HARLAN - Voters will have the opportunity to elect four members of the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Shelby County Council at the Nov.

 HARLAN (Oct.

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour before going to bed Saturday night!  It’s Daylight Savings Time.

 SPENCER (Oct.

 HARLAN (Oct. 23) -- The wait is over. After watching from the sidelines last week courtesy of its first round playoff bye, the Harlan Community football team will join the postseason party Friday night at Merrill Field. The 2nd-ranked Cyclones (7-0) will host Bondurant-Farrar (5-3) in a Class 3A second round playoff game out of Pod 15.

SHELBY COUNTY CONFIRMED CASES:  396Recovered:  328  
Negative:  2,480 
Pending:  28

    MANILLA -- Charles H. Wooster, Jr., 89, Manilla, died Sunday, Oct. 25 in Harlan.    Services will be held Saturday, Oct. 31 at 11 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church in Manning with burial in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Irwin.  Visitation with family present will be Friday, Oct. 30 from 5-8 p.m.

    COUNTY -- Food banks across the nation have experienced a sharp rise in need and expenses since the onset of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

    COUNTY – Absentee ballots received in 2020 at the Shelby County Auditor’s Office have outpaced past presidential election years with still a week to go before election day.    Shelby County Auditor and Election Commissioner Mark Maxwell said as of Friday morning, Oct. 23, the county had received 3,400 completed absentee ballots in the mail.