HARLAN — Tickets are available now for the Harlan Community Theatre’s production of “Lend Me a Tenor”, a comedy by Ken Ludwig. Performances will be at the Therkildsen Center, 706 Victoria St., Harlan on Friday, November 17, Saturday, November 18, and Monday, November 20 at 7 p.m. and a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 19. The show is set in a hotel suite in 1934. Mr.

Harlan — A group of Harlan church members have found a way to keep plastic bags out of landfills and, instead, are putting them to good use. Ladies from “The Church on the Hill”, the Congregational United Church of Christ & the United Methodist Mission Church of Harlan are re-purposing bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.The group is donating the mats to Midwest Mission, a nonprofit originated in Springfield, IL with sites throughout

Harlan — Barb Swanson, owner of Touch of Class Dry Cleaning in Harlan, has retired after 29 years of business.Swanson opened Touch of Class in November 1994. “We put all the piping and equipment in,” Swanson said. “It was a shell when we went there.”At that time, she had already had over 13 years of experience in the dry cleaning business, and she had worked at her parents’ laundry mat, D & A Laundry, while she was in high school.

HARLAN — Nurses at Myrtue Medical Center are being honored with The DAISY Award  For Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to express gratitude to nurses who perform extraordinary care and compassion every day.  The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes.

AMES — The Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University has named Alan and Steve Mores the recipients of its 2023 James W. Schwartz Award. The annual award recognizes distinguished service to journalism and communication and is the highest honor conferred by the school.The Mores brothers have been involved in the Iowa newspaper business since they were children.

SHELBY COUNTY — Voters in Shelby County will vote on Emergency Medical Services essential funding November 7.  Public Measure TD  asks voters to fund a county wide EMS service for a period of 15 years through a tax levy.  The proposed amount is $.75 cents per $1,000 of taxable property within the county.  In addition, there will be an income surtax assessment on Iowa individuals’ income tax returns for Shelby County residents at a rate of 1%.T

SHELBY COUNTY  — Shelby County voters will head to their polling locations Tuesday, November 7 to elect officials for cities and school districts. Also on the ballot will be Measure TD for the purpose of funding Emergency Medical Services in Shelby County.

SHELBY COUNTY  — The future of Emergency Medical Service in Shelby County will be determined by voters in the November 7 election.Earlier this year, the Shelby County Board of Supervisors held a series of public hearings to declare EMS an “essential service” in the county.

 PELLA— The Harlan Community High School Girls Cross Country team finished second in the 3A State Qualifying Cross Coutry meet in Pella Wednesday night, qualifying them for state.

 ANKENY — Six Harlan Community Middle School students volunteered to run in the Washburn Classic Middle School Statewide Cross Country Meet Saturday, October 14.  The meet was held at Centennial High School in Ankeny.  Students who competed included (as pictured) seventh grade boys Ben Cox and Brogan Schechinger; seventh grade girls Charlotte Cronin and Julia Heslink; and eighth grade girls Aspen Bieker and Ashlyn Rau.

AREA — The mission of “Straight From the Farm” is to educate students and teachers about where their food, fuels, and fibers come from, and Program Director Melanie Bruck, uses a hands-on approach to do just that.“When you are walking down the hallway of a school with 10 foot tall corn stalks or you have baby chicks in a tote, people take notice,” Bruck said.The 501c3 non-profit organization was founded in 2023 at the request of over 40 teache

HARLAN  — Harlan Community School students were encouraged to start a chain reaction of kindness and compassion during a presentation inspired by the life of a school shooting victim.On April 20, 1999, Rachel Scott was eating lunch outside Columbine (Colorado) High School, when two students armed with automatic weapons and pipe bombs walked onto the campus and began shooting.The 17-year-old was the first victim in the deadly massacre, in which

AREA  — An internship with one of the longest-serving members of congress led a Shelby man to a career as Regional Director for Senator Chuck Grassley.Jonathan Bladt is a fifth-generation farmer, alongside his parents, Wayne and Mary Beth Bladt, and he and his two younger sisters were raised on the family farm near Shelby.

 HARLAN — The “Taylor Swift: Eras Tour” concert movie is on course to open as the highest grossest concert film ever, and according to the film’s official distributor, AMC Theatres,  it has surpassed $100 million worldwide in advance ticket sales a week before the film opens.

HARLAN — The HCHS Varsity Volleyball went late into the evening of October 3rd with a huge victory in the success of their 10th Annual Teal Out.