HARLAN – The Harlan City Council has signed off on its street work patch, mill and overlay projects this summer, approving a low bid of $293,042.60 from Western Engineering to complete the work.    Street work could begin within the next few weeks.  Following are the locations in Harlan expected to see improvements:    -  Dye Street from 6th to 7th Sts.    -  Cyclone Ave. from 5th to 6th Sts.    -  Durant St.

    HARLAN – A 7th St. bridge in north Harlan will be replaced as part of a project that received final approval by the Harlan City Council on Tuesday, June 18.    The City has very few actual bridges to care for, but this one over a small stream on north 7th St.

    WESTPHALIA -- Bill and June Hastert of Harlan announce the engagement of their daughter, Melissa to Michael Bellinghausen both of West Des Moines. Michael is the son of Jim and Diane Bellinghausen, Carroll.    The couple will wed on August 10 at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia. 

    RONAN, MT -- Hanah Hlavac and Nick Ammon both of Kansas City, MO exchanged marriage vows in an 11 a.m. double ring ceremony on February 23, 2019 at The Silver Knot in Ronan. The small mountain side wedding overlooked the Mission Mountains of Northwest Montana.    Parents of the bride are Kevin and Lori Hlavac, Harlan. Parents of the groom are Roses Ammon, Kansas City, MO; and Brad Ammon, Park City, UT. 

 ATLANTIC (June 4) -- Harlan Community suffered its first conference loss of the season at eighth-ranked (Class 3A) Atlantic last Tuesday, falling just short in a back-and-forth 6-5 grinder featuring four lead changes in a three-inning span. Trailing 2-0 after one, the Cyclones rallied to take a 3-2 lead in the top of the fourth and went ahead 5-4 in the fifth but were unable to hold on against the defending Hawkeye Ten champions, who took the

Kenneth Boell, 76, Manilla was born Feb. 3, 1943 the son of Paul and Helen (Baumhover) Boell. He grew up near Manilla.
Kenny died at Amelia Place in Council Bluffs on June 13, 2019 at the age of 76 years, four months and 10 days.
See a PDF below of their obituary, if one was provided by the family or funeral home.
 

 ATLANTIC (June 4) -- A 6-0 lead nearly slipped away in the late innings Tuesday night, but the Harlan Community baseball team was able to hold on and escape Atlantic with a 7-5 Hawkeye Ten win. Trailing 6-0, the Trojans mounted a five-run rally in the bottom of the sixth off Cyclone reliever Joey Moser, then loaded the bases in the seventh against Riley Kohles before the game ended on a nice running catch by center fielder Jon Owens. The fift

 HARLAN (June 3) -- The high-scoring Harlan Community bats were finally silenced Monday at Jim Goeser Field as Lewis Central’s Drake Nettles and Easton Dermody combined on a four-hitter and the Titan baseball team held off the fifth-ranked (3A) Cyclones 3-1. After scoring at least eight runs in each of its first six games, HCHS (6-1, 4-1 H-10) managed just four singles and an unearned run off the Titans’ top two pitchers and wasted a golden op

 HARLAN (June 4) -- Madison Schumacher and Emily Brouse both belted a home run and Morgan Schaben pitched a one-hitter with 13 strikeouts Monday as the Harlan Community softball team blew out Lewis Central 10-0 in six innings. HCHS scored three runs in the first inning, tacked on single tallies in the next four frames and finished off LC with a three-run sixth to snap a six-game slide against the struggling Titans, who dropped to 2-8 overall a