HARLAN -- Alice A. Carey, 94, Harlan, died March 22 at Elm Crest Retirement Community.    Services will be held Saturday, March 25 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with burial in the St. Mary’s Cemetery at Panama.  A wake service will be held Friday, March 24 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Family will greet friends Friday from 5-7 p.m.

    DES MOINES -- Trent Lee Smith, 44, Des Moines, died March 20 at Taylor House Hospice.    Services will be held Friday, March 24 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with burial in the Evergreen Cemetery at Red Oak.  A wake service was held Thursday, March 23 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Visitation was Thursday from 4-9 p.m.

    HARLAN -- LaVern Leo Schmitz, 86, Harlan, died March 20 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services were held Thursday, March 23 at 11 a.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Defiance with burial in the Sts.

    HARLAN -- Greg and Donna Nelson of Harlan announce the engagement of their daughter, Andrea to Cole Lowary, son of Jeff and Denise Lowary, Atlantic.    The couple will marry on May 13 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan.

    HARLAN – Shelby County and Iowa Department of Natural Resources Naturalist Christina Roelofs spent Tuesday, March 14 in the elementary classrooms at Harlan Community Schools teaching students about eagles.    More than 500 students (grades preschool through 5th grade) and teachers from 26 different classes attended the programs.  Roelofs has had Cassie, one of two eagles housed at Nishna Bend Recreation Area, for about 9 ½ years, and she s

    HARLAN -- Congratulations goes out to Harlan Community High School Senior Reagan Hansen who has qualified for IHSSA Individual All-State Festival and will be traveling to The University of Northern Iowa on March 27 to perform.    He was selected in the area of improvisational acting, after performing at the individual speech contest in Johnston on March 11.  To attend the state event, two of the three judges had to score his performance as

    HARLAN -- Iowa legislators Rep. Steve Holt and Senator Jason Schultz were in Harlan Saturday, March 18 for the monthly town hall gathering, and filled in attendees on current state house actions and discussion topics.      Following their brief summaries, they responded to questions from the crowd.

    COUNTY – An Irwin man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution after pleading guilty in Shelby County District Court this month to homicide by vehicle – reckless driving.    District Court Judge James Heckerman ordered David Michael Hirsh, 41, to be committed to the custody of the Director, Department of Corrections, State of Iowa, for not to exceed 10 years.  Hirsh will be taken to the Iowa Medical

    COUNTY -- The Shelby County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the proposed 2017-18 fiscal year budget during its regular meeting Tuesday, March 14.    Shelby County’s tax asking will decrease by an estimated $62,395.    The county supervisors stayed true to their word in cutting the overall budget.  The decrease is part of an overall plan to reduce expenditures.