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Congressman Adrian Smith spent the morning in Sidney Monday, with business and healthcare foremost on his agenda. Smith opened the morning at Lukjan Metal products, presenting its leadership team with the 2018 Third Congressional District Excellence in Economic Development Award. Lukjan was named as one of 11 individuals and businesses helping to strengthen Nebraska communities through innovation, hard work, entrepreneurship, and historic preservation. Smith presented the award, along with a...
The Cheyenne County Fair Board met Monday night to review this year’s events. The overall opinion is the numbers are up from last year. “Attendance was up,” said board member Anita Pennel. She clarified some of the numbers are estimates. The ambiguity is because of how entrance to grandstand events included children under 12 at no charge. Pennel said 1,340 people attended the rodeo, up from 2017. She said final numbers are estimates based on taking the number of tickets sold and multi...
While local law enforcement officials aren’t ready to call it a huge problem, a recent uptick in burglaries and thefts have them urging the public to be more vigilant. Most of the problems for Sidney Police Department are reports of thefts from storage units. The PD has also recently been investigating a break in at a car wash and a convenience store. At the car wash, there was substantial property damage as those involved broke into the building and took an unknown amount of change from a machi...
Sidney's Night of Hope Walk for Cancer is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10. Events start with the Survivor's Walk at 6 p.m. at Sidney Legion Park Pond. This year's headquarters for Night of Hope is The Insurance Store, 845 10th Ave. Team shirts are available at headquarters through Aug. 9. Headquarters will be moved to Legion Park on Friday, Aug. 10. Teams can register early and receive shirts at The Insurance Store. According to the program's website, The Night of Hope...
U.S. Congressman Adrian Smith, who represents Nebraska’s Third District, will be in Sidney Monday, Aug. 6 to speak with constituents. The Congressman will also stop at Lukjan Metal Products, which was recently tabbed to receive a 2018 Third Congressional District Excellence in Economic Development Award. Lukjan was named as one of 11 individuals and businesses helping to strengthen Nebraska communities through innovation, hard work, entrepreneurship, and historic preservation. Following the award presentation, Smith will hold a public m...
It started out as following a concept with an available storefront, and a meeting of necessity resulted in a second business opportunity. Amanda Sharman and her friend Carson Faesssler talked about a business venture. They envisioned a store with old farm and ranch materials and refashion, repurpose the material into household decorations. The concept became a reality adjacent to Shirt Tales. "We're just a couple of cowgirls bringing country to the city," Sharman said. The enterprise is...
The aroma of popcorn, grilled hamburgers and nachos are already a memory. 4-H members have sold their lifestock and are looking toward next year’s project. The dust from the PRCA rodeo, the barrel races and then the demolition derby has settled. The 2018 Cheyenne County Fair and Rodeo is concluded. Fair Board President Gerald Frerichs said this year’s fair went well. He said events were well attended. He said he observed stands at the events to be half to three-fourths full each night. This yea...
Sidney City Manager Ed Sadler announced in the July 24 city council meeting that the finance bonds for the landfill have been sold. The funds will be loaned to the City at 3.35 percent with cash available by the end of August. In the July 10 Sidney Area Solid Waste Agency meeting, Sadler said he expected the bonds to be finalized at 3.37 percent. The Sidney Area Solid Waste Agency is borrowing up to about $1.5 million to purchase a new baler and a compactor. In May, Sadler met with the Cheyenne...
The project started from a news cast of lettuce and similar vegetables being recalled. The recall was first at specific restaurants, then later at grocery stores. While at a Juice Plus Tower Garden conference in Phoenix, Ariz., Jeanne Ogden thought of a way to offer vegetables that have almost no way of being infected. She is opening a store that allows the customer to cut herbs and leafy vegetables from the plant in a grow tower, or the customer can purchase the plant to take home and...
A more flexible education and homework approach will be implemented in the Sidney Public Schools this year. Consider if a teacher could assign a research project with a list of specific sources, sources that are primarily Internet sites. For some students, the immediate concern is they may not have a computer or if they do, what happens if they don’t have an Internet connection at home. The Sidney Public Schools announced recently that the 1:1 Chromebook program will be implemented in the 2...
LINCOLN - The Nebraska Corn Board will hold its next meeting Wednesday, August 15 and Thursday, August 16, 2018 at Bayside located at 865 Lakeview West Rd, Brule, Nebraska. The Board will conduct regular board business and hold election of officers during the morning of August 15th. The remainder of the 15th and the morning of the 16th, the Board will hold a joint Nebraska Corn Growers Association and Nebraska Corn Board meeting. The meeting is open to the public and will provide an opportunity...
By now, Sidney's registered voters have received a large, white envelope from the Cheyenne County Clerk's office containing a mail-in ballot. The question posed to voters is a small change to the city's current LB840 Economic Development Plan that will allow the city to seek funds for economic development other than that raised by a one-half percent sales tax already in place. The LB840 fund, first approved by voters in 1997 and renewed in 2017, dedicates a portion of sales tax specifically to e...
Cassandra Kilmurray and Braydon Cortney are the recipients of the 2018 Sidney Kiwanis Youth Scholarship. Kilmurray is a 2018 graduate of Sidney High School. She graduated 13th in her class with a 4.0 grade point average. During her high school career, she was involved in youth mentoring, helping with the Table of Grace food pantry, the National Honor Society service project (helping families in need) and holding youth cheerleading camps. She was a National Honor Society member, took part in...
We can call it a 10-76 as it is his end of watch. Even though the call is primarily for road officers, and his sense of duty wasn't limited to the badge. The community can clearly say there are some big shoes to fill for he was involved in more to support the community than many will ever know. The life Randy ZoeRay "Chopper" Haddix, ended unexpectedly at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colo., on July 9. He was born in Broken Bow, Neb., the fourth child of Delmer Abslum and Gertrude...
A pipe and rebar coating company is returning to Sidney after a two-year absence. Commercial Resins, with a facility also in Henderson, Colo., had a location in Sidney from 2005 to 2016. The Sidney facility closed and the staff laid off when the oil industry went into hard times. Sidney Economic Development Director Melissa Norgard said the company recently signed an agreement with Adams Industries to reopen in an existing building at Adams Industries. She said the company will be hiring 10 to 1...
While business is changing in the Sidney and Cheyenne Communities, the Sidney Municipal Airport continues to show positive numbers. Ron Meyer, chairman of the airport committee, spoke before the Sidney City Council Tuesday night. The Sidney Airport Authority was on the agenda regarding its annual tax request and to present a report to the city council. In his report, Meyer said the number of operations (landings and take-offs) is up as is the number of fuel sales. He said the airport sold...
LINCOLN — Two Cheyenne County Volunteer Fire Departments are recipients of grant funds from the Nebraska Forest Service (NFS). The Forest Service (NFS) announced Sidney Volunteer Fire Department and Potter Volunteer Fire Department are among recipients of the 2018 Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) grant. This year, 109 rural fire districts will receive $330,000 in direct funding from the grant. Sidney VFD $4,320 in grant monies, and Potter VFD gets $4,500. The funds will be leveraged to complete $1 million worth of projects around the state. A...
CHADRON – The seed of an idea planted more than 40 years ago came to fruition July 13 when Larry Young donated his plant collection of more than 1,000 specimens to the High Plains Herbarium at Chadron State College. Herbarium Director Steve Rolfsmeier said a conversation a year ago in which he updated another CSC alumni, Larry Trout, about progress at the herbarium prompted a discussion between Trout and Young that eventually led to the donation. “It’s a huge boost to the collection. The areas represented in Larry’s collection are regions we ar...
The Sidney School District Board of Education met Thursday, July 19, for a Work Session. Much of the meeting involved the Advanced Education visit and setting goals for the District. Nebraska public schools undergo an Engagement Review every five years, Sidney Supt. Jay Ehler said. The review is held in January and involves state officials interviewing students and staff, as well as reviewing procedures, visiting classrooms, and interviewing the Sidney Public Schools continuous improvement...
Robert "Sparky England and Kobe Peterson direct the flow of concrete into forms at the War Memorial in Legion Park. Sidney's VFW asked the local crew to add a wall at the Memorial to make room for more Remembrance Plaques....
Eric and Nicole Bertrand are unapologetically small town. They grew up in Kearney, staying there until they felt the town was becoming too big for their taste. They saw an offer to work at Cabela's and made the move to Sidney. "Cabela's offered us very good jobs, very good careers," Eric Bertrand said. That all changed when they, as many others in the Cabela's structure, had to decide on their future when Cabela's was purchased by the Bass Pro ownership. They had the option of following the...
Maria Victoria Campa, 37, and Carlos Zamora, Jr., 41, are being held in Logan County Jail, Sterling, Colo., following her arrest on July 18. The pair, were arrested, along with two juveniles, on U.S. Highway 138 near Iliff in Logan County. One of the juveniles was a six-week-old infant taken from the Sidney area. According to a press release from the Sidney Police Department, the infant was taken in the early hours of July 17. Authorities spent the day attempting to contact the Campa and Zamora...
LINCOLN – Many rural Nebraskans are saving money and generating income by using the internet, according to the 2018 Nebraska Rural Poll. Six in 10 rural Nebraskans surveyed are using the internet to save money by price matching or bargain hunting, and about one-third are generating income by buying or selling items online. Seven percent of respondents estimated the impact on their household as $1,000 or more annually. "Persons living in or near smaller communities are more apt to use the i...
In April 1906, the ground shook like never before in the San Francisco area when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devistated northern California, affecting thousands. Not many realize it, but that earthquake would also have an impact on western Nebraska as well. For as John William Hyde and his family recovered from the "big one," Hyde vowed it would be the last earthquake his family would go through. So Hyde packed up his wife Elanor and five children, looking to find a place where he could find land...
The Cheyenne County Fair continues tonight and Saturday. Highlights of the weekend include tonight's concert with the McKenzie JaLynn Band opening for Rodney Atkins. The McKenzie JaLynn Band takes the stage at 6 p.m. with Rodney Atkins scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 per person. A fireworks show will follow the concert. The McKenzie JaLynn Band received three Nashville Universe nominations including Rising Star, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Vocal Group of the Year. They also...
