Remote Learning?    Today, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 4 p.m. is the deadline for parents/guardians to complete the REQUEST FOR VIRTUAL REMOTE LEARNING form as provided to them in registration materials arriving last week.

    HARLAN – For the second time in three years, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources will attempt to establish walleye for fishing enthusiasts at Prairie Rose Lake, as part of its stocking program at area lakes.    Back in 2017, fry were put into the lake with hopes that they will survive and thrive at Prairie Rose, but that didn’t happen said Bryan Hayes, fisheries biologist with the Iowa DNR.  They didn’t survive as was hoped he said.  

Position statement regarding use of face masks and social distancing during the COVID pandemic

    COUNTY -- Myrtue Medical Center’s Public Health has announced the first death from COVID-19 in Shelby County.    The resident was an older adult.  No further information will be provided out of respect for the individual’s privacy.    “We are learning more about COVID-19 each day,” said Myrtue Medical Center’s Public Health Director Lori Hoch.  “We want to provide the most accurate information we have to help slow the spread of the virus i

    HARLAN – A vacancy remains on the Harlan Community Schools Board of Education as there were no applications filed by the deadline this week for the now open District 6 board seat.    Tarah Devlin-Lawler’s last board meeting was Thursday, July 23, and the district is actively seeking an individual to fill her role on the board.  Devlin-Lawler has accepted employment that takes her into the Harlan Community Schools, as she has been hired by

    HARLAN – The City of Harlan has approved an agreement with LT Leon Associates, Inc., Des Moines, for the development of plans and specifications regarding a river access project near the Highway 44 bridge of the West Nishnabotna River.    At a cost of $13,000, the civil engineering firm will develop preliminary designs, complete all of the permitting process and develop final construction documents for the project.

    TENNANT -- Susan (Myers) Hulsebus was only three months old in 1964 when her family moved back to Shelby from Texas. Hulsebus has been told she “slept in a box on the floor of the car” during the family’s return trip to Iowa.        Hulsebus was born in Fort Hood, TX when her dad, Robert Myers, was stationed there in the Army.

    HARLAN – Parents/guardians who decide to keep their children home and remote learn during part (or all) of the 2020-21 school year have until Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 4 p.m.

    MENOMONIE, WI -- UW-Stout’s Jessica DuVal has been nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award, a national-level award that honors the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service and leadership of graduating female college athletes from all three NCAA divisions.    To be eligible, a nominee must have competed and earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport, must have completed eligibility in her primary sport,

    COUNCIL BLUFFS -- United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced July 14 that United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Blake Edward Cooper, 51, Harlan, to 60 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to drug user in possession of a firearm.    Cooper was ordered to serve a period of supervised release of three years to follow his prison term and pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.    There

    HARLAN – Citizen complaints about the number of Canadian Geese in two Harlan parks, specifically Pioneer Park and more recently Little George Park, have prompted the City of Harlan to look at mitigation techniques, city officials said this week.    Harlan City Administrator Gene Gettys, Jr.

    COUNTY -- The message is clear.    Shelby County Public Health and Myrtue Medical Center stand behind state and local health officials who recommend wearing face coverings to limit the spread of COVID-19.    Those words come on the heels of public comments made at a school board workshop Thursday, July 16 by residents who either questioned the need for masks, said they could possibly be detrimental to a person’s health, or said nobody real

    HARLAN – All Harlan Community School District students will return to school Monday, Aug.

    COUNTY -- The Shelby County Fair was anything but ordinary this year.