SCANNER RECAP Oct 5, 2023 – Thursday

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Freeze Warning Issued

The Panhandle of Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming could see freezing temperatures Friday night into Saturday morning.

Remember, when the freeze is on its way, take care of those plants and pipes!

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Scottsbluff Main Street Market

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N Hwy 71 Accident

The above was sent to us. This demonstrates that even eye-witnesses are not perfect. We had later confirmation that the accident was very serious, but the truck was not overturned.

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City of Gering Reminder

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#cancer || Back to Top

Festival of Hope Fundraiser

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Kimball Chlorination

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Scanner Expansion

Please welcome our new brand… PANHANDLE SCANNER!

We have been providing expanded coverage for outlying areas for a long time. Even from the beginning, people from all over have followed our page. In fact, less than 1/2 of our followers are from Scotts Bluff County. The rest are found all over Nebraska, Colorado and 37 other states.

The scanner began originally in 2009 and has always stayed focused on 5 primary categories of news and alerts; Police and Crime, Fire and Rescue, Severe Weather, Missing Persons, and Safety Alerts. With our expanded coverage area, we are able to provide local news for the entire panhandle and eastern Wyoming on one page, rather than trying to maintain individual pages for all the smaller counties. We have individual county pages, and we will continue them, but we are seeking volunteer admins from the surrounding areas that are interested in managing their county.

We will write more about the changes in future issues of the recap.

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Seeking Black Challenger Driver

Scanner Chatter heated up around 10:20 pm with eye-witness accounts of an accident.

“There’s an accident over by the Westco baseball field. Looks like a black challenger lost control and hit some parked cars at a residence.” – Kenzey

“Just had a drone up in that area.” – Teresa

“About 5 staties over there too. It was a black challenger that slammed into a parked truck on Avenue P.” – Eric

If you know anything about this accident or who it might have been, please contact police.

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Featured Photography

If you have AMAZING professional grade photos to show off to the world, join our group The Great American Experience!

Today we feature the work of David P. Dye and the crew at 308 Drone Zone.

Meanwhile, Terry Tim snagged this unusual cloud formation just North of Big Springs, Nebraska Thursday morning.

We couldn’t resist yet another gorgeous sunrise in the valley. This beauty was by Chris Johansen.

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Nebraska State Patrol

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R&C Welding Fabrication & Crane

This is one of the best companies in the area to work for… R&C Welding, Fabrication and Crane!

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Scanner Traffic

Keeping up with this scanner requires some serious nutrition. #EatBeef

Thank you to our highly valuable citizen eye-witnesses that report to us! … and thanks for always being safe and yielding to emergency personnel.

As many have noticed, we have expanded our coverage to include much of WyoBraska (Eastern Wyoming + Western Nebraska) with scanner pages and partners throughout the two states.

If you are interested in helping record scanner traffic for our daily Recaps, email sbcoscanner@gmail.com.

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Kendell Henderson Agency, Inc

It’s never too late to protect your loved ones. Stop in today and we can show you how!

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Dog Found in Sidney

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Nebraska 10-Codes

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Public Power Week

To mark Public Power Week, we would like to offer a few tips on how to save energy and money in your home as we build for the future:

* According to the Alliance to Save Energy, the average home uses 70 light bulbs. Even though modern bulbs are energy efficient, you should still turn them off when they aren’t in use.

* Swap out old incandescent bulbs for new LED bulbs. According to the Department of Energy, residential LEDs — especially ENERGY STAR-rated products — use at least 75% less energy, and last up to 25 times longer, than incandescent lighting.

* Heating and cooling your home uses a lot of energy. Setting your thermostat lower in the winter and higher in the summer to save energy and money on your power bill.

* Unplug appliances when you aren’t using them. Even when they aren’t being used, they are sometimes drawing “phantom power,” which wastes energy.

* You home’s water heater is a big energy user. Make sure to use cold water when you can and turn off the hot water while you are scrubbing your hands.

* Consider asking your utility about a home energy audit. Energy efficiency experts can use special equipment to find things around your home – like air leaks – that may be costing you energy and money.

While we are sharing these tips during #Publicpowerweek, we hope our community will keep an eye on our energy efficiency all year round as we work to provide reliable, safe, affordable, and renewable power supply.

These tips were offered by the City of Alliance via their Facebook page, here.

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Scotts Bluff County CERT

The Scotts Bluff County CERT/SAR Team will be hosting a basic CERT training, October 27 & 28. Friday night training starts at 6:00 pm till 10:00. Saturday training is from 7:30am – 6:30. Lunch and supper is provided on Saturday. The cost is free and it will allow you to take care of yourself, family, & neighbors in the event of an emergency.

Training covers:
Disaster Preparedness
Fire Safety
Light Search and Rescue
Damage Assessment
First Aid – Stop the Bleed
CERT Team Organization
Disaster Psychology
Disaster Drill

This training is to help get our team membership back up, we would like to see 20 citizens take this training and then join the team. We need a minimum of 10 people to hold the class.

If you are interested in taking the training please contact Bob Hessler at 308-631-0076 or safetyline@gmail.com

Help your community out and join Scotts Bluff CERT/SAR Team.

The CERT Team does things in the community, running first aid/hydration tent at events, work the Scotts Bluff County Fair.

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Local Business Spotlight

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Back The Blue

Even when the uniforms are a different color, we still back the blue!

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Local Jail Inmate Search

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Nebraska State Inmate Search

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Sex Offender Registry Search

Andi and Brian Hale offer encouragement on their daily Faith Matters podcast.

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Look Who’s Hiring!

R&C Welding is hiring.

YMCA is hiring.

Alliance Police Department in hiring.

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Nebraska State Patrol is hiring.

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Main Street Market is hiring.

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City of Gering is hiring.

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City of Scottsbluff is hiring

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Wyoming Hemp Co is hiring

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City of Alliance is hiring

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Wyoming Highway Patrol is hiring.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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Goshen County Weekend

Yee Haw Daze Oct 6-7

Sidney Octoberfest Oct 6-8

Horse Show Oct 7

Parent-Teacher Conferences Oct 10, 12

Triathlon Oct 14

Solar Eclipse Oct 14

Self-Defense Training Oct 14

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Puttin’ On The Glitz

Gering Bulldogs will be “Puttin’ On The Glitz” for Homecoming 2023! We invite our Bulldog community to recognize this celebratory week with us.

Friday, October 20th is Gering Alumni Night and gate entry for all Bulldog Alumni will be waived. The Gering Schools Foundation will also have a special gift to recognize all GPS Alumni in attendance!💙💛

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Mah Jongg Oct 19 & 26

Nightfall Oct 27

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Weekly Podcasts

#diggingdeeperlive  ||  Back to Top

Our weekly Live podcast is packed with a wide variety of subject matter, “leaving no stone unturned.”

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Truman’s Matrix

An original production of Hale Multimedia. Truman’s Matrix is made up of the craziest headlines from around the world. Airs LIVE Friday nights from 8:30-9:00 pm Mountain. Available anytime on diggingdeeper.us

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The Ugly Truth

Like our slogan says, hard to listen to, but impossible to ignore. This podcast explores the darkest, deepest secrets on the planet and exposes them to the light… in hopes that goodness will prevail with knowledge.