Harlan City Administrator Terry Cox says the City has Harlan received an anonymous donation of American flags for the downtown square flag replacement project. Cox reported the news to the City Council, on Tuesday. The Shelby County Supervisors, City of Harlan and Harlan Municipal Utilities will work on replacing flags around the square and will ask businesses to help with the upkeep of the flags.

Cox also said next Monday or Tuesday, the new Harlan Police Department building project will get started, weather permitting. The project was to start this past week, however work was held off until after the Harlan Community School District Parade which will be held on Friday.

Cox also reported the Iowa Department of Transportation has grant money available to change the street lights on Highway 44 to LED lights. He said HMU will do the work once the approval of the grant has gone through from the DOT. Cox said he is hoping the work can begin later this fall.

(Joel McCall/KNOD)