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The plans for a beautification project at 11th Avenue and Old Post Road in Sidney were updated during this week’s city council meeting. Earlier this month, Jack Baker, from Baker and Associates, told council members that a bid for the project was higher than expected. At that time, councilors gave Baker the OK to break the plan into three separate projects: sign and lighting, landscaping and a decorative wall. This week, Baker returned with the separate bid packets. “Hopefully we can attract some bidders this go around and get it off and run...
The Potter-Dix High School speech team rolled to another district speech title last week. The Coyotes will send eight individual competitors and two teams to the state competition this week. At districts, Potter-Dix scored 356 points, well ahead of runner-up Paxton's 301 points.... Full story
On Thursday, the wildland fire danger level in Cheyenne County – and all of its neighboring counties – was “extreme,” according to the Nebraska Forest Service. Throughout the week, the potential for wildland fires in Western Nebraska has remained elevated. Don Westover, rural fire protection program leader for the state forest service, said the rating takes into account the ignitability of fuel – which is often grass, in this region – and weather. “As we know, Nebraska is a windy state,” he said. “And once ignited, that fire is going to take...
The Just For Kix Dance program raised $1,200 for charity at its annual Kix for Kids fundraiser show last weekend in the Sidney Middle School gym. The "Kick Cancer" event donated the proceeds to Kyra's Kisses, Madison Frerichs, Adeline Elder and to Sidney schools. Kyra's Kisses is an organization named to remember Kyra Eads, who was diagnosed with a Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) brain tumor in December 2013 and died in April 2014. Frerichs was a healthy, active normal 10-year-old until...
Steven Craig Johnson, 52 of Augusta, Ga. and a former Sidney resident, entered into rest Sat., March 14, 2015 at the Georgia Regent Hospital in Augusta. Cremation has taken place. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tues., March 31, 2015 in the Holechek Funeral Home in Sidney with Pastor Doug Birky of the Sidney Evangelical Free Church officiating. Inurnment will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. Memorials have been established to the American Lung Association. Steven Craig Johnson,...
Ashley Kay Klipfel and David Fritz were united in marriage on the evening of July 12, 2014 in Sidney at Kay and Duane Kahl's residence with Reverend Seth Wilson, a friend of the groom, officiating. Ashley is a 2003 Lincoln Northeast High School graduate. She is currently employed at Cabela's. David is a 2002 Sidney High School graduate and has attended W.N.C.C Sidney and Chadron State College. He is currently at Cabela's and is also an independent contractor. Parents of the couple are Mark and... Full story
The birds of Kimball County will be highlighted during a six-week series of Watchable Wildlife Tours sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and the Kimball Area Tourism Department, funded in part by the Nebraska Wildlife Conservation Fund. The series, titled “For the Birds,” will run from April 1-May 15. All tours will depart from the High Point Welcome Center of Western Nebraska located at I-80, Exit 20. The tours are free, but reservations are required. “Our guides for these tours are providing equipment to help people have a more...
Ongoing Lifetree Café Meetings at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will be on break until after Easter. Upcoming meetings will be posted as soon as that information is available. Cancer survivor support group meets every third Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Dorwart Cancer Care Center. Great topics/food/fellowship. Call Leslie at (308) 250-1113 with questions. A Parkinson’s support group the for Western Nebraska area meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 312 W. 16th St., Alliance. Call Dee Brau... Full story
In France, a fight has broken out between university professors and students who wear Muslim headscarves or veils into class. Some professors insist that before they will begin a lecture, students must remove their scarf or veil. French law already bans public school students from wearing headscarves, veils, yarmulkes or crucifixes, but that law does not extend to university students. Isabelle de Mecquenem, a philosophy professor said, “The university invented secularism,” and then during the...
Already twice postponed, the opening of the area baseball season will try again this afternoon in Peetz. The Bulldogs will host the Prairie Mustangs in a doubleheader – unless cancelled again. On Friday, the golf season opens. Sidney will travel to North Platte to take on a host of schools at 9 a.m. MDT. The day after tomorrow, the real track and field season begins. You know – the one outdoors. The Sidney Invite, with guests Creek Valley, Leyton and others, is scheduled for Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The weather man is calling for a sunny day and...
BASEBALL Thursday, March 26 Prairie at Peetz (DH), 1 p.m. GOLF Friday, March 27 Sidney at North Platte, 9 a.m. MDT TRACK & FIELD Saturday, March 28 Creek Valley, Leyton, Sidney at Sidney Invite, 9:30 a.m. Potter-Dix at Kimball Invitational, 9 a.m. Peetz at Holyoke, 1 p.m.... Full story
