AUDUBON (June 19) -- It’s been fun, but individual milestone season is officially over for the Gross family and IKM-Manning softball. The only business at hand now is to keep winning games. IKM-M senior Peyton Gross, just five days after earning career pitching win number 100, surpassed 1,000 strikeouts Tuesday night as the second-ranked (2A) Wolves beat Audubon 12-0 in five innings to cap a season sweep and improve to 16-1. Gross pitched a o

 VAIL (June 19) -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton softball team started fast with a four-run first inning and was able to hold off Ar-We-Va 7-4 here Tuesday to complete a Rolling Valley Conference sweep of the Rockets. Eighth-grade pitcher Macy Emgarten (6-7) worked all seven innings for the win, allowing 11 hits and four earned runs while walking two. The Spartans (7-8 overall, 6-4 RVC) also totaled 11 hits.

 AUDUBON (June 19) -- The IKM-Manning baseball team took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning but was held scoreless the rest of the way in a 6-2 loss at Audubon on Tuesday. The Wolves’ home games vs. Treynor Monday and Tri-Center Wednesday were both rained out. No make-up dates have been announced. IKM-M got on top early vs.

 LOGAN (June 19) -- AHSTW was held to just three singles by Logan-Magnolia’s Joel Richardson Tuesday night and finished on the short end of a 3-1 decision in Western Iowa Conference baseball action. The Panthers (9-11 overall, 7-8 WIC) scored two runs in the first and added one more in the third while Richardson shut out the Vikings (6-8, 4-8 WIC) until the top of the seventh when Gabe Madsen singled home Brody Langer. Joel Sampson added two h

The Harlan Newspaper scanner was chattering busily on Thurs., June 28 at 10:30 am with a giant red blob of storms heading directly for Shelby County.
Rainfall estimated at .85 to 1”, plus hail...wind speeds up to 70-mph from the NW.
Reports throughout the County of downed power lines and tree limbs in roadways were abundant on the scanner.
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    OMAHA, NE -- Katherine A. Gaul, 52, Omaha, NE, died Sunday, June 24 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.    Survivors include her sisters Laurie Dunlap of Narraganset, RI, and Kristine (Thomas Kurtz, Sr.) Gaul of Portsmouth.    Services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.

    DENISON -- LaVere Mae Andersen, 82, Denison, died June 24 at Eventide Lutheran Home for the Aged.    Services will be held Tuesday, June 3 at 10 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca.  Visitation will be held Monday, July 2 from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-8 p.m.

    PORTSMOUTH -- Mary Ella “Mitz” Wilke, 81, Portsmouth, died June 20 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.    Services were held Monday, June 25 at 11 a.m. at St.

HARLAN -- Karrisa Mickelson, an 11-year-old attending Harlan Community Intermediate School, decided to save money and donate an American Girl doll to a stranger, but not a complete stranger. Daisy Anguiano Miranda, an 11-year-old Nebraskan, has been fighting a rare bone cancer called Ewing's Sarcoma since she was eight.During one of Mickelson's classes, her teacher showed the students a video about Daisy on her birthday.