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HARTINGTON – The Cedar Catholic High School robotics program has rolled to the end of its 2023-24 season.

HARTINGTON – The 2024 Bow Creek Winter Workshops will focus on successfully implementing popular conservation farming and ranching practices by overcoming concerns that are often associated with them. Each workshop will feature a regional producer who is making these practices work.

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HARTINGTON – Three Cedar Catholic wrestlers were crowned as Mid States Conference champs here Saturday.

WYNOT –The Wynot Blue Devils finally got back into action after the long Christmas/ weather postponed season when they hosted the Creighton Bulldogs Saturday.

HARTINGTON - Cedar Catholic dropped Guardian Angels Central Catholic at the Hartington-Newcastle gymnasium Jan. 20, 60-51, after dropping a game to Wayne the night before, 57-36 at the Werner Activities Center.

WYNOT – The Wynot Lady Blue Devils picked up another conference win on Saturday night when they rolled to a 61-33 win over the Creighton Lady Bulldogs.

HARTINGTON - The Cedar Catholic Lady Trojans split a pair of Mid-State Conference home games over the past week defeating Wayne 61-38 on Jan. 19 and dropping a game to Guardian Angels Central Catholic 51-33 on Jan. 20.

NORFOLK – The Cedar Catholic boys earned the No. 3 seed in the upcoming MidStates Conference Tournament, while the Lady Trojans were seeded seventh.

DES MOINES, Iowa – The Hartington Community Blood Drive will be 12:30-6 p.m., Feb. 8, at Hartington VFW.

LAUREL – A new childcare facility in the works for Laurel will be built new instead of renovating.

Elizabeth and William Kneifl had fun climbing a snow mountain near their house. They were later joined by their siblings, Walter (back) and Genevieve (front) as they decided to go sledding. The snow and cold couldn’t keep these area kids from being outside. The recent snowfalls were all that was needed to give area kids a chance to finally get out and have some fun in the white stuff. From sledding to climbing the huge mountains of snow to building a tunnel, or maybe building a snowman or having a snowball fight, whatever the activity was, the kids had a ball.

OMAHA – Ronald F. Mattes, 85, Omaha, died Jan. 13, 2024, at Pathfinder Senior Living, Fremont. The visitation for Ronald was Jan. 22 at the Bressler – Munderloh – Smith Funeral Home, Wakefield.

LAUREL – Bradley Dean Chase, 65, Laurel, died Jan. 20, 2024, at Faith Regional Hospital, Norfolk.

WAYNE – The Lady Bears won’t be switching conferences until the 2025-26 season, but they ventured outside of the Lewis and Clark Conference last week to take on a pair of Mid-State Conference foes.

SEWARD – A Laurel native continues to make a name for himself on the college basketball court.

WAYNE – After returning to the court after a couple of weeks off thanks to Old Man Winter, Laurel-Concord-Coleridge ran into a couple of good basketball teams in Battle Creek and at Wayne Jan. 19 and 20.

RANDOLPH – The City of Randolph’s newest employee is always ready to start the work day and becomes a little out of sorts when it’s time to clock out.

RANDOLPH – The Lied Public Library would contain a very small collection of books if every book that offended someone was removed.

HARTINGTON – Defense lawyers for a Laurel couple accused of murdering four people intend to file a motion for a change of venue for the upcoming trials.

The City of Randolph is searching for a new police chief.