WYNOT — Wynot High School held its 2008 Commencement ceremonies Saturday.

Nine students graduated in the Wynot Class of 2008.

Sarah Wieseler and Kelli Koch were named as the class Valedictorian and Salutatorian.

HARTINGTON — The Pony Express delivered a special proclamation Saturday signed by Gov. Dave Heineman.

A group of over 40 horse back riders worked in tandem to get the message from the capitol steps in Lincoln to Hartington and Coleridge area residents on the Main Street of both communities.

The riders left the capitol steps in Lincoln at 7 a.m. Saturday and headed north.

The horses finally arrived in Coleridge around 6 p.m. and were in Hartington around 7 p.m.

See the next page for more photos.

OMAHA — Every kid should know what it is like to swing, to climb, to catch, to steal second, to cover third base – to be able to play.
Bruce Froendt, who is a 1979 Coleridge High School graduate, along with the ALLPLAY Team he heads up believes that every person, child or adult, has a fundamental right to be able to play.

HARTINGTON — Several area boys will be learning this summer how city, county and state governments work.

Ryan Heimes of Wynot, Adam Burbach of Cedar Catholic, and Blake Gothier of Hartington will be joining nearly 380 other high school juniors from across Nebraska when they attend the American Legion Cornhusker Boys’ State on June 1-7 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Gothier, who is the son of Dan and Marcella Gothier, is a junior at Hartington Public School.

HARTINGTON — A Federal Assistance to Firefighters grant of nearly $260,000 will help fire fighters and Emergency Medical Services provide better service to Cedar County residents.
Fire and EMS agencies that belong to the Big Nine Mutual Aid Organization have already received new and much needed equipment thanks to the grant funds, according to Cedar County Emergency Management Director Kevin Garvin.

HARTINGTON — Council members discussed street work that needs to be done on North Broadway and the drive going through Felber Park.
City Attorney Vanessa Gorden will check on the legalities and procedures for charging the cost of paving to land owners.
Mayor Bill Yates told council members he had recently driven through Felber Park.

ST. HELENA — Residents here are working to prepare for the town’s 150th anniversary.

Volunteers recently got together to clean and paint the St. Helena Social Hall in preparation for the big event.

HARTINGTON — Hartington Public High School students showed their talents Friday.

Several students worked to put on a special variety show for the elementary students Friday morning. They put on the same show for high school and junior high school students Friday afternoon.

The public is invited to view the show during a 7 p.m. performance at the school Friday night.

Check back to this page for photos from the performance.

HARTINGTON — April 25 is usually a bright, sunny spring day….but not this year.

Mid morning snow flurries reduced visibility and made traveling hazardous Friday.

By noon Friday an inch of snow had fallen just west of Hartington, with about half an inch accumulating in town.

LINCOLN – Cedar County News Co-Publisher Peggy Year was honored at a Friday banquet here for her role in community leadership.
She was presented with a marble Harpst Leadership Nebraska plaque naming her as the, ”Nebraska Newspaper Publisher of the Year.”
The award is richly deserved said Nebraska Press Association Executive Director Allen Beerman.

“When Don Harpst Jr. established The Leadership Nebraska Award in honor of his father, he must have had in mind persons precisely like this year’s recipient,” Beerman said. “Here is a woman who generously used her publishing base for community leadership.”
Year has been involved in community organizations and events ever since moving to Hartington 16 years ago.

LINCOLN — Cedar County correctly valued Cedar County farm land near Laurel, the Nebraska Court of Appeals recently ruled.
The Court’s decision approves the Tax Equalization and Review Commission (TERC) decision affirming the Cedar County Board of Equalization decision, which denied several Cedar County property valuation requests.
The protests were filed because the southern Cedar County land owners felt the market value system of valuing their land was unfair.