BENNINGTON, NEB. -- Earling native Scott Heese has been named the 2018-2019 Nebraska Coaches Association Hudl Baseball Coach of the Year for all classes. Heese was presented his award on July 21 at the NCA Awards Banquet in Lincoln. Coaches of the year are selected by their peers for service to their respective sport and for the success they have had in recent years.

 AREA -- Five players from AHSTW and three from Harlan Community were named to the 2019 Boys All-State Soccer teams released in June by the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association. The list of area honorees includes four first-teamers: Seth Kiesel, Brayton Tuma and Adrian Herrera from AHSTW and Levi Culp from HCHS. AHSTW and HCHS both reached the substate final round of the playoffs in Class 1A and 2A, respectively, this past season.

 MISSOURI VALLEY -- Sixty-three members of the Harlan Community Summer Swim Team competed in the Western Iowa Swim League conference meet on Saturday, July 13, at Missouri Valley. Harlan scored 1,278.5 points and won its 13th straight conference crown by a dominating margin to continue its recent run of success.

    REGIONAL -- This past month saw one of the most active months in several years for the Shelby County Disaster Assistance Saw Team.    With deployments to Nishna Bend Park for removal of trees posing a threat to campsites, to Portsmouth following a micro-burst that caused damage to several trees in town, providing technical assistance removing a tree from the Nishnabotna River blocking downriver access, to Elk Horn Park to remove hazardous

    HARLAN -- Myrtue Medical Center CEO Barry Jacobsen shared updates on the current pharmacy and roofing projects at MMC as well as the master facility planning progress at the MMC Board of Trustees July meeting.    Jacobsen said the pharmacy project is going along well and is on pace for an estimated October completion date.

    HARLAN -- Two more years at $35,000 each year is the extended contract the Harlan Municipal Utilities Board of Trustees granted the Shelby Co.

    COUNTY -- Some years before I went to college, my parents decided to buy a subscription to the Harlan Tribune. I, of course, being a teenager, didn’t quite care about what my parents did with our paper subscriptions. I didn’t read the paper, so I was indifferent, it simply meant I had more things to grab from the mailbox.    As I got older I did start to notice the paper more and more.

 HARLAN (July 24) -- Longtime Harlan Community head coach Steve Daeges has often used the phrase, “That’s baseball,” to describe the subtle nuances of the sport, in particular the propensity for any team beating another on any given day. On Wednesday night at Jim Goeser Field, baseball happened to the fifth-ranked Cyclones. Just one win away from extending its incredible streak of state tournament trips to nine in a row, HCHS was upended by an

 HARLAN (July 24) - Harlan Community coaches were disappointed to see their season come to an end on Wednesday, but happy for ADM head coach Jason Book.