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COUNTY – Shelby County voters solidified their stance as staunch Republican supporters in overwhelming fashion on election night Tuesday, Nov. 3 backing incumbent President Donald Trump by a wide margin as well as the Iowa Republican supporting ticket including Joni Ernst for U.S. Senate and...
COUNTY -- In the month of October, Shelby County has seen a 49% increase in COVID cases for a total number of 131 cases in this month alone. On October 29, there were 17 new positive cases in just one day. Based upon Myrtue’s Public Health disease investigation, family gatherings, weddings...
HARLAN -- The congregation at Faith Family Church, Harlan, showed how kindness and generosity are still alive and well in the greater Shelby County area as they took up a collection this past month for a parishioner who is battling cancer and his wife who lost her job due to COVID-19, while...
IOWA CITY -- Marie Ohlinger is one of the 247 University of Iowa students who are members of the 2020 Hawkeye Marching Band, one of the “top 10 college marching bands in the nation,” according to CNN Headline News and one of the Big Ten Conference’s marching bands whose halftime show is “worth...
HARLAN – The Harlan City Council has signed off on the purchase of a new fire truck to serve the city. The $582,488 Enforcer pumper truck base bid comes from Reliant Fire Apparatus, Inc., Slinger, WI, through the government procurement service HGAC. It’s the first time the city has...
HARLAN – Harlan Community School District patrons are being asked to provide input via a stakeholder survey regarding the selection of a permanent superintendent of schools to lead the district into the future. The survey will be available soon, and will be online for roughly two weeks. ...
HARLAN -- The Harlan Municipal Utilities Board of Trustees has approved moving forward with a proposal for a telecom utility rate study with Cosortia. “We have talked about this a couple of times with regard to our telecom utility. Now that we have our fiber project completed and we have our...
STATE -- Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) last week announced the launch of the new Iowa County Fairs Relief Program. The program will provide short-term relief to eligible county and district fairs for the purpose of continuing or resuming...
Unofficial Votes are in for Shelby County.
Trump carries the county 69.31% to 28.84% for Biden.
Watch the Harlan Newspapers this week for full election results.
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