HARLAN – An Ankeny firm will be the headliner at an open town hall in Harlan tonight for anyone interested in building a new home in the future in Shelby County.    Classic Builders representatives will be available at 6 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, July 24, at the C.G.

HARLAN -- Gussied Up was one of eight businesses in downtown Harlan to receive grant money for facade work.    The storefront was completely redone.

 DES MOINES (July 24) -- You know you’ve got a deep state tournament field when teams with the recent baseball tradition of Solon and Waverly-Shell Rock aren’t even seeded in the top four. That’s the type of competition Harlan Community will be up against this week when the Class 3A State Baseball Tournament gets underway at Principal Park in Des Moines. Of the eight teams in 3A, seven have combined to win 21 state championships, led by Davenp

Assumption, Davenport (31-10, #1 seed)State Appearance: 16th.State Tournament Record: 34-5.Last Appearance: 2017 (1st).State Titles: 10 (1982, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004, ‘06, ‘08, ‘14, ‘17).State Runner-Up: 3 (2002, ‘07, ‘13).Final IBCA Ranking: 3rd.2018 Tourney Trail to Des Moines:-- Assumption 10, Maquoketa 0 (6)-- Assumption 1, Dubuque Wahlert 0-- Assumption 4, Central DeWitt 2Coach: Billy Argo (537-201).

 CEDAR FALLS (July 21) -- It was a remarkable eight-day stretch for recent Harlan Community graduate Nick Foss. But then again, Foss has been a remarkable Cyclone student-athlete for some time now. Doing his best Bo Jackson impersonation, Foss split time between baseball and football - Harlan and Cedar Falls - last week and capped it off with an impressive performance in the 2018 Iowa Shrine Bowl All-Star Football Classic. Foss, who finished h

 DES MOINES -- Harlan Community seniors Keaton Jones and Drew Voge were both named to at least one all-state boys soccer team in June after leading the Cyclones to a 16-3 season and an appearance in the Class 2A substate finals. Jones was named to the Des Moines Register’s All-Iowa Boys Soccer Team (Class 2A) as the goal keeper and was invited to attend the Des Moines Register Sports Awards on June 23 at Wells Fargo Arena.

    WISCONSIN DELLS, WI -- Glen Whitson, 89, Wisconsin Dells, WI, formerly of Kirkman, died Monday, July 16 at Our House in Wisconsin Dells.    Services will be held Sunday, July 22 at 2 p.m. at Big Spring Congregational Church in Big Spring, WI with burial in the Big Spring Cemetery.  Visitation will be held at the church from noon-2 p.m.

A good time was had by all at the recent Shelby County Fair.

    HARLAN – Property owners who have not installed sidewalks as requested by the City of Harlan will have until December 31 of this year to do so, nearly five years after the city began the process of requesting sidewalk installation to make the community safer.    Letters mailed in early July state that many property owners have completed the required sidewalk installation over the past few years, and the city wishes to finalize the project.