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4-H Club Project Honors Final Resting Place
A 4-H club project put a little spit and polish on a little-known private cemetery near Lorenzo last week, sprucing up the final resting place of a long-gone Cheyenne County family. The project,...
MMP Purchases Former Cabela's Warehouse
MMP Enterprises Inc. of Toronto, Canada announces it has signed the purchase agreement to acquire the former Bass Pro Shops / Cabela’s distribution center at 3200 Rd 101 north of Sidney. Chosen...
Car Bowl to Fill Potter Streets with Activity
Potter's streets will be filled to the brim with activities this weekend as the 5th Annual Potter Car Bowl gets underway. For those who can't wait until Friday night's official kickoff, they can see...
Kisst Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
Veronica Phelps bags products for a customer as she celebrated KISST Organics' 10th Anniversary....
Heavy Lift
Local residents passing the location near 10th and King Monday got to see a crane at work as a crew lifted new equipment into place at Gehrig-Stitt Funeral Home....
Sidney Part of NET Events Across State
Sidney was one of nine sites chosen across the state last week as officials from NET, Nebraska's Public Broadcasting Station, crossed the state to guage people's feeling for their communities. A...
Rain to End, Area Affected by Wet Spring
In farm country there's a saying - "It's pretty hard to complain about getting moisture." That holds true for the area, which gets only about 15-17 inches of rainfall each year. But this year has...
Fallen Honored at Sidney Memorial Day Service
"We can't bring them back, but we can honor their sacrifice," said John Sanna, Disrict 4 American Legion Commander during his address to Sidney's Memorial Day audience Monday. Sanna used the story of...
County Sees Adjustments to Valuations, Growth Due to Construction
Adjustments to the state’s tax tables, coupled with updates to county valuations resulted in a wide swing of property values reviewed by the Cheyenne County Commissioners, sitting as the County...
Highway Hail
Friday brought the first severe summer-type weather to the area with high winds and hail. The storm forced the relocation of the season’s first Downtown Sounds concert, and out on the highway, cars...
Fourth Graders Learn Lakota Ways
Fourth grade students at North Elementary have been learning about other cultures this week, part of a program sponsored by the Nebraska and High Plains Arts Councils. Steve Tamayo, a Lakota Sioux who...
Firefighters Honor Top Department Members
Sidney volunteer firefighters honored their own during their annual awards banquet Saturday night - including two long-time leaders who stepped down from their officer positions in the past year. Fire...
Sidney Cheer Coach Recognized for Top Honor
What started as a fill-in assignment ended in one of the state's top coaching awards for a Sidney High School teacher. Due to a late staff resignation, Carrie Nesbitt was asked if she would coach the...
Tree Board Distributes Free Trees During Give-Away
More than 50 Sidney residents turned out Saturday for the annual City of Sidney Tree Give-Away held at the Lodgepole Valley Youth Camp. The event, held by the Sidney Tree Board, provides ornamental...
Memorial Fund Established for Herrera
A Sidney nurse has started a memorial fund after her friend and co-worker lost a family member in a tragic accident this week. Joni Peters, a nurse at Sidney Regional Medical Center started the fund...
Census Shows Cheyenne County Growth Stops
Census figures released last week show Cheyenne County's growth rate reversed to net losses in the last decade. For a number of years Cheyenne County had been one of the areas in the state that had re...
WNCC I&E Center Celebrates Success
A year and a half in the making, Western Nebraska Community College held an open house and ribbon cutting for its Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center Wednesday. The center is testiment, said...
Martinez Loses Postconviction Appeal to Supreme Court
A man convicted of a 2012 murder in Sidney has been denied postconviction relief by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Larry Martinez was convicted in July 2012 in the shooting death of Mandy Kersham and...
South Elementary Students Earn Visit from Dinosaur
Who says learning can't be fun? Certainly not Rick Meyer, principal at Sidney's South Elementary. Meyer delighted students and parents alike Friday when he opened the day in a fun and unusual way,...
County Escapes Serious Damage - Cattlemen Have Recourse
While the southern Panhandle didn’t take the severe damage and losses of those in eastern Nebraska, local entities, in particular cattlemen, still suffered hardship from the cyclone blizzard that...
Fair Board Meets on Entertainment Snafu
Cheyenne County Fair Board members held an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss an unexpected problem that arose with fair entertainment. The problem arose at the end of March when a fair board...
Sidney Hosts Test Exercise Program
More than 40 people "gave their all" during a special rollout of a new workout program held Saturday at the Cheyenne County Community Center. By participating in the event, they became part of an...
Sidney Teacher Among Hall of Fame Honorees
A Sidney teacher is among those being recognized for their outstanding contributions to sports as members of the 26th induction class selected by the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundatio...
Agriculture In Spotlight at Chamber Social
Agricultural producers and their supporters filled the hall last week at the Cheyenne County’s Ag Social, one of the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce’s most popular events each year....
Five Arrested in Sweeping Drug Investigation
A number of long-term drug investigations culminated with the arrests of five people Wednesday. Members of the Western Intelligence Narcotics Group, or WING, made the arrests. Members of the...
