HARLAN -- Fairl “Sonny” Johnson of Harlan will celebrate his 90th birthday on July 6. His family is planning a card shower in his honor.

    HARLAN -- Although the school year ended differently then he and everyone else had planned, Sarfaroz “Oz” Sharipov is grateful for the time he spent as a student at the Harlan Community High School.    Oz, of Tajikistan (Central Asia), was a foreign exchange student at HCHS during the 2019-2020 school year. His host parents were Rick and Cheryl Chipman, rural Harlan.

    COUNTY -- The annual summer series featuring stories about residents from Shelby County towns will begin in the Friday, July 3 Harlan News-Advertiser.    Traditionally our newspaper summer intern has for years randomly selected people to feature for the series billed as the “phone book bios” series using the phone book as their first source for contacts.    In the absence of a summer intern this year, I will be writing the features and pho

HARLAN -- The Harlan Community Schools Board of Education has announced an anticipated vacancy for its District 6 seat.    Now occupied by Tara Devlin-Lawler, officials said last week that the vacancy is anticipated due to Devlin-Lawler accepting employment that takes her into the Harlan Community Schools.  She has been hired by Myrtue Medical Center as a therapist, and will be serving in the HCS elementary schools.    The school board will be

 FORT DODGE (June 20) -- Harlan Community won two out of three games at Saturday’s Fort Dodge Softball Tournament, defeating Sioux City East 3-0 and Bishop Heelan 7-6 before falling 12-0 in six innings to top-ranked (5A) Fort Dodge. HCHS, listed 13th in the latest Class 4A softball rankings, finished the week with a 5-1 overall record.HCHS 3, Sioux City East 0 Emily Brouse pitched a two-hit shutout with four walks and 11 strikeouts on Saturday

 GLENWOOD (June 18) -- Three Hawkeye Ten Conference games have resulted in three shutout wins for the Harlan Community softball team. Newly ranked at 13th in Class 4A, the Cyclones beat Glenwood 3-0 on Thursday afternoon in a game that was halted by rain in the bottom of the sixth.

 GLENWOOD (June 18) -- Harlan Community responded to a one-hour rain delay with seven runs in the fifth and got four solid innings of relief pitching from junior Trey Gross Thursday afternoon to top Glenwood 11-5 in Hawkeye Ten baseball action. The 10th-ranked (Class 3A) Cyclones finished the opening week of the season with a 2-1 record - overall and in conference play - while the Rams dropped to 1-1. Glenwood led 4-2 in the home half of the t

 KIMBALLTON (June 19) -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton softball team improved  to 3-0 in the Rolling Valley Conference with home wins of 9-4 over Boyer Valley Thursday and 8-0 vs.

 ELK HORN (June 19) -- It was a tough opening week on the baseball diamond for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton, ending with Friday’s 12-1 home loss to fifth-ranked (1A) Coon Rapids-Bayard. The Spartans took CR-B the full seven innings after falling behind 6-0 in the first, but managed just three hits off three Crusader pitchers, struck out 12 times and committed five errors. Earlier in the week, Exira-EHK lost 15-1 to CAM, 5-0 at West Harrison and 1