Day: May 25, 2014

Miriam Rasmussen Mendoza, a 2007 Jefferson-Scranton graduate, is a competitor in the sixth season of NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior.” NBC calls the show “heart-racing competition” for “ultra-athletes.” The season starts this Monday, May 26. “American Ninja Warrior” airs at 8 pm Central time. Mendoza isn’t remembered as an athlete from her high school years, but she has found a passion…

Jefferson Telecom and the Sierra Community Theatre are partnering to show free matinees of the beloved movie The Wizard of Oz during the Bell Tower Festival. The free matinees are planned for Friday, June 13, at 3 pm and Saturday and Sunday, June 14 and 15, at 4 pm. The 35th anniversary Bell Tower Festival invites all to visit Iowa’s…

Iowans could debate at length which is prettier: holiday lights or Memorial Day flags? Most cemeteries in Greene County are decorated with flags honoring those who died during military service, and many families remember their loved ones with graveside visits and decorations.

Racing and Gaming Commission to hold public hearing Thursday in Jefferson Grow Greene County and supporters of a proposed casino in Jefferson hope to roll out a green carpet for the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission Thursday. The commission will be in Jefferson to tour the town, see the proposed site at the northwest corner of Highways 4 and 30,…

Area residents are invited to a new world of competition that combines creativity and youthful enthusiasm. The Yellow Brick Challenge, hosted by Greene Bean Coffee and co-sponsored by GreeneCountyNewsOnline, invites persons of all ages to build original LEGO® block creations based on the Bell Tower Festival theme Iowa’s Emerald County: There’s no place like home.

The combined Greene County Middle School 7th and 8th  grade bands will march to the square on the  final day of school Thursday, May 29, for the annual Breakfast with the Band event sponsored by Bunker’s  Dunkers Bakery. Band members should plan to line up on the south side of the middle school with their instruments at 8:20 am. The band…

Bronze plaques have been added to four of the 18 interpretive pillars and lamp posts on the courthouse square in Jefferson. The first plaques placed tell the stories of Guy C. Richardson, 1888-1979, a Greene County aviation pioneer and civic leader; Eva Leonard, 1898-1947, a New York song and dance entertainer from Grand Junction; Albert Head, 1938-1922, a Jefferson land…

Dogs and cats of all sizes and temperaments will be the beneficiaries of the annual garage sale fundraiser of People for Animal Welfare Society (P.A.W.S.). People who have new or used items or good, clean, wearable clothing to donate to the sale can drop them off this Tuesday or Wednesday between 8 am and 6 pm, or Thursday from 8 am…

The 35th annual Bell Tower Festival, June 13-14, will be the scene of several Jefferson and Jefferson-Scranton class reunions. Reunion classes will have reserved tables at the Festival barbecue Friday from 5 to 7 pm at the Greene County Community Center. Most classes will ride in the parade Saturday morning, and many have other activities planned for later in the…

Work is going forward on schedule on the new visitor center and the surrounding Thomas Jefferson Gardens. C & R Construction is back at work on the outside of the visitor center adding a Federalist façade to the former filling station/bank/insurance office. Greene County Chamber executive director and past president of the Jefferson Matters: Main Street board Chris Henning said the new…

The city of Jefferson crew will chip brush curbside at no charge May 27-30. Residents only need to drag brush to the curb and stack it in tidy piles of an arm load each, with the cut ends to the curb. “Presto! Change-o!” The brush will disappear before the end of the week! And that’s good news for all those…