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A Nevada man finds himself in Cheyenne County Jail after his Saturday morning arrest on felony drug charges. John Lee Longshore, 58, Carson City, remains in custody on $50,000 bond (or 10 percent) after his Monday presentment before Cheyenne County District Judge Randin Roland on a Class IV felony count of methamphetamine possession. According to his arrest affidavit, Longshore actually made it easy for authorities to make the arrest. Nebraska State Patrol was called to locate Longshore and his...
Cheyenne County Community Center and The Book and Coffee Corner staff are teaming up with mom and photographer, Heather Hausmann to hold their first “Bridge to Imagination” Lego Competition on March 16 at the community center. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. that Saturday and all participants are asked to bring no more than 5 lbs of small Legos to compete with, said Hausmann. There is no cost to participate and the age groups range from 5 to 7-year-olds, 8 to 11-year-olds and 12-14...
After almost redundant discussion on the application for a condition 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 at the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday morning, commissioners decided to table the matter until April 15 when hopefully both parties will have reached an understanding. The meeting of the two groups started out with Sidney Attorney Don Miller, representing Pine Bluffs,...
Four individuals face sentencing Wednesday morning in Cheyenne District Court, including two Sidney men who have changed pleas to amended drug charges. Leland Blake, 57, and Donald Schlieker, 50, have both entered guilty pleas to. Schlieker originally pleaded not guilty to two Class III felony counts of unlawful delivery of marijuana and Class III possession of a defaced firearm. Blake at first faced two Class II felony charges of delivery of Vicodin (hydrocodone), a DEA Schedule III controlled substance. Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub ha...
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 V. Nelson spent his formative years in the area of Platte County, Neb. Like kids from western Nebraska, he walked the miles to school as well as getting to school by horsepower –one way or another. On more than one occasion, Leland’s horse drawn wagon was faster t...
Sidney’s North Elementary School held its first “Grab your Hat and Read with the Cat” reading party to celebrate National Read Across America Day. The school will also be hosting a Dr. Seuss/Read Across America book exchange during parent/teacher conferences at the school next Tuesday, March 5 from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Wednesday, March 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. as well. Read Across America Day usually takes place on March 2, Dr. Seuss’ birthday, but this year schools around the country...
Looking for an exercise routine that strengthens your body while calming your mind? Chera Steele teaches a yoga class at the Cheyenne County Community Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. that does just that. Steele said that participants need their own yoga mat and a water bottle, towels and yoga blocks if they wish to use them. Yoga mats are also on sale at the center. Class members should wear comfortable workout clothes and come barefoot or with socks if their feet...
LINCOLN – A special committee to analyze state aid to education could be formed if a bill heard in the Education Committee of the Nebraska Legislature is passed. Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm presented the bill (LB323) Tuesday that would create a group of people, representing the schools of Nebraska, to discuss annually and create a report with suggestions as to how to address the state aid formula. Four people testified in support of the bill and nobody testified against or neutral to the bill. In presenting his bill, Haar cited suggestions r...
Today is March 1. To most people it’s just the beginning of the month, just another day. But to dietitians and other health related individuals it’s the start of National Nutrition Month, a month dedicated to educating others on nutrition and promoting healthy eating habits. This month-long campaign was created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (previously known as the American Dietetics Association) and focuses on the importance of making smart, informed food choices and gives people the knowledge and motivation to start dev...
Sidney Middle School National Junior Honor Society President Will Castner, in a combined effort with Sidney Middle School Student Council President Annalise Lecher, has done all the research needed for installing a new flagpole in front of the middle school. They have started donation efforts and have a plan to make the new flagpole become a reality. According to middle school students and staff the current flagpole “has chipped paint, leans to the street and is unable to be displayed at h...
New owners and operators of the Coffee Corner and the Book Corner, Cindy and Jason Rohm, celebrated their new ownership by a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday morning with the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, as well as family and employees, in attendance. Cindy Rohm is a transplant from Santa Barbara and was employed with Cabela’s before working at the coffee shop under its previous owner Barb Meier. Rohm said that she had been starting to think that she would love to own a c...
Joe Aikens, Sidney Assistant Police Chief, has been chosen to serve as Interim Police Chief for the Sidney Police Department and will begin his new position tomorrow, according to a press release this morning from Gary Person, City of Sidney City Manager. He will be filling in for Sidney Police Chief Mike Brown, who announced in February that he would be resigning to return to Kansas to be with family members battling through illnesses. Chief Brown’s last day serving the City of Sidney is t...
LINCOLN – Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial withdrew his bill (LB52) Wednesday that would allow certain organizations to hire prisoners for labor without pay. Christensen said he received phone calls and emails throughout Tuesday after an amendment eliminating organizations that discriminate based on sexual orientation was adopted. He said that, even with his phone ringing all day after the legislative session, he wants his constituents to be able to contact him about these issues. “I could have stood on the floor boldly and said, you kno...
WASHINGTON — Government agencies are already taking steps to comply with automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday. Defense Department One of the Navy’s premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va., its tour of duty delayed. The carrier and its 5,000-person crew were to leave for the Persian Gulf on Feb. 8, along with the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg. Department of Homeland Security Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been freed from jail across the country. Immigration and...
Though realizing both sides need a bit more time to finish their respective depositions, Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer this morning set June 17 as the start of what looks to be a week-long trial in the child-abuse case against Nancy Gipfert. “I have a myriad of trail dates in the summer,” Weimer told the court. “This needs to get to trial.” Gipfert, 55, Sidney, is charged with one count of Class II felony intentional child abuse. Her attorney, Donald Miller, requested a continu...
Tim Miller, owner and operator of Miller Office Supply in Sidney, has seen the business side of multiple professions. But in 1987 he finally found a business he plans to hang his hat on until retirement - his office supply business. He and his wife Dixie own and run the store with the help of a loyal crew and will be been in charge of the store 26 years this July 1. Miller and his wife were both born and raised in Sidney and came back to town after attending school in Denver in 1973. With great...
After suffering from knee and back injuries over the past 2 years, steer wrestler Casey McMillen, grandson of Cheyenne County Commissioner, Ken McMillen, won his first title in a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) rodeo in over 26 months. The steer wrestler’s comeback came at the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros rodeo in Tuscon, Ariz. Feb. 16 through 24 where he took $7,296 in winnings. During the first round in the steer wrestling competition, McMillen tied for fifth place with a time of 4...
LINCOLN – A bill that would help ensure reasonable fees for public records requests advanced in the Nebraska Unicameral on a 35-1 vote Monday. LB363, introduced by Sen. Bill Avery of Lincoln, would close a loophole by which some state agencies and public entities have taken advantage of people by charging large amounts of money for public records, Avery said. Sen. Scott Price gave the example of a person in his hometown of Bellevue being charged more than $600 for 14 pieces of paper because of the legal costs that the entity said would be r...
LINCOLN – Hot, dry, windy weather and too many eastern red cedar trees made 2012 the worst year for wildfires in Nebraska, said Sen. Al Davis of Hyannis during a Natural Resources Committee hearing Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Davis sponsored Legislative Bill 634, the Wildfire Control Act of 2013, to address a trend toward “mega fires” in Nebraska. Fires increased in frequency and size starting after 1989, said Nebraska State Forester Scott Josiah. “We have to keep the fires smaller and hit them harder early on,” he said. LB634 would contract...
LINCOLN – After three hours of discussion, one of three amendments proposed by Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha to a bill dealing with prison labor was passed Tuesday. “I intend to take all the time that is necessary to kill this bill,” Chambers said. The bill (LB52) would allow nonprofit organizations to hire prisoners for labor with no pay. Chambers proposed amendments to eliminate nonprofit organizations from the proposed program and to eliminate the requirement that the labor would pay for the operating costs of the penitentiary. Both faile...
Holyoke, Colo. native author Stephen L. Wood is set to hold a book reading and signing of his work Blizzard of ’77 this Saturday, March 2 at the Sidney Pubic Library. The reading and signing will go from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and his work features some local Cheyenne County residents within its pages. Wood’s book is a collection of stories gathered through three years of research on those impacted by both the 1949 and 1977 blizzards that hit the Great Plains. He has also included archived local newspaper accounts as well as personal accounts fro...
Shelby Roelle and her business associates celebrated their 10th year anniversary of buying House of Flowers this Feb. 4. Roelle is a Sidney native and lived in the town most of her life.She graduated from Sidney High School before attending the University of Northern Colorado. “The House of Flowers has been around for a long time and the name is at least 40-yrs-old,” said Roelle. The owner said that she has always wanted to own her own business and that after graduating college with a deg...
WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel was sworn in Wednesday as defense secretary — President Barack Obama’s third in just over four years — and said that one of his highest priorities will be ensuring fair treatment of troops, veterans and their families. He called the automatic budget cuts due to take effect on Friday — to include $46 billion in Pentagon reductions — “a reality” that “we need to deal with.” In 15 minutes of remarks to Pentagon employees shortly after becoming the nation’s 24th secre...
Below are backgrounds on the professionals scheduled to light up the stage during the Heritage Chorale and Orchestra’s debut performance of Cantata No. 140, Sleepers, Wake by Johann Sebastian Bach at the First United Methodist Church Saturday, March 2. Keith Miller – Bass singer “Keith Miller’s story is that of the local kid who made good,” said Jordan Ball, the director of Saturday’s performance. Miller grew up in a town 10 miles south of Chappell, Neb. in the small town of Ovid, Colo. With...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate cleared the way Tuesday for confirmation of Chuck Hagel to be the nation’s next defense secretary after Republicans dropped their unprecedented delay of President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Pentagon. On a vote of 71-27, the Senate ended a Republican filibuster, setting the stage for the widely expected confirmation of the former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska later in the day. Eighteen Republicans joined 51 Democrats and two independents to move forward with the contentious nomination. If confi...
