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CENTER – The couple charged in connection with a February double homicide at Bloomfield’s bowling alley appeared in Knox County Court on March 7.

NORFOLK – A Local Working Group that provides advice on the priorities for many U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation programs will meet March 28 from 5-7 p.m. at the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resource District office at 1508 Square Turn Boulevard, Norfolk.   false   

LINCOLN – Five new cabins at Mahoney and Platte River State Parks are ready for booking, and a fishing pier is planned at the popular trout lake at Two Rivers State Recreation Area.   false

LINCOLN – Nebraska’s latest available 2.5% unemployment rate remained steady compared to the month before, while the nation’s clocked in at 3.7%, according to data released Monday.

LINCOLN - Cedar Catholic bowed out in the opening round of the 202324 Class C2 Nebraska Basketball Tournament here at the Bob Devaney Sports Center with what turned into a 17-point loss, to eventual runner-up, Lincoln Lutheran, Wednesday afternoon.

WYNOT – The Wynot Blue Devils took on the number one seed, the Shelton Bulldogs, at the Devaney Center in their second round matchup on Friday night.   false

LINCOLN – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved 2024-2025 waterfowl hunting season recommendations at its March 8 meeting in Hastings.

LINCOLN – Weather the storm.

LINCOLN – The number 4 and 5 seeds in class D2 met on Wednesday afternoon at the Devaney Center in Lincoln.

LAUREL – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge High School held its first annual Bear Day March 5.

LAUREL – The Laurel-Concord-Coleridge school board and Laurel city council races will be uncontested unless there’s a write-in candidate.

While people in much of Cedar County were battling grass fires, some of the people in the northern end of the county were more concerned about flooding.

COLERIDGE – The American Legion Post #114 and its Auxiliary Unit #114 held their monthly meeting March 4 at the Coleridge Community Building. The units jointly recited the Pledge of Allegiance and then separated and held their monthly meetings.

ACTIVITIES: Wednesday,March13: Catholic Communal Services, Chair Exercises, Uno, Current Events, Open Centers.

BROOKINGS, S.D. Erin Richelle DeHaan of Laurel graduated after the summer and fall 2023 semesters at South Dakota State University. Nearly 1,000 students completed all requirements for a degree and/or certificate program, and those requirements have been verified by the appropriate college.

NORFOLK – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge FFA attended District Career Development Events at Northeast Community College on Feb. 26.

OSMOND – The LCC speech team fared well at the recent Lewis and Clark Conference festival in Osmond.

WAYNE – LCC students were among the over 700 students from 31 schools in Nebraska and South Dakota to participate in Wayne State College’s Middle School Music Festival March 5-6.

LAUREL – The LCC FFA Chapter will send 17 students to the State FFA Convention in April to compete in 11 different events.

OMAHA – Alyza Leonard, an eighth grade student at Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Middle School competed at the Midwest Regional Spelling Bee March 9 at Strauss Performing Arts Center at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – Bryan Stuckenschmidt of Omaha is one of the Aviation Maintenance students at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa who helped restore a Huey helicopter for the Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial which is under construction in Papillion.