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Last year’s drought conditions across Nebraska forced irrigators, municipalities, industry and other users to pump heavily from groundwater wells. Just how much water they used is beginning to show up in spring readings from observation wells that are maintained by natural resource districts. Don Ogle, Information and Education Coordinator at the Sidney Natural Resource District (NRD), explained that last year was not only severe with little or no rain, but also hot and dry for so long that farmers required significant amounts of pumped w...
After riders take off from Kimball on the morning of June 1, the first overnight stop for the participants in the Bicycle Ride Across Nebraska (BRAN) will be in Chappell. The Creek Valley Board of Education (BOE) approved the request by BRAN to use the high school stadium for the stop in Chappell during their March BOE meeting. As the big day and night approaches, coordinators in the community are finishing preparations. Co-chairman of Chappell events for the BRAN stop Connie Loos said that they have an “Awful lot going on. They will be on f...
Teresa Grant’s arms never stop moving. She assembles flowers, ties colorful ribbons, tucks and nudges blossoms into just the right place--all while answering constant calls for last second Mother’s Day bouquets. “It starts on Monday,” said the owner of Sidney Floral & Gift Shop, “and we go all week.” Although a survey by the National Retail Federation suggests that more moms will receive electronics for the big day this year, flowers--along with jewelry and dinner--still dominate the gift ma...
The Third Annual Law Enforcement Torch Run to benefit the Special Olympics of Nebraska will be on Saturday, May 18. The run will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. at the area behind the Sidney McDonald’s. The run will take the usual route which is Old Post Road to 11th Avenue, then it will proceed to go west on Illinois Avenue and it will conclude at the Cheyenne County Fair Grounds. This is open to runners with all abilities; it is not a race and children are welcome to participate as well as bicycle riders. The run is a slow-paced jog that is d...
The Bicycle Ride across Nebraska (BRAN) will begin on June 2 and finish on June 8. The ride starts in Kimball and will end at the Strategic Air and Space Museum near Ashland, Nebraska for a total of 467 miles plus 15. Overnight stops will be made in Chappell, Paxton, Gothenburg, Kearney, Aurora and Brainard. According to Vickie Backman, one of the organizers of the event, the roadways are not closed during the ride. She added that the organization usually requests assistance from local authorities; they notify the people who handle the roads...
A citizen of Potter has the Village Board hastily reviewing their ordinances directed toward body shops, salvage yards and other businesses. Scott Worth told board members that he got a “nasty note” on his property saying that the fence was an eyesore. So he tore down the fence on that side of the building. At the Village Board meeting on May 6, the man brought in a copy of an ordinance he found that he claimed exempts him from the original ordinance about “vehicle nuisance.” The business owner reminded the board members he was under the imp...
Mike Palmer was named City of Sidney’s electrical superintendent effective Monday, May 6 following the retirement of Rod Fries. Fries retired Friday after 29 years of service to the City. Palmer will manage the nine man staff of the electric department and the power plant operations. He is a 15 year veteran of the Electric Department and has worked for the City of Sidney for 17 years. Palmer is a Sidney native and Sidney High graduate. He was the first city electrical department employee to c...
Each year Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) celebrates the efforts that each SRMC area contributes to the continuum of care they provide during SRMC Week. A week full of special events planned for the members of the SRMC team. Kicking off the week, SRMC recognized the efforts of three nurses that were nominated for the Nebraska Nurses Association, District 5 “My Favorite Nurse” contest. Congratulations to Cheri Berry (SRMC Home Health and Hospice) and Rebecca Peters-Flohr (SRMC Acute Car...
Cheyenne County Commissioners approved of the Cheyenne County Highway Superintendent’s 2013 One and Six Year Road Improvement Plan during their meeting Monday morning. Tom Noel explained the completed construction and maintenance projects from the 2012 hearing, as well as his future proposed projects. “Last year we took a bridge out and made it a low water crossing on 97,” he told the commissioners. The bridge in question was said to be deteriorating on Road 97 south of Road 18, and was replaced with the low water crossing. “We did 81 miles o...
Lawyer Mike Bacon from Gothenburg presented draft number three of the redevelopment contract for the former Sioux Army Depot to the Potter village board on Monday night. Bacon insisted that the changes were modest; he didn’t understand that the city of Sidney provided water service to the site, so that was changed in the contract along with the addition that the village is not required to provide sewage, water or any of those services. Another aspect changed because there will be two bonds; one for the Dell Project and one for the rail. B...
Cabela’s donated $7,000 to the local TeamMates Mentoring Program during a presentation that was held on April 30. Sean Baker presented the check on behalf of Cabela’s. The 2nd Annual TeamMates Mentor/Mentee Fun Day will be at West Elementary on Wednesday, May 15 at 1:30 p.m. students and their mentors will get to run the new obstacle course and eat snacks while the enjoy time together. The TeamMates Mentoring Program is a school-based one-to-one mentoring program that began in 1991. Tom and Nanc...
Cheyenne County may soon be in the weeds. The board of commissioners and Weed Superintendent Brian Hiett discussed whether or not a new weed in the amaranth family should be put on the County’s Noxious Weed List at their meeting yesterday. Commissioner Harold Winkelman said that this weed was particularly a problem found in corn crops and soybeans, and that the “glorified pig weed” puts out thousands of seeds. “If you see one of those suckers growing out there you better go pull it because it became Roundup resistant and it also became T40 res...
Brad Rowan, the new Cheyenne County Planning and Zoning Administrator, met with Cheyenne County Commissioners Monday morning to discuss the procedure of issuing county building permits. “Presently there is no fee for inspections or issuing permits,” said the planning and zoning administrator. “I’d like to suggest we amend that to sister up to what I’m proposing for the city to do also.” Rowan explained to the commissioners that with his credentials, if the county updated it’s building codes the ISO rating would be lowered and in return it wou...
The Great Trash Race that was held in Sidney on May 4 was a couple of tons of success. The participants collected 244 bags of trash, which equaled 4380 lbs. or 2.19 tons of trash. Keep Sidney Beautiful recycled a half ton of metal from the event. This is up nearly one ton from last year’s race which had a total of 1.46 tons. The race is a part of Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Clean Up campaign. The goal of the race is to clean up litter in the community of Sidney and to educate the...
Editor’s Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in the Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. Leland Johnston was a ranch kid working in the Nebraska Sandhills near Thedford. He had been doing that since he was about 12 years old. When he was 18 he tried to get into the Army Air Corps but was turned down by that branch of service. The draft board did not turn him...
Toward the end of each month you might catch a man walking around downtown Sidney at a height twice that of a normal person. Ty White’s height however is not due to giant genes or a major growth spurt during high school; instead he conducts projects around the city on his pair of stilts. White recently was recruited by members of the Cheyenne County Ladies Chamber to put up and change the festive street decorations drivers see on the light poles around the downtown area. His mother, Shirley W...
PHOENIX — Jurors were given final instructions Friday in the trial of Jodi Arias, who is charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. They got the case after hearing closing arguments from both sides, with Arias’ lawyer imploring them to take an impartial view of his client and prosecutors describing Arias as a manipulative liar who meticulously planned the attack. Defense lawyer Kirk Nurmi on Friday asked the jury to take an unbiased look at the case and his client — even if they don’t like her — as the mu...
It was the month of May in the year 1873 that the first published newspaper appeared in the frontier town of Sidney, Nebraska. The owner, editor, publisher, and pressman was one man, L. Connell, who distributed the four-column folio sheet under the banner of The Sidney Telegraph. The town of Sidney began as an end-of-track, Union Pacific railroad town in 1867 with all the drama and excitement that towns with those beginnings bring. Gamblers, whiskey peddlers, barrooms and brothels provided all the amenities that many hardworking railroad...
The State of Nebraska’s case against Joshua Rodriguez was decided by a jury trial this Tuesday, April 30 in Cheyenne County Court. The jury of six found Rodriguez not guilty of driving with a suspended license. Rodriquez had initially been charged with operating a motor vehicle during a period of suspension (a Class 3 misdemeanor,) possession of less than one once of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in his vehicle (both infractions.) But according to court documents, his defense counsel, Sidney attorney Donald Miller, moved to s...
The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce created a new award in 2012, “Heroes Among Us.” This year’s recipients are all of the area fire departments because of the hard work that they did while they were fighting the wildfires in 2012 that burned nearly 6000 acres in Cheyenne, Kimball and Banner Counties. Awards are being given to the Sidney, Dalton, Potter, Gurley and Lodgepole volunteer fire departments. At the Chamber of Commerce banquet, all of the firemen were recognized and those firem...
