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Extraordinarily high yields in area wheat fields should make up for lackluster prices. "It's a good year for the county for raising wheat," said Andrew Kabes of Scoular Grain in Sidney. Workers at Crossroads Cooperative and Scoular Grain agreed that the harvest in Cheyenne County was nearly finished. Joe Christopher, senior grain merchandiser at Crossroads Cooperative estimated that the local harvest is 85 percent complete. The yields are very good this year, he said. Many farmers are bringing...
For 11-year-old Camille Highby, a less than stellar weekend turned into national publication of one of her drawings. Highby's drawing, titled Silly Sea Horse was featured in the Your Own Pages section of the July edition of Highlights magazine. "I was really bored on a Saturday," Highby said of the day she drew her picture. There was a copy of Highlights sitting next to her on that day, so she decided to create a picture to submit to the magazine. "I remembered reading about a seahorse at the...
Local youngsters can travel safely thanks to the Salvation Army and the Sidney Police Department. For the past 12 years, these two organizations have partnered to provide car seats and booster seats to those who can't afford them. "It's just part of our ongoing project to provide car seats to families who may not otherwise have access to new or proper car seats for their kids," said Sidney's Chief of Police BJ Wilkinson. The Sidney Police physically provide the seats to the families while the...
The Western Nebraska Community College cosmetology department was plastered in pink on Thursday in honor of cancer survivors being treated to a free spa day. Laughter trickled out of the pedicure room and into the department's hallway as the survivors laughed and joked with one another. The mood was bolstered by the positive messages from the students to the cancer survivors spread over white boards, posters and mirrors. "They're just loving it," said Alice Macht, cosmetology instructor at...
A grass fire north east of the intersection of Highway 30 and Highway 385 was put out quickly by Sidney's volunteer fire department on Thursday. The fire, which occurred during a thunderstorm was reportedly caused by lightening.... Full story
Sometimes tragedy can spark generosity. When 2-year-old Kyra Eads underwent cancer treatment in Denver, she received toys after chemotherapy and radiation. This process helped her get used to the treatments, said Eads' mother Kaila Kuhns. Kuhns was inspired to create her charity, Kyra's Kisses by how much this small reward comforted her daughter. Kuhns founded the charity, which provides new toys to local hospitals in February. "It's been amazing," Kuhns said. "We've had nurses call and thank...
Sidney has a rich history. The city is working to ensure that history is properly preserved. In a huge step toward future preservation, the city adopted a historic preservation plan during Tuesday’s city council meeting. “The purpose of it is just to help give the city’s preservation program direction in terms of preserving our historic assets,” said Megan McGown, Sidney’s community development director. In 2012 the city received a Certified Local Government grant from the National Parks Service and state Historic Preservation Office. T...
I complain too much. I have a (hopefully) stable job that I actually enjoy, I have a roof over my head, albeit a very tiny section of roof and I have many people in my life that care about me. But I still feel the need to constantly complain about things that really aren’t that important. I think complaining makes us all feel a little bit better about our own personal plight and helps us to vent frustrations about whatever is going wrong in our lives. Complaints can be a good thing or a bad thing. I find legitimate complaints about a wrong d...
After two unforeseen incidences that both took out power to portions of Sidney last weekend, city councilman Mark Nienhueser questioned the city’s electrical system. “It’s something all the time,” he said. “There is questions about the reliability of our system being asked.” The city is still attempting to ascertain the cause of the electric pole fire that took place on Sunday evening. About half of the city’s electric load was cut off for one hour while firefighters extinguished the blaze. “We did not find anything on our wires, conducto...
The city continues work on 10th Ave. On Thursday the city plans to begin pouring the west section of 10th Ave. between Newton St. and Linden St. During the next week the city will likely pour the east section of that portion of street.... Full story
Sidney’s ambulance service is working to make fewer trips to the hospital by treating more people at home. “As we look at what’s happening from our federal government and down with healthcare, we have to change from taking care of sick people to being part of a system that keeps patients well and keeps them out of the hospitals,” said Randy Meininger, the program manager for Emergency Response Care. “And paramedics are in the right spot at the right time to do that.” ERC is a department of Regional West Medical Center. The organizatio...
Sidney Public Library's summer reading program this year encouraged participants to get excited about science. The program came to a close on Tuesday with awards and a special invention presentation by 12-year-old Benjamin Bashtovoi. Bashtovoi invented a book-finding device that would roll along the library shelves to find books for those who don't know how to use the library's system. A person searching for a book would simply type the title into a computer, which would send the information to... Full story
After many community members spoke against it on Monday night, Sidney’s planning commission voted against allowing a temporary cell tower in a residential neighborhood. Viaero Wireless requested a conditional use permit to build a temporary cell tower at the back of the vacant lot at 2575 11th Ave., directly north of the bowling alley. “Viaero Wireless as have the other cell phone carriers have experienced a dramatic increase in traffic as we’ve introduced high speed data services to the point where we’re having to add auxiliary towers in virt...
A driver who lost control of his vehicle hitting many objects in the process caused the power outages in central and south Sidney on Saturday. Jamee Guggenmos of Gurley was traveling north out of Sidney on County Rd. 111 when he crossed the center line and struck multiple road signs, according to an accident report from the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office. His pickup truck continued into the west ditch and traveled north west into a barbed wire fence. The truck finally came to a stop when it... Full story
At Monday’s meeting members of the planning commission approved a conditional use permit for a gravel pit about a half mile outside the city limits along County Rd. 113. The owner of the pit, Fred Neal plans to allow a contractor to work out of the pit to supply gravel for U.S. defense missile road contracts. “I want to be a good neighbor,” Neal said. “My land essentially surrounds that and I don’t want to have any issues. I don’t want to have dust. I don’t want to have all the negatives that tend to come with a gravel pit if not controlled....
The grassroots group, Gambling with the Good Life is up in arms against an amendment on the Nebraska ballot this fall which it says would allow slot machines at horse tracks in the state. LR41CA would allow those visiting Nebraska horse tracks to bet on recorded horse races through video machines. Although those playing the machines can bet on previous horse races with the identity of that race concealed, they can also play a slot-machine type game as well, the group argued. There are only five licensed horse racing tracks in Nebraska right...
Sidney residents experienced wide spread power outages this weekend due to two separate incidences which both damaged portions of the city’s power grid. During the early morning hours of Saturday July 19 a vehicle ran into one of Sidney’s transmission lines just off of Haskell Hill Rd that feeds its south substation. The city had to take that line out of service in order to make necessary repairs. Sidney asked that all citizens and businesses conserve energy that day until the line could be repaired. Power was out for 3 hours and fifteen min...
The city wants downtown businesses owners to know they’re not being ignored. “We’ve had some comments from some of the business people who are in the construction area asking that we have some kind of a meeting among business owners, managers down in the general downtown area,” said City Manager Gary Person at last week’s city council meeting. In answer to these requests the Historic Downtown Sidney Main Street program will hold a downtown forum at Sam and Louie’s at 8 a.m. on July 23. “The Forum will highlight efforts that have been undertak...
The Community Action Partnership of Western Nebraska (CAPWN) is a non-profit community based health and human services organization that serves low income and disadvantaged persons who are unable to meet their own needs through other resources. Recently the organization filed for Chapter 11. According to Tim Nolting, President of the CAPWN Board, this filing is due to some unfortunate financial issues that have set CAPWN back quite a bit. “We came across the issues and realized that they needed to be addressed and fixed, however, it was a...
Local kids got a taste of the outdoors lifestyle at the Cabela's retail store on Wednesday. As part of a community service project, participants in a Cabela's developing leaders program instructed members of the Cool Kids Club in various activities. Those taking part in the Sidney Schools program from 4th grade and older were invited to attend. Kids practiced shooting BB guns at paper targets inside an inflatable shooting range. They tried their hands at casting into the grass outside the...
The Sidney planning commission will hear several proposals at its Monday meeting that could impact the community. Viaero Wireless, which plans to lease land from owner Sean Blackburn, will ask the planning commission for a conditional use permit to build a temporary cell tower in Sidney. The company plans to place the tower at the back of a vacant lot located at 2575 11th Ave., directly north of the bowling alley. This temporary cell tower on wheels will help alleviate demand for 4G cell service in south Sidney until a permanent site is...
All of you out there with children are braver folks than I. It’s not the financial responsibility that scares me. It’s not losing all my free time or devoting a large chunk of my life to other people that makes me hesitant to start a family. The thing that really makes me nervous to create my own little human being is the prospect that I might mess up. That would be a little different than misspelling a name in a story or forgetting to ask an important question in an interview, both things which make me cringe. It would mean that I’ve raised or...
Some who revere historical accuracy were perplexed when they learned about replacement of historic windows in the Fort Sidney Post Commander's Home. A concerned citizen recently informed the city of Sidney that the windows in the building were removed and sold, replaced by historically inaccurate vinyl windows. The Commander's Home is owned by Cheyenne County and operated by the Cheyenne County Historical Society, which is funded by the county as well as through donations. Although the city has...
A Kimball man faces charges of strangulation, terroristic threats and criminal mischief, all class four felonies, for assaulting a Sidney woman last weekend. Colten Goetting, 21, reportedly assaulted the woman repeatedly on Saturday July 12. When the woman reported the crime on Sunday, the responding officer reportedly noticed bruises on the woman’s arms, a mark on her neck and that her left eye was swollen and puffy. The fight reportedly began when the two were driving to the alleged victim’s apartment and the woman told Goetting to quit try... Full story
The section of 10th Ave. between Illinois St. through the Jackson intersection is now open to traffic. The street was closed for about two months in order to replace the concrete pavement and outer portions of sidewalks.... Full story
