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Keeping Sidney beautiful is more complicated than it needs to be when specific public places have rampant littering, littering that appears to be from a specific population. The Sidney City Council reviewed a memo submitted by Police Chief Joe Aikens, a proposal to reduce parking on Silverburg Drive. The resolution calls for no parking on Silverburg Drive from the southeast corner of the 3090 block north to the intersection with Jennifer Lane, and from the intersection of Chase Boulevard and Upl...
The draft Wildcat Hills Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) Update for Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, and Scotts Bluff Counties is ready for public review. Draft copies of the document have been mailed to county offices and are available to the public online at https://nfs.unl.edu/documents/CWPP/WHCWPP.pdf. Comments will be accepted until July 9, 2021. County boards, emergency managers, fire department personnel, and other stakeholders worked with the Nebraska Forest Service to update the 2015 CWPP. This plan is a wildfire-specific...
The weather was inviting Monday as a large crowd of supporters gathered for the Memorial Day service at Greenwood Cemetery in Sidney Monday. The service, held at the Veteran Section, was opened by Cheyenne County Veteran Service Office Fred Wiedeburg, followed by Evangelical Free Church Pastor Kyle Larson offering the invocation. 2021 Sidney High School graduate Elizabeth Weimer sung the National Anthem. This year's guest speaker was SCPO Bobby Martinez, USN, Ret. “I'm extra humbled to be h...
To our graduates: In 2019, as the calendar steadily clicked toward 2020, high school juniors were quietly and not-so-quietly viewing the senior year with increasing intensity The idea of donning the cap and gown grew from a fantasy, a vision of the future, to something attainable. Visions of walking the aisle were likely relived with frequency as time ticked forward. The sound of high heeled shoes clacking on the gym floor in pace with the shuffle of tennis shoes worn by the other side of the pa...
Joan Lorraine (Baker) Loghry, 80, of Sidney, passed away October 29, 2020, at Sidney Extended Care. Memorial Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 19, 2021 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney with Pastors Chad Rademacher and Leon “Bud” Gillespie officiating. Burial will follow in the Dalton Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. Family and friends can leave condolences at www.bondegardfunerals.com. Holechek-Bondegard Funeral Home and Cremations in Oshkosh is serving the Loghry fam...
Ross Philo Thompson, age 94, of Sidney, NE passed away Monday, May 24, 2021 in Sidney. Burial will be at 9:00 A.M. on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 in the Chappell Cemetery in Chappell, NE with funeral services to follow at 11:00 A.M. at the First United Methodist Church in Sidney, NE with Pastor Corey Jenkins officiating. Services will be recorded and available on our website for viewing Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Tuesday from 1-6:00 P.M. to sign Ross's register book and leave...
SIDNEY — Sidney Fire and Police are on a mission to help save lives by collecting blood for hospital patients in need during the Battle of the Badges blood drive. Battle of the Badges is a friendly competition to see who can recruit the most eligible blood donors to join them in this lifesaving effort. The community is encouraged give blood from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 3, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. Free t-shirts are available for all presenting donors, while supplies last! The need for blood is constant. Joining first res...
I have a confession to make. I dodged the draft during the Viet Nam war era. It was easy to do. All I had to do was call up the Navy recruiter in Anchorage, AK and say, “I want to enlist in the Navy.” A short time later I was safe from the Army, and in Navy boot camp at San Diego, CA. Five years later I received a medical discharge and joined the ranks of those who are proud to have served our great Nation, the United States of America. The Navy taught me a great many things that I have fou...
I’ve been thinking of some of my “unexpected journeys” lately. I’ve been thinking how life can change when stepping out of the familiar and walking life’s path with a stranger. About 10 years ago, I was presented an opportunity to go somewhere I had never been, do things I had only heard and read about, and meet people I might only envision after a National Geographic film. It sounds dramatic, even fictional, like being stranded on an island and encountering a primitive culture or something...
In case you haven’t seen any news in the last two weeks, the notion that the Covid-19 virus escaped from a virus research laboratory in Wuhan, China, is no longer a fever dream only found in intellectually compromised brains of tinfoil-hat-wearing bloggers in the far-right corners of the Dark Web. In fact, it now appears that the virus most likely WAS manmade in a lab, and that it escaped into China’s population months before anyone in the West heard about it. So certain is this idea, that Fac...
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was first officially observed on May 30, 1868, on the order of General John Alexander Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of the American Civil War dead. Arlington National Cemetery, filled with all those white grave markers, is probably the most symbolic of the cost of war and a revelation of our heritage and troublous times in American history.Historically, Memorial Day was expanded to include all who died in World War 1, and further expanded to include those of World War 2, better...
5 marks the fifteenth year I will plant a garden, which certainly does not qualify me as an expert, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve I thought I could share with you over the next few articles. My gardening adventures began when my cowboy and I were living in northern Wyoming. The first year I began gardening I spent hours and hours researching and studying before I ever moved a bit of dirt. The first step in any garden is finding the right spot and determining the layout that works best...
SIDNEY – Cheyenne County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Brad Fraass is reminding area producers that accurate and timely reporting of acres for all crops and land uses is an FSA program eligibility requirement. The deadline for acreage certification is July 15, 2021. This includes common spring-planted crops, such as oats, corn, peas, grain sorghum, millet, sunflowers, and etc but also includes Conservation Reserve Program acres and perennial grass. “In order to comply with program eligibility requirements, all producers mus...
More than 600 elementary students from around the area got a hands-on education recently about Nebraska agriculture. Over the course of four days in Bridgeport, Hemingford and Sidney, Agsplosion, an Agricultural Literacy Festival for second- and third-grade youth sponsored by Nebraska Extension, reached 602 students from Garden County, Creek Valley, Mitchell, Bridgeport, Hay Springs, Banner County, Bayard, Alliance, Rushville, South Platte, Sidney, Leyton, Crawford, Hemingford, and Gordon. The...
OKLAHOMA CITY - To honor the creative efforts teachers have made to maneuver their ever-shifting learning environments and keep students engaged this past year, SONIC®Drive-In donated $1.5 million to teacher requests on national education nonprofit site DonorsChoose on Teacher Appreciation Day, May 4. As part of SONIC’s ongoing Limeades for Learninginitiative, the $1.5 million donation helped fund more than 7,000 teacher requests across the country in need of critical resources, including a special teacher in Sidney, Neb., who received a co...
Cheyenne County has recently been selected to be part of Nebraska Children and Families Foundation Communities for Kids, a state-wide initiative which supports young children, families and those providing their care. We have a small group of people who make up the core leadership team. We are looking for more community members who would be interested in joining. Our next meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8th at ESU #13. If you are interested or have more questions please call Angie Borgmann at 308-765-8458 or email at...
4th Quarter Straight A 12th Grade Hunter Ahrendt, Daniella Albus, Reagan Biesecker, Marissa Borchard, Rebekah Carlson, Shawna Deaver, Trey Douglas, Rhett Dykstra, Kaylee Eddy, Adarsha Ganesan, Blaze Ginther, Cole Glanz, Phyre Gonzales, Alyssiah Green, Samuel Hashman, Morgan Jaggers, Aiden Jenkins, Tiffany Jenks, Abbie Johnson, Garrett Jones, Peyton Lewis, Jersie Misegadis, Emma Mortensen, Delanie Namuth, Kaylin Neumann, Ashlee Ringleman, Ireland Smelley, Karly Sylvester, Elizabeth Weimer, Emma Wintholz and Gage Yoder. 11th Grade Daniel...
Sidney Police Department May 14 6:19 am, Escort Funeral, Holy Trinity Church, San Marino Rd. 7:24 am, Traffic Stop, 19th Ave. & Illinois St. 9:40 am, Traffic Stop, Jennifer Ln. & 17J Link 10:01 am, Traffic Stop, Fort Sidney Rd. 10:18 am, Animal Call, 11th Ave. & Dodge St. 11:18 am, Code Violation, Forrest St. 12:03 pm, Code Violation, Forrest St. 2:19 pm, Traffic Stop, Pole Creek Crossing & Fort Sidney Rd. 2:38 pm, Alarm-Fire, Craig Ave. 2:40 pm, Juvenile Problems, Subway North, 10th Ave. 2:56 pm, Traffic Stop, Nebraskaland Tire, Illinois St....
Sidney’s American Legion Post 17 Junior team had a busy week on the field, but only managed one win at the end of stretch to build upon. The week started at home with a contest on Monday May 24 against the Alliance FNBO Jr. Spartans, and despite falling behind early, the Sidney Jr. 1 team battled back to tighten the game despite ultimately falling by a score of 6-to-4. Sidney’s Jakob Meyer got the start on the mound and used good control, locating the ball well while doing a great job cha...
Sidney’s American Legion Post 17 Senior Baseball team continued their slow start to the season, but were able to finally break through with a win against the Bridgeport Bombers on Wednesday before losing to the Bombers in tournament play on Sunday. On Tuesday May 25, the Seniors hosted the bombers at Legion Field, and this game slowly slipped away as Gering built up runs as the innings progressed while Sidney struggled to find any offense. Sidney’s Micah Schneider started on the mound for the...
Sidney’s Red Raider Boy’s Golf team will have a change in leadership next season, as the district announced on May 27 that Dan Dorwart and Lance Juelfs will take over the coaching duties in the 2022 season. Current Head Coach Ryan Plummer is leaving the Sidney Public Schools district, and Dorwart and Juelfs join recently-named Sidney Lady Raider Golf Head Coach Tyler Shaw in their new roles starting next season. Dorwart is currently a teacher at Sidney Middle School, and Juelfs was an assistant coach for Sidney in the 2021 sea...
Last week the Legislature voted to override Gov. Rickett’s vetoes on three bills: LB 108, LB 147 and LB 306. LB 108 and LB 306 expand Nebraska’s welfare benefits, while LB 147 requires the State to take over management of the Omaha Public School’s teacher pension plan. So, today I would like to explain why the Legislature was wrong to override the Governor’s vetoes on these three bills. LB 108 is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The bill raises the gross income limit for the Supplemental Nut...
The coronavirus pandemic has been a long journey, but through it all Nebraskans have pulled together to keep people healthy. On March 6, 2020, Nebraska reported its first positive case of the coronavirus. Over the last 15 months, Nebraskans have made many sacrifices. We have spent time apart from each other, figured out how to manage schools and businesses, and worked hard to slow the spread of the virus to protect our hospitals. As our state grappled with the new virus, Nebraskans stepped up...
On Memorial Day we set aside time to honor and remember those who put on our nation's uniform and gave their lives in defense of our freedoms. The willingness of many to defend our borders, our freedom, and our Republic is what keeps the American dream alive and the United States a prominent leader on the world stage. We are reminded of the selfless acts of heroism of our armed forces who served in past conflicts and those who continue to serve around the world today. I recently supported three...
Memorial Day began in the years after the Civil War, when it was originally called “Decoration Day.” At the first official celebration of this holiday in 1868, then-Congressman James A. Garfield, who would become our 20th president, said in a speech at Arlington National Cemetery that those who gave their lives for our country “summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens.” That is as true today as it was 150 years ago. Memorial Day honors the sacrifi...
