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Sandhills Publishing will be opening up an additional office in Sidney, both expanding the company westward and offering positions to those recently affected by Cabela’s call center consolidation. According to a recent press release, the Lincoln-based publishing company offers products and services that “gather, process and distribute information in the form of trade publications and corresponding websites that connect buyers and sellers across trucking, agriculture, construction, heavy equipment, aviation and technology industries.” Curre...
State Senator Steve Erdman, of Bayard, visited Sidney Friday to speak about the current legislative session. Erdman explained to an audience of 15 at Dude's Steakhouse problems facing the Legislature. A member of the Committee on Committees, Erdman said the education and judiciary committees are balanced toward progressives. "In Judiciary we have two very conservative people and six progressive people, and on education we're four-to-four," he said. "So those two committees have a difficult time...
More than 150 parishioners from St. Patrick's Catholic Church spent Sunday packaging 20,000 meals for Helping Hands, a joint effort between Catholic Relief Services and Rise Against Hunger. "It's an opportunity to be in solidarity with the poor and the hungry throughout the world," Rev. James Heithof said. "There's a sense that when we serve them, we're serving Christ." The meals cost 50 cents each to produce. Stations with volunteers of all ages put together the rice, dehydrated vegetables and...
Every property in Sidney will be inspected starting in April. City employees will be looking for basic violations, Ed Sadler, city manager, said. “We’re inspecting for the obvious,” Sadler said. “If you’ve got the car parked in the front yard, the mattress piled up against the side of the house. You don’t have any house numbers on it. You’ve got trash bags piled up. We’re trying to get things cleaned up.” He added, “For the violations we’ll take pictures and we’ll send out a letter.” Citizens wi...
Cleo Birner, 79 of Sidney, Nebraska died Tuesday morning, March 28, 2017 at her home in Sidney. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Friday, March 31, 2017 in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney with Pastor David Hall officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. The complete obituary will appear in the Friday edition of the paper. You can share condolences with the family at www.holechekfuneralhomes.com Holechek Funeral Home and Cremations in Sidney is serving the Birner family....
James L. "Jim" Gilroy, age 88 of Dalton, NE passed away at Highland Park Care Center in Alliance, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, March 29th in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney with Pastor Leon "Bud" Gillespie officiating. Burial with Military Honors will follow in the Dalton Cemetery. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Tuesday from 1-7:00 P.M. Memorial contributions may be made in Jim's name to Highland Park Care Center in...
Loyal R. Hornicek, age 88 of Chappell, NE went to rest with our heavenly father on March 23, 2017 at Miller Memorial Care Center in Chappell, NE. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, April 1st in the Lodgepole United Methodist Church with Rev. David Abbott officiating. Burial with Military Honors will be in the Chappell Cemetery at 1:30 P.M. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Friday from 1-7:00 P.M. Memorials have been established to the Miller Memorial Care Center...
Sidney's Alex Linneman was a double event winner to help lead the Raiders to a second place finish Saturday when they hosted the Sidney Invitational at Weymouth Field. Linneman leaped his way to the long jump title, eclipsing his closest challenger by more than a half foot, then raced to gold in the 200 meter run. Linneman also ran in Sidney's other gold medal event, the 4x100 meter relay. On the way to its second place team finish Sidney placed in the top 10 in all 17 Division 1 events. On the...
