HARLAN -- Highlights from the HCHS Graduation Ceremony held Sunday, June 28 at Merrill Field.

    HARLAN -- Kids have been having fun since the Norman D. Stamp Aquatic Center opened for swimming for the summer on June 17. Approximately 160 people were at the swimming pool on opening day.
 

    STATE – Providing needed funding for Iowa’s state law enforcement was a signature accomplishment of this year’s legislature, says Iowa Sen.

    HARLAN – Harlan Community Schools finished 42nd on U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 list of Iowa’s top high schools.    The magazine annually ranks nearly 18,000 schools based on how well they prepare students for college, graduation rates and on how well students perform on state assessments.    Harlan Community a

    REGIONAL – The number of registered sex offenders that call the greater Shelby County area their home has remained steady in the last six months, according to Iowa’s state sex offender registry.    Shelby County and areas surrounding the county have 45 registered sex offenders as of this month, as opposed to December, 2019 when there were 44 registered sex offenders listed in the area.

    DEFIANCE -- Ron Schaben of Defiance said he hasn’t turned down very many trips to drive school bus for activity events during his more than 20 years of serving as a school bus driver for the Harlan Community School District.    “I drive for activities usually whenever I am asked.

SHELBY -- Rick Kiesel and Patty Welsh are the candidates on the ballot of a July 7 special election to fill a vacancy on the Shelby City Council.    Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m.  Voting will take place at the Shelby Community Hall.  Absentee ballots also are accepted.  Monday, July 6 at 5 p.m.

SHELBY COUNTY CONFIRMED CASES:  112Recovered:  89   Negative:  459  Pending:  4
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    REGIONAL - A socially distanced two-mile hike will take place on Saturday, July 4 at 9 a.m. at Prairie Rose State Park according to Christina Roelofs, Shelby County and Iowa Department of Natural Resources Naturalist.      “We will meet at the park office and take the trail around the east side of the lake.  This hike is approximately two miles,” she said.    All are invited.

    HARLAN -- Although the school year ended differently then he and everyone else had planned, Sarfaroz “Oz” Sharipov is grateful for the time he spent as a student at the Harlan Community High School.    Oz, of Tajikistan (Central Asia), was a foreign exchange student at HCHS during the 2019-2020 school year. His host parents were Rick and Cheryl Chipman, rural Harlan.

    COUNTY -- The annual summer series featuring stories about residents from Shelby County towns will begin in the Friday, July 3 Harlan News-Advertiser.    Traditionally our newspaper summer intern has for years randomly selected people to feature for the series billed as the “phone book bios” series using the phone book as their first source for contacts.    In the absence of a summer intern this year, I will be writing the features and pho

HARLAN -- The Harlan Community Schools Board of Education has announced an anticipated vacancy for its District 6 seat.    Now occupied by Tara Devlin-Lawler, officials said last week that the vacancy is anticipated due to Devlin-Lawler accepting employment that takes her into the Harlan Community Schools.  She has been hired by Myrtue Medical Center as a therapist, and will be serving in the HCS elementary schools.    The school board will be

SHELBY COUNTY CONFIRMED CASES:  107Recovered:  72  
Negative:  459 
Pending:  4
 
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    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools is close to finalizing its Return to Learn plan as required by the Iowa Department of Education, and will submit by the July 1 deadline and share details with the district patrons shortly thereafter.    The plan is critical to the success of districts as they look to get back to learning following spring shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are designed to help the district meet any challenges t

    HARLAN -- Highlights from the HCHS Graduation Ceremony at Merrill Field Sunday, June 28.