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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...
He might look like a homeless man, and you'd be right, but he's not without riches of a certain definition, or a reason to get up in the morning. Monday morning, a bicyclist approached Sidney with several water bottles, and a supply cart in tow with nearly anything a cyclist might need on a multi-state ride. Harold Palmquist and his dog Daisy on on a cross-country quest, an effort to promote a nonprofit program called Veterans and Their Pets, and to bring awareness of veterans' needs. The trip...
Sheriff’s deputies in Logan County, Colo. found the subjects of an Amber Alert Wednesday evening, safely recovering a six-week old infant taken from Sidney. Sidney Police Department issued the alert Wednesday afternoon when officers and members of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services were conducting an ongoing child neglect investigation. In the process of checking on the welfare of the child, who is a ward of the state, officers discovered her parents had left Sidney in the e...
Saturday night into Sunday morning should have been a quiet period in Lodgepole. It was interrupted by a fire at the home of Teri and Dusty Payton, a fire that consumed an RV, their home and nearly all of their belongings. Teri and Dusty Payton and their children were awakened at about 3 a.m. Sunday morning to a fire. Lodgepole Volunteer Firefighters were dispatched at about 3:17 a.m., according to Wade Dickinson of the Lodgepole Fire Department. "Everybody got out," he said. He added the...
Job's Daughters International, Bethel #25 of Sidney competed in their annual state competition "Dream Big, Sparkle More, Shine Bright" Grand Session in Lincoln in June. Young ladies from the Sidney area who competed were: Amanda Beier, Janessa Carley, Josie Dowse, Grace Draper, Autumn Hartwig, Raina Hartwig, and Ginny Herboldsheimer. Bethel #25 took first place in Team Signing, signing "Nearer My God to Thee." Bethel #25 Sidney combined with Bethel #12 Kimball to compete in the Traditional Team...
Monday’s meeting of the Cheyenne County Commissioners was dominated by the board meeting as the Board of Equalization.As the Board of Equalization, the commissioners held Property Valuation Protest Hearings Monday and Tuesday. Not all protests were represented by the landowner. Several were reviewed by the Board of Equalization and a decision made. Of the landowners who appeared in defense of their protest, most of the issues regarded procedures and the range of discretion given to county a...