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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts flew into the Sidney Municipal Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 18 as part of a string of stops around the state. After disembarking his plane and spending a few minutes mingling with the crowd, the governor delivered a speech to a group of local residents and city officials. The address focused on several issues that Ricketts had recently put before the Nebraska Legislature, many of them related to the state budget and taxes. Two weeks ago, Ricketts proposed budget...
County officials met in Tuesday’s Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners meeting for a budget review. The Commissioners meeting was held in the District Court room Tuesday, to make room for various officials that gathered for the county’s six month budget review. Certified Public Accountant Rachel Smith, of Rauner and Associates, presented the six month review. A local government budget is a financial plan that details the government’s projected revenues and expenditures for a defined period of time. According to Smith, the Cheyenne Count...
Numbers comparing the new and old are in. In late December, the Sidney City Council received a presentation that set the 2015 and 2016 expenses, revenues and attendance numbers for the Sidney Aquatic Center side-by-side, showing the shift in cost and use of the new facility versus the old. In 2016, the facility saw an increased patronage of 41 people per day, for an average of 141 people using the facility daily. Along with attendance, both revenues and expenses for the pool jumped up in 2016. Subscribe to the Sidney Sun-Telegraph to read the...
Thomas Potton, “Tom” grew up in a family of people with strong military backgrounds. He also loved to fly and had his private pilot’s license by the time he was 17 years old. He lived in Alaska since 1982. His father was a commercial pilot and a missionary pilot. Tom, being home schooled, worked on his studies early then went over to the airport hangar to work on planes and learned to fly. The missionary work involved flying in humanitarian aid items to the small villages in hard to get to places. On graduating from high school, he was very awa...
Down Under Sports has announced that Connor Dormann from Sidney High School has been invited to represent Nebraska on the 2017 Central Conference Golf Team. Dormann is currently a junior at Sidney High School and has been on the varsity golf team since his freshman year. He has won two meets, has placed in the top ten in six other meets, and has placed 5th and 6th at the Western Conference Invite. Last year at the B-4 District Golf Meet, Dormann earned 10th place and Sidney, as a team, earned 2n...
