GLENWOOD -- If Harlan Community’s players didn’t already know it was tournament time Wednesday night, coach Angie Spangenberg cued them in pretty quickly at the start of set two. Already holding a 25-17 win to their credit over Glenwood, the Cyclones received serve to start the second set, showed a lack of communication on the first pass and let the ball hit the floor. Spangenberg immediately signaled for a timeout, only minutes after calling

HARLAN -- The Harlan Community football team will have one last chance to put it all together Friday night when it hosts Atlantic in the final game of the season for both teams. The Trojans visit Merrill Field with an overall record of 1-7 and a Class 3-A, District 7 mark of 0-6, having lost seven straight games since opening the year with a 16-14 win over Clarinda. HCHS stands at 3-5 overall and 2-4 in district play following last week’s thri

 LOGAN -- It’s hard to say how Tuesday’s regional match between AHSTW and Logan-Magnolia would have played out if the first set had ended differently, but for the Lady Vikes it was an all too familiar experience. Letting a 22-20 lead slip away in a highly-competitive set one, AHSTW never fully recovered and was swept by the Panthers, 25-23, 25-9, 25-16 in a Class 2-A, Region 1 opener at Logan. The same two teams had met three other times - onc

 COON RAPIDS -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton volleyball team advanced in Class 1-A regional play Tuesday night, outlasting Coon Rapids-Bayard, 27-25, 17-25, 25-18, 25-10, in a first-round match. The Spartans will now play at 9th-ranked Audubon Monday night at 7:00 p.m.

 MANNING -- The IKM-Manning volleyball team opened postseason play with a three-set sweep of ACGC here Tuesday night, winning 25-16, 25-15, 25-21 in a Class 2-A, Region 2 matchup. The Wolves (21-11 overall) finished with a kill efficiency just under 26 percent and served 86.2 percent with nine aces, setting up a rematch vs. 13th-ranked South Central Calhoun (26-12) in Monday’s 7 p.m.

 EXIRA -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton wrapped up a playoff berth in 8-Player football last Friday night with a convincing 62-8 rout of CAM, Anita.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Harlan Community defeated IKM-Manning in the final round of the day to place third out of six teams at the Lewis Central Volleyball Tournament last Saturday. The Cyclones and Wolves both finished with 3-2 records in the round-robin tourney, with HCHS taking third and IKM-M fourth based on the head-to-head tiebreaker. Lewis Central and Red Oak both finished 4-1 and placed first and second, respectively. 

    EARLING - One local resident is particularly caught up in the “Cubs World Series frenzy.”     Bernice Book, 91, Earling, shares something very few midwesterners can tout -- she attended a World Series game the last time the Cubs were in the championship series  -- October 1945 -- 71 years ago.  And, knowingly, they haven’t won a World Series since 1908, a whopping 108 years.    The 1945 World Series matched the American League Detroit Tige

     PORTSMOUTH – The world-famous International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be in Portsmouth Saturday, Nov. 5, making a visit 66 years to the day from the last visit to the church and community.    “This is a very exciting event for the area and we would like to do the best job possible, notifying the public of this important piece of history traveling to Portsmouth,” said Henrietta “Hank” Hughes, St.