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HARTINGTON – Defense lawyers for a Laurel couple accused of murdering four people intend to file a motion for a change of venue for the upcoming trials.

HARTINGTON – Hartington residents and business owners can expect an in crease in garbage rates in 202 4.

HARTINGTON – The 2024-25 academic year will be Hartington-Newcastle's final year in the Lewis and Clark Conference.   false

HARTINGTON – For the first time in nearly 40 years, Cedar County has a new clerk.

LINCOLN – Gov. Jim Pillen issued Executive Order 24-1 on Jan. 12 to provide an emergency waiver of federal hours of service requirements for fuel truck drivers to prevent shortages.

DES MOINES, Iowa – After 37 years with TMC and as one of very few drivers to achieve more than four million safe miles, specialized driver Les Bohlken retired at the end of 2023.

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LINCOLN – Gov. Jim Pillen joined state and local leaders on Jan. 13 in providing an update on operations in the aftermath of the state’s most recent severe weather. Nebraskans, primarily in the eastern half of the state, are dealing with a combination of snowpack, blowing snow and subzero temperatures, creating a situation that Pillen described as critical. To ensure the availability of resources, the governor issued a state-of-emergency declaration.

Comments from two state senators from Omaha have pretty much diminished hopes for a “normal” session of the Nebraska Legislature this year.

Senators commenced floor debate last week on possibly amending the rules adopted by the Legislature last year.

BROOKINGS, S.D. – More than 3,400 students were recognized for their outstanding academic performance over the fall 2023 semester at South Dakota State University, Brookings, by being named to the dean’s list.

LINCOLN – Historic structures in Verdigre, Comstock and Beatrice, Nebraska, have been selected for grants to help fund rehabilitation work.

HARTINGTON – Cedar County has a new clerk.

LAUREL – Robert Parsons sees censorship as a double-edged sword.

It’s a few weeks into January– how are those resolutions going for you? I wonder if we might do well to shift our focus from lofty goals to small habits. Those small habits are usually the means by which we achieve the lofty goals, after all.

WAYNE – Visiting artist Sophie Isaak’s exhibit “The person I am on vacation” opens Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Wayne State College’s Nordstrand Visual Arts Gallery, located on the main level of U.S. Conn Library.