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Cabela’s shareholders Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for the sale to BassPro. According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, approximately 78 percent of the outstanding shares of common stock voted in favor of the proposal. Roughly 54 million voted in favor of the merger, with only 154,853 against and 233,896 abstaining. A vote was also held on merger-related compensation for executive officers. The non-binding advisory vote approved compensation “that may be paid or become pay...
City Council members Tuesday congratulated BassPro for the purchase of Cabela’s that morning. Council member Roger Gallaway said he looks forward to working with BassPro in the future. “I look forward to the energy and innovation they continue to bring to the outdoor recreation industry, and being part of our community, as well,” he said. Mayor Joe Arteburn offered similar sentiments. “The city has no insight into what’s going on with the sale of Cabela’s, or with BassPro,” Arterburn sai...
A city auction being held at Sidney Police Department Sunday will offer surplussed items from various city departments, including used vehicles. The auction is part of an annual city effort, SPD Chief Joe Aikens said. “We have property that’s gathered that nobody claims and we can’t keep it around forever,” Aikens said. “We have a ton of bikes, and stuff people turn in, abandoned around town. Every couple of years we try to have an auction to sell off that, any surplus equipment we might have....
Constance Peetz Mangold, 90, Lincoln, passed away July 10, 2017. Born October 12, 1926 in Douglas, Wyoming to Everett and Myrtle (Dickinson) Copenhaver. Constance lived in Douglas until finishing high school and then graduated from nursing school at Presbyterian Hospital in Denver, Colorado. She worked as a registered nurse at Colorado General Hospital and at St. Anthony's Hospital in Denver. Married John Peetz, Jr. on November 26, 1947 in Denver. The couple moved to Omaha in September of 1948 f...
By the time Joan Fowler-Hughes was 21 years old, she had graduated from high school as well as college. She was seriously involved with a man who was a college graduate as well as a pilot… and deployed to the theater of war in Europe. The man was killed in action. Joan was grief-stricken. The best thing she felt she could to do keep his memory alive was to try to take his place in service to the country. Joan and a college friend decided to join the ranks of the Navy’s WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). The WAVES were est...
