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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...
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting a celebration of life parade on behalf of Sergeant Donavon Dontje, 83-3, on Saturday, May 2. Staging will be at the Harlan Community High School for all law enforcement, fire/EMS and the public who would like to participate. Parking begins at 8 a...
STATE -- Ombudsman Kristie Hirschman is calling upon the public to stay on guard against child abuse, citing numbers from the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) that abuse allegations have fallen sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic prompted leaders to close schools. Child-abuse reports...
HARLAN - The Harlan Newspapers has announced the launch of an advertising grant program aimed at helping local businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic this spring and possibly into the summer. The advertising grant fund will be dedicated to relief, recovery, and keeping Shelby County...
HARLAN -- Myrtue Medical Center CEO Barry Jacobsen knows there will be many decisions to be made in the next 30 days on how to resume normal operations at MMC as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a fluid situation. Jacobsen is hopeful operations will be back to normal in the near future...
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