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  • Fee Increase Proposed

    Lisana Eckenrode|May 16, 2013

    Sidney Chief Building Official Brad Rowen proposed a new fee schedule to the City Council at the May 14 meeting. The plan would mean increases for those affected. Rowen explained that the hike in fees will generate $75,000--a little less than half the department’s budget when figured at 100 houses and $200,000 value. He went on to say that with the new fee schedule his department would be self-sustaining within the first year. If so, they would not have to pull funds from the general budget. The new codes Rowen has proposed to the council...

  • Making a statement

    Stephen McKay|May 16, 2013

    “Oh you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard,” said Oliver Reed’s character Proximo to Russell Crowe’s Maximus in the 2000 movie, “Gladiator.” To many of the freshmen and other first-time competitors to the 2013 NSAA Track and Field Meet, it just may seem like the Colosseum in Rome 2,000-years-ago. Today, hundreds of high-school athletes will or have already departed for Rome and the great Colosseum, here forward to be known as Burke Stadium in Omaha. There will be two days of games...

  • Doug Brauer

    May 16, 2013

    Douglas (Doug) Brauer, age 74, of Sidney, Nebraska, passed away on May 10, 2013 in Fort Collins, Colorado after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Interment was held privately on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at Greenwood Cemetery in Sidney and a Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1424 Maple Street in Sidney. Pastor Bradley Heinecke will officiate. Douglas R. Brauer was born May 8, 1939 in Brush, Colorado to Ewald and Genevieve Brauer.... Full story

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