HARLAN -- Interim Harlan Community Schools Superintendent Lynn Johnson has been offered a contract extension that will keep her with the HCS District through the 2020-21 school year.    In a statement Monday, Nov.

    HARLAN -- Nearly a year after Harlan Community voters defeated proposals to extend Instructional Support and Physical Plant and Equipment levies for the Harlan Community Schools, those same voters did an about face and threw their support behind both issues in Tuesday’s general election.    In a significant turnaround, each measure received an approximate 20 percent bump in support from a year ago.  Voters gave the ISL a 62.5 percent appro

    HARLAN -- Incumbent Harlan Community Schools Board of Education member Joni Larsen handily defeated a challenge from Allyson Bendorf for the District 5 board seat in Tuesday’s election.    Larsen earned 62.15 percent of the vote tallying 716 votes to Bendorf’s 435 votes, or 37.76 percent.    The election featured an incumbent in Larsen who  has served this past year on the board through one of the most difficult times in decades that inclu

    HARLAN -- A Harlan man has been charged in Shelby County District Court with sexual abuse in the third degree.    Dylan Ray Janssen, 19, 1322 Willow St., faces up to 10 years in jail and an additional $10,000 fine if convicted of the class C felony charge against him. 

    SIOUX CITY – Five Harlan area men filed complaints with the Harlan Police Department alleging they had received bogus checks in a pay-for-sex transaction and were infected with a contagious or infectious disease after they engaged in oral sex with a Briar Cliff University student, according to documents filed in Woodbury County District Court.    The men ranged in age from 17-19 years old, and their complaints prompted the investigation in

    HARLAN -- Rhoda Henriksen of Harlan will be honored at a 90th birthday celebration on Sunday, November 10 from noon-3 p.m. in the McKee Activity Room at Elm Crest Retirement Community in Harlan.    Her family is also planning a card shower in her honor. Cards will reach her if sent to Elm Crest Retirement Community, 2104 12th Street Apt. 211, Harlan, IA 51537. 

    HARLAN -- Derald and Patti Kumm of Harlan will mark their 65th wedding anniversary on November 7.

    HARLAN -- Paul Leroy Jensen, 79, Harlan, died Tuesday, Nov. 5 in Harlan.    Services will be held Saturday, Nov. 9 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  A wake service will be held Friday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. at Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan.  Friends may call Friday from 3-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.

    WOODBINE -- Sandra R. Mahlberg, 74, Woodbine, died November 1 at Rose Vista Home, Inc.    Services will be held Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Earling with burial in the St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Earling.  A rosary will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the church.  Visitation is Tuesday from 4-7 p.m.