Laurel Advocate

LAUREL – A trio of LCC basketball players received postseason recognition recently.

WYNOT – Agriculture is in Aurora Urwiler’s blood – and now she gets to pass on seeds of her knowledge while growing a new program at Wynot Public Schools.

LAUREL – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge High School held its first annual Bear Day March 5.

LAUREL – The Laurel-Concord-Coleridge school board and Laurel city council races will be uncontested unless there’s a write-in candidate.

While people in much of Cedar County were battling grass fires, some of the people in the northern end of the county were more concerned about flooding.

LAUREL – Remodeling a house can sometimes bring unexpected surprises.

OMAHA – Alyza Leonard, an eighth grade student at Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Middle School competed at the Midwest Regional Spelling Bee March 9 at Strauss Performing Arts Center at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

WAYNE – LCC students were among the over 700 students from 31 schools in Nebraska and South Dakota to participate in Wayne State College’s Middle School Music Festival March 5-6.

NORFOLK – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge FFA attended District Career Development Events at Northeast Community College on Feb. 26.

ACTIVITIES: Wednesday,March13: Catholic Communal Services, Chair Exercises, Uno, Current Events, Open Centers.

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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – Bryan Stuckenschmidt of Omaha is one of the Aviation Maintenance students at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa who helped restore a Huey helicopter for the Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial which is under construction in Papillion.

LAUREL – The LCC FFA Chapter will send 17 students to the State FFA Convention in April to compete in 11 different events.

OSMOND – The LCC speech team fared well at the recent Lewis and Clark Conference festival in Osmond.

BROOKINGS, S.D. Erin Richelle DeHaan of Laurel graduated after the summer and fall 2023 semesters at South Dakota State University. Nearly 1,000 students completed all requirements for a degree and/or certificate program, and those requirements have been verified by the appropriate college.

COLERIDGE – The American Legion Post #114 and its Auxiliary Unit #114 held their monthly meeting March 4 at the Coleridge Community Building. The units jointly recited the Pledge of Allegiance and then separated and held their monthly meetings.

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HARTINGTON – Two political newcomers will face off this May for a four-year term on the Cedar County Board of Commissioners.

LAUREL – The LCC speech team hosted a meet Saturday, Feb. 24.

HARTINGTON – A judge ruled certain evidence inadmissible in the case of a Louisiana man accused of murder at a Hartington worksite last year.

LCC students came out in force last week to root on the Bears during Sub-District basketball action in Hartington