HARLAN -- Goals for the past year and future organizational goals for Myrtue Medical Center were reviewed at the MMC Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday morning. CEO Barry Jacobsen gave a presentation on the highlights of past and future goals. Jacobsen outlined goals under six pillars including community, finance, growth, people, quality and service.     The board approved the organizational goals following Jacobsen’s presentation.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Two big takeaways emerged from Friday night’s Week One football game between Harlan Community and Lewis Central. A) The Titans are a very good team and likely a force to be reckoned with in the Class 4-A playoffs later this fall. B) The Cyclones have a lot of work to do before facing the upper-tier teams in Class 3-A, District 7. LC dominated every facet of the game on Friday, holding HCHS to zero first-half yards in buildin

 HARLAN -- Following six matches, 15 sets and nine and a half hours of volleyball on Saturday, Harlan Community emerged as the winner of the Silver Pool and essentially placed fourth in the season-opening Cyclone Invitational. HCHS finished with a 4-2 match record and went 10-5 in set play, coming within a point of beating eventual champion Treynor and qualifying for the coveted Gold Pool final bracket. The Cyclones had won their home tourname

 GLENWOOD -- Harlan Community claimed a pair of top-six individual finishes by Greichaly Kaster and Reagan Hansen, but both Cyclone squads finished sixth out of nine teams overall at Saturday’s season-opening Glenwood Invitational Cross Country Meet. Kaster, a sophomore, placed third for the HCHS girls, running a five-kilometer time of 21:10 that trailed only Janette Schraft of East Mills (20:16) and Ashley Wendt of Atlantic.

 MANNING -- Jared Johnson’s 57-yard touchdown pass to Nick Halbur broke a fourth-quarter tie and proved to be the game-winning score Friday night as IKM-Manning opened the football season with a 20-14 non-district win over East Sac County. It was the second straight year that the Wolves and Raiders played a highly-competitive game in Week 1. Last season, IKM-M prevailed 7-6 in overtime.

 EXIRA -- A second-half rally came up one touchdown short for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Friday night as the Spartans lost to Audubon 38-32 in the season opener for both teams. The Wheelers, who were playing their first-ever 8-Man game, got an outstanding performance from quarterback Tyler Riebhoff, who completed 14-of-15 passes for 195 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran for 55 yards and one score.

 EXIRA -- Going into Friday night’s season opener vs. Audubon, Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton head coach Tom Petersen said of his football team, “Just a long way to go ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS -- When Harlan Community kicks off the 2016 football season at Lewis Central Friday night, Curt Bladt will begin his 39th year as head coach of the Cyclones and his 49th year with the program. For Coach Bladt, there’s still something special about that first Friday of the fall. “It’s the excitement of (having) a new group of guys and you want to see how they blend together and how they play and support each other, and I think th

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community volleyball team will look to defend its four-year run of titles when it hosts the Cyclone Tournament here Saturday, starting at 8:30 a.m. HCHS, which is listed sixth in the Class 4-A preseason rankings by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, finished 37-6 last season and was the 4-A state runner-up on the heels of back-to-back championships.