EARLING -- Bernie Wilwerding of Earling marked his 85th birthday on April 16.

    HARLAN -- Doug and Betty Kiesel of Shelby will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary at an open house on Saturday, April 28 from 2-4 p.m. at the American Legion in Harlan.    Their family includes son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Vickie Kiesel, Villisca; and daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Brian Kock, Harlan. The Kiesels have four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

    WALNUT -- Jack Eugene Osborn, 81, Walnut, died April 11 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services will be held Saturday, April 14 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Monroe Township Cemetery at Walnut.  Visitation will be held Friday, April 13 from 4-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 6-8 p.m.

    HARLAN -- Bruce Heilesen, 66, Harlan, died April 9 at his home.    Services were held Thursday, April 12 at 11 a.m.

    COUNTY -- Harlan Community High School students spread out across the school district Wednesday, April 11 as part of their annual Community Service Day.  Freshmen-seniors helped clean up homes, parks, etc. as part the event.    Temperatures had rebounded from an unseasonably cold April to more than 60 degrees on Wednesday so students could provide the community service. 

    HARLAN – The City of Harlan has plans to issue $1.5 million in capital loan notes to finance a number of community projects, including improvements to the sewer plant and J.J.

    On page 4A of today’s Harlan News-Advertiser is a letter to the editor from Lori Minor, referencing the sexual abuse allegations against former Harlan Physician Dr.

    HARLAN – Another couple of weeks have gone by and still no answers to why, on occasion, Harlan stinks.    For about a month, winds out of the south and east have drawn an unpleasant odor into town, allegedly from the Essentia plant east of Harlan.  Most recently, the smell permeated the town on Sunday, April 8 and Tuesday evening, April 10.    The Harlan Newspapers  has reached out to Essentia and has been awaiting a phone call to be retur

    HARLAN -- Miguel Mena, a senior at Harlan Community High School, was recently presented the school’s highest agricultural honor, the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award, sponsored by Monsanto Company.    Mena, the son of Miguel Sr.