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  HARLAN -- Derrick Yamada will be the new chief for the Harlan Police Department effective February, 2021, pending Harlan City Council approval.    Yamada joined the Harlan Police Department in January, 2011. He will replace retiring chief Frank Clark, who has been a long-time employee with the...
    HARLAN – Five-year financial projections for the Harlan Community Schools show a need to cut expenditures each year in order to offset declining enrollment and limited allowable growth, but doing so could allow the district to reduce its property tax levy while keeping the solvency ratio and...
    COUNTY – The Shelby County Trails Board’s “Get Your Feet on the Trail” fundraiser is in full swing this month, as the committee works to secure funding that will lead to the construction of the first phase of the project in western Shelby County.    One hundred percent of the donations from the...
MOVING DAY
    HARLAN -- Another home was brought into Harlan by flatbed trailer to be renovated and put in place in north Harlan to help address the housing needs in town.    Bruce Burger Construction is renovating the home after it’s set in place at 501 7th St.  Here, O’Neill Company helped maneuver the...
Jack Klitgaard, Mitchell Rueschenberg, and Jackson Lotenschtein (L to R)
    HARLAN -- Harlan Community High School music students Jack Klitgaard, Mitchell Rueschenberg, and Jackson Lotenschtein this week have put their talents together to record a Christmas video for the community.  The selection of holiday tunes will be provided to the local long term care facilities...
    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools will come back after Christmas break with full, in-person learning, school officials announced this week.    The district originally was considering the possibility of hybrid learning, with middle and high school students engaged in remote learning...
HCS Jazz Director Ryan Meyer works with saxophonist Shea Hopp during a recent rehearsal.
    HARLAN – For Harlan Community’s jazz program, the prospect of a second jazz season in a row being compromised because of the COVID-19 pandemic is nothing short of disheartening.    But like many top programs – and believe it when you hear that Harlan Community jazz is arguably among the best...
	The Design Store at the Museum of Danish America is stocked full of unique gifts for the holidays.
    ELK HORN – Local residents looking for a unique holiday gift for that special someone or family member need search no further than the Design Store at the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn.    For nearly 26 years the museum has been offering Danish, Danish-American, and Scandinavian gifts...
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...will vie for Paola, KS mayor in 2021
HARLAN – Shelby County residents may remember a Kansas man who challenged his ex-wife and her attorney, both of Harlan, earlier this year to a duel in hand-to-hand combat style with melee weapons, who says now he will seek public office in an effort to argue for judicial openness and the rights of...
	Levi Fields, a first-grader at Harlan Primary, writes a thank-you note to health care workers at Methodist Health System for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    REGIONAL – Harlan Community Schools’ students are offering kindness and appreciation this month to the many health care workers in southwest Iowa and eastern Nebraska working to keep residents healthy and safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.    Ashley Nihsen, a nurse with Methodist Jennie...

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