MANNING (Sept. 30) -- The AHSTW volleyball team picked up its second Western Iowa Conference win of the season on Thursday night, sweeping IKM-Manning 25-12, 25-20, 25-7. The Lady Vikes improved to 21-7 overall and 2-4 in the WIC. IKM-Manning fell to 1-16 overall and 1-5 in league play. AHSTW senior Natalie Hagadon hammered 17 kills against the Wolves and had an excellent efficiency of .464.

 HARLAN -- Local race car drivers Mike Nichols of Harlan and Jason Fusselman, Avoca, both won feature races at this year’s Tiny Lund Memorial, held Sept. 24-25 at the Shelby County Speedway. Nichols won the Pizza Ranch Stock Cars A-Feature race on Friday night, Sept. 24.

 DENISON (Sept. 28) -- Placing five runners in the top nine overall, the Harlan Community girls posted a dominating team score of 26 to win Tuesday’s Denison-Schleswig Cross Country Invitational by 40 points. The Cyclone girls moved up to seventh in this week’s Class 3A team rankings and avenged a head-to-head loss against No. 2-ranked (1A) Logan-Magnolia from a week earlier at Tri-Center.

 AMES (Oct. 2) -- Saturday’s Kansas at Iowa State football game will include a Jayhawk player with local ties in redshirt freshman Trevor Kardell. Kardell, number 45 on the Kansas roster, is a 6-foot-5, 234-pound tight end from Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

 ATLANTIC (Oct. 1) -- Following a one-year hiatus in the series, Harlan Community will renew an old football rivalry Friday night when it faces Atlantic at the Trojan Bowl. The top-ranked Cyclones are off to a 1-0 start in Class 3A, District 6 (5-0 overall) after crushing Saydel 64-0 last week at Merrill Field. The Trojans (1-4) lost their district opener at ADM 40-16 after holding an early 13-0 lead.

    AVOCA -- Senior Liz Cordes rocking 80’s Day for homecoming week at AHSTW this week with her cousins, Emalee Busch and Hadlee Busch.    Emalee is in Mrs. Calhoon’s kindergarten class and Hadlee is in Miss Constable’s 2nd grade class.  (Photo contributed)

    HARLAN – Myrtue Medical Center is moving ahead with a construction project that will see remodeling of the cafeteria area and a new gift shop.    Plans call for equipment modernization, a new grill, fryer and new exhaust finishes in the kitchen, new equipment, finishes and traffic flow in the serving area, and new finishes and seating for 34 in the dining area.    The gift shop will be moved from its current location near the cafeteria to

    HARLAN – The Harlan Municipal Utilities has approved its annual audit report, as provided by Gronewold, Bell, Kyhnn & Co, CPAs, Atlantic.    Auditors reported the electric fund revenues (including non-operating) totaled $7,565,900 for the year ended June 30, 2021, a 3.3 percent increase from 2020.    The revenues included $6,689,300 in sales to consumers and other operating revenue, $817,000 in sales to MISO and $59,600 in investment i

    HARLAN -- The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce will host a school board election candidate forum on Tuesday, Oct. 12.    The forum will begin at 6 p.m.