Laurel Advocate

LAUREL – Perhaps some things are inevitable - death, taxes and construction projects taking longer than anticipated.

HARTINGTON – Lawyers defending a Laurel couple accused of murder say they need more time to process the volume of discovery documents.

LINCOLN – State tax receipts finished the fiscal year in the black, barely beating the projections of a state advisory board and sending an extra $3 million to Nebraska’s rainy day fund.

OMAHA – U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., hosted two roundtables Monday highlighting legislation he is proposing that would offer other states a chance to mimic a Nebraska program offering skilled job training to people on food stamps.

CONCORD – The Haskell Ag Lab Soil Health School is a collaborative event with Nebraska Extension, North Central Region’s Soil Health Nexus, and the Nebraska NRCS.

LINCOLN – Farmers and ranchers are invited to attend a free, one-onone, confidential clinic, Aug. 3 and Aug. 25, in Norfolk.

DENVER – Emma Sohler from LCC Competed in the National STAR Event Competition at the 2023 FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Denver July 2-6.

UNL Extension

Preparations have all been made and the clean up is now complete at the Cedar County Fairgrounds thanks to dozens of 4H members like Macie Koch

LINCOLN – The State of Nebraska has $4 million remaining in a $5 million program to provide scholarships for nurses and is seeking more applicants.

Up-and-coming singers to entertain at fair's CedarStock Music Fest

HARTINGTON – A man is back in jail three months after a judge gave him probation – again with allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct.

HARTINGTON – Dan Hoesing is looking to finish his education career in the place where his schooling started.

I’ve never been fond of boats or horses.

For several months, everybody and his dog had been out scrounging for scrap metal to feed the war machine so it is hard to imagine how any could be left by September.

NORFOLK – Angela Johnson, EdD, has been named assistant dean at the UNMC College of Nursing Northern Division in Norfolk after serving in the position on an interim basis for the past six months.

LINCOLN – Dan Griffith is just scraping by.

Are your pastures better off or worse than they were this time last year? How about the year before that? And before that? As humans, long term memory has never been a strong suit. Maybe you were able to answer a simple better or worse question 3-4 years out, but when we start getting more detailed in our analysis, answering gets even harder. Did the species present change in any way? How much difference was there in yield between years? Has any production been lost due to invasive species like spurge or cedar?

LINCOLN – Biologists are continuing to tag and track walleye and sauger in the Missouri River and Lewis and Clark Lake between Fort Randall and Gavins Point dams as part of an effort to understand declines in the fishery following historic flooding in 2011.

Law Log:

(above) Matt Phelps, of Madison, S.D., drives his truck, The Dirt, and gets its nose up in the air during a run in the Outlaw Truck & Tractor Pull at the Dixon County Fair on Thursday. (right) The judge talks to a young competitor during the bucket calf show at the Dixon County Fair on Thursday. (below) Isabella Figueroa, 6, rides the Bulgy the Whale amusement ride at the fairgrounds. She and her mom, both from Chicago, were visiting friend Nancy Hartnett of Coleridge and decided to take in the annual event in Concord.