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In a move to ensure a new company remains an anchor in the community's future, the Sidney City Council is proposing the purchase of a three-story building at the intersection of Thirteenth Avenue and Illinois Street. The building is the home of Xpanxion, a UST Global Group company. In September 2018, Xpanxion announced it will be leasing up to 65,000 square feet of space and employing up to 200 workers in the Sidney community. Xpanxion announced in 2018 the Sidney location would serve as a...
Sidney school children from kindergarten on up threw their “hats” into the ring, so to speak, joining together to raise more than $1,600 to help with flood victims in eastern Nebraska. The idea came about last week when school councelor Carla Brauer read an email from Nebraska children’s author Julia Cook of Fremont. Cook, taking an idea from Freemont school children, who held a “Kids Helping Kids- Wear a Hat for Fremont Day!” Cook spread the idea across her platforms to help raise funds to...
"Keep Life Simple" is the theme of the annual Women in Agriculture Conference, which will feature information and advice about simplicity and excellence, making meals with a multi-cooker, forage production, youth loans, farming with disabilities, and more. This year's conference is scheduled for Friday, April 12, at Sidney. It will run from 8:15 a.m. until 3:45 p.m. at Buffalo Point Restaurant, 638 Cabela Drive. The 2018 conference was canceled due to weather, but is being brought back in 2019....
When Bass Pro/Cabela's announced the Distribution Centers in Sidney, more than 100 workers were given the dilemma of "what next?" A series of meeting were held at Western Nebraska Community College to help workers facing layoff find their way to their next opportunity. The Nebraska Department of Labor Rapid Response meetings were held to help recently laid off or expected to soon be laid off as a result of closing the Distribution Center. Friday's afternoon meeting was opened by Paula Abbott,...
Potter-Dix came out on top of the competition last Friday, earning the championship in Class D-2 at the Nebraska School Activities Association Speech Championships. Potter-Dix scored in five of nine events on the way to winning the D-2 team sweepstake crown, with six Coyote individuals or groups earning medals. Duet Acting was Potter-Dix' best arena, where CC George and Ana Manning finished in second, while teammates Erica Bogert and Reagan Williams were third. Ginny Herboldsheimer was a double...
The Cheyenne County Lawyers’ Association will be awarding one scholarship to a deserving Cheyenne County area student in the amount of $1,500.00. Applicants interested in applying for this scholarship should present resumes and a 100 word (maximum) summary of their post-high school plans to the Association and answer (250 word maximum) one of the following questions: “What is something that you have done in the past year that has made a difference?” or “Why should you be awarded this scholarship?” no later than April 10, 2019. All intereste...
The South Platte Natural Resources District (SPNRD) Board of Directors (Board) held its monthly meeting March 12 at the South Platte NRD Conference Room in Sidney. Ritch Nelson, State Forester with Nebraska NRCS and State Wildlife Biologist, gave a presentation to the Board on current events with the Eastern Redcedar tree in Nebraska. Currently, there are concerns in different parts of the state where the Eastern Redcedar has started to become problematic. Nelson highlighted tree facts, benefits of the Eastern Redcedar and some of the less...
Cheyenne County’s recent heavy wet snow has all but dissolved the drought concerns in Nebraska’s Panhandle. The March 21 drought monitor shows two counties defined as “abnormally dry” from the Wyoming border to Iowa. The map also shows no drought concerns from North Dakota to the Oklahoma-Kansas state line. The definition might seem obvious with the eastern half of the state trying to manage flood conditions. However, prior to the recent storm, the account was much different. The drought...
Preliminary Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey Results released this month by the University of Nebraska revealed that Nebraska agricultural land declined in value for the reporting year ending Feb. 1. This marks the fifth consecutive year of downward pressure, as market values have dropped approximately 20 percent since reaching a high in 2014. The average farmland value in the Panhandle is estimated to be $685 per acre, 4 percent lower than the prior year. All types of farmland reported...
SCOTTSBLUFF -- There’s nothing wrong with getting your hands a little dirty. Western Nebraska Community College invites you to do just that at the Applied Technical Trades Open House on Wednesday, April 10 from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at the Applied Technologies Center on the Scottsbluff Campus. The free event is open to all prospective students and their families. The Applied Technical Trades Open House will feature a number of hands-on activities to give those attending a greater understanding of the inner workings of WNCC’s applied technol...
Several Cheyenne County students attending the University of Wyoming have earned sports on the school’s top honor roll. The University of Wyoming lists 46 students from Nebraska on the 2018 fall semester academic Dean’s and Dean’s Freshman Honor Rolls. The honor rolls consist of regularly enrolled undergraduates above freshman standing who earned a 3.4 or better grade-point average, and freshmen who have earned a 3.25 or better grade-point average. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for l...
On Sunday, March 17, Sidney Just For Kix Dance hosted its annual Kix for Kids Show. Show proceeds were donated to Sidney Schools and the Mike and Ashley Onken Family. Ashley and Mike's baby son, Wyatt, was born with a rare genetic disorder called Mosica Trisomy 9. Their daughters Reagan and Hadlee both dance in the Sidney Just For Kix program. To show our support for this, Just For Kix family a majority of show proceeds went to them. The Just For Kix Dancers who performed range in age from 2 -...
As we continue to hear updates on the devastation caused by the flooding across the state, Black Hills Energy would like to join the many other Nebraskans who are making helping others a priority. One way the company is giving a hand up is by collecting donations across the state and delivering them to the eastern part of the state on April 3. Donations will be collected at Black Hills Energy’s Sidney office, located at 925 Greenwood Rd., from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday until April 2. Donations that are being requested i...
The impact of the March 13 blizzard is still being felt, and Region 21 Emergency Manager Ron Leal wants Cheyenne County to be prepared. Part of that preparation came about Tuesday with the Board of Commissioners holding an emergency meeting to consider a Disaster Declaration. The meeting was held with County Clerk Beth Fiegenschuh, County Attorney Paul Schaub and Leal, with commissioners Randal Miller, Darrell Johnson and Philip Sanders present by teleconference. The declaration reads that...
Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) shared its gratitude to the many individuals that helped during the recent blizzard experienced March 13 and 14. In a press release, hospital officials said that had the support of so many not been provided, the premature birth of a local resident may not have turned out so well. According to the release, as the storm hit its momentum, a 29-week pregnant mother went into labor early. Unfortunately, as the family attempted to make it to town, they got stuck driving to the hospital and called 911 to get the...
The Cheyenne County Communications Center needs to expand its territory, electronically. To do so, the Communications Center is planning to have a second radio tower constructed adjacent to the current tower. “It has been at capacity for a while,” Communicators Director Heidi Gillespie said Monday afternoon. She said the need was made known when companies she worked with while assessing how to include Deuel County dispatching services into Cheyenne County’s system noted there was “almo...
While last week’s blizzard was fast and ferocious, it didn’t result in a lot of calls for service by local emergency personnel. “In 16 years this was the most uneventful blizzard we’ve ever had,” said Cheyenne County Sheriff Adam Frerichs. Frerichs, and Region 21 Emergency Management Director Ron Leal, both agree that the state’s action to close the interstate early, before the storm was actually on top of the area, was the biggest reason it was so quiet. Last April was just the opposite, when l...
While Sidney and Cheyenne County fared pretty well during last week's blizzard, its affects on the state have been devastating. With many of the state's rivers already being watched for flooding due to the buildup of ice, the storm's added moisture and wind resulted in severe flooding across nearly two-thirds of the state. As of Monday, 65 of the state's counties had declared emergencies due to flooding, with more than 70 towns or cities affected. Some, like Niobrara, no longer exist. Others,...
LINCOLN, NEB. – The Nebraska Farm Bureau has launched relief efforts to aid Nebraska farmers, ranchers, and rural communities suffering from the natural disasters that have impacted the state. The relief efforts include the establishment of a disaster relief fund and launch of an online agriculture disaster exchange portal to connect those in need with those who can help. “Nebraska is a special place with special people. Many of our friends and neighbors across the state are suffering. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost or...
Sidney offers service opportunities drawing residents from other counties, and transportation bringing those residents to Sidney is seeking help financing the program, from Cheyenne County. Kimball County Transit Service Administrator Christy Warner met with the Cheyenne County commissioners Monday to discuss her program and its impact on Cheyenne County. She said the bus service numerous people to and from Cheyenne County. “We are in Sidney every day of the week,” she said. She said her com...
LINCOLN – Nebraska USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Nancy Johner is highlighting FSA resources that may be important to farmers and ranchers as they assess flood and blizzard impacts on farms and ranches across the state. Programs such as the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), Emergency Conservation Program (ECP), Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP), Disaster Set-Aside Program and Emergency Loan Program are disaster safety net tools available through FSA. “As producers con...
During Match Day last week, 128 students of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, learned where they will do their physician residency training – typically a period of three to six years of training depending on their chosen medical specialty. Potter's Kaleb James Thomas, internal medicine-primary care will be performing his residency at University of Nebraska Affiliated Hospitals, Omaha NE Forty percent of UNMC students are staying in Nebraska for their training, and 6...
March 13: An Idaho man escaped injury when the truck-trailer he was driving went off the road near Sidney. Merrill Green, 61, of Ammon, Idaho, was driving a 2018 Freightliner truck and trailer east on Cheyenne County Road 16 at about 30 miles per hour, according to the Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office accident report. Green was driving on CR 16 because Interstate 80 and Highway 30 were closed in both directions due to adverse weather. Green reported that about a half-mile east of County Road 129, wind pushed his truck and trailer into a d...
Snowmageddon. Bomb Cyclone. Winter Storm Ulmer. No matter how it was referred to in the various forecasts and weather reports, this week's winter storm lived up to the predictions as it brought severe weather to the region. As predicted, the storm first made its appearance late Wednesday night, with the first band of rain sweeping over Sidney around 10:30 p.m. After a few hours of reprieve, the larger body rolled in during the early morning hours, bringing with it light rain and fog to go with...
The Nebraska Department of Labor is scheduled to be in Sidney March 21 and 22 in response to the announced closing of the Cabela’s Sidney Distribution Center. The meetings will be held at the Sidney campus of Western Nebraska Community College, Room 115/116. The Thursday, March 21 meetings are scheduled for 1 p.m. To 3 p.m., and 5 p.m. To 7 p.m. The Friday, March 22, meetings are scheduled for 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. To 3 p.m. During the meetings, attendees will learn about services, p...
