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Not long ago Brayden Butts had a normal life with his family here in Sidney. That was until he rolled out of bed in the middle of the night on February 29. Early that morning his mother, Mindy Butts, said that she did not have a good feeling with how hard Brayden hit his head. It was in the emergency room at Sidney Regional Medical center that the Butts family's lives were flipped upside down when they received new that Brayden had a brain tumor located behind his eyes. Brayden has officially...
By Paige Yowell Omaha World-Herald The hedge fund that owns a big stake in Cabela’s and is agitating for change now owns about 2.2 million more of the company’s shares than it did at the end of 2015. That the New York hedge fund is putting more chips on the table, finance watchers say, is a sign the fund is confident it’s going to get its way when it comes to a push for change at the retailer. That could include carving up the company and closing its headquarters in Sidney, Nebraska. The recent buys bring Elliott Management’s ownership of Cabe...
Sidney’s city council members continue to wrestle with funding concerns in preparation for setting its mil levy. At its regular meeting Tuesday, as council prepared to set its property tax levy, discussion turned to a couple of items of uncertainty remaining in the budget and how those items might affect the city’s ability to meet its obligations under different scenarios. The biggest of those challenges is the question of upcoming bond needs. The city is preparing to seek bonds against up to...
Mable Nelson has been following the Olympic games for a more personal reason then most of Cheyenne County, Nelson has been cheering on not only Team USA in Volleyball but also her Grand-niece. Surrounded by paper clippings from various newspapers and magazines, Sidney resident, Nelson sat to talk about her grand-niece Jordan Larson. Larson just competed as a member of USA's Woman's Volleyball Team in the 2016 Olympic games that were held in Rio de Janeiro, August 5-21. Nelson said Larson...
Sidney TeamMates Mentoring Program along with Security First Bank and Security First Insurance will be holding it’s fourth annual tailgate party for the Sidney Red Raiders. “Security First Bank and Security First Insurance have sponsored this event for the last four years, and all the proceeds go to Sidney’s TeamMates program,” said Brenda Jessen with TeamMates. TeamMates was founded in 1994 and began in Sidney 2011 in an effort to bring support and encouragement to school age children. The program serves students in grades five through...
Alice Maria Didier, 65 of Sidney, and former Gering, NE resident, passed away at the Sidney Regional Medical Center Extended Care on Monday, August 22, 2016. Rosary Services will be held at 9:30 a.m., with a Memorial Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m., Friday, August 26th. Both services will be in the Christ The King Catholic Church in Gering with Father Mike McDonald officiating. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m., Friday in the Greenwood Cemetery in Sidney with Father Jim Heithoff officiating....
The City of Sidney will be fog sealing Jackson Street from 5 Ave. to 19 Ave. on Monday August 29, 2016. Parking will be very limited around the Cheyenne Courthouse due to this procedure. All doors of the courthouse will be open during the time that Jackson Street is barricaded for the street work. The City will begin cleaning the streets on Thursday 25, Friday 26, and Monday 29. Please remove vehicles at this time. The City also asks that no water be allowed to run in the gutter on Monday the 29. All vehicles and trailers will need to be...