HARLAN -- Harlan street lights are slowing being replaced by energy efficient LED bulbs with nearly three-fourths of the community completed.    Harlan Municipal Utilities set aside $90,000 each year for the replacement effort and have at least another year of work to do.    HMU hopes to present their board with the 2014-15 audit at their next board meeting, scheduled for Thursday, Oct.

    HARLAN – Kathy Mahlberg has been named president of the Harlan Community Schools Board of Education for the upcoming year, as nominated and approved by fellow board members last month.    Mahlberg, the current board president, was re-named to the position on a 6-0 vote.  Board member Lonnie Muxfeldt was named vice-president. 

    HARLAN – Fire Prevention Week is October 4-10, under the theme this year “Hear the Beep Where You Sleep.  Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm!”    Location matters when it comes to a smoke alarm.  Along with firefighters and safety advocates nationwide, the Harlan Fire Department is joining forces with the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) this week to remind local residents about the importance of having working

    HARLAN – Myrtue Medical Center Behavioral Health will host a community wellness event Thursday, Oct.

HARLAN -- Vernon Lee Hansen, a Harlan native and 1968 graduate of Harlan Community High School, was inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Iowa band “Freestyle,” at Lake Okoboji on September 6.    He was primarily the sax player with that band, but got his start playing the trumpet while a student in Harlan. He played trumpet in the Harlan Band and at Drake University.

    HARLAN -- Homecoming week at Harlan Community has a number of activities, including the popular dress-up days for high school students.  Tuesday was twins/duo day.

    HARLAN -- The Harlan Community is ready to celebrate homecoming this week, under the theme “Lion King – Welcome to the Pride Lands.”    There’s plenty of excitement in the air as the Harlan Community Cyclone football team readies to meet Winterset in a Friday night match-up, hoping to get another win after starting its season 4-1 with wins over Denison-Schleswig, Carroll, Lewis Central and Atlantic, and its lone loss to Dallas Center-Grime

    ELK HORN -- The City of Elk Horn, with Southwest Iowa Planning Council, is accepting applications from homeowners for the Elk Horn Housing Rehabilitation Program through October 30.

    HARLAN -- Myrtue Medical Center Board of Trustees has accepted the lowest submitted proposal of $118,857 from RL Craft Roofing (Denison) to re-roof the medical/surgical building portion of Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Chuck Assman, facilities director at MMC, said the roof (11,400 square foot area) on the building, built in 1964, was overlaid with Durolast overlayment 18 years ago and has been patched in several places since that ti

    COUNTY – Harlan Mayor Gene Gettys, Jr. will be seeking his third term in office, and will run unopposed in November’s election.    Gettys and a host of others in communities throughout Shelby County filed nomination papers by the deadline Thursday, Sept. 17, for positions as mayor or on local city councils.

    HARLAN – Myrtue Medical Center announced this week the addition of Dr. Hannah Johnk, DPM as Podiatric Specialist.  Dr. Johnk will join Myrtue starting in August 2016.    Dr.

    ELK HORN -- The Exira, Elk Horn and Kimballton communities will celebrate homecoming with the Spartans next week, as staff, students, businesses and community members get ready for an exciting week of activities.    Welcome to the Jungle is the theme for 2015.

HARLAN -- The City of Harlan has filed a petition in Shelby County District Court this month, seeking title to an abandoned property located at 904 Court St.    According to court documents, the defendant is Jan Eric Pusch, trustee of the Jan Eric Pusch Revocable Trust dated July 10, 2011, as the owner of the real estate, dwelling and buildings at 904 Court St.  Documents said Pusch is from Omaha. 

    HARLAN -- Public support is needed through resident voting for a project that, if funded, will pay for a movie screen that can be utilized in the community.    The Movie in the Park project is a team effort between the city and Harlan Community Schools.  The groups are seeking a $6,900 grant from The Wellmark Foundation, to purchase a movie screen that would allow for the playing of movies at Pioneer Park or within the schools.

    HARLAN --  The counselors in the Harlan Community School District understand how important it is for a student to feel welcomed at school.    “Kids who feel loved at home come to school to learn,” said Leanne Travis. “Kids who may not feel loved at home come to school to feel loved.