COUNCIL BLUFFS – Harlan Community High School students swept the top honors at Google’s 7th-annual Anti-Gravity Games held at Iowa Western Community College April 27.    The HCHS Sabotaje team took first place while the Cyclones team took second place.  St.

    HARLAN – 4PAWS, a volunteer organization that helps care for and find rescues or homes for Harlan pound pets, is looking for new volunteers to take over leadership of their group.    After six years in that leadership role and several years as volunteers before, George and Sue Petsche said they feel the time has come for them to “retire” from the pound.    4PAWS was started by a group of individuals about 17 years ago.  In the early 1980s

    HARLAN -- Harlan Community High School is hosting the Hawkeye 10 Art Show on Wednesday, May 8. The schools in the Hawkeye 10 take turns hosting the event, and this year is Harlan Community’s turn.    Each school in the conference will bring approximately 20 students and between 50-100 works of art to be displayed in the high school gym.

    HARLAN -- Badding Construction based in Carroll was awarded the low bid of $547,500 for the pharmacy remodel project at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan. The bid was approved by the MMC Board of Trustees at an April 23 meeting. MMC CEO Barry Jacobsen said there were four bidders for the project.    The total pharmacy project cost of $709,505 is under the original estimate cost of up to $720,000.

    HOUSTON, TX -- Krista Garrett and Logan Farrell both of Houston were married in a ceremony at Ashton Gardens in Houston on May 19, 2018. Seth Saldivar of OneLife Church performed the 6 p.m. ceremony.    Parents of the couple are Mark and Deborah Garrett of Harlan; and Dr. Joseph and Suzanne Farrell, Lafayette, IN.

 MISSOURI VALLEY (April 23) -- Harlan Community earned seven gold medals, improved three relay times and scored 164 points to win the team title at Tuesday’s Missouri Valley Lady Red Relays. The AHSTW girls also made a strong showing with three gold-medal performances and 79 points, placing fourth behind HCHS, Logan-Magnolia (105) and Denison-Schleswig (97).

 CARLISLE (April 23) -- The Harlan Community boys track team placed fourth with 85 points at Tuesday’s Carlisle Wildcat Relays, scoring 14 times in 13 of 19 events. Carlisle and Nevada led the field with five gold medals each, but it was Indianola winning the team title with 132 points.

 DENISON (April 22) -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team continued to struggle for offense Monday night in a 3-0 loss to a skilled, fast and deep Denison-Schleswig squad. The Monarchs led just 1-0 at halftime before taking control with two goals in the first 12 and a half minutes of the second half, improving to 5-2 overall and 2-0 in the Hawkeye Ten Conference. HCHS, which started 2-0 after outscoring Treynor and Lewis Central by a combin

April 9 • at Council Bluffs: Lewis Central 7, HCHS 2Varsity Singles Results - No. 1: Brock Bruns (H) won 8-0 over Justin Reynolds; No. 2: Jonathan Cheek (H) lost 1-8 to Calvin Fricke; No. 3: Jack Buman (H) lost 2-8 to Chase Johnson; No. 4: Adam Kohl (H) lost 0-8 to Jake Lear; No. 5: Braden Fink (H) lost 0-8 to Eros Filipino-Johns; No. 6: Carter Wagner (H) lost 3-8 to Spencer Cooper-Ohms.Varsity Doubles Results - No. 1: B. Bruns/J.