SEA Proposal Advances as Sidney Board Increases Base Pay
Sidney teachers receive a $7,000 base salary plus longevity raises in a board counter proposal to SEA demands, offered in exchange for dropping two lawsuits over 1972-73 and 1973-74 salaries. The plan adds an income protection program and adds salary steps while excluding the index system.
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Sidney
Sidney Board of Education
Sidney Educators’ Association
The
SEA
Wilbert Higuchi
State Court of Industrial Relations
Neil Allison
Bob Cook
Russell Pedersen
Pedersen
Sidney Council Sets Hearings On I-80 Zoning Action
The Sidney City Council set public hearing dates for I-80 related rezonings on Nov. 26. They discussed zoning for a west Sid ney interchange tract and a 1400 acre Upland Industries parcel. The northbound access road to U.S. 30 was named Upland Parkway and slated as a four lane highway next year.
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Sidney
West
Planning Commission
U.S. 30
Nebraska Department of Roads
Filsinger Excavating Co
Independent Cable Co
Gordon Tobin
Ed Prince
Prince
Federal Aviation Administration
Overland Air Service
Toledo Street
10Th Ave
Board of Equalization
State OKs U S Grant For Sidney
Governor Exon announced state approval of a 75 percent federal grant for a 260000 dollar Sidney Municipal Airport improvement. The city covers 15 percent and the state 10 percent. The project funds 1974 75 year with work likely starting next summer and includes paved turnarounds lighting visual approach indicator lights and apron extensions.
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Exon
Sidney Municipal
Ed Prince
Annexation suit filed over Sidney city land for dealership
Annexa tion dispute centers on Montgomery Motors owner Art Montgomery who sues the City of Sidney in district court seeking a declaratory judgment that the annexation of the dealership land is void due to errors in the legal description. Attorney Gerald Matzke says deannexation tests validity. he expects the ordinance to be void and unenforceable. The city plans to file an answer later today.
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Art Montgomery
Montgomery Motors
Sidney
City of
Montgomery 8
Gerald Matzke
Travel Series Presents Female Film Makers In Mexico
A Sidney Travel and Adventure Series event features a female team presenting Winter in Mexico at 2pm in the Sidney High School Auditorium. Ticket info via BPW Club members and local shops. program includes Mexican art, ruins, sea fishing, and Christmas customs, plus notes on the Chickering Porterfield duo and their film company.
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Sidney
Mexico
Sidney High School
Mabel Nielsen
Marcel McGee
Laura's
BPW Club
Lisa Chickering
Jeanne Porterfield
Far East
New York
U.S
Europe
Porterfield
Vo-Tech funding suit set for Friday hearing in Gering
Answers filed in the challenge to the Technical Community College Act funding procedures will be heard by Judge John Kuhns in Gering Friday at 10 a.m. The case, filed last August in Cheyenne County, names nine counties as plaintiffs seeking a declaratory judgment on a one mill levy for the Western Nebraska Tech Community College Area. Defendants include Scotts Bluff, Garden, Grant, Cherry counties, among others, who argue the nine counties lack legal capacity to sue and that only a taxpayer may challenge the levy.
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Technical Community College Act
John Kuhns
Gering Court
Robert Simmons
Banner
Box Butte
Cheyenne
Devel
Kimball
Morrill
Sheridan
Dawes
Sioux
Western Nebraska Technical Community College
Technical Community College
Scotts Bluff County
Garden County
Grant County
Cherry County
St Patrick School Board keeps hair code amid rally plans
The St Patrick School Board voted 5 to 1 to retain the current hair code after discussion with Student Council rep David Stormberg who outlined a city wide youth rally tied to the movie Godspell. Other actions included hiring Earl Neel as janitor, quarterly bus service at College, and scheduling for the junior high basketball tournament in January.
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St. Patrick's
David Stormberg
Stormberg
Bernie Ruybal
Tom Ryan
Minuteman Athletic Conference
State Board Plans Tour of WNTC and NWC Campuses
Members of the State Board of Technical Community Colleges will tour Western Nebraska Technical College Friday between 2 and 4 p.m. They will then visit Nebraska Western College in Scottsbluff and hold their formal monthly meeting at 10 am Saturday at NWC.
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State Board of Technical Community Colleges
Western Nebraska Technical College
Scottsbluff
Nebraska Western College
NWC
Questions of Viability Debated by RCDPC in Sidney
Members of the Nebraska Panhandle Resource Conservation Development and Planning Council met in Sidney to discuss the group's viability. They debated producing tangible results, increasing public information, and pushing proposals through division boards while the umbrella RCDPC supports them. The board endorsed a junk car removal project, planned a Bridgeport meeting, and outlined steps for HUD recertification as an areawide planning body. They also reviewed ongoing projects and stressed citizen participation.
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Nebraska Panhandle Resource Conservation Development and Planning Council
Sidney
Jack Jones
Don Siffring
Siffring
RCD & PC
Panhandle
Bridgeport
Jones
Early Winter Slows Wheat In Cheyenne County
Farmers statewide worry about next year as heavy planting rains wash out winter wheat and a cold spell halts growth. County agent Ken Sakurada says about half the crop may face winter kill or wind erosion due to insufficient cover.
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Cheyenne County
Ken Sakurada
Sakurada
Fall Fertilizer Shortage Ends and Spring Outlook
The end of price controls ends the shortage in Cheyenne County for now though supply may dip again in spring and summer. Local dealers warn farmers to plan ahead as prices could rise 30 to 50 percent if demand stays high.
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Cheyenne County
Fertilizer Service Co., Inc
Marvin Meyer
Manger Ken
McMillan Farmland Industries
Coop
McMillan
Meyer
Joe Goldtrap
Na-Chars Fertilizer
Howard Elm
Nebraska Fertilizer Institute
Elm
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Agronomist
Richard Wiese
Associated Press
Wiese
Nebraska
Cost of Living Council
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Answers Sea Proposal
Pete Hay
Cook
Jack Knicely
Dick Osterday
Carl Cornelius
Linda Janssen
Memorial Hospital
Council
Vince Maliszewski
10Th
State
Oks
U.S. Grant
Chickering
Miss Porterfield
Miss Chickering
Gering
Attorney General
Simmons
Parochial School Board
State Board
Rcd&pc
Colonels
Fort Sidney
George Hinn
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