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In about a month, German heritage will be celebrated as the Sidney community will be ringing in Oktoberfest. On Tuesday, Aug. 27, the Sidney City Council approved a request for the Oktoberfest Parade. The route will again be on Illinois Street/Highway 30. The closure would be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from Twenty-third avenue to the intersection of Fort Sidney Road and Illinois Street. As part of the agreement, the City of Sidney will place barricades and detour signs, and have the signs removed...
Sidney scouts recently presented local law enforcement and fire departments with gifts in recognition of their service to Cheyenne County and Sidney, and to the scouts program. Pictured from left, front row, are: Hunter Elston, Grady Kendall, Laurie Linden, Zane Gorman, Zoey Gorman, Gabe Franzen and Parker Lienemann; back row: Sarah Elston, Ed Kendall (president, Sidney Volunteer Fire Department), Cheyenne County Sheriff Adam Frerichs, Sidney Police Officer Chad Borgmann, Sidney Police Chief...
The Cheyenne County Fair received a donation from the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Dress Down Days recently....
Sidney Public Schools is one of five districts in Nebraska to receive 2019-2020 Perkins reVISION initial grants. The grant is designed to assist local school districts in completing the reVISION Career Education strategic planning process, according to a press release from the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE). The program promotes collaboration between school officials, regional workforce and economic development leaders, reVISION career educators, industry professionals and community...
The Cheyenne County Fair Board has a challenge in the 2019-2020 year — tightening the budget gap. The fair board met Monday evening. Among the agenda items, Cheyenne County Commissioner Randal Miller encouraged the board to consider a finance committee. "I think it would be nice to have a finance committee so the burden is not on one person," Miller said. Board treasurer Anita Pennel was asked her opinion on creating a finance committee. "Whoever is taking over as treasurer, it probably would h...
The high school and middle school years are challenging at best. They are a time of making the leap from childhood to the teenage years and then to young adulthood, and all of the stress and confusion that comes with it. Sometimes success is as simple as having someone to talk to, someone to vent to without judgement. Making your way through the day could be as simple as having someone who has been there to offer some guidance. That is where Teammates comes into play. Teammates is a mentoring pr...
The Sidney City Council reviewed the City's fee schedules during the Aug. 13 city council meeting. Finance Director David Scott said in the resolution that the council approved an ordinance in 2018 creating a fee schedule containing all of the fees. Prior to that, each department's fees were reviewed and approved individually, “at random,” according to Scott. The fee schedule reviewed included actual fees to be charged from that point forward. According to City Manager Ed Sadler, the intent is...
A 1995 Isuzu Rodeo and a 2008 Dodge 1500 pickup truck collided at Illinois Street and 17J Link at about 7:49 a.m. Aug. 21. According to the accident report, the accident occurred when the Isuzu driven by Kristina A. Tracy, of Dix, was traveling east on Illinois Street approaching the stop sign intersection with 17J Link as Steven Minshall of Sidney was driving the Dodge pickup south on the 17J Link. The two vehicles collided when the Isuzu proceeded into the intersection as the Dodge was...
The City of Sidney will be closed on Monday, September 2, in observance of Labor Day. All City Departments will be closed including the Landfill and the Library. The Dial-a-ride Bus and Stage Line Bus will not be running. The Solid Waste Department will be collecting Monday’s trash on Tuesday and Tuesday’s trash on Wednesday. On Saturday, Aug. 31, the Library and the Stage Line Bus will be open their regular hours....
To reach the future, you need a plan, a blueprint of what you have and how to arrive at where you want to be. That is the goal of Blueprint Nebraska. The program is the result of a group of business, industry and civic leaders coming together to harness the state's strengths and address challenges that threaten growth, according to the July 2019 Blueprint Nebraska summary report. Representatives from the Nebraska State Chamber of Commerce stopped in Sidney Aug. 14 to update community leaders on...
Bill Owen of Trickshot sings out from the stage for Downtown Sounds last venue of the season as drummer Dean McCall backs him up. The event included vendors and the Sidney High School dance team offering face-painting....
The Cheyenne County Commissioners are set to propose a budget with cuts amounting to almost $1 million. The cuts are a result of a substantial decrease in the county's valuation, according to commissioner Randal Miller. “We are doing everything we can to lower the mill levy again,” Miller said in Monday morning's meeting. He added the biggest hurdle in minimizing the mill levy is the $93 million loss in county valuation. For the 2018 tax year, Cheyenne County's total valuation was $1,...
There's something about a train that enraptures people. Maybe it is the sense of power, progress and development. For some, it is the recollection of days gone by. Thursday morning, The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 left Sidney westbound for Cheyenne, Wyo. It was completing its midwest tour commemorating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. It was also an opportunity for an unlikely meeting of generations. Robert Edler recalls his grandfather working on the...
The Cheyenne County School District No. 1 started the process of reviewing and updating policies in the Monday, Aug. 12 meeting. The board reviewed the 2002 Organization of the Board policy. The policy states the board is comprised of six members, each elected at-large. Officers are elected in the January meeting. Officers include the board secretary who does not have to be a member of the board. The updated policy says board officers may be elected by secret ballot. The total number of votes...
The Sidney City Council met in a Work Session Aug. 6 to discuss next year's budget. The agenda was kept to reviewing the City Manager's Budget for 2019-2020. City Manager Ed Sadler's budget recommendation included a summary of how the City of Sidney arrived at this point. His summary says budget requests during the last two years have seen reductions of about $1 million each year. The reductions were a result of losses attributed to the sale of Cabela's to Bass Pro and the resulting loss of...
LINCOLN – The Nebraska Department of Labor (NDOL) is now accepting grant applications from local workforce development areas needing to repair damage to public infrastructure resulting from the spring flooding. NDOL has received $2 million in Disaster Recovery Employment Program (DREP) funding from the US Department of Labor, which will be awarded through local workforce development areas to employers to create temporary jobs and receive 100 percent wage reimbursement for those jobs. Individuals who lost employment due to the flooding or who h...
The Sidney Sun-Telegraph announces that editor Forrest Hershberger has been promoted to publisher. He officially took the helm on Friday, July 26. Hershberger came to Sidney in 2017, having most of 25 years in the community news business. He started as a reporter for the Sterling Journal-Advocate in 1990, moved to Monte Vista, Colo., in 1995, then Julesburg, Colo., before returning to the Journal-Advocate to serve as the news editor. He was the interim editor of the Journal-Advocate for a short...
Weather permitting, work will begin August 12 on I-80 from Sidney to Sunol westbound, Reference Post 60.70 to Reference Post 68.67, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Scodeller Construction, of Wixom, Mich., has the $760,771 contract, which includes concrete pavement repair and concrete sealing, on the westbound lanes with intermittent closures being implemented in one lane at a time to complete work. A 12-foot width restriction will be in place through the duration of the...
Your child is an active teenager. Some would say reckless and overactive. He doesn’t play. He dares death and injury to stand in front of him. Eventually it does and the next call is to the Emergency Room and resulting doctor visits. The process is complicated by the parents having to ensure they have copies of procedures and records after each step toward recovery. Sidney Regional Medical Center is working to minimize the detail-intensive process. A new program in the works will allow p...
They are often the unnoticed tradesmen, building empires from a handful of tools and a vision. Some jokingly say they are the original gamblers, trying to bet against nature. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says agriculture is among the most hazardous industries with a high risk of fatal and nonfatal injuries. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) developed a program in 1990 to address the injuries and illnesses that farm workers and families...
Louisiana's Waylon Guy Bourgeois earned third place for this ride in the Bareback Riding event at the PRCA Rodeo at the Cheyenne County Fair on Wednesday....
The Sidney City Council recently approved funding to assist MMP Enterprises in opening a new location in Sidney. MMP Enterprises USA, with its parent office based in Toronto Canada, is a fulfillment and distribution company expanding operations to Sidney, according to a memo from Sidney Economic Development Director Melissa Norgard. The memo says MMP Enterprises is in the process of purchasing the former Cabela's Distribution Center northwest of Sidney. The agreement is for $500,000 over five...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Likewise, if it sounds too dark and negative, it may not be true. The telephone in all of its assets is also a pipeline for scammers trying to get into your personal data, from bank account numbers to Social Security numbers. Fear is one of their biggest tactics. Cheyenne County Sheriff Adam Frerichs said the department receives at least three to five reports of scam calls every day. The calls vary from reports of a family member in a distant...
On Friday afternoon, commuters on Highway 30 between Potter and Sidney had an extra "personality" on the pavement. It was a scene that could almost be timeless with two horseback riders cutting through the grasses in the afternoon head. If not for the passing motorized traffic, including two pickup trucks and horse trailers, the scene could have been from more than a century in the past. The Tipi Raisers 2019 passed through Sidney recently on their way to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The ride...
Sidney Police Department July 22 • 2:02 am, Foot Patrol • 5:41 am, Agency Assist, 1200 block Summit Dr. • 6:48 am, Alarm Business, 100 block Cabela Dr. • 7:07 am, Disturbance, 500 block 14th Ave. • 8:46 am, Follow Up, 800 block Hoffies Dr. • 8:54 am, Code Violation, 1100 block 17th Ave. • 8:58 am, Agency Assist, 1200 block Country Club Dr. • 9:04 am, Parking Complaint, 1700 block Newton St. • 9:08 am, Follow Up, 1000 block Pole Creek Crossing • 9:35 am, Follow Up, 1100 block 24th Ave. • 9:55 am, Animal Call, Mile Marker 59, Interstate 80 • 10:0...
