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Snow lightly covered the area Tuesday, giving added indication that Sidney's Red Raiders hope to give Chase County a chilly reception tonight during the Sidney High School Homecomeing football game. Sidney High classes put their spirit on display through lawn signs in front of the school this week....
City officials are still working to determine what caused a power outage in parts of Sidney Monday. For about 20 minutes, much of Sidney’s north side and the center of town, including downtown, were without power, with the outage beginning just before 1:30 p.m. City of Sidney Electrical Department Superintendent Mike Palmer said a transformer at Sidney’s north substation “tripped,” or opened its circuit, stopping the flow of electricity. “We’re not sure what caused it,” Palmer said, adding...
Plans for the Cheyenne County Fair keep moving forward. At their monthly meeting this week, Fair Board members reviewed the events schedule for the fair, scheduled for July 21-27, 2019. In discussion, the barrel racing event in the main arena could be the opening Sunday following the open class horse show, or on Monday evening, depending on how it works with other potential events on the calendar. No evening grandstand event is currently planned for Tuesday, but the board plans to bring back, an...
A Potter girl became one of the highest achieving Cheyenne County 4-H speakers this year, taking the Grand Champion in the 4-H Speaking Contest at the Nebraska State Fair this year. Hanah Stahl won the award with her speech, "If I Ruled The World." In it, she outlines her plan to begin with her 4-H domain, figuring out what to do with her new-found power, then moving on to conquer the actual world. As part of her speech she outlines the need for survival instinct, overcoming Glossophobia, and...
A Sidney man who was accused of beating and robbing an acquaintance during a burglary has been acquitted by a jury. Jackson (Jack) Feddersen was arrested just more than a year ago when he was named by a former high school classmate, Ryan Stettner, regarding an incident in Stettner's home. Stettner said Feddersen was the man who attacked him in his bed in the early morning hours of Aug. 31, 2017. Stettner claimed $3,000 was taken from him during the incident by the accused and at least one other...
In an idea crazy as the October weather, the Cheyenne County Community Center has announced all of its services will be free for the month of October. Kiersten Richards, the Center’s activities director, said the October event serves a couple of purposes. First is a thank you to the community for its support, and second, a way to introduce the Center to new members of the community. During the “Fall Into Fitness” event, the center will not be charging for classes or use of facilities, waving dai...
Cabela's LLC has lodged a complaint against two groups of former employees alleging unfair competition and misappropriation of confidential information, according to court records. A case filed by Cabela's on Aug. 16, lists Ryan Wellman, Trent Santero, Mike Riddle, Jeremy Nesbitt and NexGen Outfitters, LLC as plaintiffs in the case. A similar case, filed August 8, is against Matt and Molly Highby and Highby Outdoors. Both cases were filed in Delaware courts because jurisdiction of the companies...
Jackson Feddersen of Sidney went on trial in Cheyenne County District Court Wednesday, charged with robbery and burglary. Four additional felony charges, stemming from an Aug. 31, 2017 incident, were dismissed by Judge Derek Weimer Monday. Nine women and three men on the jury, plus two alternates, heard opening arguments from attorneys, followed by testimony from witnesses and law enforcement officers assigned to the case. Among those testifying was the alleged victim of the crime, Ryan...
For more than 50 years the Holechek family has served the area with services through Holechek Funeral Home. That came to an end this week when Jim Holechek, who has run the Sidney funeral home announced his retirement. Since 1979, Holechek has been part of the business his father, Robert, started with the purchase of Craig Mortuary in 1966. Jim began taking the lead when Bob passed away in 1985, purchasing the business from his mother in 1991. In making the announcement, Holechek said he has sol...
It started when a friend from the Cheyenne County Community Center asked if he would be willing to drive folks to a couple of events. Before he knew it, Brent Jeffers was asked if he might like to take over as the Center's Senior Activities Coordinator. Being the person he is, one who enjoys people and seeing them enjoy themselves, Jeffers said "yes." As the new Senior Activities Coordinator, Jeffers said he would just as soon drop the "senior" part of the title, preferring instead to help... Full story
For 15 years Nebraska's Junk Jaunt has grown into a "treasure" hunter's paradise, featuring more than 300 miles of central Nebraska's beautiful scenery and more than 50 stops in 36 towns. The circular route follows the Loup River and Sandhills Journey Scenic Byways, taking participants from Grand Island to Halsey. For those unfamiliar with the Junk Jaunt, it is, simply put, Nebraska's biggest garage sale. Last year, 20 Sidney garage sale aficionados, many of them "newbies" to the Jaunt,...
Dropped balls and inopportune mistakes hit Sidney's Red Raider football team for the second week in a row, as they lost to Chadron 34-20 Friday at home. In their first game against a district foe, the Raiders had hoped to make a strong showing to establish themselves as a team to beat in the district. But Chadron and its air attack had other ideas, taking advantage of Sidney miscues along the way. After receiving the opening kickoff Sidney lost the ball on a fumble on the first snap from scrimma...
From the second such action in as many years, a large group of graphics professionals are uncertain of their future following a Wednesday afternoon announcement that Quad/Graphics would be closing its Sidney operation. The announcement was another shock for many of the people working for the company, a good share of them who joined Quad/Graphics after Cabela's shut down its graphics operations early in 2016. That action was taken as Cabela's was working to streamline its operation, which was und...
Defying the norm, Dalton teenager Drew Haley returned home Tuesday, just 18 days following an injury that resulted in a partial leg amputation. Haley, a junior at Leyton High School, was injured in the school's football season opener when his knee was twisted on a tackle following a high-reaching catch. Two days later it was discovered the injury included severe damage to the main artery that supplies the lower leg. At that time, he was flown to University of Colorado Hospital where it was...
Sidney police were extra busy last weekend as thieves worked overtime at the I-80 interchange. Police Chief Joe Aikens reports the crazy weekend began Friday with a rash of shoplifting reports from WalMart. Aikens said in four calls, five people were arrested after trying to shoplift from the store. One other, yet to be identified person, also pushed a cart of goods out the door without paying. On Saturday, approximately $14,000 worth of tires and rims were stolen from trucks at Buffalo Point...
If Katherine Crawley has her way, wildlife in the area will flourish under her work. Since May, Crawley, a wildlife biologist with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, has been introducing herself to landowners in the southern Panhandle, out of a new Game and Parks field office in Sidney. Her mission: to help landowners provide or improve wildlife habitat from Scottsbluff, over to Garden County and points south of that line. While she can work with different sorts of wildlife projects,...
Sidney's American Legion Post #17 has been busy this summer on a couple of highly visual projects in Legion Park. First of those has been work on the lighting system at the Legion Baseball Field. The park has been "dark" since a spring storm blew over one of the light poles in right field. Since then, Legion games were played earlier in the day because of the dark spot. Legion officials have been working to check the field and potential solutions since the pole was blown over. In checking the...
Leyton High School football player Drew Haley continues to recuperate from an injury he sustained at the Leyton season opener Aug. 30. In the first quarter of that game, Haley went high to catch a pass, but when he came down his knee was severely injured, the injury cutting off blood flow to his lower leg. As a result, part of Haley’s lower leg had to be amputated. Even so, the Haley family has continued to count its blessings along the way. Among those was that the amputation was not p...
Xpanxion, in partnership with its parent company UST Global, has formally announced it will be expanding operations into Sidney. The move is part of the company's practice to expand its portfolio of services and the geographic footprint of its existing Rural Sourcing ecosystem by opening a new Rural Delivery and Services Center in Sidney. A leading global technology services provider, Xpanxion, a UST Global Group company, said through a news release that the Sidney center is intended to serve...
An unusual football injury has left the Gurley, Dalton and Banner County communities in shock after a member of the Leyton/Banner County football team suffered a crippling injury last week. Leyton junior Drew Haley was injured in the first quarter of the game against Morrill last Thursday (Aug. 30) when he went high for a pass, caught it, and was tackled at mid-field. But after the play, Haley didn't get up, suffering from an injured knee. Haley didn't return to the game, but it wasn't for...
Beginning Monday, Sept. 10, a portion of the Sidney/Deadwood Walking Trail will be closed near Western Nebraska Community College. The closure will be approximately one-half mile southeast of the college, said Galen Wittrock, assistant manager at the South Platte Natural Resources District. Wittrock said work is progressing on the Joint East Sidney Watershed Project, and the closure is due to the need to lay underground culverts across the walking trail path. Wittrock said depending on weather...
Like a busy bee flitting from flower to flower, a young Seattle, Wash. woman landed in Sidney over the weekend, getting her first taste of what Nebraska has to offer. At 25, Lisa Hirata has been traveling the western United States in a wandering course, much like a honey bee looking for the best flowers to draw from. But instead of pollen, Hirata is drawing from the experiences of life and the people it brings across her path. Her course is not only zig-zag, but extremely wandering as she makes...
When Molly and Matt Highby opened Highby Forest Products in May, they didn't go in with a lot of expectations. "We didn't know the first thing about the business,"says the Molly, the company's president. But what they did know in looking at the opportunity to purchase the former Anderson Forest Products, was that it appeared to have some promise. But it's a business that could just as easily have fallen by the wayside had the Highbys not had a wider vision for the community. That's because...
"That's one," Sidney Coach Chris Koozer said following the Raiders' first game of the 2018-19 season, a 40-0 drubbing of Bridgeport. While it didn't start that way, Sidney manhandled the Bulldogs, using its size to overwhelm and wear down a team that showed splashes of quickness and talent with the pigskin. In fact, Bridgeport made the Raider crowd gasp early when quarterback Cole Faessler weaved his way through the line and broke away for a 48 yard romp before being chased down by the Raiders...
Going into the final weeks of the school year last May, most of the area’s small schools were bracing for an impact on enrollment that, thankfully, never happened. Nearly all schools, which had by last spring already seen mild dips in enrollment, and based on interviews and expectations, figured they could see substantially fewer students - up to 20 percent in some projections. But as students enrolled for the 2018-19 school year, the projections were disproved. While Creek Valley and Leyton Sch...
