Jones wins last OK from board for show home business
Sidney realtor Arlo Jones won a 7 month conditional use permit from the Sidney Board of Adjustment on a 4-1 vote to continue operating his business out of a show home on south 11th Ave. The decision, reached after executive session, caps prior permit disputes and signals a move to a new office by November 1.
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Sidney
Arlo Jones
Sidney Board of Adjustment
South 11Th Ave
Lowry Lindell
James Edwards
John Egging
John Peetz Jr
Carl Schmidt
Jones
Cheyenne County District Court
Tom Dorwart
Brower
Sidney Plaza
Community college tax levy debate heard at Western Nebraska
The Nebraska interim study committee on post secondary education heard testimony at Western Nebraska Technical College supporting vocational education. Senator Jerome Warner chairs the group which seeks better coordination to reduce waste and improve education quality for Nebraskans with tax dollars. Critics argue state funding should back technical colleges, not local property tax support, and some favor a state board of control for technical colleges. About 30 attendees, including WNTC students and staff, heard varied views.
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Nebraska
Western Nebraska Technical College
WNTC
Jerome Warner
Waverly
Warner
Narjes
Gene Leinemann
Sidney
Community College Board
Technical College
Board of Regents
University of Nebraska
William Ptacek
Scottsbluff
Tom Dindinger
Land use plan changes eyed by Cheyenne County board
Cheyenne County commissioners informally referred several land use plan changes to the Planning Commission after farmers challenged the plan as an infringement of constitutional rights. Suggestions include exempting farm residences from inspections, extending the time a feed lot may be unused before a permit, reclassifying feed lot sizes, and not requiring permits for temporary confinement during bad weather. The board also repealed a $3 building permit fee and acted on bids, stop signs, a road seeding agreement, and declined a damages offer from Sidney Federal Savings & Loan.
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Cheyenne County
County Planning Commission
County Board of Commissioners
Sidney Federal Savings & Loan
Savings & Loan
Sunflower district dissolves. students stay home in protest
In Sunflower School District voters approved dissolving the district 138 to 86. 7th through 12th graders would transfer to Mitchell Vernon. Superintendent Joe Horner reported most upperclassmen skipped classes as a protest while 95 to 100 attended earlier in the week. Some teachers may lose jobs, with possible hires at Mitchell.
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Mitchell
Vernon
Keener
Sunflower Board of Education
Lation
Horner
Legislature acts to extend session over speed limit law
Lincoln AP 41-5 vote extends two days for late action on state speed limit statutes as Gov Exon presses for a special session. Debate focused on limiting agenda to the speed laws, amid vetoes of budget items and looming votes on broader bills and reforms.
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Lincoln
J.J Exon
Exon
Jules Burbach
Burbach
Bellevue
Frank Lewis
Lewis
Lincoln lawmakers divided on 1976 session productivity
Nebraska state senators voiced mixed judgments on the 1976 Unicameral session. Some called it unproductive and overlong with 60 days of bills, 18 hour workdays, and too much debate over nothing, while others praised its achievements and compromises on malpractice legislation and budget issues. Governor Exon’s line item vetoes loomed, including a $6.8 million Nebranka budget cut, as senators weighed overrides and political consequences.
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Lincoln State
Hastings
Richard Marvel
Appropriations Committee
Scottsbluff
William Nichol
Nichol
Sidney
Robert Clark
Axtell
Gary Anderson
Omaha
Eugene Mahoney
Big Springs
Jack Mills
North Platte
Myron Rumery
Mahoney
Rumery
Lincoln
Ronald Luedtke
Luedtke
J J Exon
University of Nebraska
Exon
Washington
Senate
Rain brings widespread moisture across Nebraska state
Rain fell across Nebraska today with Red Cloud receiving the most at 1.85 inches. Other notable totals include Hastings 0.90, Clay Center 0.68, Deweese 0.61, Fairbury 1.10, Hickman 1.08, Roca 0.99, Seward 0.65, Lincoln 0.82, Grand Island 0.24, Scottsbluff 0.12. A Pacific cold front tracked southeastward, bringing cooler temperatures with tonight’s lows expected in the 30s west to around 40 east and Thursday highs in the 50s and 60s. The state high Tuesday was 79 in Omaha and the low early today was 27 at Alliance.
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Associated Press
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Hastings
Clay Center
Deweese
Brunning
Fairbury
Hickman
Roca
Hebron
Western
Seward
Valentine
Lincoln
Grand Island
Scottsbluff
Kansas
Omaha
Alliance
City and county officials discuss mutual problems
A shirt-sleeve dinner meeting Tuesday night brought together Sidney City Council Cheyenne County Commissioners and other city and county officials. They reviewed topics include the county land use plan controversy the Panhandle Resource Council restructuring shared jail facilities in the courthouse Lodgepole Creek flow problems and the county property re evaluation.
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Sidney
Cheyenne County Commissioners
Panhandle
Mrs Ford tests CB license for Wisconsin campaign
Washington AP reports First Lady Betty Ford tested a temporary FCC Citizens Band license to rally Ford backers in Wisconsin. She urged Michigan convoy volunteers to keep promoting President Ford and noted CB is a political outlet with no policing restrictions.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Ford
White House
Federal Communications Commission
Grand Rapids
Mich
Madison
Wis
Michigan
Pennsylvania Ave
FCC
Texas
Smokies
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Helen Rexroth
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Roundey
Buckminster Fuller
Community College
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Sunflower
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NU Omaha
Clark
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