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Recently the students at Peetz School participated in the Americanism Essay Contest sponsored by Unit 134 of the American Legion Auxiliary. The topic of the essay was "How can we address and prevent veteran homelessness in our communities?". The following students placed as follows: (Back Row Left to Right) 12th Grade: Sarah Davis (first place), Gage Travis (second place), Jakob Kurz (third place); 10th Grade: First - Aiden Curtis (first place), Kayleigh Leek (second place), and Gus Cowan...
A year and a half in the making, Western Nebraska Community College held an open house and ribbon cutting for its Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center Wednesday. The center is testiment, said Sidney Campus Executive Director Paula Abbott, to what can be accomplished when people put their heads together to find a solution to a problem. Abbott reviewed how members of the chamber of commerce and Sidney's economic development director got together to see what could be done to help people displaced b...
The Western Nebraska Community College board of governors met at the WNCC Sidney campus Wednesday following a celebration of Sidney’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center is designed to assist start-up businesses toward independence. The Center has three businesses with others that have expressed interest in the program. Following the Center’s ribbon cutting, the WNCC Board of Governors met for their April meeting with chairperson F. Lynne Klemke pre...
GERING — A new collaborative report entitled The Nebraska Panhandle: An Assessment of Birth-Grade 3 Care and Education was released Wednesday in Gering. Nebraska Commissioner of Education Matt Blomstedt provided opening remarks at the event, which was attended by more than 100 community and education leaders from across the Panhandle. The report was produced by Educational Service Unit (ESU) 13, the Panhandle Partnership, Inc., and the Buffett Early Childhood Institute at the University of Nebraska. The three organizations came together to b...
LINCOLN -- A bill that would expand protections for farmers under the Nebraska Right to Farm Act advanced through the Legislature April 10. LB 227, introduced by Sen. Dan Hughes of Venango, was approved 31-7 after a two-day debate among senators. The Nebraska Right to Farm Act, adopted in 1982, protects farms and warehouses from nuisance complaints by neighbors. These nuisances include dust, noise or odors from these establishments. Nuisance laws affect not only Nebraska, but other states as well. A federal jury awarded $473.5 million to six...
The Sidney Shooting Park is hosting its ninth all-you-can-eat Rocky Mountain Oyster dinner — or a chicken strip alternative — and auction May 18 at the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds. Dinner includes beans, potato salad, coleslaw, dessert, coffee, tea or water. The event is scheduled for 5 p.m. To 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at Performance Automotive & Towing LLC, KISST Organics, Vitalix or from any Sidney Sharpshooters 4-H member. The event includes games and silent auction, as well as several guns for raffle. Tickets for gun raffles can be...
South Platte Natural Resources District’s (SPNRD) Board of Directors (Board) held its monthly meeting On Tuesday April 9,SPNRD Conference Room in Sidney. Travis Glanz, SPNRD Water Resources Coordinator, presented four routine Pooling Renewal Agreements. After a short discussion the Board voted and the Agreements were all approved. Ryan Reisdorff, SPNRD Water Resources Specialist, gave the Board the 2019 Spring Ground Water Level Report on behalf of Chris Kaiser, SPNRD Natural Resources Coordinator. Over the last 10 years the District has s...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) announced today that her staff will hold local office hours in Cheyenne and Deuel counties on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. These office hours serve as a convenient opportunity for constituents to meet personally with Senator Fischer’s staff to receive help with casework and other issues at the federal level. Brandi McCaslin, Senator Fischer’s greater Nebraska director of constituent services, will hold local office hours at the times and locations below: Tuesday, April 30 Cheyenne County Sidne...
On April 9, a four-member Sidney Council denied a proposal to purchase a three-story office building and related parking lots with a split vote, two councilmen in favor and two against. Mayor Roger Gallaway was absent. Concerns by the public ranged from why the City is investing in real estate to how does the City have $1 million to spend when it cut the budget last year. Friday, April 12, the city council met for a special meeting to schedule a second public meeting on the proposed purchase....
The Cheyenne County Commissioners Monday approved four projects for funding. The Cheyenne County Visitor Committee presented a request from the Cheyenne County Rodeo Committee for $1,500 to promote the PRCA Rodeo at the Cheyenne County Fair. The 2019 Cheyenne County Fair is scheduled for July 21-27. The Cheyenne County Community Center requested $2,000 to promote the Wood Bat Tournament. The Visitor Committee also recommended $3,000 for the Potter Carbowl. The Potter Carbowl is a community...
In honor of Law Day, Nebraska Supreme Court Justices will hold oral arguments in the Scottsbluff High School auditorium on April 29 at 9:30 a.m. The visit marks the first time that the Supreme Court has held court arguments in Scottsbluff. The event is part of a continuing effort by the Nebraska Supreme Court and the legal community to raise awareness of court processes and the importance of civics education to American society. “The Justices on the Supreme Court recognize that our laws are complex and can be difficult to understand,” said Chi...
SIDNEY – The community is invited to attend Western Nebraska Community College in celebrating the official opening of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I & E) Center on the Sidney Campus today (Wednesday, April 17) at 10 a.m. An open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for all interested community members to tour the recently renovated space with a ribbon cutting and luncheon to follow. No RSVP is required to attend. The Sidney Campus I & E Center serves as a business incubator for start-up businesses in the area. Accepted applicants...
The City of Sidney will be closed on Friday, April 19, in observance of Good Friday. All City Departments will be closed including the Landfill and the Library. The Dial-a-ride Bus and Stage Line Bus will not be running. The Solid Waste Department will be collecting Friday's trash on Thursday, and Thursday's trash on Wednesday....
LINCOLN-- As Nebraskans impacted by the flood are beginning to pick up the pieces and rebuild, many have the added worry and concern of being scammed. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that after a disaster of a magnitude similar to the flooding in Nebraska, scam artists, identity thieves and other criminals often attempt to take advantage of vulnerable survivors. On April 10, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency published a news release providing information about the post-disaster fraud activities that are occurring in Nebrask...
On Wednesday afternoon, April 10, the anticipated repeat blizzard arrived in Western Nebraska, dropping snow, reducing visibility and closing roads. The Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office was kept busy keeping people safe in the storm. Some of the exceptional busyness was a result of drivers circumventing road barriers or trying to use an alternative way around a closed road, which then made things worse. Wednesday afternoon, the temperature for the Sidney area was 10 to 11 degrees below normal,...
Nebraska Extension has set April 17 as the new date for a pesticide applicator training session in Scottsbluff that had to be postponed due to weather. The training is for commercial pesticide applicators seeking initial certification, and will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the UNL Panhandle Research and Extension Center, 4502 Avenue I. It was originally scheduled for Thursday, April 11. Everybody who registered for the postponed date will be notified of the new date....
LINCOLN – On National Tax Day yesterday, Governor Pete Ricketts joined Nebraska veterinarians and animal advocates to voice disapproval of the Legislature's proposed tax on pet and livestock healthcare. Currently, the Revenue Committee is considering a tax on veterinary services alongside several other sales tax increases on Nebraskans. "Even though Nebraskans already pay sales tax to purchase, train, groom, board, exercise, and bury their pets, some State Senators are talking about taking e...
An effort to purchase a downtown office building ended Tuesday with a split vote. Sidney City Manager Ed Sadler and Economic Development Director Melissa Norgard met with the City Council regarding the purchase of the three-story building at Thirteenth Avenue and Illinois Street. Sadler presented the proposal as a better investment than interest on CDs. He said it is the original corporate headquarters and store of Cabela’s, now for sale by Cabela’s and under lease to UST Global Xpanxion. The...
The Sidney property tax collections are exceeding recent years by 23 to 28 percent. Sidney’s Finance Director David Scott reported the condition of the City’s budget to the city council Tuesday night. Scott said property tax collection revenue is averaging 23 to 28 percent above the last four years at this point in the fiscal year. “Property tax is currently sitting at 28 percent, or 3 percent better than the last fiscal year through half of the fiscal year. This is understandable. As I state...
A man convicted of a 2012 murder in Sidney has been denied postconviction relief by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Larry Martinez was convicted in July 2012 in the shooting death of Mandy Kersham and was later sentenced to life in prison. Martinez later appealed the conviction, which was denied. This time around, Martinez filed for postconviction relief, claiming his council was ineffective for not raising his mental capacity in support of an argument that his statements to law enforcement should...
Weather forecasters are predicting the area to be hard hit by a winter storm set to sweep across the area beginning today and lasting into Thursday. Blizzard Warnings now in effect starting as early as 6 a.m. today for northern Sioux and Dawes County and including the remaining Panhandle at 12 p.m. All Blizzard Warnings are valid until through 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon. The forecast from the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, Wyo. is for heavy snow, blowing snow, and strong north winds of 30...
Everyone has a story, a part of their past they would rather keep there - in the past. However, the past can also be a hearty springboard into the future. That is a lesson Justin Brown, pastor of "The Well" church at 432 20th St. in Sidney, learned as the new church developed. The Well is an appropriate name for bringing the past to the spiritual future. It is where Jesus met the Samaritan woman, telling her of her past, and she then told the town of a man who knew everything she did (John...
Students of Sidney schools lost an asset, and friends and family want her remembered. Tammy Sherman was an integral part of the West Elementary School community, according to principal Gene Russel. Sherman died March 24 after losing her battle with cancer. But the story is how she conducted herself up to her last day in the classroom. Russel described her as a highly-dedicated fifth grade teacher. He said she continued making lesson plans through her last day in the classroom. She endured the...
One in four girls is sexually abused before the age of 18, and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of 18. Nearly 70 percent of all reported sexual assaults, including assaults on adults, occur to children 17 and year, according to CAPstone of Western Nebraska, a child advocacy center. Child abuse by definition is not limited to sexual assaults. It is neglect. It is emotional assaults. It is mistreatment that threatens the person mentally, emotionally and physically. According to...
