Year: 2015

The population of Paton swelled for the day Saturday for the annual Paton Fun Day. The celebration was expanded to include a parade to celebrate the town’s 140th birthday.       The day began with a 5K fun run and included human foosball, a sand volleyball tournament that lasted well into the afternoon, plenty of kids games, music by…

RSVP 55+ of Greene County recently received a new Dell laptop computer with a Greene County Community Foundation grant of $800 paying the larger portion of the purchase. Greene County volunteer coordinator Jackie Souder (left) will use the new computer to share and exchange work with her counterpart in the RSVP 55+ Boone County office. The updated technology will make…

From the Jefferson police department Independence Day is a time of celebration with family and friends, food, and fireworks, but the Fourth of July holiday weekend is one of the deadliest on the nation’s roadways, of crashes involving alcohol. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports in 2013, the most recent year in which data is available, 512 people…

Kelly Park, CNA, was recognized as employee of the month for June at Regency Park Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Jefferson. She is pictured with administrator Randy Downey (left) and director of nursing Beverly Mentzer (right). Park has been with Regency since September 2013 and was nominated by the department managers.

Temperatures were pleasant during the week ending June 26, with a high of 88 degrees and a low of 56 degrees. Precipitation was a different story, with a total of 4.68 inches of rain, most of it falling Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Observations come from volunteer weather observer John Beltz at his weather station about a mile west of…