HARLAN and PUEBLO, CO -- A joint memorial service will be held for Howard C. Henriksen, 93, Harlan, who died Wednesday, April 11 in Harlan, and Peggy Jo Gragert, 65, Pueblo, CO, who died February 8 in Pueblo.    The service will be held Saturday, May 26 at 2 p.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Jacksonville with burial of ashes at a later date in the Jacksonville Cemetery.  Friends may call Saturday from 1-2 p.m.

HARLAN -- Seniors at Harlan Community High School celebrate with confetti and other celebratory items upon graduation during commencement exercises at HCHS Sunday afternoon, May 20.

    HARLAN – Eight Harlan Community High School Business Professionals of America (BPA) students earned high honors at nationals this month, named national finalists among a variety of contests they competed in while at the national event held in Dallas, TX.    Adam Kohl, Ellen Keast, Eli Boldan, Mason Peters, Jay Swanson, Alana Monson, Tyler Buman and Tyler Schaben all have been recognized nationally.  The students qualified for the national

    HARLAN -- Iowa farmers had a late start to their planting season this year due to a late-to-arrive spring with temperatures well below normal and snow into April.    But the past few weeks have yielded much more conducive weather, although farmers still remain somewhat behind in planting.  In Iowa, statistics for the week ending on May 13, show that farmers have 65 percent of their corn and 12 percent of their soybeans planted.    For corn

   ELK HORN – Historic millwright Ben Hassett is expected to be back in Elk Horn this week to fit the new sails and shutters on the Danish Windmill, bringing the major mill restoration project closer to completion.    It was back in May, 2016 when Hassett initially assessed the windmill, and delivered a conditions report indicating the mill needed some major repairs.    Since then, materials have been ordered, the existing sails, etc.

 AUDUBON (May 10) -- The IKM-Manning girls won a pair of relays, Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton rallied for a thrilling gold medal in the boys 4x800 and the IKM-M boys earned six at-large state berths as part of Thursday’s Class 1A State Qualifying Track Meet at Audubon. Together, the two schools will take a combined 12 entries to this week’s Co-Ed State Track Meet in Des Moines (May 17-19). Madrid and IKM-M placed one-two in both the girls and boy

 TREYNOR (May 10) -- AHSTW will take its largest contingent of qualifiers in years to the Co-Ed State Track Meet in Des Moines later this week following a successful showing at Thursday’s Class 2A State Qualifying Meet in Treynor. Highlighted by the fastest 100-meter qualifying times in all of 2A, the Lady Vikes advanced eight events to state and the Viking boys qualified six entries in five events.

 HARLAN (May 11) -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team won three games last week, beating Underwood 5-0 (Monday), Carroll 4-0 (Tuesday) and St. Albert 4-0 (Friday) to improve to 13-1 overall.

 RED OAK -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team wrapped up its regular season Monday, May 7, on the short end of a 6-3 dual decision at Red Oak. HCHS dropped to 2-8 overall and 1-8 against Hawkeye Ten Conference opponents while Red Oak improved to 5-3 and 4-3, respectively. Playing in the number three varsity slot, Amelia Juhl picked up the Cyclones’ only singles win by topping Kaylee Philby 8-4.