Month: October 2016

The Jefferson city council discussed priorities not only as a first step in establishing the budget for the next fiscal year, but also as a way to direct staff time in some cases. The discussion was at the end of the Oct. 11 regular council meeting.

An abridged version of the original dedication ceremony of the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower will be the centerpiece of a festive celebration of the tower’s 50th anniversary this Sunday, Oct. 16. Sunday’s program comes from a transcription of an audio recording of the 1966 event done by Mikki Schwarzkopf as she worked on writing the story of Floyd and Dora Mahanay…

The Greene County Schools board of education will have an open forum next Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 5:30 pm at the administrative building, 204 W. Madison St in Jefferson. The open forums are an opportunity for members of the public to discuss items of their choice with board members and administrators. There will not be a quorum of board members…

New Hope is very excited and proud to announce the beginning stages of a business plan for the opening of a fifth Bargain Shoppe located in the former ‘Ben Franklin’ building on the west side of the courthouse square in Jefferson. New Hope’s governing board is likely to make a decision if New Hope can move forward with the project…

Artist Bubba Sorensen will arrive in Jefferson early next week to begin transforming the 30-ton rock east of the Greene County Fairgrounds into the Greene County Freedom Rock®. The Freedom Rock will be unveiled Thursday, Oct. 27, at 4 pm in a brief ceremony. The event will be followed by a fundraiser soup supper at Clover Hall. Proceeds from the…

Chamber’s reimbursement falls short of expenses Challenges in implementing the Jefferson city council’s three-tiered policy for distributing hotel/motel tax revenues were at the center of comments by Greene County Chamber treasurer Nikki Uebel at the Jefferson city council meeting Tuesday.

Ticket reservations are now available for the 18th annual Jefferson Rotary charity dinner auction, to be held Friday evening, Nov. 4, in the Greene Room at Wild Rose Casino and Resort in Jefferson.

A cost estimate for a new animal shelter may be available by the end of the month. Jefferson city administrator Mike Palmer told the county supervisors during his monthly update Monday that the steering committee has approved preliminary sketches and forwarded them to architects Waggoner and Wineinger in Mason City. The Jefferson city council and the county supervisors agreed this…

Rainfall events throughout the week slowed down harvest allowing Iowa farmers just 4.5 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Oct. 9, according the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Farmers in west central Iowa had 3.2 days suitable. Although hampered by soft and muddy fields, activities for the week included soybean and corn for grain harvest and hauling manure.