief Chad Hollinger, right, have participated in during their careers following the presentation of service awards at the fire department recently. Lieutenant Slife was recognized for 20 years of service.
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SIDNEY City of Sidney employees recently received service awards at their respective departments after the city’s annual Christmas luncheon was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“As you know, we have traditionally presented employee service awards prior to the annual Christmas luncheon for employees and those retired from the city of Sidney,” Sidney Mayor Mike Barhorst told small groups of employees, a city press release said. “With the pandemic, we did not feel it would be a good idea to gather more than 200 people together in the same place, breathing the same air, n ....

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