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In October 2017, Ontario, Canada-based Agri-Plastics announced it was investing $4.5 million in a new operation in Sidney. The new facility would be housed in 159,000 square feet of the building shared by LukJan Metal Products. Now a few months into their enterprise, Agri-Plastics is expanding beyond what was first anticipated. The Sidney location of Agri-Plastics specializes in calf shelters, plastic enclosures, made from molds with raw and recycled plastic. The primary plastic product is...
The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce is aggressively seeking funding sources to continue downtown Sidney improvement projects. That is according to a presentation Chamber President and CEO Hope Feeney gave to the Sidney City Council Tuesday. Feeney said she is working on grant funding to support the Hickory Street Square project. The Chamber and the Library applied for a grant but did not qualify. She said she is applying for a reimbursement grant from Nebraska Game and Parks, a grant she...
The Sidney Area Solid Waste Agency board met for one of its rare meetings Tuesday, approving issuance of revenue bonds to finance new equipment at the landfill. Tuesday night was the fourth meeting since 1997 for the Sidney Area Solid Waste Agency board. Tuesday’s meeting was scheduled to review a proposed resolution authorizing issuance of revenue bonds to finance new baler and shredder at the landfill. The resolution calls for a maximum of 4 percent interest and up to $1,575,000 to be paid b...
Sidney Police Department is continuing its investigation following the discovery of counterfeit bills in a Sidney aprtment last week. Sidney Police Chief Joe Aikens said the investigation uncovered information that bills matching those found were passed in Kimball. SPD is working with the Nebraska State Patrol to learn more about the incidents in Kimball. Two people were arrested when the police department’s WING Task Force officer executed a search warrant of a vehicle. According to arrest affidavits, during that search officers found a n...
Cheryl Reich-Bills, formerly of Nebraska and South Dakota, will be hosting a book signing 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 14, at Barb’s Gifts in Sterling. In addition to signing her new book, “SPLIT,” she is offering a free copy of “Mountain Reflections, A Collection of Stories and Poems” with the purchase of her new book. Reich-Bills was born in Igloo, S.D., during the 1949 blizzard. She has lived in Nebraska and Colorado most of her life, having also spent time in Arizona and Louisiana. She has worked as a social worker for 26 years; eight a...
Results from the Nebraska Farm Real Estate Survey show a statewide average value drop of 4 percent to $2,720 per acre. This marks the fourth consecutive year of declining Nebraska agricultural land values. Results of the survey are divided by land class and summarized by eight Agricultural Statistic Districts of Nebraska. Respondents of the annual survey included consisted Nebraska land professionals including appraisers, farm and ranch managers, and agricultural bankers. In the seven land classes, tillable grazing land values dropped by seven...
The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce welcomed The Cleaner Bros., LLC., to the area Wednesday with a ribbon cutting. The Cleaner Bros. offers commercial and residential carpet cleaning and restoration. The company offers three levels of service, tile and grout cleaning and sealing, furniture moving, stain removal and odor elimination. The Cleaner Bros. LLC can be reached at 308-250-0870....
Oshkosh Eastern Star Chapter 264 members Mert and Janet Zoucha, Joanna Kepler and Kristy Nerud traveled to Sidney recently to present Marian Hiett with her 70-year membership certificate. Hiett, 96 years young, joined Eastern Star on April 28, 1948 in Sidney. She affiliated with Oshkosh Chapter 264 in April 2011 after the Sidney chapter closed. She is one of the few members that have held the office of all Five Star Points. The chapter reports it was a memorable moment for Hiett. Her family and...
LINCOLN – A national team led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is studying potential links among irrigation, cloud formation and rainfall. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Great Plains Irrigation Experiment - or GRAINEX - is gathering weather observations in June and July from a 3,600-square-mile region in southeastern Nebraska. The timing allows the team to better understand how irrigation may affect climate conditions at the start of irrigation season in June through lat...
Sidney's American Legion baseball team traveled to Alliance last weekend to compete in the Class B Area 7 junior baseball tournament. Sidney won two games and lost two games in the four days they competed. On Friday, Sidney faced Chadron in their first game, and got off to a hot start by scoring five runs in the first inning. Kyler Lenzen pitched effectively, and never gave the opposing offense a chance to get back in the game. Sidney played solid and smart defense, limiting Chadron's ability...
Robert L. “Bob” Bartels, age 82 of Sidney, NE passed away at Skyview Nursing Home in Bridgeport, NE, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Monday, July 16th with a Rosary Service at 10:00 A.M. Both services will be in the St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Dalton with Father C.P. Varghese and Father Mike McDermott officiating. Burial with Military Honors will follow the Mass in the St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery. Memorials are being established. There is no visitation at the Funeral Home. Friends may sto...
Robert Dean Spearow, age 86, of Stromsburg, Nebraska, passed away July 9, 2018 at Annie Jeffrey Memorial County Health Center in Osceola. Celebration of Life services will be held Sunday, July 15th, 2018 at 4:00 pm, at the Midwest Covenant Home Chapel in Stromsburg with Pastor Dan Spearow, officiating. Pianist will be Kathy Olson. Musical selections will be “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”, and “Hymn of Promise”. Robert donated his body to the Anatomical Board of the State of Nebraska and an inurnment will take place at the Greenwood Cemeter...
