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The following winter safety reminders were provided by the Nebraska Department of Roads and highly advised when driving in dangerous winter conditions: • When traveling outside of a business or residential district, it is unlawful to follow a highway maintenance vehicle (snowplow, truck or grader) more closely than 100 feet when it is plowing snow, spreading salt or sand, or displaying a flashing amber or blue light. If conditions permit however, drivers may pass a maintenance vehicle. • Snowplows cause soft snow to swirl. It can become dif...
LINCOLN – Nebraska lawmakers debated Tuesday about expanding Medicaid to a particular group of low-income adults and adopted an amendment allowing lawmakers to review the policy if federal funds decrease. The bill (LB577), introduced by Sen. Kathy Campbell of Lincoln, would allow adults between the ages of 19 and 64 who fall between 0 and 138 percent of the federal poverty level to qualify for Medicaid, which provides health care for certain low income people. Expanding access to Medicaid was authorized under the federal Affordable Care Act, c...
At their April meeting, the Sidney Public Schools Board of Education selected Randy Miller to fill the seat left vacant by Jeff Wernsman. Miller was nominated by board member Tom Vanseggern and a motion was made and approved unanimously by the board members to make Miller the next board member. Vanseggern explained that the board is in charge of filling the seat with the person who they feel will best serve the public interest. This appointment will be in effect until the November 2014 elections...
An initial hearing was held yesterday morning in the State of Nebraska case against Theodore Medina, charged with issuing terroristic threats, a class IV felony. At the hearing, Medina’s defense attorney Joel Jay requested the court to lower Medina’s bond (which was currently set at $10,000 at 10 percent) so that Medina could help take care of his child while his ex-wife is at work. Jay also asked for a continuance on the preliminary hearing. On April 4 around 10 p.m. Sidney Police Officer Sco...
Sidney Public Library officials are midway through their National Library Week celebration, and they said they welcome anybody in the community to come by the library to indulge in cookies, coffee and a cold beverage. National Library Week is a national observance that was first sponsored in 1958 by the American Library Association. Libraries across the country celebrate it each April. National Library Week is celebrated in Sidney during the week of April 14-20 this year, and Sidney Public...
LINCOLN — Experts have checked out and cleared a suspicious bag that was found outside U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer’s office in Lincoln. A passer-by in the Haymarket district on the west edge of downtown reported the package Wednesday morning. Bomb experts say the bag contained only trash. Chief fire inspector Bill Moody told the Lincoln Journal Star that such reports multiply “after a major incident in the country,” referring to the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday. Moody has no problem responding to calls about suspicious packages. He says he’d ra...
BOSTON — The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives emerged as investigators appealed to the public for amateur video and photos that might yield clues. The chief FBI agent in Boston vowed ...
LINCOLN — Gov. Dave Heineman said Monday that a $2.2 million budget request to buy an airplane from the University of Nebraska Foundation is needed to reach rural parts of the state quickly. Heineman said the plane ensures he and other state officials are accessible to residents when needed. He argued that a state-owned plane is more cost-efficient than relying on a charter service. “This is about having access to the governor for every citizen of the state of Nebraska,” Heineman said during a news conference on an unrelated subject. “It’s...
Timothy Tscharner asked for counsel to be appointed for him yesterday afternoon at the Cheyenne County Courthouse regarding a class IV felony charge against him of violating sex offender laws and failing to inform the sheriff of his new address in writing within five working days of his location change. The case of the State of Nebraska against Tscharner started with the disappearance of an iPhone and tablet, according to Cheyenne County Court records. Court documents stated that Dale and Emily...
Yesterday morning members of the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners came to a conclusion on the application for a conditional use permit from Pine Bluffs Gravel and Excavating Inc. for the proposed use of a gravel mine to operate a ready-mix concrete batch plant. The commissioners moved to deny Pine Bluffs representatives the permit. A problem had arisen after the company began operations last summer and residents neighboring the operation site said that the dust, noise and traffic created b...
LINCOLN – Juveniles convicted of Class 1A felonies would no longer face a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole under a bill introduced by Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha. The bill (LB44), which the Legislature debated Monday, would establish a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a minimum sentence of 30 years imprisonment for juvenile offenders convicted of the most serious crimes, like murder, rape and kidnapping. The bill is an attempt to bring Nebraska state law in line with a recent Supreme Court decision that m...
LINCOLN – Nebraska judges would get raises under a bill senators advanced Wednesday to increase the salary of Nebraska Supreme Court judges by 5 percent annually over the next two years. The bill (LB232), introduced by Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha, would increase the judges’ annual pay from its current base of $145,600 to $152,900 in 2013, and again to $160,500 in 2014. It passed with a vote of 26 to 2. Because the salaries of all Nebraska judges are based on a percentage of what the Supreme Court judges make, this would mean a 5 percent rai...
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. Roger S, Allen is a resident of the Nebraska Veteran’s Home in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War 1951 to 1954. Allen enlisted in the US Navy when he was 20 years old. All his friends and associates had either joined up or were going to join the military. His uncles and cousins were...
Authorities at Cabela’s announced on April 5 that they are teaming up with officials at The Harry and Reba Huge Foundation to award scholarships to Nebraska students. There will be four Cabela’s Women in Leadership Scholarships worth $10,000 awarded to female Nebraska high school graduates, according to Cabela’s officials. “The Cabela’s Women in Leadership Scholarships are part of an initiative by Cabela’s leaders to promote young women to leadership positions within the organization,” they said. The officials said that those students that grad...
Fresh Wind Organic Farm, located in the “school section” of Sidney, is on 640 acres of land; plenty of room for their free-range chickens to roam. John and Teresa Smith and their children Annalyn, Erika and Theodore currently occupy the farm house, which was built in the early 1900s. A 1999 tornado destroyed about 50 percent of the farm buildings, and John and Teresa say that they are working to rebuild some of the buildings. When the family moved here, they wanted to acquire animals that were ...
Kristi Edgington teaches a fitness class Monday through Thursday from 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Cheyenne County Community Center that keeps participants on their toes and wondering what is going to happen next. Her class is called Mix it Up and Edgington said her spontaneous fitness routine fits well with the name. “It’s everything,” she said. “I change it up all the time so that your body doesn’t get use to doing one thing. This is important in exercise because if your body gets use...
From the World Trade Center and Times Square in New York to the White House and sports venues across the country, police patrolled in packs and deployed counterterrorism teams Monday as security was stepped up after explosions at the Boston Marathon. Worries also reverberated across the Atlantic, where an already robust security operation was being beefed up for Wednesday's ceremonial funeral for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The event at St. Paul's Cathedral, to be attended by Queen Elizabeth II and other dignitaries, calls for a...
BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will "feel the full weight of justice." A...
LINCOLN – The Nebraska State Patrol is at its lowest number since 1996, but the patrol is budgeting to fix radios and vehicles, not hire more troopers, said Sen. Colby Coash of Lincoln during debate on Legislative Bill 579, Thursday, April. 11. The bill would increase from nine to 15 the number of state patrol members who focus on enforcing the Nebraska Liquor Control Act. Nebraska has about 425 state patrol members, said Sen. Bob Krist of Omaha. Coash voted against advancing the bill from the General Affairs Committee because he said e...
There were no major injuries reported after a two-semi collision occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Johannes J. Vanhanster, of a California address, was travelling east on I-80 when his semi-trailer was rear-ended by a semi driven by Matthew D. Finkes of Missouri. Finkes truck failed to stop when he pressed brakes “hard,” so his truck struck the rear end of Vanhanster’s trailer. Both parties were wearing their seatbelts. The use of neither drugs nor alcohol was suspected. Pictures were taken and the investigation was concluded at the scene by re...
Dozens of students enjoyed Fine Arts Night at South Elementary on April 11. Art activities filled rooms along the first grade hall, including scratch art, thumb print art, water colors and bubble wrap prints. Music activities were staged in classrooms though the kindergarten hall, including Wii karaoke, “fun with instruments,” homemade instruments, instrument bingo and instrument show and tell. In the gym, children enjoyed Wii dance. South Elementary music teacher Misty Michelman, along wit...
The topic of track renovations dominated the Creek Valley Board of Education (BOE) meeting on Thursday night. During the March BOE meeting, estimates of around $100,000 to repair/replace the top coat or around $375,000 to do a more extensive repair by repairing the old base using a new system were discussed. There is currently only one contractor’s estimate that the BOE members are dealing with. An advertisement was put in region newspapers for bids. Only two contractors replied. One of those contractors went bankrupt, so the estimate from t...
On Saturday, April 20 City of Sidney Tree Board members are holding their annual Tree Give-Away in honor of the City’s National Arbor Day Celebration. Registration for the tree give-away will take place the morning of the event between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. at the Lodgepole Valley Youth Camp on Fort Sidney Road, according to tree board chairman, Tom Von Seggern. Von Seggern has been on the board for a total of 11 years and says that the tree give-away continues to be a great community event. ...
This Saturday Sidney Public Library officials are holding an arts and crafts program as part of their annual series. On April 13 from 10 a.m. to noon co-owner of the Imagine That craft store, Eleanor Plummer, will be showing participants how to create their own “Spring Wreath.” Plummer will step-by-step show how to create the wreath by using grape vine wreath, fabric and wood, according to Doris Jensen, the director of the library. An example of the wreath is currently on display at the lib...
No serious injuries were reported after a one-vehicle accident resulted in a roll-over on Highway 30 in Lodgepole near mile marker 66 on April 8. The driver of the vehicle, Cody Rowley of a Lodgepole address, was traveling westbound on Highway 30 when he ran off the roadway into the north ditch. Then he re-entered the roadway and crossed the center line and went back into the north ditch. The vehicle, a 1999 Isuzu Rodeo, then rolled one complete time and came to a rest on its wheels. The airbag did not deploy and the driver was wearing his...
