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Year in Review- HNS, Cedar Catholic decide to co-op girls golf team

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April 10, 2019

HARTINGTON — The Hartington-Newcastle School Board Monday agreed to hire a new vocal music and band instructor.

Mary Hahne, who currently teaches at Randolph Public School, will take on the position. Prior to her stint in Randolph, she taught music at Coleridge High School.

She will teach 7-12 vocal music and 5-12 instrumental music here.

She replaces long-time Hartington music instructor Doyle Anderson who told Board members last year that he intended to retire at the end

of this school year. Anderson conducted his final concert at the school Monday night.

Hahne brings with her a wealth of experience. Her students have often times been singled out for their musical prowess.

Also Monday, the Hartington-Newcastle School Board voted

to dissolve the current girls’ golf co-op with Crofton High School. That co-op was established when Hartington and Crofton shared Supt. Randy Anderson.

Crofton did not have any golfers in the program last year and Hartington-Newcastle only had one golfer - sophomore Delaney Sudbeck. Supt. A.J. Johnson told Board members Crofton plans to disband its program.

The Board then voted to co-op girls golf for next year with Cedar Catholic.

April 10, 2019

HARTINGTON — Both Cedar Catholic and Wynot Public School held their Spring Proms Saturday.

Cedar Catholic crowned Josh Pinkelman as its Prom Prince, while Lauren Wintz was crowned as the 2019 Prom Princess.

The 2019 Wynot Prom Princess was Dharian Ahrens, while Aydon Tramp was crowned as the new Prom Prince.

April 10, 2019

KEARNEY — The Cedar County News was honored Saturday night for having some of the top digital news coverage in the state.

The News was one of four weekly newspapers to earn the inaugural Edgcombe family Award for digital news.

The award was handed out as part of the Nebraska Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. The awards banquet concluded the 145th annual Nebraska Press Association Convention at the Kearney Holiday Inn with over 150 journalists from across the state in attendance.

The award is named for Geneva, Nebraska’s Edgcombe family. Six generations of that family have been Nebraska newspaper publishers, two of which have served as President of the National Newspaper Association.

The state’s newspapers entered their best news and sports video reports, Social Media news reports, website reporting efforts, and website advertising to be judged for this contest.

April 17, 2019

HARTINGTON — What many hope was the final winter storm of the season last Thursday did not help a county that is still hurting from and learning the total impact of last month’s flooding.

Cedar County still had approximately 20 miles worth of roads closed before the most recent storm hit, but a wintery mix of rain, sleet, and snow caused County officials to announce a temporary closing of all county dirt roads from Thursday into the weekend.

That has since been lifted, but officials say the storm was the exact opposite of the dry weather conditions that are direly needed right now.

“Extremely terrible timing,” said Cedar County Highway Superintendent Carla Schmidt. “We have the regular frost coming out of the ground that causes trouble every year whether we had the flood or not, but now we have the frost compounding some of the damage from the flood and now we got snow on top of that. We need dry weather.”

Schmidt was in a meeting on Friday with Cedar County District 1 Commissioner Dave McGregor and Cedar County Emergency Management Director Kevin Garvin, as the group continues to put together the damage report from last month’s flood to send to FEMA.

“The state of Nebraska convinced FEMA to give them a 30-day extension to give them everything,” said Garvin. “They announced that earlier in the week that FEMA granted the extension just due to the magnitude of the event.”

The extension does not allow any additional documented damage from this most recent storm, though. The damage report going to FEMA concerns damage strictly from last month’s flood and does not include additional expenses like damage that will be caused to roads that are now being used as alternate routes.

April 17, 2019

HARTINGTON — During last week’s Hartington-Newcastle Spring Concert, HNS seniors gave music teacher Doyle Anderson a hug and a bag with gifts from the four seniors. Anderson will be retiring at the conclusion of this school year.

April 24, 2019

HARTINGTON — Cedar County Commissioners Monday expressed frustration that their efforts to close flood-damaged roads are being thwarted.

Many roadblocks are being ignored, while others are either being removed or damaged, Cedar County Commission Chairman Dave McGregor said.

Commissioners said they have also found some barricades that have been thrown into a nearby creek.

Going around the barricades is just not a good idea, Commissioner Chris Tramp said.

“If there is a 16-foot drop off on the edge of the road, people can’t be on that road. That is just not safe,” he said.

The road blocks have been put up to protect local residents, Cedar County Highway Superintendent Carla Schmidt said.

“The roads need to be safe for all the public, not just the farmer that needs to get into his field,” McGregor said.

McGregor, who is a farmer himself, said he understands area farmers are anxious to use the roads to help them prepare their fields for planting.

“We know the farmers need to get into the fields, but we’ve only got six to eight guys (per District) to work on this. They’ve been working nine hours a day. They’ve been working Saturdays. People have got to be a little patient. We can only do so much and if Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate we can’t do much,” McGregor said.

Tramp expressed frustration with people going through barricaded roads.

“That only makes things worse and slows things down,” he said.

Tramp and McGregor both said they appreciate the patience many Cedar County residents have shown.