COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Fourteen Harlan Community High School students participated in Google’s 5th Annual Anti-Gravity Games competition April 29, sweeping the competition and taking the grand prize and 1st runner-up for the second year in a row at Kanesville Arena on the Iowa Western Community College campus.      This year the Anti-Gravity Games brought 20 area high school teams together for a day of discovery and excitement.

AVOCA -- AHSTW hosted commencement exercises for its graduates this past weekend, with ceremonies held at the AHSTW High School gymnasium starting at 1 p.m.

HARLAN -- In honor of National Travel and Tourism Week, the Iowa Tourism Office recognized Shelby County Historical Museum recently for contributing to the state’s $8.06 billion tourism industry.    National Travel and Tourism Week (May 7-13), now in its 34th year, unites communities across the country to celebrate what travel means to employment, economic growth and personal well-being.

 HARLAN -- Sophomore Levi Culp scored his first two varsity goals and junior goalie Keaton Jones snared a diving save with less than two minutes left as Harlan Community topped Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 3-2 in boys soccer action Tuesday (May 2) at Merrill Field. Trailing 1-0 for much of the first half courtesy of an own goal in the 15th minute, HCHS tied the game before intermission and scored twice in a 92-second span early in the secon

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 TREYNOR -- AHSTW standouts Jaycie Schueman and Gage Clay both claimed two individual gold medals Tuesday night and were part of the school’s five total wins at the Western Iowa Conference Co-Ed Track Meet held in Treynor. The girls and boys teams from IKM-Manning and AHSTW all placed in the lower half of the point standings but were able to combine for six event championships and score 51 times on a perfect night for competition. Schueman’s f

 WOODBINE -- A victory in the 4x800 relay highlighted Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s night as the Spartan boys placed third out of 10 teams in Monday’s Rolling Valley Conference Co-Ed Track Championships at Woodbine. Adding on eight other top-three finishes, the Spartans placed 18 times in 17 events overall and scored 81 points to trail only three-time boys champion Boyer Valley (121) and Woodbine (110). The Exira-EHK girls, meanwhile, placed in

 DES MOINES -- University of South Dakota senior Jessica Feldman competed in her seventh and final Drake Relays last weekend, running in a pair of relays for the Coyote women’s track team on the blue oval inside Drake Stadium.

HARLAN – Clearance and safety for emergency vehicles are the main reasons behind a proposal by the Harlan City Council to create parking on only one side of the street across roughly 140 city blocks in the community.    The council voted 6-0 last week approving the first reading of an ordinance amending the city code by adding a regulation to 69.08 of the code, in specific no parking zones.    The targeted date is to have the city blocks equip