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 TREYNOR -- AHSTW standouts Jaycie Schueman and Gage Clay both claimed two individual gold medals Tuesday night and were part of the school’s five total wins at the Western Iowa Conference Co-Ed Track Meet held in Treynor. The girls and boys teams from IKM-Manning and AHSTW all placed in the lower half of the point standings but were able to combine for six event championships and score 51 times on a perfect night for competition. Schueman’s f

 WOODBINE -- A victory in the 4x800 relay highlighted Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s night as the Spartan boys placed third out of 10 teams in Monday’s Rolling Valley Conference Co-Ed Track Championships at Woodbine. Adding on eight other top-three finishes, the Spartans placed 18 times in 17 events overall and scored 81 points to trail only three-time boys champion Boyer Valley (121) and Woodbine (110). The Exira-EHK girls, meanwhile, placed in

 DES MOINES -- University of South Dakota senior Jessica Feldman competed in her seventh and final Drake Relays last weekend, running in a pair of relays for the Coyote women’s track team on the blue oval inside Drake Stadium.

HARLAN – Clearance and safety for emergency vehicles are the main reasons behind a proposal by the Harlan City Council to create parking on only one side of the street across roughly 140 city blocks in the community.    The council voted 6-0 last week approving the first reading of an ordinance amending the city code by adding a regulation to 69.08 of the code, in specific no parking zones.    The targeted date is to have the city blocks equip

HARLAN -- Robert “Leroy” Sorensen, 88, a long time resident of Harlan, died April 7.    A memorial service is being planned by his children for later this summer.    Sorensen is survived by children Jim Sorensen (significant other Brenda), Jane (Bill) Penisten, Judy (Robert) Velasquez, Ron (significant other Cheri) Sorensen, Don (Tammy) Sorensen and Jone (Dana) Armentrout; 13 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandso

COUNTY – The Shelby County Community Foundation (SCCF) announced this week that grants totaling $114,562.81 have been awarded to Shelby County nonprofit agencies. 

DES MOINES -- Last Monday, the sixth annual World Food Prize Iowa Youth Institute brought together 299 students from 131 high schools at Iowa State University to explore critical issues related to global food security and discover academic and career paths in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).    The Iowa Youth Institute has now reached over 64 percent of all Iowa high schools since its inauguration in 2011, and h

AVOCA -- Steven Sauvain has been named the new secondary principal at AHSTW School District effective July 1, pending final board approval.    Sauvain replaces Cynthia Phillips who is leaving AHSTW after four years as secondary principal for a similar position in central Iowa.    Sauvain currently is PK-6 Principal and Curriculum Coordinator in the River Valley Community School District located at Correctionville in northwest Iowa.