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  • City Council Approves Agreement with Agri-Plastics

    Forrest Hershberger, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Feb 16, 2018

    The Sidney City Council Tuesday approved an agreement supporting Agri-Plastics through LB840. LB840, also known as the Local Option Municipal Economic Development Act, authorizes incorporated cities and villages to appropriate and spend local sales and property tax revenues for certain economic development purposes. These expenditures must come under compliance of the procedure as defined in LB840. LB840 was approved by Cheyenne County voters from 2007-2017, according to the presentation by...

  • City Awards Roof Repair Contracts

    Forrest Hershberger, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Feb 16, 2018

    The Sidney City Council Tuesday received an update on repair of city roofing resulting from hail storms in 2017. Assistant City Manager Dawn Martin reported to council that several roofs belonging to various departments were damaged in the summer of 2017. She told council 21 of 22 roofs of city buildings were damaged by summer hail storms. Martin reported a Request For Proposals (RFP) outlining the damage and required repair was posted on the City of Sidney website in October. Licensed roofers...

  • SRMC Celebrates Cardiac Rehab Week

    Feb 16, 2018

    Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) and the members of the SRMC Cardiac Rehab Team, this week celebrated AACVPR National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week, Feb. 11-17. Cardiac Rehabilitation Week, initiated by the AACVPR, coincides with both Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month in an effort to draw greater national attention to heart health. This year’s theme, “Making Positive Changes, One Beat at a Time,” honors the patients, families, and healthcare professionals who are dedicated to cardiac rehabilitation as a vehicle for a healthy...

  • Sidney Man Experiences First-Hand Cardiac Rehab

    Cassie Kilmurrray, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Feb 16, 2018

    Not long ago, a Sidney resident was at work when he began to experience discomfort in his chest. Determined that nothing was wrong, he took some medicine and went home without thinking too much about it. Later that night, he went to Sidney Regional Medical Center and was later transferred to Fort Collins hospital for a heart attack. This was Tom O'Connell's experience. The heart attack was caused by a clot in the vein in front of his heart. While at the hospital in Fort Collins, he had to get a...

  • County Awards Bids For Building Remodeling

    Forrest Hershberger, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Feb 16, 2018

    The Cheyenne County Commissioners Tuesday opened bids for work at the building at 931 Hickory St. Nine bids were submitted for working including flooring, electrical, construction and HAVAC. Dick’s Flooring was chosen for the flooring at a cost of $5,505, Melchoir Contracting, LLC., was selected with a bid of $34,750 for construction, Tait’s Electric won the bid for electrical with a bid of $16,456, and JJ Plumbing & Heating was awarded the HVAC bid at a price of $9,218.59. Also submitting...

  • Hickory Square Proposal To Be Reviewed

    Feb 16, 2018

    Officials from the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce will review plans and answer questions on a proposed project for Sidney's Hickory Square. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20. in the Sidney City Council chambers. Residents are encouraged to attend and ask questions, gather information on project specifics and funding, and offer community input on the downtown revitalization project. The idea of Hickory Square started a few years ago when the City of Sidney received a Community D...

  • City of Sidney President's Day Schedule

    Feb 16, 2018

    The City of Sidney will be closed on Monday, February 19, in observance of President's Day. All City Departments will be closed including the Landfill and the Library. The Dial-a-ride Bus and Stage Line Bus will not be running. The Solid Waste Department will be collecting Monday's trash on Tuesday, February 20 and Tuesday's trash on Wednesday, February 21...

  • Supporting Those Who Serve

    Deb Fischer, U.S. Senator, Nebraska|Feb 16, 2018

    The members of the American military have been putting their lives at risk to defend our country since our founding. As they protect our way of life, they deserve to have what they need to get the job done. When they come home and enter retirement as veterans, they should be treated with respect and service by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). I want to highlight the ways that Congress has worked in a bipartisan fashion to reform the VA and give our veterans the benefits they deserve. In...

  • Washington's Advice Rejected By Both Parties

    Harold Pease PhD, Columnist|Feb 16, 2018

    Avoiding national debt was one of George Washington’s greatest admonitions yet neither liberals nor conservatives have paid much attention to it. It would be well to reflect on his advice this President’s Day. The trillion dollar Republican proposal will raise overall spending caps by about $300 billion over the next two years and will make interest on the debt the largest growing part of the federal budget. This expenditure of the people’s hard-earned taxes purchases nothing—simply vanishes. This prompted Senator Rand Paul to say,...

  • What's Love Got To Do With It

    Jim Nichols, Retired Pastor Sidney Seventh-day Adventist Church|Feb 16, 2018

    M y wife, Andi, and I have 2 sons and 5 grand-children, with Matrix being the oldest at age 15. When he was around 6 or 7, Matrix would sometimes stay over at our house for the night. One Friday morning Matrix and I walked over to our church to get things set up for Sabbath worship. As I was getting things ready, Matrix decided he was going to have a sermon and went up to the pulpit to preach like Grandpa. He paused for a moment, wrote a little, paused, wrote a little, then he began to speak…“I love Grandpa, and I love Grandma.” Then he...

  • Students Recognized By School Board

    Feb 16, 2018

    A half dozen Sidney Middle and Senior High School students received recognition by the Sidney School Board Monday in the Monthly Performance Award Program. The Monthly Performance Award acknowledges student accomplishments for excellence not only in the classroom, but other areas as well. Those criteria include: 1. Superior academic performance, (or), dramatic improvement of classroom work, G.P.A. or attitude toward learning. 2. Exceptional work effort toward a particular class project. 3....

  • Sidney Tops Alliance

    Mike Motz, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Feb 16, 2018

    It was a showdown between the two best girls basketball teams in B-8 subdistrict action Tuesday night as the Sidney Lady Raiders faced the Alliance Lady Bulldogs in the finals. The Lady Raiders (20-3, 7-1 in district) had easily defeated the Lady Bulldogs (15-9, 3-2 in district) earlier in the season by 27 points, but this was to be a totally different contest as Alliance had nearly an entire season to adapt to a new system and a new head coach. This time it would take an overtime period with a...

  • Creek Valley Edges Leyton, Advances in D2-12

    Mike Motz, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Feb 16, 2018

    Final round participants in the D2-12 girl's basketball tournament were set Tuesday night with Creek Valley's victory over Leyton at the Sidney Middle School gym. The Lady Storm entered the contest as the second seed and were paired against the third seeded Lady Warriors in what proved to be a close game from start to finish. Creek Valley rode a five game winning streak coming into the contest, and had previously beaten the Lady Warriors in Dalton earlier in the season. The first period started...

  • Potter-Dix Girls Best Minatare

    Mike Motz, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Feb 16, 2018

    The Potter-Dix Lady Coyotes defeated the Minatare Lady Indians Tuesday night in the second round of the D2-12 Subdistrict basketball tournament. The top-seeded Lady Coyotes were matched against the fourth seeded Lady Indians for the third time this season, with the previous two meetings being won by the Potter-Dix squad. The third meeting followed suit, with the Lady Coyotes prevailing by a final score of 35-14, setting up a meeting with the second-seeded Creek Valley Lady Storm in the finals...

  • Sharon L. Zitterkoph - Obituary

    Feb 16, 2018

    Sharon L. Zitterkoph, age 69 of Gering, NE passed away Saturday, February 10, 2018 in Sterling, CO. Cremation has been held. Private family graveside services will be in the Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery at a later date. No Formal services are planned at Sharon's request. You may view Sharon's Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and stories at www.gehrigstittchapel.com. Memorial contributions may be made in Sharon's name in care of the family for future designation. Sharon L....

  • Frances L. (Treblik) Zapp - Obituary

    Feb 16, 2018

    Frances Louise (Treblik) Zapp, 78, died Sunday, February 11th, 2018 at her home in Bridgeport. Her funeral service will be held at 11AM Friday, February 16th at Messiah Lutheran Church in Broadwater with Ann Bairn, PMA and Pastor Tim Glendening officiating. Visitation will be Thursday from 1-8PM at Bridgeport Memorial Chapel with family present from 6-8PM. Memorials may be left in care of the family to be designated at a later date. Online condolences may be left by visiting Fran's tribute page...

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