Laurel Advocate

Sept. 26, 1963

Sept. 29, 1993

WAYNE – Wayne State College will host its 2023 Homecoming festivities Oct. 2-7 on campus.

Sept. 27, 1973

With gasoline rationing slated to go into effect on Dec. 1, 1942, the senior class of Concord High School voted to take their sneak day in the fall instead of the spring.

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LAUREL – The Laurel-Concord-Coleridge second grade class with their teacher Sue Koch, Para Jenn Jonas and Elementary School Principal Keri Hart, joined the Laurel Tree Board, and Chris Wood, NE Rural Forester, to celebrate the postponed Arbor Day Celebration.

WAYNE – The public is invited to free planetarium shows during Wayne State College’s homecoming festivities Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6-7, in the Fred G. Dale Planetarium. Three shows are available each day.

WAYNE – The Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department is alerting the public that the first pool of mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile Virus has been found within the health district of Cedar,Dixon, Thurston and Wayne counties for the 2023 season. West Nile Virus is present in Northeast Nebraska.

CROFTON – The 2023 Life Chain for this area of Nebraska will extend from St. Rose of Lima parish, Crofton, to the extreme eastern boundaries to Holy Family parish, near Bow Valley on Hwy 12.

WAYNE – The Laurel-Concord- Coleridge Bears and Lady Bears finished fifth and fourth Sept. 11 in their respective divisions at the Wayne Invitational at the Wayne Country Club.

– Photos by Sandra Cross, Kathy Bradford and Andrea Schilousky –

CONCORD – Haskell Ag Lab is hosting Fall Fest on Saturday, Sept.

Surfin’

LCC Board gets a look at new budget

LAUREL – Laurel-Concord- Coleridge’s school enrollment decreased by double digits when compared with last year’s numbers.

It’s that time of year when area farmers start cutting for silaging. The crop must be cut at the right stage for the best feed quality possible. Outside of Laurel on land owned by Rich Erwin, amidst the cutter and the constant flow of trucks this yearly event is taking place.

LAUREL - Wisner-Pilger handed Laurel-Concord-Coleridge its first regular season gridiron loss Friday since the last game of the 2021 season.

STANTON – The Laurel-Concord- Coleridge Lady Bears girls’ golf team used three medalists in the top 10 individually to come away with second-place in the team standings at the Stanton Invitational here on Aug.

Elmer and Venessa (Burns) Graffis had two sons, Emory and Raymond, also a daughter Eleanor.