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HARTINGTON – The Hartington- Newcastle Lady Wildcats added a couple of wins to the season over the past week to improve to 8-4 on the campaign.

LAUREL – The Cedar Catholic Trojans hit the road for a couple of wins to open the 2024 portion of the season and won a couple of games after dropping the third game of the campaign in the finals of the Wayne tournament. The two wins improved the Trojans season tally to 8-3 with three big games on the horizon.

HARTINGTON – The Monday-Tuesday storm this week forced school officials to rearrange some of the varsity sports schedules.

PENDER – The Wynot Blue Devils travelled to Pender to do battle with the Pendragons on Friday night in what was predicted to be a tightly contested matchup. The game would end up that way but it did not go as scripted. Wynot would struggle mightly In the first half but rallied in the second half to make a game of it. The game did go down to the wire with Pender earning the 35-33 win.

HARTINGTON – The Hartington- Newcastle Wildcat basketball team opened the 2024 portion of the schedule with a couple of losses to Winside, 37-35 on Jan. 5, and Bloomfield, 48-42 on Jan. 2.

WYNOT – The Wynot Lady Blue Devils picked up an easy win on Thursday night as they rolled to a 48-21 victory over the Tri-County Northeast Lady Wolfpack.   false

HARTINGTON – The last two events for the Hartington-Newcastle bowling team have offered a mixed bag of results for head coach Nate Holan.   false

HNS All State honors

NORFOLK – Because of unsafe ice conditions and extreme cold weather in the forecast, the Jan. 13 Discover Ice-Fishing clinic at Norfolk’s Skyview Lake has been cancelled.

WEST POINT – Gwen Lindberg sits in her plush beige recliner, and listens to the news.

LINCOLN – Drought remained the main weather concern for 2023, but those conditions are easing in Cedar County and in northern areas of the state.

HARTINGTON – A Cedar County commissioner was the first to file for re-election Friday, Jan. 5, the first date candidates could do so.

WAYNE – Spirited emotion underscores Michael Genslinger’s faculty trumpet recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, in the Peterson Fine Arts Building’s Ramsey Theatre at Wayne State College.

NORFOLK – Be a part of the process to update Nebraska’s state wildlife action plan, which outlines conservation efforts and priorities for Nebraska’s most vulnerable plant and animal species.   false   

LAUREL – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge dropped a girls’ basketball game to Cedar Catholic here on Jan. 4 to open action in 2024 then traveled to Winnebago on Jan. 5 to take on the Lady Indians in a Lewis & Clark Conference match up that was all Lady Bears, winning 70--   false

LINCOLN – Applications for multispecies Super Tag and Combo lottery permits are now being accepted by Nebraska Game and Parks.

LAUREL - The Laurel-Concord-Coleridge boys' basketball team split a pair of games to open 2024 when the Bears dropped a game to Cedar Catholic here in Laurel on Jan. 4, 50-40 then hit the road to win a thriller over Winnebago the following night, 49-48.

WAYNE – Agriculture students interested in communications are the beneficiaries of an articulation agreement between Northeast Community College and Wayne State College.

Students to gain insight into financial literacy

Can’t hide that school pride

RANDOLPH – A strong and slow-moving winter storm wreaked havoc across the area Monday and Tuesday.