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WAYNE – Author/photographer Jeff Barnes shares the images and stories of Nebraska’s lesser-known historical monuments, placed far off the beaten path, during his “Marking Nebraska: Our (Mostly) Hidden Historical Monuments” program at Wayne State College on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Admission is free and the public is invited.

ACTIVITIES: Wednesday, Sept. 27: Catholic Communion, Board Games, Linen Helpers, Open Centers, Card Club, Social Time.

MADISON – The Laurel-Concord-Coleridge volleyball team went 2-1 in the Madison Invitational on Sept. 23 in Madison.

WAKEFIELD – The Wynot Lady Blue Devils and the Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Lady Bears met in the second match of a volleyball triangular played in Wakefield on Sept. 21, with Wynot coming away with a 25-21, 25-22 sweep of LCC in the best-of-three-sets match.

CROFTON – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge played its second district football game of the season against undefeated Crofton on Sept. 22.

LAUREL – The Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Lady Bears golf team hosted their own invitational Sept. 25 at the Cedarview Country Club.

LINCOLN – There’s increased pessimism about the present and future of rural Nebraska, according to the latest Rural Poll conducted by a wing of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

WAYNE – The public is invited to an opening reception for the Wayne State College Faculty Art Exhibit at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 6, in the Nordstrand Visual Arts Gallery, located on the main level of Conn Library on campus. The exhibit is free and open to the public through Nov. 22.

LINCOLN – After gaining federal permission, the family of a famed poet/author plans to trek to a remote corner of South Dakota in October to retrieve a century-old monument dedicated to a heroic mountain man.

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

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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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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.

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.

HASTINGS – A Magnet man received the maximum sentences allowed under the law for an Adams County sexual assault incident.