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  • Dorwart retires after 50 years in U.S. Navy

    Don Ogle|Sep 29, 2017

    Fifty years ago a young Sidney man found his way into the Navy. A week ago today, that man retired as a highly respected man of God and of the Navy, who would remain serving both capacities if he could. Lieutenant Commander William Dorwart stood in the hangar bay of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt at the Naval Base San Diego, honored by Navy friends and family, plus members of his own family who could make the trip. When Dorwart left Nebraska, he became an aviation electronic technician. When his...

  • Lukjan subdivision approved by council

    Brandon L. Summers|Sep 29, 2017

    Sidney City Council Tuesday approved a subdivision for Lukjan Metal LLC's facility on Greenwood Drive. Dividing the property is among the steps necessary to bring another company to Sidney, Robert Stefka, Commercial Investment Services of North Platte, representing Korda & Kelly, Lukjan's ownership entity, explained to council members. "When they purchased that building," Stefka said, "they looked at marketing the other half of the property because, quite frankly, it was a much larger property...

  • Points West merging with Fullerton National

    Brandon L. Summers|Sep 29, 2017

    Points West Community Bank of Sidney and Fullerton National Bank of Fullerton are merging. The two institutions reached an agreement this month, Bruce Batt, Points West president, told the SunTelegraph. "Fullerton National and Points West are affiliate banks with the Olson family of Nebraska being majority shareholders," Batt said. "With the increasingly difficult regulatory and technology environments it makes sense to reduce duplication in these areas." He added, "Our group is community...

  • Lucero pleads not guilty to enticement charge

    Brandon L. Summers|Sep 29, 2017

    Paul A. Lucero, 41, of Littleton, Colorado, appeared in Cheyenne County District Court Tuesday on an amended charge of attempted enticement by electronic device. The amended charge is a Class 1 misdemeanor. The original charge of enticement, though, is a Class 4 felony. Lucero entered a plea of not guilty. The amended complaint alleges Lucero, between Feb. 7 and Nov. 10, 2016, while a resident of Sidney, "knowingly and intentionally utilized an electronic communication device to attempt to...

  • Council approves amending comm center agreement

    Brandon L. Summers|Sep 29, 2017

    Sidney City Council Tuesday approved amending its interlocal cooperation agreement with Cheyenne County for the Emergency Communications Center. Discussions were held recently between J. Leef, city attorney, and Paul Schaub, county attorney, about the agreement, Leef reported. Several needed updates to the contract were proposed. “It still talks about teletypes and things we no longer have. It was revamped to take that out,” Leef said. “It also addresses several things that really hadn...

  • Beulah Lenz - Obituary

    Sep 29, 2017

    Beulah Lenz, 83 a long-time resident of Sidney, Nebraska passed away Wednesday morning, September 20, 2017 at the Sidney Regional Medical Center. Funeral services were held at 10:00 A.M., Monday, September 25, 2017 in the First United Methodist Church in Sidney with Pastor Corey Jenkins officiating. Burial followed in the Greenwood Cemetery. Memorials have been established to the First United Methodist Church. Visitation will be held from 3:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Sunday at the Holechek Funeral Hom...

  • Sidney Cross Country places in UNK meet

    Forrest Hershberger|Sep 29, 2017

    The Sidney High School cross country teams competed in the University of Nebraska-Kearney meet Monday, Sept. 25, a meet that can be called a warm-up to State competition. The boys team finished 12th in a field of 22 teams and the girls 15th of 20 teams. "All in all, I was very impressed," said Sidney Coach Donna Wiedeburg. "It is the most teams we see." She said the University of Nebraska-Kearney meet matches Sidney against teams they will not see again unless at State competition....

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