Laurel Advocate

Both kids and adults Saturday looked for some cooling relief from the heat and several found that at the Belden pool

HARTINGTON – Join us for the third annual Bow Creek Field Day June 29, in Crofton.

All Star performance

NORFOLK – Jake Rath from Laurel-Concord-Coleridge and Tyan Baller, and Jaxson Bernecker from Cedar Catholic had a significant impact on Friday’s game at the Cox Activities Center at Northeast Community College.

NORFOLK – The Northeast Nebraska All-Star Football Classic is fast approaching and plenty of area talent will be on hand.

HARTINGTON – A Cedar County Court judge dismissed a lawsuit against the City of Randolph concerning its pitbull ordinance.

Memorial Day services were held at the Laurel Cemetary

HARTINGTON – Cedar and Knox counties are planning to bundle two bridge replacement projects together.

LAUREL – Veterans from across Nebraska rode into Laurel Saturday to promote the National Medal of Honor Highway, and honor the man who got the project rolling in Nebraska.

Another area newspaper bit the dust on Aug. 27, 1942. Under the headline “Our Obituary,” Editor Bert Rumsey announced that he was suspending publication of the Belden Progress. Rumsey said he had planned to make Belden his future home but lack of support from the public and the business community put him in the hole.

May 24 Results Men’s Golf League Results

PENDER – The northeast Nebraska region has been chosen to receive $23,500 under Phase 40 of the Emergency Food and Shelter Program.

NORFOLK – Several area students have earned associate degrees and certificates this May from Northeast Community College.

LAUREL – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge School officials recently released the 2022-2023 Second Semester Honor Roll.

Bob Dickey plays “Taps” during Laurel’s Memorial Day cemetery services Monday morning

LAUREL – Three area boys were recently selected to attend Cornhusker Boys State in Lincoln.

LAUREL – As usual, area residents are planning some special events here for Memorial Day.

LAUREL – The city of Laurel and Cedar County have come to an agreement regarding the community’s outdoor warning sirens.

Play time

LINCOLN – The months-long fight over the best flavor of voter ID for Nebraska spilled over onto the floor of the Legislature Monday, with State Sen. Julie Slama staging a one-woman filibuster against the proposal forwarded by the Government and Military Affairs Committee.

August brought more bad news on the railroad front. The first jolt came in June when the Minneapolis & Omaha announced plans to reduce train service on the Wakefield-Crofton branch to three days a week instead of six. Following a vigorous protest by the affected communities, the State Railway Commission delayed the plan until November 1942.