HARLAN – The Harlan Community School District has learned this month it has been selected to receive $435,563.24 in state Teacher Leadership and Compensation (TLC) monies, to be utilized next year to fund educational processes including putting teachers in coaching roles, providing mentoring...
AVOCA – Three culinary students from AHSTW High School earned top honors last week at Iowa Western Community College’s Culinary and Baking Competition March 7. Held for area family and consumer sciences high school students, the AHSTW group of Holly Hatch, Cassie Renfeld, and Anna Bauer...
COUNTY – With warmer weather and the first signs of spring arriving this month, soon there will be increased traffic on the roadways, including the rural roads in Shelby County. The Shelby County Engineer’s Office and Iowa County Engineer’s Association are reminding motorists this week to be...
HARLAN – Harlan property owners will see a decrease in their tax levy this year as part of a proposed budget approved by the Harlan City Council Tuesday, March 8. A public hearing on the proposed $8.32 million budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year was held Tuesday with no comments from the...
DENVER, CO -- Out of the more than 10,000 plus pilots at United Airlines, only two are Harlan natives. On February 11, Captain Kerry Boltinghouse and First Officer Lisa (Petersen) Christensen operated a Boeing 737 on United Flight #1727 from Denver, CO to Tucson, AZ, and Flight #1138 back to...
HARLAN – Harlan Community will be hosting a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Festival Extravaganza Tuesday, March 22, highlighting student achievements in STEM. Approximately 40 booths will be showcased with STEM projects, as students share with the public the types of projects...
HARLAN -- Harlan Community Schools elementary students had fun this week participating in Read Across America Week, celebrated in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday March 2. Students had fun dressing up in character and reading during the week.
HARLAN – Twenty Harlan Community High School Business Professionals of America (BPA) students have qualified for the national conference to be held in Boston, MA May 5-8. The 2016 national leadership conference, This is Our Time, will welcome more than 5,000 conference delegates from across the...
COUNTY – The poor and needy in Shelby County are helped in numerous ways by local taxpayers under a county relief ordinance last reviewed in 2008. General assistance is available to families or individuals who are poor and needy, when their own means, relatives or other public or private...
HARLAN - Last spring, an estimated 70 students received local scholarship awards from 48 sponsoring organizations, totaling close to $210,000 in funding. Additional scholarships and financial assistance comes from other sources, as well as individual institutions that students attend. All...