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While adults are enjoying festivities at the tents during Oktoberfest this weekend, Rocktoberfest is an option for teens, from seventh-12th grades to have some fun. Rocktoberfest will be tonight and tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 1. The evens will be held both nights from 7-11 p.m. at the Youth Center located on the corner of King and 14th Street in Sidney. Door entry is three dollars each night. Rocktoberfest offers a social atmosphere with music, games, prizes and free food with adult supervision. Teens this year who attend Rocktoberfest can look...
Ambulance crew Nikki Marks and Audi Matthes assist a pedestrian who was struck by a car Wednesday morning on Illinios Street....
A member of Robert W. Baird and Co., presented the finance plan they drafted for the City of Sidney General Obligation Bonds at the city council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The City of Sidney currently has three bonds that are coming due. The finance plan presented gave options for long-term financing to pay off the bonds due. Two bonds are due this December and one bond is due June of 2017. Step one of the finance plan involves applying for a rating of the City of Sidney’s credit. This process will cost around $15,000, but will save the city...
Edgar Almond appeared in Cheyenne County Court on Sept. 27, on charges of first degree unlawful possession of explosives and possession of a destructive device stemming from his arrest on Sept. 15. Almond's ex-wife reported that Almond was "acting crazy" and had bomb-making materials in his van parked in front of her house. Almond's ex-wife also reported Almond had detonated a bomb on the cliffs near East Drive the previous night. Upon further investigation it was confirmed by area residents...
As part of the upcoming Oktoberfest festivities the 14th annual "Running of the Wieners" will be held at Legion Park Sunday. Dachshunds, also known as "Wiener-dogs," are a short-legged, long-body hound-type breed of dog. The standard sized dachshund was bred to flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals, while the miniature dachshund was bred to hunt smaller prey. Event creator Judy Scott said she attended a wiener-dog race in Grand Island twice with her grandson's dog before deciding...
Dev Contratto, left, and Elliot Andreas are driving their train to heaven at Central Elementary. The two took the opportunity to make believe they were driving the train during their Morning Centers on Tuesday....
Sidney’s Planning Commission will be offering its final presentation on adopting an ordinance for chronic nuisances tonight at the last city council meeting of the month. As presented, the ordinance would create a “three strikes rule.” With the rule, any property that has three or more documented violations within a six-month period would be required to abate the nuisance or be charged with a simple misdemeanor and a fine up to $500. Once a property has been designated a chronic nuisance the property will be on a probation period for 18 month...
This Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m., ventriloquist Greg Claassen will be performing in the Octoberfest tent. Greg Claassen and his “friends” have been performing a Ventriloquist comedy show for the past 30 years throughout North America and Canada. Claassen began his career as a young child determined to learn how to “throw his voice” which means to make something that is not real, such as a toy, seem to be speaking. Six years into Claassen’s career he was selected as a national winner in the “Bob Hope Search for the Top” comedy competition....
Peetz running back, Cody Wilson, leaps a Pawnee defender along the sidelines Saturday on the way to a big gain. Wilson and the Bulldogs soundly defeated Pawnee 54-14....
PEETZ, Colo. – Peetz' Lady Bulldogs outlasted Pawnee to win their second match of the season here Saturday, winning their homecoming match 26-24, 25-21, 25-16. Peetz opened up a 19-13 lead in the opening set before a rally saw Pawnee bound back to even the score 20-20. From there, the teams bounded back and forth to a 23-23 deadlock before the Lady Bulldogs eked out the first set win. Pawnee took an early 7-4 lead in the second set, but Peetz ran off five unanswered points to take the lead 9...
Local Sidney banks have reported a new scam hitting Sidney residents through text messages. There have also been some reports of cell phone numbers and landlines receiving rude voicemails from the same number. First reports of the scam seemed to be mainly targeting Verizon customers. However, newer reports have come from almost every phone carrier in Sidney. The text message reported as a scam rea...
Sidney Public Schools (SPS) released the scores for the 2015-16 NeSA testing. NeSA stands for Nebraska State Accountability and is the main state test taken by all Nebraska students in grades 3-11. Superintendent Jay Ehler said the subjects students are tested on are reading, writing, math and science, with writing only tested in grades 4, 8, and 11 and science is only tested in grades 5, 8 and 11. Recently released results for the tests completed last year show Sidney students were above the state average in 16 of the 20 areas tested....
"A good deed really does go along way," said Isaiha Ortivez, he and his cousin Nicholas Balandran turned in a wallet they found laying on the sidewalk Wednesday. Balandran said they were playing at the Central Elementary playground when they spotted the wallet near a house located close to the school. "We spotted it and picked it up," Balandran said. "We looked in it to see if we knew the person but closed it right away because it would be rude to look through it." The boys said after finding...
WHOSOEVER motorcycle group of Sidney gives newcomers a taste of Sidney with their grilled cheese....
Pete the boxer brushes up on his driving skills on Thursday in his human's pickup....
Michael Farella (Mike) had reached the age of twenty-four and since high school had done work in several different fields. He wasn’t sure where he was headed in life. He had worked three years in the electrical field. He called the US Navy recruiting office and talked with a Chief Bell. There was a need for electricians and Mike took it from there. With some good advice from family and friends, Mike got the ball rolling with a high ASVAB test score. This score, one of the most important numbers in the whole military, enabled Mike to get his cho...
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Sidney chapter, commemorated the signing of the Constitution of the United States of America this week. In 1955, DAR petitioned Congress to set aside Sept. 17-23 annually to be dedicated for the observance of Constitution Week. The resolution was later adopted by the U.S. Congress and signed into Public Law No. 915 on Aug. 2, 1956, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This past week commemorated the 229th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution....
Third grade students from the Panhandle area had the chance to learn about health and wellness at the 10th annual Nebraska Kids Fitness and Nutrition Day held in Sidney on Thursday. Janelle Hansen, health educator for Panhandle Public Health District (PPHD) said eight schools gathered in Sidney to participate in the fun-filled day. "Third graders traveled from Big Springs, Kimball, Bridgeport, Potter-Dix, Lodgepole, Dalton, and Sidney to participate in this non-competitive event," Hansen said....
Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) is taking registration for it’s Oktoberfest 5/10K that is part the 2016 Oktoberfest festivities that begin next week. Runners have participated in the Oktoberfest 5K for the past few years. However, this year participants will run a new course. “We changed up the course this year to further integrate the race into the Oktoberfest celebration,” said Randi Norton, marketing and public relations for SRMC. “As always, the race will start at the Cheyenne County Community Center. This year the race will end at...
Nebraska Shakespeare is proud to present its 2016 On Tour production of Hamlet on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m., at the Sidney High School Performing Arts Center. Nebraska Shakespeare will also be conducting an educational workshop at Sidney High School on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. for students. According to Nebraska Shakespeare Artistic Director, Vincent Carlson-Brown, "Hamlet is a play about a boy who loved his father, and misses him dearly. It is a play about a boy who loses sight of love in a...
A man sentenced to life in prison for the 2012 shooting death of a Sidney woman is appealing his conviction to the Nebraska Supreme Court. Larry Martinez, 57, was was convicted following a jury trial and sentenced to life imprisonment consecutive to 10-50 years. The sentence came last September on convictions of 1st Degree Murder and Use of a Firearm to Commit a Felony. In July, 2012 Martinez shot Mandy Kershman over a text message that she sent him. Martinez was found guilty by a Cheyenne...
Sidney High School students cheer the Sidney Lady Raider volleyball team, which made its first home appearance Tuesday. The Lady Raiders kept the crowd cheering with a 3-1 win in the best of five match against Chase County High School....
A vehicle fire Tuesday in the Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) parking lot still has an unknown cause. Sidney Police and Fire departments were dispatched to SRMC Tuesday at approximately 11:50 a.m. to respond to a 2001 Lincoln Navigator on fire. The car's owner, Jody Quintin, said she was inside SMRC at an appointment with her daughter and two grandchildren when an employee informed her that her vehicle was smoking. Quintin said she is an employee of SRMC and the other employees knew what t...
A 2001 Lincoln Navigator caught fire Tuesday morning at Sidney Regional Medical Center in Sidney. As of press time the cause of the fire was unknown....
Cheyenne County’s Board of Commissioners held a public hearing during Monday’s regular board meeting to adopt the 2016-17 Cheyenne County budget. In the hearing, the Commissioners increased the 2016-17 restricted funds revenues, set this year’s tax levy, and approved a resolution of adoption and appropriations of this year’s Cheyenne County budget. All three items discussed in the hearing were approved, but not unanimously. An email was read in the hearing, submitted by Terry Jessen, who said he has been attending budget hearings to provide...
