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The Peetz school community came together Thursday night to address how best to protect its students. At issue is if the Peetz School District should seek staff volunteer as armed security as well as teachers or administrators. The meeting was lead by Superintendent Mark Collard with a slide presentation of concerns and issues. One of the concerns listed is the changes in society. Many of the parents and teachers were of the age they could recall when students in rural schools could drive to...
Officials from Sidney Regional Medical Center spent part of an evening last week going over changes at the hospital before a group of about 30 local residents. SRMC Chief Executive Officer Jason Petik took the lead in reviewing expansion of programs and highlighted the hospital’s new providers and systems. A number of staff members were also on hand. Petik said three new providers, Physician Assistants Steve Rolls and Jonna Beyer join Nurse Practitioner Stephanie Green on staff. Petik said the hospital and clinic plans to staff with three f...
Authorities are investigating the death of two people in Lodgepole April 19. According to a press release from the Cheyenne County Attorney’s Office, the Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the Lodgepole Village Office at 12:24 p.m. regarding a report of elder abuse. The investigation lead authorities to 819 Bondegaard St., the residence of Mark Arledge and Michelle Lee Marlatt-Arledge. Deputies knocked at the door, announcing their presence, to hear a female voice reply “Just a minute.” The report states deputies then heard a...
A Sidney, Neb., woman was taken to Sidney Regional Medical Center Wednesday, April 18, after the car she was driving and a military vehicle collided on Link 17J at about 2:39 p.m. According the accident report by Sidney police, Rosella Mehling, 87, of Sidney, was driving a 2004 Cadillac full-size four-door sedan as a military convoy with emergency lights was traveling south on Link 17J. The report said convoy security had traffic blocked at the intersection of Link 17J and Old Post Road....
Those from businesses, financial institutions, civic and community organizations, educators and government entities are invited to attend an Economic Forum on May 8 at the Gering Civic Center. The event, from 5:45 to 8 p.m., brings those interested together for dinner and to hear from Federal Reserve speakers about: • economic development trends, • the agricultural economy, and • the regional and national economic outlook. Speakers at the Forum will be Dell Gines, senior Community Development advisor on entrepreneurship-based economic devel...
First Lady Susanne Shore invites Nebraska artists - professional and emerging – to design Nebraska-shaped ornaments for the Nebraska State Capitol’s official holiday tree. Nebraska artists of any age are encouraged to submit up to five design ideas/proposals (appropriate for community display) on 11” x 17” paper within a line drawing of the shape of Nebraska. Project information and an outline of the state, available for downloading purposes, can be found on ne150.org/ornament/ . Designs should depict themes of Nebraska using traditi...
A Sidney woman was injured Wednesday afternoon when she and an unidentified vehicle collided at the intersection of L17J and Old Post Road. Rosella Mehling, 87, was struck in the right side and was transported to Sidney Regional Medical Center after the accident. Her condition is unknown. The Sidney Police Department is continuing its investigation....
Junior colleges offer more than a step up to a university. That is the message staff of the Western Nebraska Community College brought to the Western Community College Area Board of Governors Wednesday. The Western Community College Area Board of Governors met at the Sidney campus Wednesday. The agenda included a discussion on WNCC's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center by Paula Abbott with Nichole Peralta. Abbott said the cosmetology program closed in 2016, leaving about one-fifth of the...
LINCOLN (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers approved two dozen last-minute bills Wednesday on the final day of a contentious session that was dominated by disputes over state budget cuts, taxes and abortion. Senators ended the short, 60-day session on a positive note, even as some implored their colleagues to try harder to find agreements next year. Lawmakers spent much of the session arguing over funding cuts for state agencies, including the University of Nebraska, and a measure to ensure that federal family-planning money doesn’t go to abortion cli...
LINCOLN--Twenty-four bills were passed before the second session of the 105th Nebraska Legislature adjourned late Wednesday afternoon. Senators unanimously passed a bill that will require payday lenders to provide borrowers with more information. LB 194 will require lenders to notify borrowers in writing about the transaction date and amount, as well as payment due date and total payment due. Under LB 194, payday loans will not be allowed to exceed $500 and borrowers will have the right to rescind a transaction by the end of the next business...
A hard-hitting spring storm that hit the area Friday left more than a hundred motorists stranded around Sidney, and electric customers from Sidney to Lake McConaughy without power for between 24 and 48 hours. The storm began dropping snow mid-morning, and around 11:30 a.m., a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 80 near mile marker 66 was reported and it went downhill from there. The Nebraska State Patrol reported two major areas where accidents and poor visibility shut down traffic on I-80,...
The Cheyenne County Fair will include the talent of Rodney Atkins and McKenzie JaLynn Band. Atkins is known for songs such as "Farmer's Daughter," "If You're Going Through Hell," and "It's America." "Take a Back Road" (2011) produced his sixth No. 1 in its title track. He has received six nominations from the Academy of Country Music. The McKenzie JaLynn Band is lead by 17-year-old McKenzie JaLynn. She and her band are being considered for three for the fifth annual Nashville Universe Awards...
The Cheyenne County Commissioners and later the Communications Board discussed entering a dispatch service agreement with Deuel County. “Deuel County is in somewhat of a critical position,” Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub said Monday morning. Communications Director Heidi Gillespie met with the Cheyenne County commissioners Monday morning regarding the proposal to dispatch Deuel County services. She said Deuel County will provide the equipment to dispatch its sheriff’s department. Cheye...
SCOTTSBLUFF - Regional West announced today that it is adding the management and oversight of a fixed wing aircraft to its Air Link air ambulance flight program. The new partnership will enhance Air Link’s air medical transport services with the fixed wing aircraft’s capability to travel longer distances, carry larger patient loads, and safely fly in varying weather conditions. Med-Trans Corporation, a leading air medical company, is partnering with Regional West to assist with adding the fixed wing aircraft to its helicopter services. The air...
Nebraska Extension’s Tractor Safety & Hazardous Occupations Courses will be offered at Gering and Gordon in June, as well as and 10 other Nebraska locations this year for teens 14 or 15 years of age who will work on a farm. Federal law prohibits youth under 16 years old from using certain equipment on a farm unless parents or legal guardians own the farm. Certification received through a course provided by Nebraska Extension grants an exemption to the law, allowing 14- and 15-year-olds to drive a tractor and work with certain mechanized e...
Weather permitting, work is scheduled to begin April 23 on US-385 in Dalton, from Reference Post 50.00 to Reference Post 54.00, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Simon Contractors Inc., of Cheyenne, Wyoming has the $2.8 million project. Work will include milling, installing new storm water pipes, placing new concrete pavement, and sidewalk repair with ADA curb ramps. One-way traffic will be maintained with temporary traffic signals and a 12-foot width restriction. Some...
High Plains OCIA of Nebraska, Inc. is offering scholarships of up to $1,000 for the 2018/2019 school year. A chapter of OCIA (Organic Crop Improvement Association), High Plains OCIA of Nebraska, Inc. is located in the western part of Nebraska. The chapter includes members from Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, and in all areas of the panhandle of Nebraska and parts of the sand hills. Since 1998 High Plains OCIA of Nebraska, Inc. has been active in the education of organic farming, organic...
Nebraska’s Rural Electric Association sponsors a Youth Energy Leadership Camp every year at the Nebraska State 4-H Camp at Halsey. The camp provides leadership and team building activities. The camp will be held July 9-13, 2018. Wheat Belt Public Power District will be selecting area youth to attend the camp. It is at no cost to the students. Campers must be currently a freshman, sophomore or junior in high school, and preference is given to students who are dependents of Wheat Belt PPD customers. Once students have participated in the Youth E...
Cheyenne County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Brad Fraass announced that producers who suffered qualifying livestock losses due to the recent blizzard could be eligible for the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP). “LIP provides livestock producers with a vital safety net to help them overcome the damaging financial impact of natural disasters,” said Fraass. LIP compensates livestock owners and contract growers for livestock death losses in excess of normal mortality due to an eligible adverse weather event, including los...
High Plains OCIA of Nebraska chapter of Organic Crop Improvement Association held its annual general membership meeting on Saturday, March 24 in Sidney to elect officers for 2018 and conduct other business. Bernie Fehringer was elected president of the High Plains chapter for 2018. Current and newly elected board members include Mark Jones of Oshkosh, Walt Kallsen of Big Springs, Mike Wiest of Lodgepole, Cliff Johnson of Sidney, and Dennis Demmel of Ogallala. A resolution was adopted to amend the Bylaws. The classification of...
The Nebraska Range Short Course is scheduled for June 18-22 on the campus of Chadron State College. The short course is sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chadron State College, and the Nebraska Section Society for Range Management. It is designed to provide individuals who have a background in range management, natural resources, or agriculture an opportunity to increase their knowledge in the field of range management. The week-long course taught through a series of classroom and field sessions focuses on underlying principles...
LINCOLN – The global emergence of climate change should get farmers thinking and acting locally, according to nearly a half-century of data analyzed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The new Nebraska study suggests that climate shifts between 1968 and 2013 drove about 25 percent of the collective fluctuations in corn, soybean and sorghum yields across the Great Plains. “Both temperature and precipitation had their fingerprints on that quarter of the variability, which (itself) varied with location and crop,” said study co-author Meetp...
On the east side of Sidney is an acreage of land that appears as if a project was started, then delayed for an unknown reason. That may soon change with a start-up company wanting to locate in the industrial park east of Sidney. Tuesday night at the Sidney City Council meeting, Economic Development Director Melissa Norgard said a start-up company is launching one of the most technologically advanced online retail businesses focused on hunting, shooting and camping products. The memo to city...
The office is lined with bookcases displaying encyclopedias, law books and records of history symbolic of an historic library. The oak book shelves share space with recognition plaques, family pictures and mementos of more than two years of working with the Sidney community. The desk clutter is indicative of a manager that always has one more project to address. Most of the projects are related to business relationships that have developed since becoming executive director of the Cheyenne...
In just a little more than a week, Ylani Cole will join nine other women from across Nebraska, vying for the title Mrs. Nebraska America and a chance at Mrs. America. As of Monday, she was still looking for that "just right" outfit for the interview portion of the pageant, still practicing for those interviews, and remembered with a start, "I've got to start packing." While it might seem Cole is flustered at the last minute, she says she is really just "a little nervous," with the day she's...
