HANCOCK -- Virgil and Elaine Hildebrand of Hancock will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on March 23.    Their family would like to honor them with a card shower. Cards will reach them if sent to 39863 Mahogany Road, Hancock, IA 51536.

HARLAN – Harlan Community will be hosting a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Festival Extravaganza Tuesday, March 22, highlighting student achievements in STEM.    Approximately 40 booths will be showcased with STEM projects, as students share with the public the types of projects they have learned and will present through demonstrations of their projects at the event.    “It’s really kind of a celebration of the community supp

    DENVER, CO -- Out of the more than 10,000 plus pilots at United Airlines, only two are Harlan natives. On February 11, Captain Kerry Boltinghouse and First Officer Lisa (Petersen) Christensen operated a Boeing 737 on United Flight #1727 from Denver, CO to Tucson, AZ, and Flight #1138 back to Denver. This would have never been possible if it was not for the merger between Continental and United Airlines in 2010.

    HARLAN – Harlan property owners will see a decrease in their tax levy this year as part of a proposed budget approved by the Harlan City Council Tuesday, March 8.    A public hearing on the proposed $8.32 million budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year was held Tuesday with no comments from the public.  The Harlan City Council approved the measure 5-0.    Harlan’s tax levy will decrease approximately 21 cents per $1,000 taxable valuation, from

MILLARD, NE -- Richard “Dick” Serp, Millard, NE, died March 7 in Omaha.    Funeral services will be Saturday, March 12 at 10:30 a.m. at Rockbrook United Methodist Church in Omaha with visitation Friday, March 11 from 5-7 p.m.

    HARLAN -- Harlan Community Schools elementary students had fun this week participating in Read Across America Week, celebrated in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday March 2.  Students had fun dressing up in character and reading during the week.

HARLAN – Twenty Harlan Community High School Business Professionals of America (BPA) students have qualified for the national conference to be held in Boston, MA May 5-8.    The 2016 national leadership conference, This is Our Time, will welcome more than 5,000 conference delegates from across the nation to participate in national level business skills competitions, workshops, general sessions, and the national officer candidate campaigns and

    COUNTY – The poor and needy in Shelby County are helped in numerous ways by local taxpayers under a county relief ordinance last reviewed in 2008.    General assistance is available to families or individuals who are poor and needy, when their own means, relatives or other public or private resources does not support the person.    General relief is a short term emergency assistance program that is understood to be the “payer of last resor

    KIMBALLTON -- Tom and Kay Schechinger of Harlan announce the engagement of their daughter, Nicole Kay to Todd Joseph Shults both of Westphalia. Todd is the son of William and Kathy Pickens, Harlan.    The couple will wed on April 2 in a ceremony at the Cottonwood Barn in Kimballton.