HARLAN – The Harlan City Council will meet in special session Wednesday morning, May 31 to discuss an ordinance outlining the sale and display of fireworks.      If approved, the ordinance would replace the current ordinance which doesn’t allow for the sale or discharge of fireworks in Harlan. 

    REGIONAL -- The Harlan Municipal Band will begin performing on Thursday, June 1 at 7 p.m. on the east side of the Square.    Rehearsals will begin at 5 p.m. in the high school band room. Anyone who can play an instrument is welcome, even if they haven’t picked up their instrument for years.

    HARLAN -- Rita (Goetz) Doran of Harlan will be honored at a 90th birthday open house on Saturday, June 3 at the McKee Activity Room at Elm Crest Retirement Community in Harlan.    Friends and relatives are invited to attend. Cards will also reach her if sent to 1039 Street F58, Harlan, IA 51537.

 DES MOINES -- In the days leading up to last weekend’s co-ed state track meet, the practice workload lessened for Harlan Community senior Gillian Streit. The hay is in the barn, HCHS girls assistant coach Todd Bladt told his standout thrower.

 DES MOINES -- As Gage Clay prepared to win a Class 2-A state championship on Saturday afternoon, AHSTW’s junior sprinter couldn’t help but think about one of his favorite people. Clay’s grandmother, Linda Best, was one of his biggest fans before she passed away in July of 2015.

 DES MOINES -- Making her third career state track meet appearance on Friday (May 19), AHSTW senior Jaycie Schueman saved the best for last. Starting out of lane one in the third section of the Class 2-A 400-meter hurdles, Schueman gracefully handled the tight inside turns around Drake Stadium’s blue oval, ran a clean race and sprinted hard to the finish line after clearing the 10th and final obstacle. She finished fifth in her section and six

 DES MOINES -- Nick Foss and Caleb Bieker combined for three personal bests and one state medal at the State Track and Field Championships last weekend as the Harlan Community boys scored six points to tie for 26th place in Class 3-A. Foss, competing in his first track season since the seventh grade, capped an outstanding junior year by placing third in the 3-A boys long jump with a top mark of 21 feet, 11.5 inches on Friday (May 19).

 DES MOINES -- Shut out of the state medals for the first time in many years last May, the Harlan Community girls track team responded last weekend with a state champion thrower, a sixth-place hurdler and a top-20 team finish at the 2017 state meet. HCHS senior Gillian Streit set the tone Thursday afternoon (May 18) with an impressive gold-medal performance in the Class 3-A discus, throwing a school record 137 feet, three inches on her first a

 DES MOINES -- The IKM-Manning track teams didn’t take home any medals from the 2017 state meet last weekend, but improvement was made in two out of three events, including one school record broken for the second time in a week. On Thursday afternoon (May 18), the IKM-M girls 4x800 relay team finished fourth in their section and 13th out of 24 Class 2-A qualifiers, clocking a school-record time of 9:58.83.