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  • Trash Rates Go Up Next Month

    Forrest Hershberger, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Aug 1, 2018

    Sidney City Manager Ed Sadler announced in the July 24 city council meeting that the finance bonds for the landfill have been sold. The funds will be loaned to the City at 3.35 percent with cash available by the end of August. In the July 10 Sidney Area Solid Waste Agency meeting, Sadler said he expected the bonds to be finalized at 3.37 percent. The Sidney Area Solid Waste Agency is borrowing up to about $1.5 million to purchase a new baler and a compactor. In May, Sadler met with the Cheyenne...

  • New Business Sprouts Up in Sidney

    Forrest Hershberger, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Aug 1, 2018

    The project started from a news cast of lettuce and similar vegetables being recalled. The recall was first at specific restaurants, then later at grocery stores. While at a Juice Plus Tower Garden conference in Phoenix, Ariz., Jeanne Ogden thought of a way to offer vegetables that have almost no way of being infected. She is opening a store that allows the customer to cut herbs and leafy vegetables from the plant in a grow tower, or the customer can purchase the plant to take home and...

  • 1:1 Chromebook Program Starts This School Year

    Forrest Hershberger, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Aug 1, 2018

    A more flexible education and homework approach will be implemented in the Sidney Public Schools this year. Consider if a teacher could assign a research project with a list of specific sources, sources that are primarily Internet sites. For some students, the immediate concern is they may not have a computer or if they do, what happens if they don’t have an Internet connection at home. The Sidney Public Schools announced recently that the 1:1 Chromebook program will be implemented in the 2...

  • Corn Board to Meet in Brule

    Aug 1, 2018

    LINCOLN - The Nebraska Corn Board will hold its next meeting Wednesday, August 15 and Thursday, August 16, 2018 at Bayside located at 865 Lakeview West Rd, Brule, Nebraska. The Board will conduct regular board business and hold election of officers during the morning of August 15th. The remainder of the 15th and the morning of the 16th, the Board will hold a joint Nebraska Corn Growers Association and Nebraska Corn Board meeting. The meeting is open to the public and will provide an opportunity...

  • Ballots Sent to Sidney Homes

    Don Ogle, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Aug 1, 2018

    By now, Sidney's registered voters have received a large, white envelope from the Cheyenne County Clerk's office containing a mail-in ballot. The question posed to voters is a small change to the city's current LB840 Economic Development Plan that will allow the city to seek funds for economic development other than that raised by a one-half percent sales tax already in place. The LB840 fund, first approved by voters in 1997 and renewed in 2017, dedicates a portion of sales tax specifically to e...

  • Kiwanis Award Scholarships to Kilmurray, Cortney

    Forrest Hershberger, Sidney Sun-Telegraph|Aug 1, 2018

    Cassandra Kilmurray and Braydon Cortney are the recipients of the 2018 Sidney Kiwanis Youth Scholarship. Kilmurray is a 2018 graduate of Sidney High School. She graduated 13th in her class with a 4.0 grade point average. During her high school career, she was involved in youth mentoring, helping with the Table of Grace food pantry, the National Honor Society service project (helping families in need) and holding youth cheerleading camps. She was a National Honor Society member, took part in...