Brag Book 2019 available in the Harlan News-Advertiser, Friday, June 14, 2019.

 AVOCA -- The AHSTW Community School District has filled two key positions from within during recent weeks, hiring G.G. Harris as the new head football coach (effective immediately) and Jason Holst as 7-12 Activities Director (effective July 1). Davis Pattee previously held both positions but was hired February 28 as the new 7-12 Activities Director and Associate Principal for the Harlan Community School District, also effective July 1.G.G.

Monday, May 20Woodbine 6, Exira-EHK 5 (8) WOODBINE -- Trailing 5-0 early, Exira-EHK eventually forced extra innings with three runs in the top of the seventh but the host Tigers won in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the eighth in the season opener for both teams. Spartan senior Cole Burmeister stole six bases and scored three runs in defeat, going 1-for-3 with a double and two walks.

Monday, May 20Exira-EHK 11, Woodbine 1 (5) WOODBINE -- Macy Emgartner struck out 12 Woodbine batters in five innings and eighth-grader Shay Burmeister had five of the team’s nine stolen bases as Exira-EHK rolled past the Tigers 11-1 in last Monday’s season opener. Emgartner, a second-year varsity freshman, allowed three hits, two walks and one unearned run from the pitching circle.

 OAKLAND (May 25) -- AHSTW rallied twice in the first half to tie up Greene County during Saturday’s Class 1A, Substate 8 boys soccer final. A third comeback was not in the cards, however, as the fourth-ranked Vikings lost to the ninth-ranked Rams 5-2 at Riverside High School. Greene County’s Junior Gutierrez, the state’s leading scorer with 55 goals, put three in the back of the net on the day, including a go-ahead penalty kick with 31:17 to

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (May 25) -- When it comes to Class 2A boys soccer in southwest Iowa, perhaps the only team playing better than Harlan Community of late was the one the Cyclones met in Saturday’s Substate 8 final. Scoring twice in a 54-second span of the first half and adding two more goals late, Lewis Central took control early and never let HCHS have any momentum, avenging a season-opening 4-0 loss in Harlan with a 4-0 victory at Titan Stadiu

    HARLAN -- John Michael Klein, 104, Harlan, died June 2 at Elm Crest Retirement Community.    Services will be held Saturday, June 8 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  A wake services will be held Friday, June 7 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Visitation is Friday from 5-8 p.m.

HARLAN -- Log Cabin Day was held Sunday, June 2. 

    HARLAN -- Myrtue Medical Center Board of Trustees has given approval for the capital and operating budgets for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Kristy Hansen, chief financial officer at MMC, presented highlights of the budgets at the May 28 board meeting.Budget review    MMC is budgeting net operating revenue to grow 4.5 percent from an anticipated $42.5 million in 2019 to $44.4 million in 2020.