2005: Wynot baseball team claims District title

Aug. 3, 2005

HARTINGTON— The Hartington Community Information Technology Committee is hoping area residents will clean out their closets for a good cause.

The group, which was formed a year ago at the request of Hartington Mayor Tom Noecker, will be holding an E Bay auction. Anyone who wants to donate items for the auction can drop them off at the Senior Citizen’s Center. Funds raised from the project will go for the Community Information Technology’s community improvement fund, the Hartington community library, the Junction Youth Center and Sr. Citizen’s Center.

Aug. 3, 2005

HARTINGTON — There is a new face behind the bench at the Cedar County Courthouse.

William Binkard was recently sworn in as the new District 6 Judge for Cedar, Dixon, Dakota, Burt and Thurston counties.

Binkard, who has practiced law for 30 years was appointed June 17 by Gov. Dave Heineman to fill the vacancy on the bench. Binkard replaces Maurice Redmond, who resigned in March just prior to a hearing slated to decide Redmond’s judicial competency.

Aug. 3, 2005

DODGE— The fingernails of Hartington fans were worn to a frazzle here last weekend. Hartington’s first-ever trip to the American Legion Junior State Baseball Tournament featured three real nail-biters. Hartington lost the first nail biter, 5-4, in its opening game against Shelton-Gibbon.

Aug. 3, 2005

MENNO— Wynot won the District 6 baseball title to advance to the S.D. state tournament. Wynot, 33-7, is looking to take another state crown. The Expos claimed the state title in 1999 to become the second Cedar County, Nebraska team to ever win the S.D. title. Hartington won in 1976.

Aug. 5, 2015

HARTINGTON — An area land owner feels he was treated unfairly when his fence was recently removed from the road right-of-way in southern Cedar County.

Besides having the fence removed, John Thelen, rural Randolph, was also issued a ticket for road obstruction.

Farmers and land owners across the county have been warned numerous times in the last few years that fences and crops are not allowed in the ditch, which is considered part of the county right-of-way.

County Attorney George Hirschbach talked to Cedar County Commissioners during the July 28 meeting about the steps taken to remove the fence and issue the citation.

The land owner had been given notice he needed to remove the fence from the road right-of-way in previous years.

He had met with the commissioners in 2014 after Commissioner Jerry Wiese had removed the fence from the right-of-way.

At that time, he told board members the fence was needed to keep the livestock from getting away from him as he moves them from his homestead to the pasture through the ditch.