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WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 12 Nebraska counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Madison, Morrill, Pierce, Platte, Scotts Bluff , Sheridan and Wayne counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency emergency loans.
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LAUREL — Laurel will have a new Mayor and two new City Council members this year.
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LAUREL — Laurel-Concord- Coleridge School District patrons have rejected a $23 million bond proposal to renovate current school facilities.
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HARTINGTON — Hartington voters overwhelmingly approved two measures Tuesday that would increase the city sales tax from one percent to 1.5 percent and authorize a portion of those funds to be used for economic development.
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HARTINGTON — Cedar County residents smashed the old voter turn-out record here Tuesday.
The election prompted 87.6 percent of the county’s registered voters to cast ballots in this year’s General Election.
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MICHAEL CARNES FOR THE LAUREL ADVOCATE
LAUREL — The end result of a threeyear strategic facility improvement plan by the Laurel-Concord-Coleridge School Board will be decided by voters in less than two weeks.
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RANDOLPH — Fred and Beulah Rokahr were always thinking about how they could help their Randolph friends and neighbors.
That legacy continues even today after their deaths.
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HARTINGTON — U.S. Department of Agriculture Cedar County Farm Service Agency Executive Director Peg Hintz today announced a revised deadline for emergency haying and grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program acres in Cedar County. Producers now have the option to hay or graze CRP through Dec. 31, with some restrictions.
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