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SHELBY -- Peg McCool hoped for the Grandparents Gifts Foundation (GGF) to pass on vessels of memories to the younger generations. Peg has worked on a project with her husband, Gene McCool, to professionally record a variety of interviews from the older generation to reflect the stories of...
HARLAN -- The streets of Harlan were lined with American flags Monday, May 30 for Memorial Day, courtesy of the Harlan Boys Scouts Troop 90. The Star Spangled Streets project was considered a huge success, with more than 200 flags lining the streets of Harlan as a fundraising project for the...
HARLAN -- When Julie Bruck went in for her routine visit four years ago, she didn’t think anything of it when they told her she had a lump on her breast. “I had lumpy breasts anyways,” Bruck laughed. “I had gone in for ultrasounds before and nothing came up on them. Yet this time it was...
HARLAN -- Approximately 25 people turned out Monday, May 23 for the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce and Industry-sponsored candidates’ forum at Harlan Community High School. Answering questions on everything from the budget to economic development were Republican supervisor candidates...
HARLAN – Harlan Community Schools administration, directors and non-certified staff have been awarded salary and benefits increases for the 2016-17 school year. The HCS Board of Education approved a 3.13 percent increase for the superintendent, administrators/directors and non-certified...
HARLAN -- Firefighters from Harlan and Westphalia were called to 1711 6th St. Monday evening, May 23 at approximately 5:25 p.m. to extinguish a garage fire. Harlan Fire Chief Roger Bissen said there was significant damage to the garage. Upon arrival, there was billowing smoke from the vinyl...
REGIONAL -- The damp weather and strong winds are affecting this year’s crop planting for farmers and businesses around the region. “There’s been a large planting window, which might make this year a little unique,” said Mike Witt, ISU Extension crop specialist for southwest Iowa. Witt...
HARLAN -- The search for Harlan’s new management structure officially began this week, as the city’s Personnel and Finance Committee Wednesday, May 18 brought in a representative of the Institute of Public Affairs from the University of Iowa. Jeff Schott, program director, and Mark Miller,...
ELK HORN -- Salem Lutheran Homes and Rehabilitation Center announced today that construction will begin on the expansion of its dining room June 6. The project will add space for veterans’ activities to build upon being the only Veterans Certified facility in the area, allow Salem Homes to...
HARLAN – Four Harlan Community High School students earned outstanding honors at the national Business Professionals of America leadership conference this month, including a national champion crowned in freshman Jay Swanson and a national runner-up in Kyle Schmitz. Swanson, a freshman, became...
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