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HARTINGTON - Enrollment figures for northern Cedar County's three schools show the local schools are holding steady.
Hartington-Newcastle Public School has 370 students enrolled, when Pre-kindergarten and out-of-dis- trict students are figured in.
Without those students, HNS started the 2025-26 school year o with 344 students. The eighth grade is the school's largest class with 39 students enrolled.
Cedar Catholic Jr. -Sr. High School has 167 students enrolled this year, while Holy Trinity K-6 has 152 students for a combined 319 students. Last year, the two schools combined for 324 students.
The sophomore class at Cedar Catholic is the largest class in the system with 37 students.
Wynot Public School has 169 K-12 students enrolled this year, which is 10 more than last year. The largest class at Wynot is the senior class, with 23.
Nominations narrowed for 2025 ‘coolest’ product manufactured in Cornhusker state
LINCOLN — Wool yarn, the world’s largest folding corn head, a ‘badass’ workbench and Dorothy Lynch salad dressing.
What do these items have in common?
Those Nebraska-made products, along with a dozen others, are in the running for the fourth annual “Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska” competition.
Whittled down from a pool of 69 nominees, the top 16 products were unveiled this week and will compete in a bracketstyle contest coordinated by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Nebraska Manufacturing Alliance.
The first round of voting is open to the public through Sept.
7. Advanced rounds will follow in September.
“Manufacturing is a pillar of Nebraska’s economy, and this competition is a chance to celebrate the companies and people making a difference every day,” said Todd Bingham, state chamber president.
He said the 16 finalists for the 2025 contest represent just a fraction of innovation happening across the state.
Manufacturers, students and all Nebraskans are invited to cast votes each week for their favorite product at www. nemanufacturingalliance.com, until a top winner emerges.
The 16 finalists: Allmand Light Towers, Allmand, Holdrege
Double Wide Badass Workbench, Badass Workbench, Kearney World’s Largest Folding Corn Head, Bish Enterprises, Giltner Basketball Hoops, Bison Inc., Lincoln High School Elite Aluminum Hurdle, Blazer Athletic Equipment, Columbus Wool Yarn, Brown Sheep Company, Scottsbluff AF Series Combine Harvester, CASE IH, Grand Island Hideaway Copper Mugs, Handlebend, O’Neill A-Tip Match Bullets, Hornady Manufacturing, Grand Island Teryx4 H2 / Teryx5 H2, Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., Lincoln Tapered Tube Transmission Line Poles, Klute Inc., York Custom Artificial Limbs, Limb Lab, Lincoln Digital Scorer’s Table, Fourth Wall, a Lincoln Industries brand, Lincoln Big M Commercial Smoker, M Grills, Beatrice Dorothy Lynch Salad Dressing, Tasty Toppings Inc., Duncan Valentino’s Authentic Pizza Sauce, Valentino’s of America, Lincoln The contest winner will be announced Oct. 6 at the Chamber’s Manufacturing Summit in La Vista, which coincides with National Manufacturing Month in October. Registration is open to the public.
All of the 2025 finalists will be invited to display their products at the October event.
