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    MANNING – IKM-Manning hosts homecoming activities this week under the theme Quarantine 2020, with a number of changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic specifically to the community pep rally and parade.    The pep rally and coronation will be outdoors at Forman Field today, Friday, Sept. 18 beginning at 1:45 p.m.

    HARLAN – EJ Leinen formally requested Monday, Sept. 14 that the Harlan Community School Board and administration reconsider homecoming week cancellations, including hopes that the coronation set for today, Friday, Sept.

(Story contributed by Bill Martin, IMCA Director of Public Relations) COLUMBUS, NEB. – Mike Nichols couldn’t recall many of the details of his first IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature win. He’ll remember everything about his latest. Nichols won for the 558th time in his IMCA Sunoco Stock Car career at Abe’s U.S. 30 Speedway in Columbus, Neb., becoming IMCA’s all-time wins leader with the Sept. 3 checkers.

    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools is reporting its first cases of COVID-19 among its students.    In a letter sent to parents at the elementary school level last week, officials said a student has tested positive for COVID-19, and as per protocol they have spoken to all of the parents who had a child identified as being in “close contact” with the individual who tested positive.    For COVID-19, a “close contact” is defined as anyone w

HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools is reporting its first cases of COVID-19 among its students.
Unofficially, it’s noted that there have been as many as six cases in total in the district.

HARLAN – Tonight’s homecoming football contest at Harlan Community may seem a little leaner in the number of total fans in attendance as the school district works to implement updated guidance from the Shelby County Board of Health geared to keep students, staff and the community safer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    REGIONAL -- Two area high school seniors have been notified this week that they are semi-finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program®.    Jack Klitgaard, a senior at Harlan Community High School, and Benjamin Wessel, a senior at AHSTW (Avoca), are two of 16,000 semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, as announced by program officials Wednesday, Sept.

    COUNTY -- For the first time in months, it rained substantially in Shelby County over an extended period of time.    For the crops in extreme drought-ridden western central Iowa, it’s likely too little, too late.    Official tallies for Harlan show 2.38 inches of rain during the week.  For the year, Harlan remains 10.29 inches below normal in precipitation.    Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said as fall approaches, corn silage and