The Greene County Ram varsity volleyball team lost in four games to South Hamilton in the Middle School gym Sept. 8. Game scores were 25-21, 17-25, 15-25, 21-25.
Read MoreMonth: September 2016
Update: Murphy located in Texas
Dennis Dean Murphy of Jefferson, who was listed Aug. 15 on the FBI’s National Crime Information Center data base, has been located in Texas, according to Jefferson chief of police Mark Clouse. He has not returned to Iowa, as of Sept. 8.
Read MoreRam eighth grade team starts volleyball season
The Greene County eighth grade volleyball team opened its season at Southeast Valley on Tuesday, Sept. 6. The Rams are specializing their offense and did a good job for their first match. The Rams won one game and lost five with all of the games being very competitive. Game scores were 16-21, 21-23, 21-7, 11-21, 18-21, 17-21.
Read MoreRam cross country teams compete at Gilbert, WCV
~courtesy of The Scranton Journal Greene County cross country teams ran at the Gilbert Invitational on the ISU course on Monday, Aug. 22, and at the West Central Valley Invitational on the 5×80 golf course on Thursday, Sept. 1. Gilbert: The Gilbert girls team crossed the finish line in first place while Dallas Center-Grimes boys were first. Greene County girls…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Patti Edwardson
Injustices of the CAFO system There are many injustices in this world, too many for a single person to focus on them all. So, each of us must choose to fight those injustices that hit our homes and our hearts. Issues relating to food and farming, family and community, and our environment, here in Iowa and in other areas of…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Karen & Allen Shannon
To the editor, 9,720 minutes. What is that? Greene County Intermediate building dismisses at approximately 3:07 pm to bus students to Jefferson. This is 18 minutes earlier than the 3:25 dismissal at the elementary. Over the three academic years that our two daughters will attend GCI (if the bond does not pass) they will each miss this much instruction time:
Read MoreDinner, auction nets $200,000-plus for fairground improvements
The Greene County Fair Association netted more than $200,000 for the Fair Foundation at its dinner and auction Tuesday evening at Clover Hall. The total got a huge boost from the Cecil Rueter family with a matching donation that was announced prior to the auction.
Read MoreTalking politics with foreigners
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I traveled recently to foreign ports in the North Atlantic. Among a dozen or so of these exotic (to me) places, I visited Qaqortoq, Greenland; Reykjavik, Iceland; Eidfjord, Norway, so I was talking to many people who were not Americans in between practicing pronunciation of nearly unpronounceable names of towns.
Read MoreSupervisors okay adding position of assistant county attorney
Decision follows private discussions; ‘heir apparent’ to county attorney Greene County will add the position of assistant county attorney effective next July 1. The county supervisors made that decision Monday with very little public discussion, although the subject apparently had been discussed at the courthouse previously.
Read MoreSchool election Tuesday
Voters in the Greene County School District will go to the polls Tuesday, Sept. 13, to cast a ballot on a bond issue. There are two issues on the ballot. One asks voters to approve by a 60 percent margin a $19.4 million bond issue to build and remodel the current elementary and high school buildings in Jefferson. A 60…
Read MoreAnother hog hearing slated; consultant speaks about the matrix
Neighbors who argue against CAFOs “truly don’t understand what’s going on,” consultant claims Eric Chrystal, doing business as Greene County Pigs LLC, wants to swap composting hog carcasses for a line of trees at his CAFO on County Road E-57 just one-half mile west of Highway 4 in Franklin Township. That requires a public hearing, which the Greene County supervisors have…
Read MoreSchool board candidates speak on issues
Voters in the Greene County school district will not only consider a proposed $19.4 million bond issue for construction and renovation, but they will also elect a school board member. Mike Dennhardt of Rippey, who was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Susan Burkett last winter, is challenged by Jonathan “J.B” Hinote of Jefferson. The person…
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