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Many people who work 9 to 5 have trouble racing downtown in time, when most shops close their doors at or shortly after 5:00 p.m. Starting last week, however, some of Sidney's downtown stores joined together, staying open until 7 p.m. on Thursday nights. The city is helping to promote these idea with advertising in print, radio spots and social media. Community Development Director Megan McGown said, "We want to create a buzz as well as help generate traffic downtown,” observed Sidney's C... Full story
Someone always wins. Of course, you have to be in the right place at the right time to collect. The place is Sam & Louie’s. The time? Almost precisely at 7 p.m. every Friday night. The payoff comes in the form of free pizza, pasta, wings or whatever else a table orders during the restaurant’s popular Free Table Fridays. Well, popular for those in the know. I learned of the deal when a couple of beaming co-workers came to work on a Monday morning bragging about free pizza. They had been caught off guard, too, unaware of the promotion. “A lot of...
Kanalihoppers Restaurant and Spirits, a new restaurant which just opened up in the building that used to house Mulligan’s Restaurant right next to the Kimball Golf Course, is already setting off discussions around town with everybody wondering what exactly the name comes from. According to owner Donna Thompson, the name stems from a story from her childhood involving her grandfather. “My family is Irish. When I was a little girl, my grandpa would come into the house and say, ‘Oh gosh, my kanalihopper is killing me.’ I was about six years o... Full story
The sights and sounds of the county fair bring up a rather discordant arrangement of memories for me. This version of nostalgia is full of long gone experiences, some good, some bad and some in between. Although this year will be my first Cheyenne County Fair, the county fair where I grew up in Indiana was a pretty big deal. I recall desperately scrambling to finish a ridiculous load of 4-H projects after a summer of extreme laziness. I would initially enter into every non-animal related category that I found even slightly interesting. As... Full story
Plans for the new hospital are going so smoothly that city officials consider it something to brag about. "I just think you need to be out there tooting your horn a little bit," Sidney Mayor Wendall Gaston told hospital CEO Jason Petik during Tuesday night's City Council meeting. "This is a pretty impressive looking facility." Still, while the initial design process for the medical center is already complete, architects and hospital officials are ironing out some kinks and are open to changes. "I know we are still working on some concepts and s... Full story
Sidney Public Library's reading programs aren't just for kids. The adult summer reading program, started by Vickie Morlock in 2006, wrapped up last week. Sue Wilson, a 5th grade teacher at West Elementary won the grand prize of dinner and a movie for two, drawn from entries submitted when participants return books. Wilson was encouraged to join the program by Doris Jensen, the Library Director, because she knows that Wilson travels to visit her grandchildren during the summer. "I really helps...
