HARLAN -- The Class 3A, District 15 baseball games for tonight (Friday, July 13) at Jim Goeser Field in Harlan have been postponed due to rain and rescheduled for Saturday, July 14.
   Denison-Schleswig vs. Atlantic will now start at 4:00 p.m. Saturday, followed by Harlan Community vs. Carroll at approximately 6:00 p.m.

Looking to attend today's 2018 Shelby County Fair, see the map for the best place to sit - and be sure and get out of that sun - whew it's gonna be a hot one.....but it's Fair Week...it always is!

    COUNTY -- Twelve young women are in the running to be crowned Shelby County Fair Queen this week.    Coronation will take place Thursday evening, July 12 in the show ring at the fairgrounds at 8 p.m.

COUNTY -- The Shelby County Fair has added a cake decorating contest to the long list of food-related contests for 4-H students.    The contest was first introduced through a cake decorating workshop with Beth Klein, a baker at HyVee.    Mallory Mulligan is in 9th grade and has been a part of 4-H since 3rd grade.    “I am involved in lots of static exhibits; clothing, fashion show, Best of Iowa, pie baking, Share the Fun, and lots of rabbits,”

    HARLAN -- Goozman’s Westside Lounge was one of eight businesses in downtown Harlan to receive grant money for facade work.   Owners are Keith and Cindy Kaufman.

 HARLAN -- On Monday, July 2, Shelby County 4-H'ers met at the fairgrounds to prepare for next week's Shelby County Fair.

    REGIONAL -- Do you have a carbon monoxide alarm? Do you move over for every car on the side of the road, not just the police?

    SHELBY -- The City of Shelby will have a special election Tuesday, July 10 to fill two vacancies on the Shelby City Council.    Councilpersons Bob Richmond and Sheila Rihner both had submitted their resignations from the council as they moved out of the city limits of Shelby.  Rihner moved to Georgia and Richmond outside of Shelby.    There are four candidates on the ballot to fill the two open seats and they are Donavon Gail Dontje, Steve

    HARLAN -- The City of Harlan has questions for Harlan Municipal Utilities regarding money transfers to the city for sewer billing.    It’s not that HMU isn’t transferring all income received, it’s the overall amount.    When the city updated their sewer system several years ago, their engineers did a revenue estimate, but those estimated dollars are not fully materializing, thus the questions.    The Utilities, who process the city’s invoi

    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools Board of Education has approved a contract extension for HCS Superintendent of Schools Justin Wagner.    The board voted 6-0 (Lonnie Muxfeldt, Amy Rueschenberg, Al Hazelton, Jessica Anderson, Joni Larsen and Monte Schechinger aye; Kathy Mahlberg absent) on Monday, June 25 approving the three-year rolling contract date July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021.    With the contract comes a 1.95 percent wage in

     HARLAN -- The public notice in the July 3 Harlan Tribune listed all Harlan Community Schools salaries for the school’s past fiscal year.      Included were these top 10 salaries:      Justin Wagner, $214,950; John Connell, $140,417; Jeffrey Moser, $117,174; Mitch Osborn, $116,504; Scott Frohlich, $106,524;    Kelly Juhl, $95,597; Chad Swanson, $93,411; Brian Gubbels, $91,619; William Kearney, $89,883; and Kelly Polson, $89,571.    There w

    ELK HORN -- Elk Horn is currently planning and funding a 1,800 foot trail in the city park that will comply with the American with Disabilities Act in regards to walking trails.    The trail will connect all of the shelter houses, putt-putt golf, sand volleyball courts, basketball courts and the playground equipment.    Snyder and Associates, an engineering, planning and design firm, engineered the project and the new trail is estimated to

    BRANSON, MO -- One phone call.    One phone call can change the direction of someone’s career.    For Scott Kwapiszeski, this phone call changed his career direction to Branson, MO.    Scott Kwapiszeski was raised in Panama and said he has always been interested in music.

    HARLAN -- Roman candles, sparklers, poppers, bottle rockets, and snakes.

    REGIONAL -- Crops in Iowa have grown significantly over the last two weeks due to much needed rainfall, but this rainfall also caused some crops harm particularly on Thurs., June 28 when hail and reports of wind flattened crops surfaced.    “Iowa experienced a pronounced pattern shift from previous weeks that brought measurable precipitation to the state.