COUNTY -- The Shelby County Emergency Management Commission, Executive Committee, announced last week that Alex Londo will be replacing retiring EMA Coordinator Bob Seivert. Alex is a current employee with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and two years experience as a 911 dispatcher. ...
HARLAN -- The Shelby County Historical Museum is excited to announce their newest exhibit: Voting in Shelby County. To kick off the opening of this exhibit, the Shelby County Historical Museum will be holding a viewing party of the first gubernatorial debate on Wednesday, October 10, at 6:30...
HARLAN -- Volunteers are needed to check bulbs on Christmas lights that will be installed throughout town this holiday season! Meet at the old water plant behind the former Harlan Municipal Utilities building at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 14.
HARLAN -- A large crowd gathered at Prairie Rose State Park Tuesday evening, Oct. 2 to witness the release into the wild of a rehabilitated Bald Eagle. The female was from Allamakee County, and had been hit by a car causing either a broken collar bone or cracked shoulder blade. . SOAR has a...
HARLAN -- Jaxon Rold was an honorary captain for the Cyclone football team during its homecoming game vs. Glenwood last Friday.
REGIONAL – Today’s home fires burn faster than ever. In a typical home fire, you may have as little as one to two minutes to escape safely from the time the smoke alarm sounds. Knowing how to use that time wisely takes planning and practice. The Harlan Fire Department is teaming up with...
HARLAN -- Mike Jones has resigned from the Harlan Municipal Utilities Board of Trustees effective September 28, citing his waning support for a board he has served on for 10 years in not enforcing the contract of CEO Ken Weber. In addition, Jones called out communications director Jim...
HARLAN -- A contractor working in Harlan was injured Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 2 while working in a Harlan Municipal Utilities well field in south Harlan. At about 4:05 p.m., an employee of The Cahoy Group, contracted by HMU to perform work on its water wells, was raising the boom on a boom...
HARLAN -- Harlan Municipal Utilities CEO Ken Weber said recently that the recent water leak in the utility system could easily total a half-million gallons. The main leak, found in a field behind Remington Seed, was in a 6-inch line that supplies the Cresthaven area. Under 130-pounds of...
See page 6B inside today’s newspaper for more photos from HCHS’s homecoming.