SHELBY -- Derald Leon Graybill, 75, Shelby, died July 1 at his home.    Services will be held Tuesday, July 6 at 1 p.m. at the Shelby Methodist Church with burial in the Shelby Cemetery.  Family will greet friends Tuesday from noon-1 p.m.

Class 1A, Region 2 Softball TournamentFirst Round Games - Tuesday, July 6Glidden-Ralston at Algona Bishop Garrigan, 7:00    Boyer Valley at Audubon, 7:00Ar-We-Va at West Bend-Mallard, 7:00                      Coon Rapids-Bayard at Woodbine, 7:00West Harrison at Logan-Magnolia, 7:00Regional Quarterfinals - Wednesday, July 7Bishop Garrigan or Glidden-Ralston at Newell-Fonda, 7:00 p.m.West Bend-Mallard or Ar-We-Va at St.

 ATLANTIC (June 24) -- The Atlantic softball team beat Harlan Community for the third time this season on Thursday, winning 4-1 to complete a Hawkeye Ten sweep and put itself in the driver’s seat for a conference championship. The seventh-ranked (3A) Trojans plated three runs in the top of the first off Cyclone junior Tianna Kasperbauer and Atlantic senior ace Olivia Engler took care of the rest, allowing only an unearned run in the third as p

 ATLANTIC (June 24) -- Harlan Community broke open a scoreless tie with six runs in the top of the fifth Thursday night and got a six-inning shutout from Franz Reisz to beat Atlantic 7-0 and sweep the baseball season series. The game was called by rain/lightning after just two pitches were thrown in the top of the seventh. Reisz (1-3) pitched his best game of the year for the Cyclones, allowing just three hits and one walk, hitting two batters

 CEDAR FALLS -- Several athletes from the Harlan Trap team participated in the State Meet located in Cedar Falls. The competition started Tuesday, June 8, and concluded on Sunday, June 13. There were a total of 4,000 athletes competing over the course of the week. Harlan had eight athletes competing on Tuesday in the Intermediate (Middle School) competition and 16 athletes competing on Saturday in the Varsity (High School) competition.

 Jean Ferry will celebrate 90 years of fun-filled memories on July 11, 2021. To help commemorate her birthday, her family is requesting a card shower. Birthday greetings may be sent to: Jean Ferry, 209 Checkerboard St., Irwin, IA 51446. Her children are Rod and Joan Ferry, Lee Ferry, Becky Rademacker, and Susan and Rod Osland.

 SUN CITY, AZ -- Donna Jean (Jensen) Miller is celebrating her 90th birthday on July 22, 2021 and her family is requesting a card shower in her honor.

Customers of the Regional Water Rural Water Assocation who are west of Highway 59 and east of Neola are being asked to immediately begin conserving and boiling water.Manager Nicholas Gaul said a fire completely wiped out a booster station and all customers west of the Nishnabotna are affected.Customers in Kirkman, Persia, Tennant and Westphalia are affected, as are the towns that buy water from them: Earling, Portsmouth, Panama and Minden.Gaul

 HARLAN (June 22) -- As the adversity started to ramp up in the late innings Tuesday, the Harlan Community softball team rallied together and rose to the occasion on Senior Night. Trailing Lewis Central 1-0 following Haley Bach’s impressive line-drive home run in the top of the eighth, the Cyclones scratched together four straight hits in the bottom of the extra frame and beat the Titans 2-1 on Jordan Heese’s bases-loaded RBI single over short