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Looking for an exercise routine that strengthens your body while calming your mind? Chera Steele teaches a yoga class at the Cheyenne County Community Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. that does just that. Steele said that participants need their own yoga mat and a water bottle, towels and yoga blocks if they wish to use them. Yoga mats are also on sale at the center. Class members should wear comfortable workout clothes and come barefoot or with socks if their feet...
Sidney Middle School National Junior Honor Society President Will Castner, in a combined effort with Sidney Middle School Student Council President Annalise Lecher, has done all the research needed for installing a new flagpole in front of the middle school. They have started donation efforts and have a plan to make the new flagpole become a reality. According to middle school students and staff the current flagpole “has chipped paint, leans to the street and is unable to be displayed at h...
New owners and operators of the Coffee Corner and the Book Corner, Cindy and Jason Rohm, celebrated their new ownership by a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday morning with the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, as well as family and employees, in attendance. Cindy Rohm is a transplant from Santa Barbara and was employed with Cabela’s before working at the coffee shop under its previous owner Barb Meier. Rohm said that she had been starting to think that she would love to own a c...
Joe Aikens, Sidney Assistant Police Chief, has been chosen to serve as Interim Police Chief for the Sidney Police Department and will begin his new position tomorrow, according to a press release this morning from Gary Person, City of Sidney City Manager. He will be filling in for Sidney Police Chief Mike Brown, who announced in February that he would be resigning to return to Kansas to be with family members battling through illnesses. Chief Brown’s last day serving the City of Sidney is t...
Tim Miller, owner and operator of Miller Office Supply in Sidney, has seen the business side of multiple professions. But in 1987 he finally found a business he plans to hang his hat on until retirement - his office supply business. He and his wife Dixie own and run the store with the help of a loyal crew and will be been in charge of the store 26 years this July 1. Miller and his wife were both born and raised in Sidney and came back to town after attending school in Denver in 1973. With great...
After suffering from knee and back injuries over the past 2 years, steer wrestler Casey McMillen, grandson of Cheyenne County Commissioner, Ken McMillen, won his first title in a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) rodeo in over 26 months. The steer wrestler’s comeback came at the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros rodeo in Tuscon, Ariz. Feb. 16 through 24 where he took $7,296 in winnings. During the first round in the steer wrestling competition, McMillen tied for fifth place with a time of 4...
We all have those little things in life that we dread but have to put up with anyways. I asked my dad what I should write about this week and he answered simply, “dentist visits.” I inquired as to whether he had had one that day and he replied that he hadn’t but that he just hated them. He then continued, “we all have those things in life that we despise, but those little things are also what balance us.” I agreed with him. I think knowing that life isn’t always perfect oralways happy is good for us in a way. We live for the moments that are go...
Holyoke, Colo. native author Stephen L. Wood is set to hold a book reading and signing of his work Blizzard of ’77 this Saturday, March 2 at the Sidney Pubic Library. The reading and signing will go from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and his work features some local Cheyenne County residents within its pages. Wood’s book is a collection of stories gathered through three years of research on those impacted by both the 1949 and 1977 blizzards that hit the Great Plains. He has also included archived local newspaper accounts as well as personal accounts fro...
Shelby Roelle and her business associates celebrated their 10th year anniversary of buying House of Flowers this Feb. 4. Roelle is a Sidney native and lived in the town most of her life.She graduated from Sidney High School before attending the University of Northern Colorado. “The House of Flowers has been around for a long time and the name is at least 40-yrs-old,” said Roelle. The owner said that she has always wanted to own her own business and that after graduating college with a deg...
Below are backgrounds on the professionals scheduled to light up the stage during the Heritage Chorale and Orchestra’s debut performance of Cantata No. 140, Sleepers, Wake by Johann Sebastian Bach at the First United Methodist Church Saturday, March 2. Keith Miller – Bass singer “Keith Miller’s story is that of the local kid who made good,” said Jordan Ball, the director of Saturday’s performance. Miller grew up in a town 10 miles south of Chappell, Neb. in the small town of Ovid, Colo. With...
Sidney artist Chuck Borcher has been named the Cheyenne County Art Guild’s Artist of the Month. He has been elected artist of the month four different times by the guild and has received many different awards and much recognition for his paintings and photography over the years, according to a press release by Judy McElroy, a Cheyenne County Art Guild representative. Borcher has received numerous Best of Show Awards at the Cheyenne County Fair, as well as the Holyoke Art Show. One of his paintings was even selected by the Association of N...
Pheasants Forever High Plains Chapter #278 members are holding their 23rd annual banquet this Friday, March 1 at the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds. This year also serves as the 30th anniversary of the National Pheasants Forever organization and Brad Lines, High Plains Chapter President, said that it will be a banquet to remember. “It was my goal when I took over as president in March to highlight the milestone year of Pheasants Forever by having the largest banquet in Sidney’s history,” said...
Director and organizer Jordan Ball will be presenting the Heritage Chorale and Orchestra’s debut performance of Cantata No. 140, Sleepers, Wake by Johann Sebastian Bach at the First United Methodist Church Saturday, March 2. The Sidney Fine Arts Center is sponsoring the formation of the chorale and orchestra. The church is located at 2622 11th Ave. and the performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the event are $10 for adults and $5 for students and can be purchased at the Jordan M. B...
At the Kids Plus Organization’s annual meeting in January the members discussed their upcoming yearly activities and elected their officers for this year. Diana Sonnie was elected president, Curtis Hofrock vice president, Jordon Sukup secretary, Mary Kay Brauer treasurer and Cassie Challburg was elected director of the organization. “Our board is comprised of approximately 15 board members that serve as volunteers,” said Brauer. “We are glad to have all the help that we can get.” According...
U.S. Senator Mike Johanns and his wife Stephanie announced Monday Feb. 18 that he will not be running for reelection in 2014. Johanns and his wife wrote a message addressed to all Nebraskans after announcing their decision for him to not run for a seat in the U.S. Senate again. “Words are inadequate to fully express our appreciation for the friendship and support you have given to us over the past three decades,” they wrote. “With everything in life, there is a time and a season. At the end of this term we will have been in public servi...
Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners members not only discussed the application for a conditional use permit for Pine Bluffs Gravel and Excavation Inc. this Tuesday, but they also discussed the lack of Cheyenne County Keno funds, the successful installation of County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and the need for additional office space in the Court House for the District 12 Probation Office. Rich Fahey addressed commissioners regarding the change in the Keno pay table from the 72 percent that it was changed to 7 years ago back to...
After being in business for two weeks, owner and operator of New To You, Steve Blume. celebrated his business’ opening by holding a Business After Hours open house and a ribbon cutting ceremony which included Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors. “It’s like naming a baby,” said Blume of trying to figure out a name for his consignment shop. He said that he had looked through consignment book after consignment book, just as one would a baby name book. After looking at hundreds of name...
Wednesday night’s City of Sidney City Council meeting served as the last meeting attended by council member Aaron Barnes, who announced his resignation Jan. 25. “I would like to thank the citizens for the opportunity to serve. I’m going to miss you guys and I’m going to miss this town,” said Barnes. “It has been a pleasure having you here, and I appreciate someone who comes being totally prepared. We will miss you,” said Major Wendall Gaston following the council’s regretful motion to pass...
Sidney swimming pool consultants Doug Whiteaker from Water Technology, Inc., Jeff King with Ballard*King and Associates and Chuck Musgrave, an architect with Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture (a partner with Water Technology, Inc.) approached City of Sidney City Council members last night with three different plans and locations for the new pool to be built on. “All three sites are similar in surface area so that we are not judging the site by the amount of water. They are just configured d...
We all come from somewhere, whether it is a small town, a major city or another country. Where you come from can determine your values and what’s important to you, but it doesn’t define you. Some people may think that if you come from a small town out in the country that you are a “hick” and not as educated as those that come from a metropolitan area. Just as those from the country may see city kids as “stuck-ups.” I remember this one time my high school soccer team was playing Montesano, a town about 45 minutes from Rochester. It had been a ni...
Further discussion took place at the City of Sidney Planning Commission meeting Tuesday night regarding an ordinance on accessory buildings built within Sidney. City of Sidney Interim Chief Building Official Zoning Administrator Ben Dayton and City of Sidney Attorney J. Leef presented the commissioners with a redrafted version of the requirements. It is proposed that homeowners are allowed to build an accessory building beside their house and it is not restricted to only being built behind the residence. However an accessory building is still n...
The district courtroom in the Cheyenne County Courthouse filled with members of the public Tuesday afternoon during a Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners meeting as discussion continued regarding an application for a conditional use permit from Pine Bluffs Gravel and Excavating Inc. for the proposed use of a gravel mine to operate a ready-mix concrete batch plant. The county planning and zoning commission had previously reviewed the application at a hearing Jan. 28 and had unanimously voted t...
Two Sidney High School students, Madison Malzahn and Paxton Ewing, both achieved positions in the Rural Health Opportunities Program (RHOP) this winter. RHOP is a cooperative program between Chadron State College and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) for high school seniors who want to dedicate their careers to rural medicine, according to information from officials at Chadron State. “The purpose of the program is to recruit and educate traditional students from rural Nebraska w...
Teens from St. Patrick’s Youth and Young Adult Ministry will be holding a fundraiser at St. Patrick’s Parish Center across from the Cheyenne County Youth Center Feb. 23 in order to raise funds to go to the National Catholic Youth Ministry Conference this November. The teens will be selling homemade baked goods, walking tacos and drinks in order to pay for some of the fees to send six teens and two adults to the conference, which will cost approximately $430 per person plus airfare. The con...
The Cupid Shuffle race on Saturday, Feb. 16 attracted 43 participants. The race was a predictor’s challenge, meaning that the winners of the race were determined by how close participants finished to their predicted time prior to the race. There was a three-way tie for the first place female winner, with all of them predicting within 5 seconds of their actual finishing time. The winners were Annette Krueger, who finished in 23 minutes and 20 seconds and predicted 23 minutes and 15 seconds, a...
