HARLAN -- Myrtue Medical Center will join the Heartland Physicians Accountable Care Organization, a Medicare Shared Savings ACO, West Des Moines, on July 1, 2019 instead of the original plan of beginning on January 1, 2019.

HARLAN --  A number of activities were held during the week in honor of ICare Week for suicide prevention, including sponsors being secured to purchase yellow ICare t-shirts for every member of the student body.  See inside Tuesday’s Tribune for more information about the t-shirt project.

    HARLAN – Pride, Dedication and Excellence is the motto of this year’s Harlan Community High School Marching Band, and no one student exemplifies what it means to be a Cyclone more than Allen Fries, who in an exciting move has decided to participate in both the band and varsity football team on football Friday nights.    Fries, a junior at HCHS, loves both football and music, and actually has participated in both since his freshman year of

    HARLAN --”Shelby County 911 where is your emergency?”    “Where are you, that is the most important thing you have to tell me,” Susan Cooper said.    “Don’t start telling everything else, tell me where you are; that way I can get you help as quickly as possible.  Then it’s the what. What is the emergency.

COUNTY -- The Shelby County Emergency Management Commission, Executive Committee, announced last week that Alex Londo will be replacing retiring EMA Coordinator Bob Seivert.    Alex is a current employee with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and two  years experience as a 911 dispatcher.    He is a four-year volunteer with the Harlan Fire Department.   His duties as the EMA Coordinator began October 1. 

    HARLAN -- The Shelby County Historical Museum is excited to announce their newest exhibit: Voting in Shelby County.    To kick off the opening of this exhibit, the Shelby County Historical Museum will be holding a viewing party of the first gubernatorial debate on Wednesday, October 10, at 6:30 p.m.

    HARLAN -- Volunteers are needed to check bulbs on Christmas lights that will be installed throughout town this holiday season!    Meet at the old water plant behind the former Harlan Municipal Utilities building at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 14.

HARLAN -- A large crowd gathered at Prairie Rose State Park Tuesday evening, Oct.

HARLAN -- Jaxon Rold was an honorary captain for the Cyclone football team during its homecoming game vs. Glenwood last Friday. 

    REGIONAL – Today’s home fires burn faster than ever.  In a typical home fire, you may have as little as one to two minutes to escape safely from the time the smoke alarm sounds.    Knowing how to use that time wisely takes planning and practice.    The Harlan Fire Department is teaming up with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the official sponsor of Fire Prevention Week for more than 90 years, to promote this year’s Fire Pr

    HARLAN -- Mike Jones has resigned from the Harlan Municipal Utilities Board of Trustees effective September 28, citing his waning support for a board he has served on for 10 years in not enforcing the contract of CEO Ken Weber.    In addition, Jones called out communications director Jim Gedwillo as someone he is seeing as not understanding the scope of frustration felt by HMU customers regarding cable and internet outages and poor perform

    HARLAN -- A contractor working in Harlan was injured Tuesday afternoon, Oct.

    HARLAN -- Harlan Municipal Utilities CEO Ken Weber said recently that the recent water leak in the utility system could easily total a half-million gallons.    The main leak, found in a field behind Remington Seed, was in a 6-inch line that supplies the Cresthaven area.   Under 130-pounds of pressure, the six-day leak could easily amount to 500,000 gallons, Weber said.  Sadly, he added, it was all treated water.    Despite three days of se

See page 6B inside today’s newspaper for more photos from HCHS’s homecoming. 

    HARLAN -- Homecoming week is always fun at Harlan Community with a series of dress-up days.  Tuesday was Grill Dad vs. Soccer Mom Day.