Wheat Belt to build new headquarters

After 67 years in the same location, Wheat Belt Public Power District has announced that it will break ground on April 27 for a new Wheat Belt headquarters and warehouse facility.

The new building will be located about six miles north of Sidney at the northeast corner of Highway 385 and County Road 32.

The existing building – located at 2104 Illinois St., Sidney – will be sold. It has been the headquarters of the company since 1948.

“We do not have the philosophy to just build something new for the sake of it being new, but rather we needed some robust reasoning and solid financial savings beh...