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COUNTY – The Shelby County Compensation Board has recommended a 4.5 percent across-the-board salary increase for elected officials and their deputies for the 2019-20 fiscal year, following a meeting of the board November 15. The county’s board of supervisors, who have the ultimate decision...
HARLAN – Harlan Community High School students will have the opportunity beginning this year to have a special Seal of Biliteracy on their diplomas should they test proficient and meet the qualifications in both English and another language. It’s the first year the recognition is available...
HARLAN -- He’s back, but this time, Leo Goeser is the one in the barber chair. Just four weeks after a medical event that nearly took his life, Goeser is back where he’s spent the majority of his years partaking in story-telling and jokes, all while servicing generation after generation of...
COUNTY – The Shelby County Jail has been named one of the Best of the Best in Iowa by the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC). Officials from Shelby County were invited to attend the annual Iowa State Sheriffs and Deputies’ Association (ISSDA) annual banquet December 1, where the...
HARLAN -- A Harlan man has been charged in Shelby County District Court with second-degree sexual abuse, a class B felony. Galen M. Hutt, 37, 305 6th St., is accused of sexually abusing a child under the age of 12 years old at an undetermined time and date at a Harlan residence. The...
HARLAN -- The City of Harlan, with the help of Southwest Iowa Planning Council, is preparing to apply to the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) for a Community Development Block Grant for housing rehabilitation, and is asking for help from residents. Applications must meet certain...
HARLAN -- A Harlan man has been booked into the Sarpy County Jail in Papillion, NE on charges of sexual assault/child first degree, sexual assault/minor first degree and incest. Christopher Dwayne Cacy, 53, 1703 19th St., is being held on $1 million bond. He was booked into jail at 12:14...
HARLAN – Harlan Community Schools patrons Tuesday, Dec. 11 soundly defeated a $28.5 million bond issue proposal as well continuation requests for the district’s Instructional Support Levy and Physical Plant and Equipment Levy, in an election that saw near record voter turnout for a special...
COUNTY -- Fourteen non-profit groups are the recipients of grants this fall from the Shelby County Community Foundation. Grants totaling $38,350 were awarded to the agencies. With these grants, the foundation has distributed nearly $2.6 million in grants/scholarship during the last 21 years...
Anyone interested in being involved in the re-established Harlan Community Theatre is invited to attend a short informational meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 18 in the Harlan Community High School auditorium at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will focus on getting to know one another and collecting input...
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