Pioneer Airways hearing delay stalls Sidney flights plan
The Nebraska Public Service Commission postponed indefinitely a hearing on Pioneer Airways intrastate flights delaying planned Sidney service. Pioneer President John Warren noted the postponement affects Fly connections from Denver to Sidney with North Platte and other Nebraska stops awaiting PSC and Supreme Court decisions. The delay also impacts Kearney Air Charter and Star Aviation hearings, while Pioneer reports strong reception during initial interstate routes and limited prior information released.
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Nebraska Public Service Commission
Pioneer Airways
Sidney
Pioneer
John Warren
North Platte
Nebraska Supreme Court
Kearney Air Charter
Kearney
Star Aviation
Alliance Star
Denver
Mile High City
Alliance
Chadron
McCook
Ogallala
Public Service Commission
Warren
Nebraska
Gilmore executes after last minute stay lifted
In Salt Lake City, prison officials confirmed the Fourth Judicial District carried out Gary Gilmore’s death sentence at about 8:05 a.m. MST, following a stay lift by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. Earlier, a U.S. District Court stay was denied, and a Denver three‑judge panel lifted the stay minutes before the scheduled execution. Supreme Court Justices Whitt and Marshall declined a final appeal.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Fourth Judicial District
Gary Gilmore
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Denver
Gilmore
U.S
Willis Ritter
American Civil Liberties Union
Rockies
USS. Supreme Court
Byron Whits
Thurgood Marshall
Rate hike okd for hospital
The Nebraska Hospital Association Rate Review Committee approved a roughly 7.5 percent across the board cost increase for Sidney Memorial Hospital, raising semiprivate room charges from 9 to 900. Other facilities and board changes were noted, including a two year term for Darold Hendee on the approving committee.
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Sidney Memorial Hospital
Nebraska Hospital Association
St. Elizabeth Health Center
Lincoln
Good Samaritan Hospital
Kearney
West Holt Memorial Hospital
Atkinson
Brown County Hospital
Ainsworth
Darold Hendee
Cheyenne County Hospital Association Board of Directors
R.C. Cunningham
Elmer Ladine
C.J. Cornelius
Sidney
Arnold Draper
Gurley
Harold Winkelman
Dalton
Snowy Day Forecast Across Eastern Nebraska
A warm air mass stalled over eastern Nebraska as a cold front advances from the Dakotas. Light snow and colder air moved into northern areas. Temperatures range from the teens in the east to the mid to low 30s in the west with tonight lows from 10 below to 15 above depending on location.
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Nebraska
Dakotas
Two gals to repair railroad freight cars
Wendy Talbot and Diane McCaslin become part of a nine month training program at Western Nebraska Technical College in Sidney to study railroad freight car repair. They join about 30 students in the inaugural class as their program director notes railroads seek more female workers.
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Con Marshall
Wendy Talbot
Broken Bow
Marvin
Bun) Talbot
Western Nebraska Technical College
Sidney College
Diane McCaslin
Diane
Virgil
Wendy
Mike Holley
Holley
Western Nebraska Technical College board meets January agenda
Items on the Western Technical Community College Area agenda include bid advertising for remodeling the Marathon Building in Sidney a report on the railroad freight car maintenance program and a faculty evaluation slated for spring plus a contract award for new printing equipment under consideration at the meeting in Scottsbluff.
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Western Nebraska Technical College
Western Technical Community College
Scotts
Marathon
Sidney
WNTC
Area schools in play meet in Chadron for one act
Thirty three western Nebraska schools compete in District 6 One Act Play Contest at Chadron High School. Class BWednesday and Thursday, Class A Friday. Gurley Dix Potter St Patricks Lodgepole Sidney St Patrick’s compete. Three Class B and two Class A entries advance to the February state contest in Kearney. top 20 percent qualify.
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Chadron
Western Nebraska
Chadron High School
Southern Panhandle
Gurley and
Potter
Sidney St Patrick's
Dix
Lodgepole
Sidney High
Kearney
Sidney Public Library Offers Wide Range of Materials and Services
The Sidney Public Library highlights extensive offerings from books and magazines to films, art prints and sculptures. It partners with the Nebraska Library Commission to order missing titles and provides microfilm access to local newspapers. The library loans 900 adult records, 635 juvenile records, 470 cassettes, 78 eight tracks, art prints and sculptures, plus projectors and bookmobile outreach across Cheyenne County.
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Sidney Library
Nebraska Library Commission
NLC
Sidney Telegraph
Potter
Lodgepole
Dalton
Gurley
Sidney
Granda Moses
Babe Ruth
Mao Tse- Tung
Nebraska
Charlie Chaplin
Lon Chaney
Tex Ritter
Saturn
Peter Lightfoot
Carolyn Blish
Charlie Russell
Honest Abe
Walter Hannula
R.W. Brown
Cheyenne County
Big Springs and
Peetz
Brown
Washington trip eyed for WIFE group testimony
WIFE members expect a February hearing in Washington on proposed testimony. Donna Fuehrer of Peetz relayed a House Agriculture Committee spokesman’s note. a set date is due soon. Four Sidney chapter members Marilyn Spiker Frances Grant Carol Spencer and Joan O Connell were planning the trip, with letters to Congresswoman Virginia Smith due Tuesday.
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Washington, D.C
Donna Fuehrer
Peetz
House Agriculture Committee
Wife
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Sidney
Wahoo
Marilyn Spiker
Frances Grant
Carol Spencer
Joan O’connell
Spiker
Virginia Smith
Goodland
Kaw
Colorado
Harrisburg
Scottsbluff
Farm and Ranch Market Page Introduced in Telegraph
The Telegraph adds a weekly farm and ranch page with updated livestock and grain market information for local and national markets. Bill Moore of Sidney organized much of the setup and encouraging farmer input to improve the feature weekly.
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Telegraph
Bill Moore
Sidney
Oil office moves to Sidney amid brisk southern Panhandle drilling
The Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission relocates its Sidney offices from the Marathon Building to 1135 Jackson after space loss to Western Technical College. Drilling permits issued include six new holes in Cheyenne County with activity east of Huntsman and near Sidney airport. One rig nears Potter and another southeast of Dix into Colorado. Officials note a lean period but expect year-end reports by mid February. December showed six developments in Cheyenne and Kimball Counties. Wulf Oil Co filed five well notices north of Chadron in Dawes County, with no driller named yet, as plans for extensive Chadron Crawford oil exploration continue.
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Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission
Sidney
Marathon
Harlan’s Bakery
Jackson
Commission
Western Technical College
Panhandle
Cheyenne County
Wulf Oil Co
Chadron
Dawes County
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