The Harlan Community School Board hired Grundmeyer Leader Services to help conduct the search for a new interim superintendent.  The firm will also assist the board in recruiting and hiring the long-term superintendent next year.  After a second planning meeting with the school board, the following desired qualifications were identified for the interim superintendent:

 TREYNOR (May 31) -- The Harlan Community girls played a sound 80 minutes of soccer for the most part Friday night. Fifth-ranked Treynor was just better, scoring three first-half goals and beating the Cyclones 5-0 in a Class 1A, Region 2 semifinal. The Cardinals, now 12-2, suffered their only losses on April 6 to Spencer and Sioux City Heelan and have only allowed two goals since in winning 10 straight games. They hosted No. 10 St.

 HARLAN (May 30) -- In a week that started with the team’s third rainout in eight days, Harlan Community was able to play four baseball games and score 61 runs Wednesday and Thursday in sweeping a pair of Hawkeye Ten doubleheaders at Jim Goeser Field. One night after handling Shenandoah 8-0 and 24-7, the sixth-ranked (3A) Cyclones swept Creston 14-5 and 15-0 (four innings) to improve to 6-0 overall and 4-0 inside the conference. HCHS stole 11

 HARLAN (May 30) -- Morgan Schaben pitched five innings of one-hit ball in game one and notched the save in the night cap Thursday as the Harlan Community softball team swept Creston in its Hawkeye Ten Conference opener, winning 12-2 (in five) and 8-7. The Cyclones (4-2 overall) put up a five-spot in the second inning of game two, then scored three insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth that turned out to be huge, making it an 8-3 game.

 SERGEANT BLUFF (May 29) -- The Harlan Community softball team took early leads of 2-0 and 3-2 but was unable to pull off the win at Sergeant Bluff-Luton on Wednesday, losing 6-4 to the 14th-ranked (4A) Warriors. Madison Schumacher hit a two-run homer in the first inning for the Cyclones, who added just two runs the rest of the way off SB-L pitchers Madelyn Mogensen and Kinsey Foley.

 MARSHALLTOWN (May 29) -- The IKM-Manning girls golf team finished 10th out of 10 teams at the Class 1A State Tournament last week, scoring 18-hole rounds of 432 and 435 for a total of 867. Held at the American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown, the state meet featured a suspension of play during the first round on Tuesday (May 28) due to lightning and rain and continued on Wednesday with the completion of round one and the full second round.

    ELK HORN -- Richard L. Dalbey, 89, Elk Horn, died June 7 at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn.    Services will be held Saturday, June 15 at 1 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  Visitation is Saturday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

    IRWIN -- Sheryl A. Campbell, 77, Irwin, died June 6 at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital.    Visitation will be Saturday, June 15 from 9-11 a.m.

    HARLAN -- Galen “Red” Sorenson, 82, Harlan, died Thursday, June 6 at Elm Crest Retirement Community in Harlan.    Survivors include his niece, Jane (Joe) Klein of Harlan and their children Joseph, Jared, James, Charlotte and Clare; other family members and friends.    All services are private.  Pauley Jones Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.