Month: November 2016

All are invited to Sunday evening celebration For 100 years, Greene County Extension & Outreach has connected the needs of our community with Iowa State University research and resources to solve today’s problems and prepare for the future. For Greene County Extension the connection is more than professional – it’s personal. The community is invited to celebrate 100 years of…

The Greene County Intermediate School in Grand Junction, built in 1915, will end its life as a school building at the end of the current school year. The Greene County Schools board of education at a special meeting Nov. 9 voted 6-1 to close the building. Ashley Johnston, a former East Greene board member, cast the dissenting vote. Two other…

Republican Peter Bardole repeated his primary victory over incumbent Guy Richardson and won the Greene County supervisor District 5 race by a vote of 2,654 votes (60.59 percent) to Richardson’s 1,719 votes (39.25 percent).

Greene County voters cast a total of 4,871 ballots in the Nov. 8 general election for a voter turnout of 71.43 percent, well ahead of national averages in national elections over past decades. Of the total ballots, 1,935, nearly 40 percent, were cast early.

The Jefferson city council on Tuesday approved a development agreement with Thomas Jefferson Gardens that will allow completion of the Welcome Center within the Gardens. The approval followed a public hearing at which no members of the public spoke.

Estimate for animal shelter also given Greene County’s Freedom Rock, which was unveiled Oct. 27 and then wrapped up again, will remain under wraps for Veterans Day. Artist Bubba Sorensen explained two weeks ago that the paint he used needed to dry thoroughly before a sealer was applied, and that the rock should remain covered to keep dust from clinging during…

Greene County will be among the last of Iowa counties to participate in a statewide Bible-reading marathon. The county supervisors on Monday approved a request from Pastor Dean Porter of Guthrie Center to allow a non-denominational group to read the Bible on the courthouse lawn this Friday, Saturday, and possibly Sunday. Porter said there would be between four and eight…

Greene County engineer Wade Weiss discussed again with the county supervisors selling the former National Guard armory to the Greene County school district for use as a bus garage and storage space.

Paton-Churdan students and staff invite the community to a ceremony honoring area veterans Friday at 9 am in the school gymnasium. Students in all grades will participate. American Legion Edward English Post 198 will serve a soup supper in the school cafeteria Friday from 5 to 7 pm. All are welcome.

A public hearing on a proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Hardin Township, Section 21 has been postponed from Nov. 14 to Nov. 28 at 9 am. According to Greene County environmental health and zoning administrator Chuck Wenthold, there is a change in the total head count at the proposed Justin Ostrander Home Site CAFO, requiring that the notice…