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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-Concord- Coleridge School District patrons have rejected a $23 million bond proposal to renovate current school facilities.
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NORFOLK — Toby Hoffman, 49, Yankton, S.D., died Friday in a single vehicle accident in southern Cedar County.
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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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RANDOLPH — On Saturday Oct. 3 at 1 p.m. at the Randolph Cemetery there will be a ceremony honoring the last four Civil War Union soldiers from Randolph.
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