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OKLAHOMA CITY - To honor the creative efforts teachers have made to maneuver their ever-shifting learning environments and keep students engaged this past year, SONIC®Drive-In donated $1.5 million to teacher requests on national education nonprofit site DonorsChoose on Teacher Appreciation Day, May 4. As part of SONIC’s ongoing Limeades for Learninginitiative, the $1.5 million donation helped fund more than 7,000 teacher requests across the country in need of critical resources, including a special teacher in Sidney, Neb., who received a co...
Cheyenne County has recently been selected to be part of Nebraska Children and Families Foundation Communities for Kids, a state-wide initiative which supports young children, families and those providing their care. We have a small group of people who make up the core leadership team. We are looking for more community members who would be interested in joining. Our next meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8th at ESU #13. If you are interested or have more questions please call Angie Borgmann at 308-765-8458 or email at...
4th Quarter Straight A 12th Grade Hunter Ahrendt, Daniella Albus, Reagan Biesecker, Marissa Borchard, Rebekah Carlson, Shawna Deaver, Trey Douglas, Rhett Dykstra, Kaylee Eddy, Adarsha Ganesan, Blaze Ginther, Cole Glanz, Phyre Gonzales, Alyssiah Green, Samuel Hashman, Morgan Jaggers, Aiden Jenkins, Tiffany Jenks, Abbie Johnson, Garrett Jones, Peyton Lewis, Jersie Misegadis, Emma Mortensen, Delanie Namuth, Kaylin Neumann, Ashlee Ringleman, Ireland Smelley, Karly Sylvester, Elizabeth Weimer, Emma Wintholz and Gage Yoder. 11th Grade Daniel...
Sidney Police Department May 14 6:19 am, Escort Funeral, Holy Trinity Church, San Marino Rd. 7:24 am, Traffic Stop, 19th Ave. & Illinois St. 9:40 am, Traffic Stop, Jennifer Ln. & 17J Link 10:01 am, Traffic Stop, Fort Sidney Rd. 10:18 am, Animal Call, 11th Ave. & Dodge St. 11:18 am, Code Violation, Forrest St. 12:03 pm, Code Violation, Forrest St. 2:19 pm, Traffic Stop, Pole Creek Crossing & Fort Sidney Rd. 2:38 pm, Alarm-Fire, Craig Ave. 2:40 pm, Juvenile Problems, Subway North, 10th Ave. 2:56 pm, Traffic Stop, Nebraskaland Tire, Illinois St....
Dalton American Legion Post No. 301 will be hosting Memorial Day Services 10 a.m. Monday at the cemetery. Vocals will be provided by Hannah Vath, and guest speaker will be Sen. Steve Erdman....
Three Sidney Public School employees celebrated their retirement on Wednesday of last week with cakes, well-wishes and heartfelt tributes by the Sidney Public Schools staff and friends at the Sidney High School commons area. Harless worked a total of 29 years in education, working as a traveling nurse for 13 years before moving to Sidney inn 1992 and continuing her nursing career at Sidney Public Schools. She plans on staying in the area and visiting with her son in San Diego and daughter in...
If you have children or grandchildren, you may already be somewhat familiar with the 529 plan, a popular education savings vehicle. But you may not have kept up with some recent changes in the plan’s capabilities and in the educational environment in which the plan might be used. Let’s start with the learning environment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities switched to online classes, or at least to a hybrid of in-person and online. And even before the pandemic, many schools offered remote classes, though obviously not to...
Bob Harveson embarked on his career as a plant pathologist in the mid-1980s, which in 1999 took him to Scottsbluff as a specialist on the faculty at the University of Nebraska Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center. But before switching to science, Harveson earned a bachelor’s degree in history, and now the two interests are coming together in the form of a book he has authored, “A Century of Plant Pathology in Nebraska.” The 114-page book was published in December 2020 by Zea Books...
POTTER AMERICAN LEGION POST NO. 291 SCHOLASTIC AWARD (The recipient of this award has the highest cumulative GPA for their respective class) JUNIOR – Thomas Muldoon SOPHOMORES – Zach Rotert & Jayden Shoemaker FRESHMAN – Brayden Kasten MAC ACT SCHOLAR AWARD (This award is based upon the ACT composite score for seniors. A composite score of 25-29 shall receive a silver medal and 30 or higher shall receive a gold medal.) Gold – Mary Kasten Silver – N/A MAC ALL-CONFERENCE ALL ACADEMIC (The recipient of this award must participate in two conferenc...
Nebraska State Patrol Click It or Ticket Campaign Aims to Reduce Roadway Fatalities (LINCOLN) — As the summer travel season kicks into gear, Nebraska State Troopers will be patrolling the state’s roads day and night in an effort to prevent serious injury or fatality crashes. The national “Click it or Ticket” campaign runs from Monday, May 24, through Sunday, June 6. “Traffic safety takes all of us working together,” said Colonel John Bolduc, Superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol. “The stats are clear that seat belts save lives. Every...
8th Grade Straight A Honor Roll Quarter 4 2020-2021 Dakota Ahrendt, Quinn Arellano, Carli Black, Benjamin Borchard, Kaylee Bowker, Zoey Christensen, JaShawn Davenport, Jordan Denovellis, Ryan Dillehay, Kirstin Dougherty, Rachel Ernst, Reid Fiscus, Kiera Fornander, Faith Frye, Dakota Hawkins, Deanna Horst, Cooper Jobman, Kourtney Keller, Jay Koozer, Aadhav Krishna, Patrick McCartney, Maria Mendez-Guzman, Teah Meyer, Kalynn Moore, Kealyn Mortensen, Kanon Palmer, Landon Riddle, Jayda Rister, Robert Stevens, Dru Weimer, Kayla Westby. 8th Grade A...
The Sidney High School gymnasium was busy with friends, family and supporters as the Class of 2021 was officially recognized as graduates. The afternoon started with a video presentation of graduates. Following the video, the Processional was played by Music Teacher Jennifer Mead as the senior made their way to the front of the room. Following the Processional and National Anthem performed by Sidney State of Mind, Sidney School District Superintendent Jay Ehler gave his welcome speech. “These gr...
The Sidney School Board of Education approved changes to graduation requirements. The changes align graduation requirements with the State's core curriculum requirements. Beginning this fall, ninth grade will be required to take World Geography, 10th grade American History, and 26 current juniors will need to take American Government, and 32 current juniors will need to take a semester of World History and a semester of Economics. Freshmen for the 2023 school year will have a semester World...
The COVID-19 pandemic may have unsettled many aspects of your life – including your financial situation. Even if your employment and earnings were not directly affected, you might have concerns about whether you’ve been making the right investment moves in such a stressful environment. The pandemic is, hopefully, just a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, but different events can rattle financial markets. And changes in your own life also can affect your plans. To prepare yourself for whatever tomorrow may hold, you may want to get some pro...
Grace is the unmerited favor of GOD, Grace was poured out on mankind with the Death and Resurrection of His Son Jesus. So Ive heard it explained this way Grace is GOD giving us something we don’t deserve, and Mercy is God not giving us something we do deserve. We are Saved by Grace and Faith, not by anything we do, so we can’t boast about what you did, salvation comes because Jesus sacrificed himself for us so we could recieve what GOD has for us, which is a relationship with him. The Grace of GOD helps us through this life and through Grace we...
Nebraska has long been known as the Beef State and May is Beef Month, so it’s the perfect time to enjoy a delicious burger or steak. Agriculture is our state’s largest industry, and beef is the biggest segment of Nebraska agriculture. Our beef industry generates about $10.6 billion in cash receipts each year, which is roughly half of all ag receipts in Nebraska. Nationally, Nebraska ranks No. 1 for commercial cattle slaughter, and we’re number two for beef exports, commercial red meat produ...
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 the South Platte Natural Resources District (SPNRD) Board of Directors (Board) held its monthly meeting at 5:00 p.m. in the South Platte NRD Conference Room (551 Parkland Drive, Sidney NE). Ryan Reisdorff, Water Resources Specialist with the SPNRD, reviewed information about Industrial and Municipal Water Use Accounting and Water Usage in Excess of Baselines. There are some industries in the District as well as a municipality that will potentially go over their baseline of water use. It is in the Statute that NRDs must...
Miranda Ahrendt: Sidney Education Foundation Scholarship Daniella Albus: Wyoming Border Scholarship Award, Lancer Incentive Award, EWC Foundation Book Credit Award Jose Alonzo: Sidney Education Foundation WNCC Highby Scholarship Reagan Biesecker: Concordia Regents Scholarship, Concordia Women’s Track and Field Scholarship, Concordia Church Careers Award, Concordia Lutheran Heritage Award , St. Paul Lutheran Church Scholarship, High West Energy Scholarship, Sidney Educational Association Scholarship, Robyn E. Howitt Memorial Scholarship M...
Sage Rummel of Leyton High School is the recipient of the Cheyenne County Family and Community Education (FCE) College Scholarship for the 2020-2021 school year. Sage is the daughter of Floyd and Rhonda Rummel The mission of the National Association for Family and Community Education is to strengthen individuals, families, and communities through continuing education, leadership development, and community service. The Cheyenne County FCE organization awards one college scholarship each year to a...
“My Favorite Nebraska Bird” was the theme for the annual Cheyenne County Family and Community Education (FCE) organization’s fifth grade essay contest. First place honors went to Auri Cranmore, daughter of Levi and Heather Cranmore and second place went to Maxson Wiggins son of Carrie Wiggins & David Wiggins. Both students who received awards in the Creative Writing Contest are students of Mrs. Jill Bartlings at Leyton Elementary School. Each essay was judged on creativity, research, logical thinking, organization, neatness, spelling, and g...
May 12 — Listed below are the awards presented during the Sidney High School Evening of Excellence Awards. Western Conference Scholar Athletes - Brayden Shaw, Damien Beatson, Trey Douglas, Rhett Dykstra, Aleigha Wachtel, Julian Maytorena, Mitchell Deer, Reagan Biesecker, Jersie Misegadis, Daniel Bashtovoi, Alecca Campbell, Treyson Johnstone, Lydia Peters, Brynna Ross, Morgan Jaggers, Karly Sylvester Perfect Attendance - Jonathan Deaver, Trey Douglas, Rhett Dykstra, Spencer Robinson Omaha World-H...
Sidney Police Department May 6 1:04 am, Suspicious Person, Sidney Properties, 11th Ave. 8:28 am, Traffic Stop, 11th Ave. & Pasadena Pl. 9:34 am, Unwanted Party, Maple St. 10:33 am, Animal Call, Grandma Jo’s, Illinois St. 10:53 am, Traffic Stop, Link 17J & Pole Creek Crossing 11:15 am, Medical Call, Sidney Properties, 11th Ave. 12:20 pm, Property Found, Illinois St. 12:28 pm, Criminal Mischief, El Rancho Rd. 1:51 pm, Animal Call, Lodgepole Rd. 1:53 pm, Emergency Protective Custody, SRMC, Pole Creek Crossing 4:18 pm, Disturbance, Beverly Dr. 5...
The Memorial Day service in Sidney is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Veteran Section of Greenwood Cemetery. The National Anthem will be performed by Elizabeth Weimer and the invocation by Pastor Kyle Larson. Elizabeth Weimer will also be performing "God Bless America." The speaker this year is SCPO Bobby Martinez, USN, Ret. Laying of the Wreath will be done by Lucy Stickley, and benediction by Pastor Kyle Larson. TAPS will be by MSG Les Larsen, US Army National Guard, Ret. The program is being presented by V.F.W. Post No. 610, assisted by the...
Potter-Dix High School held it's 2021 Graduation ceremony on Saturday at Potter-Dix High School. 15 students graduated on Saturday, with Mary Jane Kasten and Jaydin Rose Paxton named as Valedictorian and Salutatorian of their class. Paula Wolff addresses the attendees for the Presentation of Scholarships during the ceremony....
This storytelling journey began out of a partnership with leaders in Sidney looking for ways to help Sidney area residents see themselves as small business owners. Sidney – Nebraska Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a program of Nebraska Business Development Center (NBDC), is excited to announce a new video series, Entrepreneurial Journey. In 2016, Bass Pro Shops purchased Cabela's in Sidney, Nebraska. Unfortunately, this left the region with significant job loss. 3-year grant from the Small Business Administration provided the r...
