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Safeway in Sidney donated 43 turkey dinners with side items to Sidney's Table of Grace Mobile Food Pantry Tuesday morning. The Sidney store raised nearly $2,100 from local customers that was used for the turkey dinners. According to Safeway employees, they are thankful for all of the customers who helped make this donation possible for families in need this holiday season. Timm Lindeman, food pantry director, said the food will be spread out over the holidays. "Food will be given away in the...
A tradition that began more than two decades ago is again underway this year. A free Thanksgiving community dinner, open to everyone, will be served from noon to 2 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day at the First United Methodist Church in Sidney. All community members are invited to attend the event and celebrate the holiday with a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, said Dean Starr, who along with his wife, Susan, is a longtime organizer. The annual community dinner began about 23 years ago after a local woman wanted to give back to Sidney...
The unemployment rate in Cheyenne County rose slightly in October, to 2.3 percent. According to preliminary data recently released by the Nebraska Department of Labor, that's a 0.2 percent increase from September and up 0.4 percent from last October. Statewide, the jobless rate stands at a seasonally-adjusted 2.9 percent – unchanged from September and down 0.2 percentage points from October 2014. "October was another month of strong job growth for our state," Commissioner of Labor John Albin s...
Eight high school teams will be performing one-act plays at the Potter-Dix Junior and Senior High School on Monday. Students from Creek Valley, Leyton and Potter-Dix high schools will be up against five other Minuteman Activities Conference teams. The plays will begin at 9 a.m. "After each team performs, they clear the stage and then go to a critique room to listen to what to three judges have to say," Beth Bogert, sponsor of the Potter-Dix team, explained in an email. Awards for top teams and o...
A woman arrested two years ago after she was accused of taking sexually explicit photographs of a toddler appeared in court for a preliminary hearing on Friday. After listening to testimony, Cheyenne County Court Judge Randin Roland ruled there was sufficient probable cause to send the matter to district court, where felony cases are heard. Kristen Gulley, 30, of Sterling, Colo., is charged with five felony counts of visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct of a minor. Roland dismissed two...
In the past three years, nearly $250 million has been invested from public and private sources into development initiatives in Sidney. And for every $1 the municipality has spent on infrastructure and recreation, an additional $4.50 was invested from the private sector. Sidney Mayor Mark Nienhueser presented these numbers on Wednesday as he talked about the strong relationship between the City and businesses. He spoke to a group of about 45 local employers – members of the Cheyenne County C...
The Peetz Plateau School District Board of Education on Monday night bid farewell to three members who had reached maximum 8-year term limits and induct new members. Outgoing members Lanae Fehringer, Gary Gillham and Gary Schumacher were presented with certificates honoring their service to the school district. Nick Fehringer, Tiffany Vallier and Mike Hill, who won election to the board of education during Colorado's November election, were also officially inducted onto the board. Their terms ar...
A preliminary plat application for a residential development was tabled by the Sidney Planning Commission on Monday evening. The owner, Michael Nelson, and developer, Brad Harper, had submitted an application to subdivide and rezone a tract of land north of U.S. Hwy. 30 in the west part of Sidney. According to the application, the subdivision would include 10 lots and require a change from agriculture to residential zoning. Harper said the request was for the first phase of the project and the...
A local church is again seeking donations to benefit children affected by natural disasters or wars throughout the world. Operation Christmas Child, headed internationally by Samaritan’s Purse and organized locally by the Sidney Evangelical Free Church, sends shoeboxes with small gifts to children in need. Cheryl MacKenzie, who is leading the Sidney-based efforts, said the program has been in operation since 1993. It helps to distribute shoe boxes to children in war torn counties or where there’s been devastation. “Millions of shoeboxes have...
The Lodgepole, Sidney and Chappell volunteer fire departments responded to a structure fire southwest of Sunol on Friday night. Cheyenne County Sheriff John Jenson said the damage was extreme. "The house is pretty much a total loss," he said. The fire, at a residence along County Road 16, was first reported around 9:40 p.m. The last unit on scene left at 7 a.m. the next morning. One resident was treated for smoke inhalation and another for an injury sustained while leaving the house, Jenson...
A decision on whether or not Cheyenne County will apply for a livestock friendly designation will wait until the new year. Tyson Narjes, of the Cheyenne County Farm Bureau, told the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners on Monday that recent initiatives have demonstrated the county’s relationship to the agriculture industry. Applying for the designation would allow local elected officials to say they believe it, he said. Narjes highlighted the amount of support a new livestock building at the fairgrounds has received and the start of the R...
Students from high schools throughout Cheyenne County visited the Cheyenne County Courthouse on Monday as a part of county government day. The annual event, sponsored by the American Legion, allows students to learn about their local government. Participants met in the district courtroom before breaking into groups and visiting the various county offices. Sheriff John Jenson was the guest speaker at the lunch event held at the Elks Club....
Sidney elementary school students honored area veterans during a program on Thursday night. The fine arts auditorium at Sidney High School was full as parents, residents and veterans turned out for the event....
There is sufficient probable cause to continue a criminal court case against a Sidney woman alleged to have participated in a string of burglaries throughout Cheyenne County, a judge ruled this week. Mindy Richmond, 34, was arrested in June after another woman, Tanya Yates, approached the Sidney Police Department and told authorities Richmond had broken into more than 100 homes to steal prescription medication, cash and designer clothing. Richmond is facing 21 felony burglary charges and was released from custody in July after posting a...
A boil order notice has been issued for the Village of Dalton's public water supply. Jeff Juelfs, the community's utility supervisor, said the notice was issued Thursday after tests showed the presence of E. coli in the town's public drinking water. According to the notice, water must be boiled for one minute before being consumed. "Fecal coliforms and E. coli are bacteria whose presence indicates that the water may be contaminated with human or animal wastes," the notice states. "Microbes in...
CommScope has announced it will close its Sidney facility and eliminate 140 jobs. Employees will be laid off from the company in phases through mid-2016, when all operations are slated to be discontinued at the facility located along Greenwood Road in Sidney. The company was formerly known as TE Connectivity. CommScope acquired the location in a deal that closed in August, according to Kris Kozamchak, CommScope director of corporate communications. The Sidney facility manufactures copper cable...
While rumors and speculation about the future of Cabela’s intensify, the Sidney-based outdoor retailer has continued to remain silent. However, despite the assertions of a news report from a TV station in Montana, Sidney Mayor Mark Nienhueser said the city has not been informed of a change in the ownership at Cabela’s. “As far as we know, there’s nothing that’s true to it,” he said. “Cabela’s hasn’t said anything one way or the other.” On Wednesday, KULR-TV reported an employee at a Billings, Mont., Cabela’s retail store said managers there h...
Sidney junior and senior high partnered with Sidney Regional Medical Center to host their first Veterans Day program Wednesday afternoon. The middle and high school choir members performed for local veterans....
While rumors and media reports circulate about the future of Cabela's, Sidney's mayor said residents must be patient. "As everybody well knows, there's an active investor that's taken an interest in [Cabela's]," Sidney Mayor Mark Nienheuser remarked at a city council meeting on Tuesday. "There's nothing we can do at this point trying to speculate on hypotheticals at this time. We just have to wait and be patient and allow Cabela's to do what they need to do to run their business." Last month,...
Applications will soon be accepted for the vacant Sidney city manager position. Mayor Mark Nienhueser said representatives from an executive recruitment firm hired by the city to help in the search process were in town last week. The representatives met with department heads and city councilors to help identify characteristics sought in a new city manager, the mayor said at a city council meeting on Tuesday. “We are in the process of finalizing the drafts of those documents that will hopefully get posted this week,” Nienhueser said. The pos...
The Sidney Public School District exceeded state averages last year on tests administered to students throughout Nebraska. According to the State of the Schools Report released by the Nebraska Department of Education, 83 percent of Sidney students tested exceeded or met proficiency standards in reading, 78 percent in mathematics, 85 percent in science and 80 percent in writing. In addition to scoring above statewide averages, more Sidney students scored as meeting or exceeding proficiency in reading, science and writing than the previous year....
School lunches in Sidney are being sourced more locally this year. Through a partnership with the Cheyenne County Farm Bureau and local agriculture producers, the Sidney Public School District is able to serve local beef to students. “It’s a new program that we just started this school year,” said Tyson Narjes, Cheyenne County Farm Bureau president. The Raider Beef program, headed by the local Farm Bureau, accepts donations in the form of cattle. They also accept funds to purchase cattle to provide beef for the school district. The only cost...
Cheyenne County is expanding a juvenile diversion program that offers alternatives to the formal justice system for minors alleged to have committed offenses. Paul Schaub, Cheyenne County Attorney, said in the past, diversion has been offered on a case-by-case basis. A $30,000 state grant, awarded in May, will now allow the county to hire a full time coordinator to create a systematic juvenile diversion program. "Any eligible person for the program is going to be presented with the same set of...
A trial scheduled to begin next week for a 19-year-old woman who faced six felony charges has been avoided after a plea deal was announced in court Wednesday. The charges against Mylissa Pennington were reduced to four class one misdemeanors – two counts of attempted possession of illegal mushrooms, attempted possession of more than 1 pound of marijuana and obstructing a peace officer – in exchange for no contest pleas. Each count carries a maximum possible penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. According to the plea agreement, Pen...
The Peetz Plateau School District will soon have three new board of education members. In Colorado’s Tuesday election, voters in Logan County’s Peetz Precinct selected from among four candidates to the fill the vacancies created by term limits. According to unofficial results released by the Colorado Secretary of State Elections Division, Michael Hill received 182 votes, the most of all candidates. He will be joined on the board of education by Nick Fehringer, who received 178 votes, and Tiffany Vallier, who received 116. Loretta Coakley was...
