HARLAN -- Approximately 150 Harlan Community High School students spent Thursday morning, April 18 volunteering for Community Service Day projects throughout Harlan and the communities in the Harlan Community School District.    There were more than 55 projects in the community available for the volunteers who worked on a day off from school.  

    HARLAN -- The re-roofing hospital and clinic project at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan will begin on May 1 with substantial completion expected by November 1.  MMC Board of Trustees approved the low bid of $253,750 from McCoy Roofing, Omaha, for the roofing project at the March board meeting.

COUNTY -- Shelby County Emergency Management Director Alex Londo said this week that personnel with the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) will be out in Shelby County going door to door to get people who were affected by the floods to register to receive assistance.    All of the people going around will have identification on them to show that they work for FEMA. The crews will be out over the next week to two weeks.

    REGIONAL -- A second case of measles has been confirmed in Iowa, through testing at the State Hygienic Lab.    This case is an unvaccinated Northeast Iowa resident, who is a household contact of the recently confirmed measles case (an unvaccinated Northeast Iowa resident with recent travel to Israel, where measles transmission is occurring).

    WHITE SANDS MISSLE RANGE, NM – Two former Harlanites recently participated in the Bataan Memorial Death March in New Mexico and took top five honors in the event.    The Bataan Memorial Death March is a challenging march through the high desert terrain of the White Sands Missile Range.

    OMAHA -- Gail and Robin Peterson of Shelby announce the engagement of their daughter, Taylor to AJ Urban both of Omaha. AJ is the son of Joe and Cindy Urban, Omaha.    The couple will exchange vows on May 18 in a ceremony at Noah’s Event Venue in Omaha. 

    EARLING -- Don and Lorraine Graeve of Earling will mark 50 years of marriage on April 26. The couple celebrated with a family dinner on April 12 at Champions Run in Omaha.

"I’ve tried my level best to stay neutral during this, to give Justin the benefit of the doubt, but that ship has sailed. To hijack patriotism as a last-gasp effort to camouflage a shady past is unconscionable and against everything I fought for...and so many have died for." -- Bob Mahoney

"I respect all military and all the sacrifices that come with this, but this is not what anyone is questioning," Daniels said.  Her husband has served in the Army/National Guard for 20 years and was deployed for 1 1/2 years.