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Jan.1, 1970
LAUREL- The Bears upped their record to 6-0 with a pair of victories last week.
Jan. 1, 1970
LAUREL- Brent Fahnestock, a freshman guard is averaging 4.7 points and 6.7 rebounds in four games for the University of South Dakota Junior Varsity basketball team.
Jan. 1, 1970
LAUREL- Frank Noelle was last week’s winner in the pheasant tail contest with his 22 3/4 inch feather.
Jan. 1, 1970
LAUREL- The area received its heaviest snow fall of the year Saturday, December 27, with 9 1/2 inches accumulated by Sunday morning.
Jan. 3, 1980
LAUREL- The Laurel Bearettes finished third in the holiday tournament. The Bears were downed by Pierce in the consolation game.
Jan. 3, 1980
DIXON- Mr. and Mrs. David Schutte, Dixon, are the parents of a daughter, Lana Marie, born Dec. 27; Dr. and Mrs. John Schroeder, Coleridge, are the parents of a daughter, Holly Susanne, born Dec. 20.
Jan. 3, 1980
LAUREL- Hot lunches will be served at the Laurel school again after some remodeling.
Jan. 3, 1980
LAUREL- Charlie Paulsen, Fred Crisp and Gene Twiford will complete their terms on the District 54 Board of Education.
Jan. 12, 2000
COLERIDGE — Wednesday, Jan. 19 will be a special day in Nebraska for Joe Neu of Coleridge.
Joe is a resident at Park View Haven. Jan. 19 will be observed as his 100th birthday and it will be “Joe Neu Day in the State of Nebraska” as proclaimed by Gov. Mike Johanns.
Jan. 12, 2000
COLERIDGE — The annual elections were held at the monthly meeting of the Coleridge School Board, with Gerald Kalin being re-elected as president, Randy Papenhausen re-elected as vice-president and Karla Hansen re-elected secretary.
Jan. 6, 2010
COLERIDGE — The Coleridge area did not lack for precipitation in 2009.
According to figures compiled by the Blade from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network, Coleridge received 26.88 inches of precipitation in 2009.
The average for this area is 27 inches of precipitation per year.
Jan. 6, 2010 HARTINGTON — Cedar-Knox Public Power customers can expect to see a jump in electric bills in 2010.
The Cedar-Knox Board has approved a 4.95 percent rate increase effective Jan. 1, 2010.
“We take rate increases very seriously and try to do what we can to mitigate them,” said Manager Dan Leise.
Leise said CKPPD has worked hard to keep its costs down, but this increase is simply unavoidable.
“Over the last two years we have reduced staff by two positions through attrition, refinanced the small amount of debt we carry and also successfully applied for government funds for several reliability projects involving major feeder lines.”
The rate increases from the past few years have been mostly to cover the increase in the cost of power the District purchases to distribute to its customers, Leise said.
Nebraska Public Power (NPPD) generates and supplies power to the Cedar-Knox Public Power District, which in turn distributes it to their customers through 2,000 miles of power lines, 16 substations and roughly 7,000 meters.
The power is purchased under a 20-year contract that will run through the year 2022.
Jan. 6, 2010
COLERIDGE — Coleridge School Board members voted to retain the same officers for 2010.
Robert Colwell will continue to serve as board president — this will be Colwell’s third year as president. Board members voted for Karla Hansen as vice-president and Betty Jo Leapley to continue as secretary.
The Board also gave their approval Monday on an inter-local agreement with the Elgin Public School District. A student from Elgin is enrolled in the Level III program at Coleridge.
A decision on co-op agreements for sports and other school activities was tabled until February.
Coleridge and Laurel schools are currently involved in a co-op with wrestling, boys golf, and cross-country. The decision has already been made to co-op in football next year.
Consideration for a co-op with Laurel will be given for volleyball, girls and boys basketball, track, play productions, speech and music.
“If things change, we can always get out of the co-op,” Head Administrator Craig Frerichs said.
Coleridge High School currently has an enrollment of 42 students. The senior class is the biggest class with 15.
