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NATION -- Greg Conry’s bicycle ride across the United States to raise funds for ovarian cancer research has been pushed back about a month out of concerns for safety and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ride now will start June 27 and end August 8, with a new final destination of Dewey Beach, DE...
HARLAN -- Patrolling Harlan during the COVID-19 pandemic has been anything but normal. Harlan Police Chief Frank Clark says as social distancing rules are relaxed in the next month or two it may return to normal, but as for now there’s one word to describe the city -- quiet. “It has been...
STATE -- Iowa’s coronavirus peak apparently came and went on May 2, according to the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The state should see a gradual decrease in the number of deaths and cases through May before a June 16 date when the state can safely...
COUNTY -- Harlan and Shelby County businesses, especially restaurants, are easing their way back into being open to the public for in-person seating and shopping as the state and communities navigate re-opening this week. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds eased social distancing restrictions for...
SHELBY -- The Shelby Sesquicentennial Committee met April 27 and decided to postpone the celebration of 150 years, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of celebrating the end of June, 2020, they are in the process of rescheduling everything to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 25, 26,...
HARLAN -- The superintendent, administrators, teachers and other school staff have been awarded varying salary and/or benefits increases for the 2020-21 school year, as approved by the HCS Board of Education. HCS Superintendent of Schools Lynn Johnson will receive an overall salary and...
EARLING – Two individuals were injured in an explosion at the Earling Standard Gas Station Monday morning, April 27. Dan Grote and Don Bruck were transported to Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, and Bruck was then taken by LifeNet medical helicopter to Omaha for further treatment of injuries...
COUNTY -- Shelby Countians are among the most diligent in responding to the 2020 Census, with 60.5 percent of local residents already submitting the census as of early this week. The response rate from Shelby County is higher than both state and national averages, but there’s still a ways to...
HARLAN – A group of 69, most of them 9-10 month hourly employees and teachers, crowded in to last week’s Harlan Community Schools Board of Education electronic Zoom meeting to express discouragement with proposed compensation changes beginning next year. Mindy Shaffer, a 6th grade classroom...
HARLAN – Keith Bauer has seen this before, and remembers it well. It wasn’t a pandemic, but the current effect of a major world and United States economic disruption due to COVID-19 gives him pause and a sense of Déjà vu. “During World War II, shoes were rationed,” Bauer remembers. He was a...
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