COUNTY -- Harlan Community High School students spread out across the school district Wednesday, April 11 as part of their annual Community Service Day.  Freshmen-seniors helped clean up homes, parks, etc. as part the event.    Temperatures had rebounded from an unseasonably cold April to more than 60 degrees on Wednesday so students could provide the community service. 

    HARLAN – The City of Harlan has plans to issue $1.5 million in capital loan notes to finance a number of community projects, including improvements to the sewer plant and J.J.

    On page 4A of today’s Harlan News-Advertiser is a letter to the editor from Lori Minor, referencing the sexual abuse allegations against former Harlan Physician Dr.

    HARLAN – Another couple of weeks have gone by and still no answers to why, on occasion, Harlan stinks.    For about a month, winds out of the south and east have drawn an unpleasant odor into town, allegedly from the Essentia plant east of Harlan.  Most recently, the smell permeated the town on Sunday, April 8 and Tuesday evening, April 10.    The Harlan Newspapers  has reached out to Essentia and has been awaiting a phone call to be retur

    HARLAN -- Miguel Mena, a senior at Harlan Community High School, was recently presented the school’s highest agricultural honor, the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award, sponsored by Monsanto Company.    Mena, the son of Miguel Sr.

    EARLING -- Zoe Dutchik and Denny Kramer both of Center Point, IA will exchange marriage vows on June 30 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Earling.    Parents of the couple are Bernard and Lisa Dutchik, Iowa City; and Dave and Lois Kramer, Earling.

    HANCOCK -- Doug and Kathy (Wulff) Jacobsen of Hancock will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on April 21. Their family is planning a card shower in their honor. Cards will reach them if sent to 36543 Pinoak Rd., Hancock, IA 51536. 

 HARLAN (April 5) -- Considering the days of cold weather that came before and after the Koos Invitational Girls Track Meet, the 13 teams competing at Merrill Field Thursday night found conditions to be downright favorable. When it was over, two long-standing meet records fell by the wayside, Harlan Community junior Chloe Hansen earned two gold medals and the Cyclone girls placed fifth among a field of teams that traveled from as far away as E

 GLENWOOD (April 5) -- Nick Foss and Michael Erlemeier combined to score 38 of Harlan Community’s 65 points in four events Thursday night as the Cyclone boys finished sixth out of 15 teams at the Glenwood Ram Relays. Foss bagged the team’s only two gold medals of the meet, winning the long jump with a mark of 21 feet, eight inches and winning the 200-meter dash in 23.19 seconds.