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  • Doves, OHD tend gardens in the park

    Brandon L. Summers|Jul 5, 2017

    Sidney's Office of Human Development and the DOVES Program both visited Legion Park Wednesday for a morning of gardening. OHD, which serves adults with developmental disabilities, brought six clients to Memorial Gardens for a morning of planting and maintaining the grounds. "This is just an activity to get them out and about, something just to help them learn a skill," Nick Hays, OHD staff member, said. "It gets them out in the community. They love getting out. They have a lot of fun doing it....

  • WING Task Force makes two Sidney arrests

    Don Ogle|Jul 5, 2017

    Two Sidney residents were arrested on felony charges Friday as local law enforcement personnel from the Western Nebraska Intelligence Group (WING) Task Force investigated a report of drugs being shipped through the mail to the Sidney Post Office. According to the arrest affidavit, WING Task Force officers from the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office, Sidney Police Departments and Nebraska State Patrol, aided by the United States Postal Inspectors Service, observed Sean Ewert accept a package from...

  • Sidney after Cabela's

    Brandon L. Summers|Jul 5, 2017

    Sidney’s future is unknowable. Cabela’s stockholders will vote July 11 on whether to sell to BassPro. Neither company can speak about what might result from the potential sale, though. Mayor Joe Arterburn visited the Sidney Sun-Telegraph Wednesday to speak about the city’s future and the atmosphere of uncertainty in Sidney. “I think we’re all waiting to see what’s going to happen at that meeting,” Arterburn said. “That’ll be the shareholders voting on the option to sell. I don’t have any in...

  • Bomgaars finishes move

    Don Ogle|Jul 5, 2017

  • Best in the World

    Don Ogle|Jul 5, 2017
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    FORSYTHE, Mont. - Sidney area shooters hit the mark, and often, at a competitive match in mid-June, bringing home first place recognition in three events and second in two others. And this isn't your ordinary trap shoot. The prizes were earned amongst 647 entries in the Matthew Quigley Buffalo Rifle Match. What sets the shoot apart are mainly two things: type of weaponry (using black powder or smokeless ammunition, rather than modern center fire) with cast bullets, and the sheer distances...