Winter back for motorists in Nebraska
Winter lingers in Nebraska with icy highways from freezing drizzle and light snow, mostly in the north. Weather signals spotty precipitation through Saturday with highs in the 20s to low 30s and overnight lows near the teens. Nebraska patrol notes snow melt may dry roads near Alliance and Chadron as travel to Chadron finals proceeds.
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Associated Press
Nebraska
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Nebraska State Patrol
Sidney Travelers
Chadron
Alliance
Panhandle
BDSA Plans June Farmer's Day in Sidney
The Better Downtown Sidney Association plans a June event with a free ham burger and coffee lunch in the city parking lot at 10th Ave and Hickory St. A 30 minute farmer oriented movie is proposed. Estimated cost is 1500 dollars with Joel Birner as chair and John Laing as co chair.
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Sidney
Better Downtown Sidney Association
EDSA
10Th Ave
Hickory St
Joel Birner
John Laing
Maynard Dils
Dils
Preston Hogeland
Illinois St
Ghost stairs legend from Fort Sidney haunted October tale
Historian recounts a long haunted stairway in the Fort Sidney Officer's Quarters where a woman died in the late 1800s. The stairway was sealed after the accident and allegedly reappears in October each year. The 1950s storyteller Melchair Herbert is noted, and the renovations reveal hidden servant stairs behind pantry and closet walls.
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David Hendee
Fort Sidney
Melchair Herbert
Sidney
West
Bob Rybolt
Rybolt
Cheyenne County Historical Association
Jasper Bowman
21St Infantry
Fort Randell
S D
Here
Highland Ranch
Virginia George
Voted bill moves ahead to fund Nebraska colleges
Lincoln AP reports the Nebraska legislature gave second round approval to LB537 a $59 million deficit expenditure for the state's troubled technical community colleges. The bill sponsored by the Appropriations Committee passed on a voice vote in the unicameral chamber advancing to final floor action.
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Lincoln
Appropriations Committee
Water plan tied to local contamination case near Sidney
Public hearing on the South Platte River Basin Water Quality Management Plan drew officials including Dayle Williamson and Ray Hartung after LeRoy Stormberg’s contaminated east Sidney well highlighted planning gaps. The plan aggregates 200 pages of data to push basin water quality toward federal standards amid criticism that local planning delays worsened the drinking water crisis.
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Sidney
South Platte River
Dayle Williamson
Nebraska Natural Resources Commission
Commission
Sue Hopper
Gayle Lewis
Tom Pesek
Ray Hartung
State Department of Environmental Control and Commission Board
al Narjes
Panhandle
Wyoming- Nebraska State Line
North Platte Lodgepole Creek
LeRoy Stormberg
South Platte Natural Resources District
Bob Hahn
Stormberg Farms
Nebraska
Coly Nelson
Kenneth J Peetz
Trailer City
James Exon
Lodgepole Creek
Exon
Hahn
Stormberg
Rich history travels with deed to ranch
A 1 920 acre Western Nebraska ranch east of Sidney sold at auction to John Faessler Jr and son Randy R Faessler for 460000. The property includes deeded land a state school land lease and improvements. The Faesslers take possession April 1 and the site traces to the St George Cattle Co dating from 1900 with multiple historic buildings and irrigation wells.
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Nebraska
George Schnell
Sidney
John Faessler, Jr
Randy R Faesster
Bridgeport
Asmus-Rychecky
Faesslers
St George Cattle Co
Lodgepole Creek
Clark Fuller Fuller
W M Fuller
St George
Fuller
Schnells
Union Pacific Land Co
C L Jones
Jones
Schnell
Bill Schnell
Nebraska work release program blends prison and college life
A Nebraska work release program houses 21 prisoners on the Western Nebraska Technical College campus. Thirteen are students, others work or convert barracks into living units. Officials praise classroom performance but cite discipline and security concerns.
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Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex
Western Nebraska Technical College
Penal and Corrections Department
Sidney
Nebraska Technical Community College Area Board
WNTC
Wntcca
William Ptacek
Dodds
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BDSA
Nelson
Telegraph
C B Dorwart
Ken Cook
Joseph Kielian
Victor Asmus
South Platte Nrd Board
Area College Board
William Dodds
Omaha
Norfolk
Remodeled Barracks
Tom Dindinger
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