COUNTY -- In the lower level of the Shelby County Courthouse is the Veteran Affairs office. It is just one of numerous offices across Iowa, with one in each county.    The director of the Shelby County’s Veteran’s Affairs office is Gene Cavenaugh, who helps veterans with receiving benefits and financial support for their service in the military. 

    HARLAN – The Shelby County Board of Supervisors have signed off on agreements with the three unions representing some county employees – the secondary road department, sheriff’s office employees and emergency management commission.    The three-year agreements take effect July 1, 2019.

    HARLAN -- For many years Red’s Cafe was the gathering place of numerous Harlanities for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Despite closing in 1988, fond memories of the cafe still loom today.    Those memories were revealed when the old sign of Red’s Cafe saw the light of day as the Harlan Nail and Spa building began performing renovations on the front of the structure in downtown Harlan. 

    HARLAN – The Harlan City Council has approved a budget amendment for the 2018-19 fiscal year totaling $1,676,405, of which $549,405 is attributed to decreased revenues and $1,127,000 are increased expenditures anticipated this year.    The council voted 5-0 approving the amendment (Greg Bladt, Troy Schaben, Jeanna Rudolph, Jay Christensen and Dave Miller aye; Sharon Kroger absent) at its May 21 regular council meeting.    Harlan City Clerk

The Harlan Community School Board hired Grundmeyer Leader Services to help conduct the search for a new interim superintendent.  The firm will also assist the board in recruiting and hiring the long-term superintendent next year.  After a second planning meeting with the school board, the following desired qualifications were identified for the interim superintendent:

 TREYNOR (May 31) -- The Harlan Community girls played a sound 80 minutes of soccer for the most part Friday night. Fifth-ranked Treynor was just better, scoring three first-half goals and beating the Cyclones 5-0 in a Class 1A, Region 2 semifinal. The Cardinals, now 12-2, suffered their only losses on April 6 to Spencer and Sioux City Heelan and have only allowed two goals since in winning 10 straight games. They hosted No. 10 St.

 HARLAN (May 30) -- In a week that started with the team’s third rainout in eight days, Harlan Community was able to play four baseball games and score 61 runs Wednesday and Thursday in sweeping a pair of Hawkeye Ten doubleheaders at Jim Goeser Field. One night after handling Shenandoah 8-0 and 24-7, the sixth-ranked (3A) Cyclones swept Creston 14-5 and 15-0 (four innings) to improve to 6-0 overall and 4-0 inside the conference. HCHS stole 11

 HARLAN (May 30) -- Morgan Schaben pitched five innings of one-hit ball in game one and notched the save in the night cap Thursday as the Harlan Community softball team swept Creston in its Hawkeye Ten Conference opener, winning 12-2 (in five) and 8-7. The Cyclones (4-2 overall) put up a five-spot in the second inning of game two, then scored three insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth that turned out to be huge, making it an 8-3 game.

 SERGEANT BLUFF (May 29) -- The Harlan Community softball team took early leads of 2-0 and 3-2 but was unable to pull off the win at Sergeant Bluff-Luton on Wednesday, losing 6-4 to the 14th-ranked (4A) Warriors. Madison Schumacher hit a two-run homer in the first inning for the Cyclones, who added just two runs the rest of the way off SB-L pitchers Madelyn Mogensen and Kinsey Foley.