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Sept. 11, 1963

HARTINGTON – Cedar Catholic High School is in the midst of Homecoming Week.

HARTINGTON – For the second straight year, pink postcards are piling up in Cedar County residents’ mailboxes.

Grandparents’ Day

The 1950s were a wild time. Everything was in black and white, there weren’t any footprints on the moon and no one had even heard of Taylor Swift. Can you imagine what that must have been like?

Before Emory Graffis left for the service he asked Inger Kastrup to marry him. She accepted. While stationed in Hawaii, he sent her a birthday card: It read: “Sweetheart of mine -- Loving you means happiness and skies a bit more blue! Thinking of you means my thoughts are bright and happy, too! Greeting you just means I’m glad, to have a part. In birthday thoughts and wishes, when they’re for you Sweetheart! Emory.”

Capitol View

The fire siren blew at 7:05 p.m. Monday summoning local emergency crews to the scene of a mock accident just south of Hartington behind Grossenberg Implement. When the emergency crews arrived, they discovered a bus had collided with a grain truck and the bus had gone off the road and rolled on its side. Firemen had to determine how to best handle the situation, while ambulance personnel dealt with the mock victims.

HARTINGTON - The Hartington- Newcastle School Board approved the purchase Monday of a new $37,712 scoreboard for the school gym.

COLERIDGE – A Coleridge man is out of jail on bond while he awaits trial in October for a sexual crime against a child.

HARTINGTONNEWCASTLE SCHOOLS Thursday, Sept. 14: Breakfast: Pizza Bagels, Fruit/Juice, Milk; Lunch: Stued Crust Pep peroni Pizza, Fresh Veggies, Croutons, Pineapple, Milk.

ACTIVITIES: Wednesday, Sept. 13: Catholic Communion, Board Games, Linen Helpers, Open Centers, Card Club, Social Time.

LAUREL - The Hartington-Newcastle Wildcat cross country squad out lasted Homer by a single spot to take the title in the Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Invitational here Sept. 7 at Cedarview Country Club.

Wynot’s Allison Wieseler

WYNOT - The Wynot Blue Devils knocked off one of the top teams in Class D2 football Friday as they downed the Howells Dodge Jaguars 32-20. This game featured the quick strike aerial attack of the Blue Devils against the ground pound offense of the Jaguars.

TILDEN – Hartington-Newcastle football traveled Sept. 8 to Tilden, still searching for its first win of 2023.

Outdoor Adventures

CREIGHTON – Hartington-Newcastle volleyball sandwiched a sweep over Creighton between a couple of losses at the Creighton Invitational Sept. 9, defeating the Lady Bulldogs 25-20 and 25-21 in the best-of-threesets match.

CREIGHTON – The Wynot Lady Blue Devils volleyball team picked up a pair of Lewis and Clark Conference wins last week.

Changes made to turkey hunting season

The Hartington 3-4 grade and 5-6 grade football teams played in their first games of the season Sunday afternoon at the Hartington Community Complex. The 3-4 grade team lost 33-6 to Homer, while the 5-6 grade team defeated Ponca 42-21. The teams compete each Sunday through the season.