Day: February 14, 2016

~bv Diane Gibson The Super Bowl and the Souper Bowl have come and gone, both setting records this year. The Broncos won and Peyton Manning set a record by being the oldest quarterback to ever win. The people of Greene County won and the Presbyterians set an all-time record colleting $357.50 and 6,374 cans of soup. Yes – that’s right-…

Andrea Grundon, a seventh grader at Greene County Middle School, has been recognized as having written the third place essay in the district VFW essay contest. Andrea’s essay was selected as the local chapter winner back in November. Her essay advanced to the district level competition, where she earned third place. She is pictured with Kenneth Arbuckle (left) and Don Ihnken (right).

All Greene County offices and Jefferson city offices will be closed Monday, Feb. 15, in observance of Presidents Day.  In Jefferson, garbage pick-up will be on the holiday schedule, with all routes serviced one day later than usual. Water payments are due Feb. 16.

Jefferson received 2.1 inches of snow during the week ending Feb. 12 at 6 am, bringing the February total to 8.6 inches. Snow fell five days during the week. Volunteer weather observer John Beltz reports the snow equates to a total of .99 inch of precipitation this month. High temperature was 39 degrees and the low temperature was four degrees.

Last year, roughly 7,500 out of a total 1.5 million Iowa taxpayers helped boost wildlife conservation with donations to the Fish and Wildlife Fund on their state tax form. This marks the first year in the last five where contributions and the number of contributors to the Fish and Wildlife fund have gone down. Donations to all the state tax…