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Nov. 19, 2008
KEARNEY — The community of Hartington picked up two first-place awards and earned a third-place honor during the statewide NCIP contest here Friday.
The city picked up top honors in the tourism event for its Q125 celebration. Hartington also earned a firstplace plaque for its improvements at Felber Park and at the Hartington Community Complex. The Felber Park project included putting in a new flag pole, garden, and welcome sign and constructing a water fountain and stone archways across the entrances to the park, all using community donations of money and labor. Renovations to the Felber Park baseball diamond and the baseball diamonds at the complex were also completed. These included new dugouts, fencing and landscaping at both facilities.
Nov. 19, 2008
HARTINGTON — Cedar County could be seeing substantial economic gains from the oil pipeline that will soon cross the county just east of Highway 81 from the Missouri River to the south.
Taxing entities in Cedar County will benefit from taxes that will be coming from the value of the pipeline and equipment that will be used to transport crude oil from Canada to U.S. refineries.
Construction work which will hit full force in 2009 could be bringing job opportunities to the area, as well.
Nov. 19, 2008
HARTINGTON — The night will light up here Friday.
That’s when the Hartington Chamber of Commerce will host the Candlelight Christmas celebration for the seventh straight year.
The celebration, which kicks off the annual Christmas shopping season here, has grown into a huge local event.
Nov. 19, 2008
HARTINGTON — The Arlo and Ann Wirth Art Gallery at the Hartington Library is featuring a variety of art during the months of November and December.
A display by local Hartington artist Paul Hines shows a collection of his colorful watercolor paintings.
Nov. 19, 2008
WYNOT — Finding out if school has been cancelled because of a snow storm is now only a phone call away.
Some of the local schools have instituted a telephone broadcast system that enables school personnel to notify all households and parents by phone of any school cancellations, late starts or early dismissals.
School Reach, a company specializing in school-to-parent communications, provides the service for Wynot, Coleridge, Laurel-Concord and Newcastle Schools.
Nov. 20, 2013
HARTINGTON — A heated discussion at Tuesday’s Hartington City Council meeting revealed city leaders’ concern about adding another expense to the water quality and flood control project.
The city is being asked for an additional $8,400 for three more borings to help determine the actual soil composition on the downside section of the dam, said project coordinator Dan Kathol.
“It will allow the engineers to make the most cost-effective recommendation,” he told the City Council.
Griffin Dewartering North Central LLC, is the company Olssen Associates has been working with to solve some recently discovered problems. Water that seeps through the sand layers under the reservoir could potentially create uplift when the water hits the clay layer of soil immediately downstream of the reservoir. Engineers say the danger is that water has the potential for traveling under the dam and pulling soil along with it.
Due to the water pressure on clay, which has low permeability, the water could be forced up and backward to the base of the existing dam structure.
“If the water reaches the surface then a flow path for the water has been created in multiple locations causing severe erosion which could lead to catastrophic dam failure,” Kathol said.
The result would be the destruction of most structures downstream.
The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources explained the potential problem to Kathol, who in turn talked to the city about the issue and a way to solve it.
The NDNR must approve any planned dams of this size.
“They sense an issue and they want to absolutely ensure that we are not going to have problems down the road,” Kathol said.
Nov. 20, 2013
HARTINGTON — KCAU TV news anchor Jenna Rehnstrom recently took a stroll down memory lane.
Rehnstrom returned to Hartington Public School Oct. 30 and relived a day in the life of a fifth grade student while filming her “Back to School” segment.
The video aired during the 10 p.m. broadcast Nov. 13.
During the visit, Rehnstrom talked with former teachers, participated in classroom activities and even made time for a band lesson.
The most significant part for Rehnstrom though, was getting to spend time with her father, Dave Rehnstrom, an upper elementary math teacher at Hartington Public.
“It was so special for me to watch my dad do what he has done every day for the last 38 years,” she said.
Dave expressed similar feelings about his time with Jenna.
I was just happy to get to be with her for a day and have her back in the classroom again, he said.
Rehnstrom spent her morning talking with the fifth grade class and watching her father teaching and interacting with the students.
She also had a trumpet lesson with Doyle Anderson, the vocal and instrumental music instructor at Hartington Public.
