GLENWOOD -- The Harlan Community boys track team scored in just seven events and posted a season-low 18.5 points to place 11th out of 13 teams at Monday’s Glenwood Ram Co-Ed Relays. HCHS limited the number of events that some of its top athletes competed in and did not stack any relays against the likes of Glenwood, Ames, Sioux City North and Lewis Central. The Cyclones’ highest finish of the day belonged to senior Austin Smith, who placed fo

 HARLAN -- Monday’s scheduled Johnson Cyclone Relays in Harlan (April 24) were cancelled due to a shortage of teams. According to Harlan Community Activities Director Mitch Osborn, extremely gusty winds were also a factor in the decision to call off the Cyclone girls’ second home track meet of the season.

 ATLANTIC -- It took 12 rounds of penalty kicks to determine a winner, but the Harlan Community boys soccer team eventually emerged with a 1-0 overtime shootout victory over Kuemper Catholic last Saturday in the championship game of the 7th annual Atlantic Trojan Soccer Tournament. Following 80 minutes of scoreless regulation, the Cyclones and Knights went straight to the PK shootout and required seven extra attempts to finally decide first pl

 ATLANTIC -- Harlan Community junior Nicole Lange finished 4-0 and won the No. 1 singles bracket at last Saturday’s Atlantic Trojan Girls Tennis Tournament. HCHS placed fourth in the team standings behind Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, Clarinda and Lewis Central, while Atlantic took fifth. Lange, who is the team’s No.

 NEOLA -- For the second time in as many meetings, Tri-Center blanked the Harlan Community girls soccer team 3-0 in non-conference action Monday night (April 24). Ranked ninth in Class 1-A, the 8-1 Trojans took full advantage of a strong south wind at their backs to score three first-half goals - one on a header and two open looks from the top of the 18-yard box - and held the Cyclones to just one shot on goal for the match. T-C goals were sco

 MISSOURI VALLEY -- Following a scoreless first half, Haley Arkfeld’s penalty kick in the 51st minute sparked the Harlan Community girls soccer team to a 4-2 victory at Missouri Valley on Monday, April 17. Arkfeld finished with a hat trick on Mo. Valley’s brand new regulation-width turf field, scoring her second goal in the 54th minute (assisted by Kylee Hinz) and adding a third goal in the 76th minute.

    PANAMA -- William Edwin Greiner, 85, Panama, died April 27 at his home.    Services will be held Tuesday, May 2 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church in Panama with burial in the St. Mary’s Cemetery at Panama.  A wake service was held Monday, May 1 at 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Parish Center in Panama.  Visitation was Monday from noon-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 4-8 p.m.

HARLAN – Fishing enthusiasts will soon be able to pull out some walleye from Prairie Rose Lake thanks to a stocking program that has released 200,000 walleye fry into the lake this spring.    Bryan Hayes, fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said the fry were put into the lake last week with hopes that they will survive and thrive in the lake.  Because they are so small, it’s hoped that up to 2,000 will survive, b

HARLAN – Persons under the age of 18 won’t be allowed to remain in a Harlan business that primarily serves alcohol for consumption on-site after 9 p.m.