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Cabela’s Outdoor Fund and The Arbor Day Foundation have partnered together to replant in forests devastated by natural disaster. A press release sent out by the Arbor Day Foundation said the reforestation efforts, which include the planting of 200,000 trees, are critical to preserving wildlife habitat. Record wildfire seasons in recent years have destroyed millions of trees in forests around the country. Many areas were burned so severely that natural regeneration is not possible, making the need to replant necessary. Insect infestations, disea...
Sidney’s City Council will hold a special meeting Wednesday at noon set its tax levies for the general, street department and debt services funds. The special meeting is needed after council needed more information following its regular meeting last week due to uncertainty on bonding for debt payments coming due in December. The city has been working with bonding agencies to see what rates it might need to pay for the bonds. Council will review two options as it works to provide for the c...
In an event hosted by Peggy Popps and Wendall Gaston at Buffalo Point, Steve Erdman encouraged Sidney residents to vote for him for Legislature 47th District during the November election. Erdman has been a lifelong resident of Morrill County. He began his career in farming in 1972 learning first hand the hard work and responsibility that agriculture takes. Erdman has also served on numerous business and public boards both local and national. In 1981, unhappy with the education his children were...
This year 102 fourth grade students at North Elementary have planted fall tub gardens. Various short season seeds were planted in tubs, which were hand painted by the students. Students will work in teams to care for their plants throughout the year. Each student will use their Garden Science Journal to record their observations such as changes in their gardens, the care they gave their plant, and comparing their garden's growth with another tub garden. The journals will be completed on a...
Rasing funds for a local shelter, dogs and their owners will be dashing their way through a 5K run/walk at this years Old Settlers' Celebration in Lodgepole Terry Duffield, founder of Adopt-A-Dog Animal Rescue, said she started rescuing dogs in 1986, first by putting pens up in her yard in the town of Chappell before buying a house in the country with more land. "We kept the dogs north of the house at first and later I found an old hog building and was able to get it moved onto our property,"...
Sidney's Red Raiders opened their football season in a big way, scoring in nearly every way possible on the way to a 49-7 win over Lexington Friday at Weymouth Field. In the most improbable start possible, the Raiders put their first points on the board with two defensive rushes into the Minutemen backfield, scoring two safeties and a 4-0 lead after three and half minutes of play. Following the second safety, Sidney scored its first touchdown of the night when junior Coby Haas ran the ensuing...
