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After two unforeseen incidences that both took out power to portions of Sidney last weekend, city councilman Mark Nienhueser questioned the city’s electrical system. “It’s something all the time,” he said. “There is questions about the reliability of our system being asked.” The city is still attempting to ascertain the cause of the electric pole fire that took place on Sunday evening. About half of the city’s electric load was cut off for one hour while firefighters extinguished the blaze. “We did not find anything on our wires, conducto...
The city continues work on 10th Ave. On Thursday the city plans to begin pouring the west section of 10th Ave. between Newton St. and Linden St. During the next week the city will likely pour the east section of that portion of street.... Full story
Sidney’s ambulance service is working to make fewer trips to the hospital by treating more people at home. “As we look at what’s happening from our federal government and down with healthcare, we have to change from taking care of sick people to being part of a system that keeps patients well and keeps them out of the hospitals,” said Randy Meininger, the program manager for Emergency Response Care. “And paramedics are in the right spot at the right time to do that.” ERC is a department of Regional West Medical Center. The organizatio...
Sidney Public Library's summer reading program this year encouraged participants to get excited about science. The program came to a close on Tuesday with awards and a special invention presentation by 12-year-old Benjamin Bashtovoi. Bashtovoi invented a book-finding device that would roll along the library shelves to find books for those who don't know how to use the library's system. A person searching for a book would simply type the title into a computer, which would send the information to... Full story
Ongoing Ladies Chamber Farmers Market at Hickory Square every Saturday during summer (through Sept.) from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Any Vendors with produce or crafts are welcome! Contact Margaret Lienemann at 254-7343 for info. School Supplies Sign-up Holy Trinity’s Table of Grace is now registering children who are in need of school supplies for the 2014-2015 school year. This year they will be donating basic school supplies for children in grades K-6. Every child will receive the same supplies (i.e. pencils, crayons, scissors, rulers, etc.). T... Full story
If you think back to your math classes in high school or college, you may remember that many of the problems involved the use of variables. Changing these variables around in any fashion would change the outcome of the problem. Similar situations occur in life all the time. To illustrate: If you look at the need to manage your retirement income so that you can’t outlive it as a “problem” to be solved, you will need to adjust some variables to arrive at the solution you seek. That’s why it’s so important you be aware of the key variables...
