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HARLAN -- Justin Schechinger has been honored as the 2021 Firefighter of the Year by the Harlan Fire Department. He was presented the award during the department’s meeting on Monday, Feb. 15. Schechinger joined the fire department in 2013 and since then has worked diligently at achieving...
COUNTY – Kirk and Christine Petersen, Harlan, have been honored as citizen/volunteers of the year by the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce & Industry. The award announcement was made Friday, Feb. 19. This year’s chamber banquet where award winners were honored was canceled due to the...
TENNANT -- Firefighters from the Harlan Fire Department and Shelby Fire and Rescue participated in a training burn Saturday, Feb. 27 in Tennant. New firefighters got the chance to see what it’s like to battle a fire from inside the structure as well as from the outside.The building was donated for...
HARLAN – Extreme cold covering much of the United States in mid February forced an astronomical increase in natural gas prices to the point where utility companies are now seeing the real financial hits that number in the millions of dollars. For the Harlan Municipal Utilities it amounts to...
HARLAN – Breaking Cylence, Harlan Community High School’s show choir group, kicked off its contest season Saturday, Feb. 20 with a seventh-place showing at the Pella Dutchmasters Show Choir Invitational, also taking home a trophy for having the top band in its class.
Madison Schumacher also...
ELK HORN – Elk Horn’s Public Library has been named a five-star library by Library Journal, and is one of only three libraries in Iowa to receive such an honor. Library Director Alissa LaCanne said this week the library was notified in December of the award. Library scores for the honor are...
HARLAN -- Six-year-old Stetson Thurman is much like any other active kindergartner. He loves Creighton Bluejays basketball, the Omaha Lancers hockey team, and follows Toronto Bluejays baseball. He plays tee ball with his younger brother, Oakley, and cousin, Easton. You can find Stetson...
DENISON -- Congratulations to the Harlan Community Cyclones who defeated Denison-Schleswig 52-43 Tuesday night to earn a trip to the girls state basketball tournament in Des Moines next week! All your game highlights inside today’s NA!
HARLAN -- Harlan Community High School announced this week that senior Jack Klitgaard, son of Dr. Don and Laurel Klitgaard, has been named a finalist in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. Klitgaard is among the more than 1.5 million students in 21,000 schools throughout the nation...
REGIONAL – A new book by author James Kenyon that spotlights a collection of accounts from student alumni of closed Iowa high schools features some interesting antecdotes from local historians in both Shelby and Kimballton. Echoes in the Hallways: History and Recollections of 102 Closed Iowa...
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