COUNTY -- Shelby County early Thursday morning, March 14 passed a resolution of necessity placing an embargo on all of the county’s gravel roads.    Load limits of 10 tons are placed immediately on all granular surfaced roadways within Shelby County.    It’s the first time since 2010 an embargo has been enacted, but then it was a limited embargo.  County officials are calling this week’s snow melt, rain and release of frost from the ground

    HARLAN -- Harlan FFA members competed at Southwest Iowa District FFA Career Development Events on Saturday, March 2 at Glenwood High School.Iowa FFA Degree Candidates    Nine members have cleared the first hurdle in an effort to earn their Iowa FFA Degree.

    HARLAN -- Harlan FFA members competed at Southwest Iowa District FFA Career Development Events on Saturday, March 2 at Glenwood High School.Iowa FFA Degree Candidates    Nine members have cleared the first hurdle in an effort to earn their Iowa FFA Degree.

HARLAN -- Students from Harlan Community High School will be attending the Business Professionals of America (BPA) 2019 National Leadership Conference, in Anaheim, CA, May 1-5.    HCHS chapter members will join nearly 6,000 conference delegates from across the nation to compete in national level business skills competitions and attend leadership development, workshops, general sessions, and national officer candidate campaigns and elections.  

    HARLAN -- A science fair showcasing projects by 28 groups of 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students from Shelby County was held Thursday evening at Vet’s Auditorium in Harlan. The event was coordinated by Harlan Community Library and ISU Extension and Outreach - Shelby County. Funds for the program were made possible by the Monogram Loves Kids Grant.       Each individual or group project was judged by three judges.

    HARLAN -- Following no written or verbal comments or objections during the February public hearing, the Myrtue Medical Center Board of Trustees approved to lower the current tax levy rate from $1.20792 per thousand taxable valuation to $1.17357 for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.    MMC Chief Financial Officer Kristy Hansen told the board in January the new levy rate is expected to generate the same funding as last year’s $1.20 levy with $1,018

    HARLAN – Bob Mahoney says let the school board do its job.

    HARLAN – The Harlan Community School Board had what could be its final interaction with Harlan resident Larry Trickel Monday evening, March 4, answering numerous questions Trickel had presented to the board and board legal counsel (sometimes directly) over the last few months regarding the investigation of HCS Superintendent of Schools Justin Wagner, before announcing it was done spending any more time on Trickel’s escapades.    It was an

    HARLAN – Harlan Community Schools jazz groups competed well at the Hoover Jazz Festival last weekend, taking home first and third place honors in the Class 3A high school division, and second and fourth place finishes in the middle school division.    The Harlan Jazz Experience took first place and Harlan Jazz Ensemble third place.  Jazz Ensemble members earning solo awards included Taryn Viereck, Evan Finken, Mallory Mulligan and Griffin

A Harlan man is being sought by police on a warrant for first-degree murder in the death of 38-year-old Adam Angeroth of Council Bluffs in January.    The warrant was issued for Nicholas Haner, 20, of Harlan.  Two others are in custody of law enforcement.  Xavier Smith-Catchings, 16, Omaha, has been charged with first-degree murder in Angeroth’s death.  He is being held at the Southwest Iowa Detention Center in Council Bluffs on $1 million bon

    HARLAN -- Former Nebraska Cornhuskers Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Dr.

    HARLAN – Harlan Community High School’s CyberPatriot Team earned top honors at state competition in February, placing first in the state and semi-final rounds in the Gold Division in Iowa.    Team members Sam Buman, Evan Finken, Brian Andersen and Sam Andersen finished first in the state round vs.

    HARLAN - Last spring, an estimated 70 students received local scholarship awards from 48 sponsoring organizations, totaling close to $230,000 in funding and scholarships coming from other sources which would likely bring the total to well over $500,000.      The scholarships below are divided by those with applications available at the HCHS guidance web site and those available directly from the organization (available online).

    HARLAN – Harlan property owners will see a tax levy decrease next year as part of a proposed budget to be considered by the Harlan City Council tonight, Tuesday, March 5.    A public hearing on the proposed $7.59 million budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year is tonight at 5:15 p.m.

    HARLAN - Last spring, an estimated 70 students received local scholarship awards from 48 sponsoring organizations, totaling close to $230,000 in funding and scholarships coming from other sources which would likely bring the total to well over $500,000.      The scholarships below are divided by those with applications available at the HCHS guidance web site and those available directly from the organization (available online).