HARLAN -- Myrtue Medical Center CEO Barry Jacobsen shared updates on the current pharmacy and roofing projects at MMC as well as the master facility planning progress at the MMC Board of Trustees July meeting.    Jacobsen said the pharmacy project is going along well and is on pace for an estimated October completion date.

    HARLAN -- Two more years at $35,000 each year is the extended contract the Harlan Municipal Utilities Board of Trustees granted the Shelby Co.

    COUNTY -- Some years before I went to college, my parents decided to buy a subscription to the Harlan Tribune. I, of course, being a teenager, didn’t quite care about what my parents did with our paper subscriptions. I didn’t read the paper, so I was indifferent, it simply meant I had more things to grab from the mailbox.    As I got older I did start to notice the paper more and more.

 HARLAN (July 24) -- Longtime Harlan Community head coach Steve Daeges has often used the phrase, “That’s baseball,” to describe the subtle nuances of the sport, in particular the propensity for any team beating another on any given day. On Wednesday night at Jim Goeser Field, baseball happened to the fifth-ranked Cyclones. Just one win away from extending its incredible streak of state tournament trips to nine in a row, HCHS was upended by an

 HARLAN (July 24) - Harlan Community coaches were disappointed to see their season come to an end on Wednesday, but happy for ADM head coach Jason Book.

 HARLAN (July 22) -- Connor Bruck couldn’t have picked a better spot to notch his third and final strikeout against Winterset. Facing the Huskies’ most dangerous hitter in the left-handed Casey Young, who represented the tying run with two on and two out in the top of the seventh, Bruck jumped ahead in the count and eventually got Young to chase a high fastball for strike three as the fifth-ranked Harlan Community baseball team held on to win

 FORT DODGE -- Former IKM-Manning softball pitcher Peyton Gross was honored at the State Softball Tournament Thursday night (July 25) for being a 100-game winner during her prep career. Gross, the daughter of Paul and Joy Gross, Manilla, was recognized prior to the Class 2A championship game as a new member of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s 100-win club.

    AVOCA -- Raleigh Ernest Woltmann, 95, Avoca, died July 25 at Avoca Specialty Care.    Services will be held Tuesday, Aug. 6 at 11 a.m. at United Church of Avoca with burial in the Shelby Cemetery.  Visitation is Monday, Aug. 5 from 4-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 6-8 p.m.

    HARLAN – Tickets are still available for Harlan Community Theatre’s presentation of The Music Man this weekend at Harlan Community High School.    Director Kayla Weis said the 60-plus member cast has been working hard over the summer in rehearsals and is ready for showtimes this Friday-Sunday.