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Holt County’s coffers have an extra jingle following the March 4 tax sale, held at the courthouse annex in O’Neill.

County supervisors learned the results at the board's March 18 meeting.

“We actually had a lot less on the sale then we typically do,” said Shelly Ross, county treasurer. “I don’t know if that’s because of the names being in the paper, that people came in.”

A new state statue requires property owners’ names to be included in the delinquent tax list, which is printed in the county’s legal newspaper.

“We sold all but $6,000,” Ross said.

After payments were received, the sale collec...