Also okays use of Grow Greene County funds and athletic training contract A new attendance policy approved by the Greene County board of education July 20 as part of the student/parent handbook for the coming school year is both good news and bad news for students. The good news is that students will no longer be sidelined from an athletic practice…
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Supervisors slate hearing on Bristol Township CAFO
The Greene County supervisors will score a master matrix for another confined animal feeding operation at their Aug. 1 meeting. Granite Farms IV of Iowa Falls is proposing Felix Finisher Farm in section 19 of Bristol Township on County Road E-33 (190th St) between G and H Ave. The plan calls for two 2,500-head buildings with deep pits. Granite Farms IV…
Read MoreHot, humid weather speeds crop development
Recent heat and humidity helped speed crop development although frequent rains allowed Iowa farmers only 4.0 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending July 24, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Activities for the week included aerial fungicide application to corn and cutting hay when fields were dry enough.
Read MoreQuilting bug bites Carla Offenburger – see her quilts at upcoming show
~by Denise O’Brien Van Carla Offenburger, Greene County Medical Center’s director of community relations, organized three quilt show fundraisers for the hospital before she caught the quilting bug. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become a quilter,” Offenburger says. But she has become a needlewoman, and will display four quilts at the Greene County Quilt Show,…
Read MoreThe sounds of a lifetime
~a column by Colleen O’Brien It’s said that the most potent memory jogger is scent. The whiff of cut grass was one of my favorites — used to make me feel like a kid. A waft of Old Spice always made me think of my husband.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – John Thompson
To the editor, On Sunday Republicans lost the best Democratic National Chair they’ve ever had. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would step down after leaked emails revealed the supposed-neutral party committee was backing Hillary Clinton ahead of the Democratic nomination. The disgraced chair immediately took a job with the Clinton campaign.
Read MoreTheshing bee this weekend at Pleasant Prairie Farm
Pleasant Prairie Farm/Foster Timmons Farms will host the 17th annual Old-Fashioned Threshing Bee this Saturday and Sunday, July 30-31. At the bee, volunteers and steam engine enthusiasts will harvest oats as the job was done until the 1940s. The volunteers will pitch oat bundles into the threshing machine by hand. The thresher separates the grain from the straw and chaff, and then augers…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Stacy Stream
Dear Editor, As a JSHS graduate, (class of 2003) I honestly never pictured moving back to Greene County. As a teenager, I longed for the city life: full of fun, exciting things to do, and bountiful, high paying job prospects. However, after hearing police sirens and ambulances speeding by at all hours, as I graduated college I opted to move…
Read MoreTraveling and celebrating the Lincoln Highway
Historical Society meets Aug. 5 Grand Junction; lunch, program & tours ~by Chuck Offenburger for the Greene County Historical Society The Greene County Historical Society will travel to Grand Junction for its Friday, Aug. 5, meeting with a program and tours focusing on the Lincoln Highway heritage of both the community and the county.
Read MoreFarm Bureau annual meeting is Aug. 9
The Greene County Farm Bureau has scheduled their annual meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at Clover Hall on the Greene County Fairgrounds in Jefferson. A meal will be served at 6 pm with the business meeting slated at 7.
Read More4-H State Fair exhibitors told
Judging of 2016 Greene County 4-H static exhibit entries took place Tuesday, July 12. 4-H members’ projects were evaluated by experts in the areas of animals; agriculture and natural resources; creative arts; science, engineering, and technology; family and consumer sciences; and personal development. Judging is done face-to-face, giving youngsters the opportunity to learn and to practice valuable interpersonal skills.
Read MoreJPL summer reading programs wraps up with party in the park
The summer reading program at the Jefferson public library ended Monday with a party at Russell Park. Prizes were awarded after the children enjoyed a variety of outdoor games, including a human ring toss game, hula hoops, water races and pancake flipping. A game that required children to pour water from a cup on their head to another cup held…
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