Police department curb appeal to be improved

The front of the Sidney Police Department property on Illinois Street is getting a facelift.

A Cabela's leadership team has taken on the project in collaboration with the City of Sidney and other local businesses.

"I'm sure everybody has noticed and if not, they should have noticed, that the front of our building was cosmetically unappealing and rapidly becoming more so as time went on," Sidney Police Chief B.J. Wilkinson said. "Some of the old substructure out there, that existed since this place was a Tastee-Freez, had begun to deteriorate pretty badly."

In 1986, the police department moved...