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    COUNTY – Write-in votes will decide a number of municipal elections in the November general election as the deadline for filing nomination papers for mayor and city council came to an end Thursday, Sept. 19.    Harlan will see incumbents and one newcomer unopposed for office, while Shelby and...
This tornado northwest of Earling near the county line touched down briefly, but caused no damage.
    REGIONAL -- The greater Shelby County area saw rare late September severe weather Tuesday evening, Sept. 24, as heavy rains, winds, hail and tornados all were reported in and around Shelby County beginning at approximately 5 p.m.    There were reports of brief tornado touchdowns in Harrison...
Trying some sorghum dished out by Becky Ferry Rademacher of Templeton are L to R -- Kamryn Ketcham, Ethan Haubrich, Anastasia Schneider (back) and Keagan Eischeid.
    IRWIN -- Students from IKM-Manning had an educational time Friday, Sept. 20 at the annual youth day at Greenridge Antique Steam & Gas Show.     
The first home game of the season highlights include, clockwise from top:  The Cyclones take the field.
    HARLAN -- There’s nothing quite like a Friday night at Merrill Field in Harlan.
Iowa undergraduate Emily Lefeber is no stranger to museum work—the Harlan, Iowa, native has served as a docent on Iowa’s campus and in her home county. That and her
passion for museum studies opened the door to an internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
    IOWA CITY -- Along with a telephone used by Alexander Graham Bell; a 1960 Greensboro, Alabama, lunch counter; Dorothy’s ruby slippers; and Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., last spring also may have seen a...
    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools Board of Education will feature one challenged race as Allyson Bendorf has filed nomination papers to challenge incumbent Joni  Larsen for the District 5 board position.    Nomination papers were due to the school board secretary by 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept....
	King and queen candidates at HCHS include front L to R -- Chloe Hays, Cierra Hoegh, Courtney Mumm, Justina Borgman and Rachel Anderson.  Back L to R -- Carter Bendorf, Cole Kramer, Connor Bruck, Nathan Henry and Johnathan Monson.  (Photo by Mike Oeffner)
    HARLAN -- The Harlan Community is ready to celebrate homecoming this week, under the theme Retro/50’s Diner -- Groovin’ Our Way to Victory.    There’s plenty of excitement in the air as the Harlan Community Cyclone football team readies to meet ADM in a Friday night match-up, hoping to get...
Members of the homecoming court at Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton are front L to R -- Jacey Antofer, Ellie Schultes, Amy Hartvigsen and Kamryn Waymire. Back L to R -- Cade Bruns, Creighton Nelson, Hudson Kitelinger and Kellie Haas.  (Photo contributed)
    ELK HORN -- The Spartans will look to Cage the Cougars Friday night as Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton celebrates homecoming this week culminating with the football game versus CAM, beginning at 7 p.m. in Exira.    The game is just one of a number of activities during the week.
Part of the activities Tuesday was a duck toss.  Maverick Kenkel gives it his best toss as L to R -- Aubrie Arkfeld, Chloe Swensen, Sophia Freund and Frannie Wegner look on.  (Photo by Mike Oeffner)
    HARLAN -- The annual Teal Out held at Harlan Community High School’s volleyball game Tuesday evening, Sept. 17 raised $4,800, to be donated to Colleen’s Dream Foundation.  The monies will be used to research for a reliable early detection test for ovarian cancer as well as to find a cure for...
 Here, the milling machine tears up part of 7th St. south of Durant St. in preparation for a new overlay.
    HARLAN -- Rainy conditions during the past week hasn’t stopped crews from Western Engineering from continuing street overlay work in town.  Street work continued this week with many locations throughout the town seeing milling and overlay improvements.

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