COUNCIL BLUFFS (Feb. 6) -- The Harlan Community girls basketball team never recovered from a slow start in Tuesday night’s 67-45 loss at St. Albert. HCHS fell behind 21-10 in the first quarter and was later outscored 20-10 in the fourth as the Saintes avenged a 20-point loss in Harlan earlier this season. The Cyclones were also scheduled to play at Sioux City East Monday night, but the game was cancelled due to inclement weather. St.

 WOODBINE (Feb. 6) -- Sophia Peppers approached a triple-double with 32 points, nine rebounds and nine steals on Tuesday night as the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton girls capped a 20-1 regular season with an 80-35 rout of the Woodbine Tigers. Kealey Nelson added 13 points for the Spartans, followed by Leslie Caniglia with 11, Kamryn Waymire nine and Jacey Anthofer six.

 WOODBINE (Feb. 6) -- Cole Burmeister (24) and Dakota Rold (23) combined for 47 points Tuesday night as the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys basketball team wrapped up Rolling Valley Conference play with a 71-54 road win over Woodbine. The Spartans finished 10-6 in the RVC and will take a 13-7 overall record into Friday’s final regular season game vs.

 MANNING (Feb. 6) -- The IKM-Manning girls and boys basketball teams finished the regular season with decisive wins over Griswold Tuesday night, the girls rolling to an 85-16 romp and the boys winning 68-27.
GIRLS BASKETBALLIKM-M 85, Griswold 16IKM-Manning Scoring Leaders: Alexa Ahrenholtz 15, Shauna Reitan 14, Kia Rasmussen 13, Payton Sporrer 12, Gabby Cadwell 8.

 HARLAN (Feb. 1) -- Led by Jayden Gessert’s two-game set of 336, the Harlan Community girls bowling team outscored OA-BCIG by 87 pins (2,193-2,106) at Cyclone Lanes last Thursday to pick up its second dual win of the season. The Cyclones (2-6 overall) avenged a 147-pin loss to the Falcons in Ida Grove two weeks earlier. The results also reversed in the boys half of the meet as OA-BCIG defeated HCHS by 44 pins (2,654 to 2,610).

    HARLAN -- Betty Aken, 89, Harlan, died February 7 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services will be held Saturday, Feb. 10 at 11 a.m. at First Assembly of God Church in Harlan with burial in the Shelby Cemetery.  Family will greet friends Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

HARLAN -- The annual Pink/Blue out event to raise funds for Cancer research was a huge success last Friday night in Harlan. 

    COUNTY – Shelby County has rescinded its support for a name change of the East Branch of the West Nishnabotna River due to new information about future costs to property owners should they need to update the abstract for their property.    The Shelby County Board of Supervisors this month rescinded an earlier motion for that support.    Supervisor Steve Kenkel had said Shelby County received correspondence from the U.S.

HARLAN – The Harlan Municipal Utilities has raised cable rates to meet increasing programming costs.    The HMU Board of Trustees approved the rate increases at its regular meeting Thursday, Jan. 25.  Basic cable rates will increase $5 from $25.99 to $30.99 per month.  Expanded basic cable will increase $7 from $78.99 to $85.99 per month.