For the first time in a decade, the Perry Bluejays will make an appearance at Merrill Field taking on the HCHS Cyclones Friday night during homecoming.

 FORT DODGE — The Iowa Utility Board heard testimonies from various Iowa landowners, including Shelby County residents Julie Kaufman and Rick Chipman, during the fifth week of the evidentiary hearing for Summit Carbon Solutions’ permit to transport captured carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in an underground pipeline for sequestration in North Dakota.Kaufman said her family is not interested in selling their land, which is located outside  of

HARLAN — The Harlan Community High School Marching Band is in step for another successful season of performances and competitions.Director Bill Kearney said The Marching Cyclones are 78 members strong this year. On September 16, they earned 3A first place at Creston Balloon Days.The group will be in the Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree parade in Clarinda September 30 and will compete in the Glenwood Fieldfest Marching Contest October 7.

HARLAN — It’s Homecoming week for Harlan Community Schools, and the district has a week full of activities and fun planned to celebrate “Hollywood Lights, Football Nights.”Monday’s dress up day was Twin Day, or Toga/cheerleaders for the seniors, and the Powder puff game was held at Merrill Field at 7 p.m.Tuesday, high school students are encouraged to dress as a character, and the HCHS volleyball team will host Creston, with freshman/junior va

Cyclone Junior Lindsey Sonderman continues to dominate the sport of running with yet another first place finish of 18:55.90 at the Harlan Invitational, just five seconds ahead of Junior Charlotte Gregor from Omaha South who finished with 19:00.64.

Any number of old-time football sayings would have described Friday night’s battle in Creston between the HCHS Cyclones and Panthers. Fighting uphill the entire night, the Cyclones faced deficits of 8-0, 15-0, 22-7, and 22-14, but still managed to come back to tie the game at 22 late in the fourth quarter, only to see the Panthers win the game 25-22 on a field goal with 2:44 left on the clock.

It has been a bumpy road as of late for the IKM-Manning volleyball team with their eighth consecutive loss coming Thursday night at home against the Audubon Wheelers, losing three straight sets, 25-10, 25-23, and 25-13.

Tuesday night during set five of its volleyball match to the Missouri Valley Lady Reds, the AHSTW Vikings were handed its sixth loss in its previous seven matches. Lady Reds Senior Henley Arbaugh served the ball in the backcourt, which deflected off Vikings Junior Grayson Gettler out of bounds for the final point of the night, 15-8.

 SHELBY COUNTY — Robin Butler of Harlan knows first hand the importance of having an Emergency Medical Service with the ability to transfer patients in dire need of definitive care. An early morning transfer from Myrtue Medical Center (MMC) in Harlan to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in 2021 saved her life. In September 2021, Butler woke up with pain in her back.