GLENWOOD -- Clara Theresa Bledsoe, 89, Glenwood, died February 26 at Glen Haven Home in Glenwood.    Services will be held Friday, May 3 at 2 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca.    Bledsoe is survived by son George (Teresa) Bledsoe of Glenwood; daughter Phyllis (Steve) Combs of Battle Creek, MI; sister Arlene Sievers of Avoca; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 

    HARLAN -- Frances Lavonne Pauley, 89, Harlan, died February 25 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services were held Thursday, Feb. 28 at 10:30 a.m.

    HANCOCK -- Glenda Ann Langer, 86, Hancock, died February 23 at her home.    Services will be held Friday, March 1 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Hancock.  Family greeted friends Thursday, Feb. 28 from 5-7 p.m.

HARLAN -- Larry Trickel says he has talked to students and teachers about the Justin Wagner situation, and he put together his own investigative report he presented specifically to board member Al Hazelton at the school board table Monday.    Jim Bieker asked everyone to pray the Our Father and look for a way to get along, explaining that he’s not on board with getting rid of Wagner and that all needs to be forgiven.    Allyson Bendorf says sh

    HARLAN -- Harlan Community High School’s Show Choir program has kicked off the contest season and continues to grow each year.     In its sixth year, the high school group Breaking Cylence has performed at two contests thus far, including the Elkhorn, NE Crystal Cup competition and the Pella Dutchmasters Invitational.    “We performed well at our first competition, but did not make it into the finals,” said director Chase Shoemaker, who is

    HARLAN – Harlan Community High School Vocal Director Chase Shoemaker recently was announced as a winner in the 2019 Composition Competition by the Iowa Choral Directors Association and the Iowa Composers Forum.    Shoemaker was commissioned at the beginning of the school year by Tanner Stutzman to write a winter, four-part treble choir piece for his Roland-Story High School treble chorus.  The unaccompanied piece is set to the poem Love Ca

    HARLAN -- Myrtue Medical Center was once again named one of the 100 highest-ranked Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in the United States by The Chartis Center for Rural Health.    Myrtue is the only Iowa hospital to receive this award eight years in a row.    Regarded as one of the industry’s most significant designations of performance excellence, the annual Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals award is based upon the results of the Hospital

    SHELBY -- Tom Rau of Shelby will celebrate his 80th birthday on March 8. His family is planning a card shower in his honor.

 MANNING (Feb. 21) -- That giant Ar-We-Va monkey is finally off the collective back of the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys basketball team. The Spartans couldn’t have picked a better time to snap their 0-13 drought against the Rockets, pulling away in the fourth quarter to win Thursday’s Class 1A, District 15 final, 69-50, in the Manning gymnasium. Since the inception of the Rolling Valley Conference in 2013, Exira-EHK had lost 13 straight vs.