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Through SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) filings and a combined press release, Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops announced the companies' merger was completed Monday, with Bass Pro acquiring the locally-born outdoor retailer for approximately $5 billion. While specifics on the operation of some portions of Cabela's Sidney operations weren't made available, the announcement and information provided by the company said that operations will continue while promoting both the Bass Pro Shops and...
As attendees continued to roll in Saturday morning, local organizers were already counting the Nebraska Fur Harvesters Convention a success. "I've been trying to get it here for a long time," said Nate Morgan as he watched new arrivals. Professionals, hobbiests, and the curious made their way around the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds Friday and Saturday to see the latest tools, techniques, and products for and from the industry. For Morgan, it was a chance to show the unitiated what trapping is...
LINCOLN – Governor Pete Ricketts announced his appointment of Andrea D. Miller to the District Court of the 12th Judicial District Court of Nebraska on Friday. Miller, 37, is an attorney at Simmons Olsen Law Firm in Scottsbluff. In her 11 years of practicing law in Nebraska, she has also served as a law clerk in the Criminal Appeals Division of the Nebraska Attorney General's Office. Additionally, Miller has participated in and graduated from Leadership Scotts Bluff and the Nebraska State Bar A...
South Platte Natural Resources District has received two grants to bring trees to Sidney and the surrounding area. Through ReTree Nebraska and EAT (Environmentally Adapted Trees) grants, SPNRD has already received 40 trees, which it will soon begin dispersing, Galen Wittrock, SPNRD assistant manager, said. ReTree is a University of Nebraska initiative, through the Nebraska Forest Service, to replant a million trees. "The forest service provides money to buy large, landscape trees, and provide...
Cheyenne County Commissioners Monday approved the 2017-18 budget. The county is requesting $6.64 million in property taxes, a decrease from the $6.68 million requested for the 2016-17 year. Before taxes, the total budget amounts to $13,189,303, an increase from $11,991,544 the previous year. Commissioners acted to set a 2017-18 county tax levy that was different than the 2016-17 levy. “Your levy last year was at that .429714 after the amended budget was filed, and the property tax request t...
A subdivision for the Lukjan Metal LLC facility on Greenwood Drive was approved by the Sidney Planning Commission Monday. Dividing the property is among the steps necessary to bring another company to the Sidney facility. Robert Stefka, Commercial Investment Services of North Platte, which is representing Korda & Kelly, Lukjan’s ownership entity, explained the plan. “What we’re asking to do is be able to subdivide that so we can market that property to another company in hopes we can proba...
Traffic lights on the south side of the 13th Avenue and Illinois Street intersection will not be replaced for as many as eight months. The light pole was hit by a truck in August and since then has had flashing yield lights for east- and westbound traffic, and stop signs for north- and southbound traffic. A new light pole has been ordered, Ed Sadler, city manager, said, but its arrival will be delayed. "These are not something they keep in stock," he said. The city was contacted by the...
Sidney City Council Tuesday approved a budget summary for 2017-18. The budget is a balanced one, Ed Sadler, city manager, reported to the council in his presentation. “It’s spending the revenue that we’ve got,” he said. “It’s not spending any more than what we’re taking in this year, which is a good thing, because that has not been the case for the last couple of years.” Expenses totaling $31,638,848 for the year were projected. “This is a much more concise budget,” Sadler explained. “This is...
Jackson G. Feddersen, 18, appeared in Cheyenne County Court Thursday for a preliminary hearing on charges of robbery, second degree assault, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, all Class II felonies, and strangulation and terrorist threats, both Class III felonies. On the morning of Aug. 31, Feddersen allegedly broke into the home of Ryan Stettner, and with friends attacked Stettner with a crowbar or other object, and stole $3,000 from him. Paige Feddersen, Jackson Feddersen's mother,...
A final piece of the puzzle in the sale of Cabela’s was put into place Wednesday. That piece, the approval by the federal regulators for a Georgia bank to acquire Cabela’s banking operation, was announced Wednesday. In an SEC filing, Cabela’s reported the Federal Reserve approved the sale of Worl’s Foremost Bank to Georgia-based bank Synovus, which will keep $1.2 billion in deposits but resell the credit card business to Capital One. According to an Associated Press report, the banking approva...
Sidney High School and Cheyenne Area Chamber of Commerce are partnering to provide students with job shadowing and internship opportunities. The opportunities are based mutually on the student’s interest and the willingness of local businesses to host students. As many as 15 junior and seniors participate in the program yearly, Chris Arent, SHS principal, said. “We start with the job shadowing experience. That way, (students) can go follow and be able to ask questions, and see if it’s a good...
Jackson G. Feddersen, 18, was arrested Sept. 1 and charged with robbery, first degree assault, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, second degree assault and burglary, all Class II felonies, and strangulation and terroristic threats, both Class III felonies. Feddersen is being held on $250,000 bond. Sidney Police Department was dispatched on Aug. 31 at 1:42 a.m. to Spruce Street in response to a reported assault, according to an affidavit released by the Cheyenne County Attorney's Office....
Sidney Aquatic Center concluded its summer season on a high note. “This seems to be quite a popular place to be,” Director Kiersten Richards said. “The kids love it. Everybody’s sad that we’re closing for the season, but with school starting we don’t have many lifeguards left.” More than 300 family passes were sold, Richards said, ranging from single adult and youth passes to seniors, as well. “Our biggest day, I believe we had not quite 350 people. Not at the same time. Our capacity only holds...
Hurricane Harvey struck southeast Texas Friday and historic flooding has displaced thousands. In response, Sidney VFW Post 610, Adams Trucking and Sidney Public Schools, along with Sidney’s businesses, are working together to send needed supplies to the storm victims. “We are doing a cooperation of gathering supplies,” VFW Cmdr. Stephanie Dadgostar said. “(Adams is) going to do the transportation for us. The school is going to do a food drive and then Tuesday we will start collecting it.” Adams...
Sidney Landfill is pursuing two grants for $1 million to replace outmoded equipment. The city is applying for a Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality solid waste reduction grant and a Nebraska Environment Trust waste management grant to purchase of a shredder, compactor and tarp system. Waste delivered to the landfill is pushed onto a conveyor belt that runs the waste through a bailer, which compresses the waste into bails. The bails are moved into the landfill cell and stacked three...
Sidney’s mill levy will increase from 0.43 to 0.53, Ed Sadler, Sidney city manager, reported to the city council Tuesday at their regular meeting. “If you look at where your mill levy is going to be for operations budgets, the general fund and for the debt service, you’re talking slightly over 0.5 for the mill levy,” he said. “It’s currently about 0.4.” The increase is only for one year, and due to payments being made on two bonds. “It’s going up,” Sadler said. “The following year it’s g...
An Akron, Co., man and woman are under arrest on drug charges following the search of a hotel room Aug. 18. On Aug. 17, Sidney Police Officer Aaron Rucker was dispatched to the Comfort Inn regarding a hotel room that contained suspected drug paraphernalia found by the housekeeping staff. Upon arrivalofficers met with housekeeping employees Housekeeping staff escorted officers to the guest room, announcing thenselves before entering the room. Officers reported seeing normal clothing and bathroom...
Cheyenne County Commissioners will receive a 20 percent pay increase for the 2017-18 budget year. The combined salary for all three officials in 2016 was $63,798.12, and will increase to an estimated $80,000 for the new budget year. “The board has to set official salary by January of the election year so that people know what they’re going to pay their 1 percent filing fee on,” Beth Fiegenschuh, county clerk, said. Resolution 2015-36, signed December 2015, established salaries for the commission...
Sen. Deb Fischer visited Sidney Thursday to hear constituent concerns and provide an update on committee efforts. Speaking to roughly 20 citizens at Best Western Plus Inn & Suites, Fischer wanted people to better understand that senators from both sides of the aisle do work together. "You don't always hear that," she said. "Most of the time you hear that we are stuck in gridlock, we don't get anything done, we hate each other, and some of that is true, but I like to get the message out that...
Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) will meet constituents of the Third District during a mobile office on Monday, August 28, in Kimball. A mobile office allows constituents to meet directly with Congressman Smith about federal issues and take advantage of the services available through his office. Smith, who has offices in Grand Island and Scottsbluff, will hold the mobile office in Kimball at the Kimball Public Library, 208 South Walnut Street from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. For additional information, please contact Smith’s Scottsbluff office a...
Traffic lights are being replaced at the intersection of Illinois Avenue and 13th Street. “There was an accident where a truck ran over the traffic light pole, and destroyed it and put a dent in it,” Hank Radtke, Sidney streets superintendent, said. “The state came in and checked it, and if we had a four mile an hour wind the pole would come down.” The pole has been removed, Radtke said, and another has been ordered, to be installed by Sidney Electrical Department. It should arrive in two to...
Agri-Plastics, an Ontario-based plastics manufacturer, has "reached an agreement" with Lukjan Metal Products LLC to acquire roughly half of its Greenwood Drive facility, Herb Gibson, Lukjan midwest regional director, said. A contract has not been signed. Sidney Planning Commission must first agree to dividing the facility into two spaces. A recommendation must be approved by the Sidney City Council. If approved, Agri-Plastics would occupy the back half of the Greenwood Drive facility, a space...
