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Oct. 27, 2010
HARTINGTON — Cedar County Clerk Dave Dowling is being challenged for another term in office by Brian Steffen.
Dowling is in his sixth term as the Cedar County Clerk.
Dowling has served as the County Clerk, Register of Deeds and Election Commissioner since taking office in 1987.
The responsibilities of the Cedar County Clerk involve extra duties because of the population of the county.
The larger counties in Nebraska have a separate Register of Deeds and Election Commissioner.
“In Nebraska only nine of the 93 counties have a separate Election Commissioner,” Dowling said.
Dowling’s job as County Clerk consists of maintaining all records and actions taken by the Cedar County Commission and includes paying all claims and expenses approved by the board, such as payroll and insurance claims.
A variety of licenses – marriage, liquor, tobacco and amusement - are all issued at the clerk’s office.
The Clerk, as directed by the Commission, also prepares the annual budget and the tax levies which have to be approved by the County Board of Equalization.
Oct. 27, 2010
HARTINGTON — Music filled the air at the Hartington Library Thursday, when Mary Green Vickrey, a musician and music scholar, took her audience a step back in time as she strummed her guitar and sang historical music from the era of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The melodies, tidbits of information about Lewis and Clark as well as Vickrey’s appearance, brought the Nebraska Humanities speaker’s presentation together.
Vickrey’s dress, undergarments and shoes were patterned after clothing from the early 1800s.
Oct. 27, 2015
HARTINGTON — Cedar County Commissioners, acting as the Board of Equalization, have officially adopted the property tax levies for 2015 for all political subdivisions in the county.
The levies vary across the county. A trend over the past few years has shown the Hartington School District, which has now consolidated into Hartington-Newcastle, having the lowest levy and the Wynot School carrying the highest levy.
The 2015 levy of .4201 for Hartington- Newcastle School is the lowest levy in Cedar County.
The Randolph School District is the next lowest with a levy of .4630.
The Wynot School levy of 1.0990 is the highest school levy in Cedar County. Next in line is the Laurel Concord Coleridge School District.
The levy for property located in the former Laurel-Concord District is just a little higher than the tax rate on the property that had been located in the Coleridge School District.
