ELK HORN -- Martha J. Eskov, 90, Elk Horn, died Friday, May 4 in Harlan.    Services will be held Wednesday, May 9 at 10:30 a.m. at Elk Horn Lutheran Church in Elk Horn with burial in the Elk Horn Lutheran Cemetery in Elk Horn.  A prayer service will be held Tuesday, May 8 at 6 p.m. at Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan.  Friends may call Tuesday from 1-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 4-7 p.m.

    EARLING -- Dale and Sue Graeve of Earling announce the engagement of their daughter, Cheyenne to Luke Baldwin both of Des Moines. Luke is the son of Denise Baldwin, Dunlap, and the late Jerry Baldwin.    The couple plans to marry on June 9 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Earling.

    PANAMA -- Ralph and Elaine Tremel of Panama observed their 50th wedding anniversary on April 27. The couple has three children: Brenda and Rodney Schaben, Council Bluffs; Curt and Kelly Tremel, Newton; and Stacy and Greg Mitchell, Ankeny. The Tremels have nine grandchildren.    An anniversary dinner in their honor was served at their home by their children on March 31.

 WINTERSET (April 28) -- Harlan Community avenged a substate loss from last year and took home a nice trophy in the process Saturday afternoon, beating Winterset 4-1 and Creston 3-0 to win the championship of the Winterset Boys Soccer Tournament. The host Huskies, ranked fifth in Class 2A, ended the Cyclones’ season last May with a 5-1 substate semifinal decision, but the rematch was all HCHS. The 10th-ranked Cyclones scored twice in each half

 OAKLAND (April 28) -- The AHSTW boys soccer team improved to 8-1 on Saturday, winning the championship of the Western Iowa Shootout in Oakland with wins of 2-0 over Riverside and 2-1 (in a PK shootout) over Treynor. The Vikings, ranked 14th in Class 1A, tied the Treynor match on Kyle Branan’s free kick with 16:21 left in the second half. The match went directly to a penalty kick shootout which AHSTW won 3-1.

 HARLAN (April 23) -- The temperature was up but attendance was down for Monday’s Harlan Community Cyclone Girls Johnson Relays at Merrill Field. Spencer earned gold in five relays and nine events overall to win the four-team meet with 120 points.

 HARLAN (April 24) -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team may have needed a match like the one that took place Tuesday afternoon at Merrill Field. With four of their first six games decided by just one goal - two in overtime - the 16th-ranked (2A) Cyclones took control early against Riverside and had some fun in a commanding 8-0 win over the Bulldogs. Dylan Eshelman and Andres Cavalieri both netted a pair of first-half goals as HCHS scored s

 GLENWOOD (April 23) -- Harlan Community placed 13 times in 11 events and scored 66.33 points Monday night, finishing fifth out of 15 boys teams competing at the Glenwood Co-Ed Ram Relays. Senior Nick Foss had another big night for HCHS, winning the long jump and placing second to Sergeant Bluff-Luton’s Jorma Schwedler in both the 100 and 200-meter dash.

 AUDUBON (April 24) -- Athletes from IKM-Manning and Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton combined to win four events and place 34 times Tuesday night at the annual Audubon Wheeler Co-Ed Relays. The IKM-Manning boys led the area squads by finishing third out of 11 teams with 81 points and scoring 15 times in 13 events.