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An external audit of the last fiscal year proved that the city is in good financial shape. Robert Rauner, from Rauner & Associates, the company which performed the audit, spoke to the city council at Tuesday’s meeting. As of Sept. 30, 2013, the end of Sidney’s 2012-2013 fiscal year, the city’s assets outpaced its liabilities by around $57 million. Governmental expenses decreased by around $450,000 from the previous year and revenue increased by $429,000. Expenses for business activities, which include the utilities that the city provides to the...
The final plat for the first phase of The Ranch, Cabela's housing subdivision on the east side of town was approved at Tuesday's city council meeting. This phase will include 92 of the 750 lots which will eventually exist inside the development. This is what the company considers phase 1A, which includes only land which lies outside the flood plain. The company must wait for government approval before continuing with phase 1B, featuring land in the flood plain. This could take six to eight months. The subdivision will be located between Old Pos... Full story
A request from the city to landowners for extra right of way for the first phases of improvements on Greenwood Rd. and Toledo St. has received multiple denials. Although the city did not receive any objections for creation of the street improvement districts for either of the roads, John Hehnke estimates that around 75 percent of landowners on the east side of Greenwood Rd. denied the city’s request for seven extra feet of right of way. Toledo St. and Greenwood Rd. were originally built along county section lines. At that time law mandated t...
Cheyenne County Emergency Communications Center would like to announce that they will begin weekly testing of the Early Warning System next week. Beginning Wed., March 19th, 2014 at approximately 10 a.m., testing will be done every week on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. through the end of September. You will hear your local Early Warning Sirens being set off briefly; this is to ensure they are functional and working properly. However; in the case of inclement weather during normal testing times, the test will not be performed. There is no need to... Full story
Members of the Cool Kids Club spent Friday morning making items - in this case a flower - out of duct tape.... Full story
Marjorie Lessman, 88 of Dalton, passed away Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at the Penrose St. Francis Health Services Medical Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Sat., March 22nd in the Salem Lutheran Church in Gurley with Pastor Ted Bourett officiating. Burial will follow in the Dalton Cemetery. A complete obituary will be published when available. Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service, LLC is in charge of Marjorie’s care and funeral arrangements.... Full story
Phantly Roy Bean Jr., more popularly known as Judge Roy Bean, was born sometime around 1825 in Mason County, Kentucky. Roy was the youngest of five siblings who were raised in poverty by Roy Sr. and his wife Anna. At around 16 years of age, Roy left home on a flatboat bound for New Orleans with the hopes of finding work. But it seems that Roy Jr. was more adept at finding trouble than finding work. Or perhaps it was more often that trouble found Roy. At any rate, New Orleans proved to be a...
A Cool Kids Club member concentrates on her task.... Full story
Compiled By The Sidney Sun-Telegraph Staff These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 Years Ago March 15, 1913 'Two Wrecks Kill Nine – Shocking results of The Storm in Railroad Fatalities' This seems to be a week of calamities, the climax being several wrecks in Thursday nights storm. Details are meager as we go to press at five o clock Friday evening, a howling blizzard p...
Prophecy can save lives if heeded. A merchant seaman, Morgan Robertson, wrote a novel called “The Wreck of the Titan.” Many publishers refused to publish it because the story was “too unbelievable.” But more than 13 years later, the Titanic would set sail and prove those publishers very wrong. Some of the eerie parallels of the voyage of the Titanic and the fictional vessel, the Titan, are almost beyond belief. Both vessels were about 800 ft. long and 90 ft. wide. Both ships could travel at a top speed of 24 knots, and carried approxi...
On Saturday, March 1, nine students from the ATA Family Martial Arts School in Sidney successfully tested for the rank of 1st degree black belt decided. Participants were judged by their instructor, 4th degree black belt and school owner Tony Virgalitte, as well as 7th degree black belt Senior Master Ramsey Cross and 6th degree black belt Master Gary Betts, who traveled from Denver to observe. The students successfully passing their black belt testing were: Linda Autrey, Mitch Deer, Rishi...
It is hard to think about baseball when temperatures struggling to climb above strike zone, but what a perfect opportunity to break out the rule book and brush up on the laws of the game before we begin the 2014 season. In the past we have spoke about individual rules and situations, which I know we will be getting into as the season progresses. But let’s start the season with the knowledge of how to navigate the rule book and find the rules that govern the game. The Official Rule Book is comprised of 10 sections. They are: Objectives of the g...
Dylan Brenner escapes.... Full story
