Greene County is digging out Wednesday from Winter Storm Kayla, a huge storm that hit most off the Midwest. For many Greene County residents, the battle is on two fronts – gravel roads that are impassable and power outages. The storm, which volunteer weather observer John Beltz reports dropped 6.5 inches of heavy snow, started Monday night. An intermission Tuesday…
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More hogs coming to the county
Iowa Select Farms heard the Greene county supervisors’ request to provide a closure plan for a proposed CAFO expansion and answered “no.” The supervisors at their Jan. 28 meeting approved a letter to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources recommending that the building permit to expand Hawker Farms IV’s Churdan Finisher Farm site be granted, but with a notation in…
Read MoreMidwest Partnership celebrates successful year of economic development
~by The Scranton Journal Midwest Partnership, the four-county economic development corporation, highlighted continued success in recruiting and retaining businesses in Greene, Guthrie, Audubon and Adair Counties at their annual meeting held at the Lake Panorama Conference Center on Thursday evening, Jan. 28.
Read MoreMain Street gathers shopping flash mob
Main Street’s promotion committee is leading a new promotion called a cash mob in February. The committee has named it “Who Loves Ya, Baby?” On Saturday, Feb. 13, at 10:30 am people in the community will meet at the Main Street Office at 110 W. Lincoln Way in Jefferson to draw out of a hat the name of one Main…
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~by Valerie Ogren for the Greene County Genealogical Society Meeting notice: The Greene County Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, Feb. 6, at 10 am in the basement meeting room of the Jefferson public library. Terry Clark, children’s library director, will present the program. I’m not sure what the topic will be, but you can be sure that when a librarian is at the helm,…
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Please send your news item to Jean Borgeson at jeanb@iowatelecom.net Feb. 1, 2016 Rippey ready to welcome BRR riders: Rippey organizations and their volunteers are busy this week as they ready themselves for BRR (Bike Ride to Rippey) this Saturday, Feb. 6. The Rippey fire department will be hosting a beer “tent” at the fire station. They will serve walking…
Read MoreRocket boys split weekend hoops games
The Paton-Churdan boys beat the Woodbine Tigers at Woodbine Friday but lost to the Boyer Valley Bulldogs Saturday in Churdan. In Friday’s game Woodbine scored just four points in the first quarter and the Rockets held a 17-4 lead at the end of the quarter. The Tigers outscored the Rockets by one point in the second quarter for a 29-17 score…
Read MoreGreene County included in questionable campaign tactic
Edited Tuesday at 5:45 pm At least one Greene County precinct in the Republican caucus was hit with what Dr Ben Carson’s campaign has identified as a “dirty trick” attributed to the campaign of Sen Ted Cruz. The Carson campaign alleges that the Cruz campaign sent messages were sent via Twitter and email immediately before the start of the caucuses saying that…
Read MoreGreene County district court, week ending Jan. 29
In Greene County district court Tyrrell Rilee Scheuermann, 19, of Story City was granted deferred judgments Jan. 22 after he pleaded guilty to one count of interference with official acts causing injury and one count of criminal mischief-third degree. On the interference charge, a judgment was entered for a $625 civil penalty and a $125 Law Enforcement Initiative (LEI) surcharge and he…
Read MoreGreene County magistrate court, week ending Jan. 29
In Greene County magistrate court a judgment was entered James Michael Lefeber of Jefferson on a charge of harassment-third degree. Lefeber was fined $100 with a $35 surcharge and $60 court costs. Persons paid fines for scheduled traffic violations during the week ending Jan. 29 as follows: Morgan Ann Forkner of Paton and Chelsey Elaine Morman of Perry, operation without…
Read MoreTrump tops Cruz by two votes in Greene County
With all seven precincts reporting results in the GOP caucuses, Greene County Republicans favored Donald Trump by just two votes, 164 to 162. GOP caucuses a straw poll of presidential preference; the vote is not binding on delegates to the county convention. Per the caucus rules, participants were allowed to speak on behalf of a candidate, with each candidate limited to…
Read MoreLocal Democrats pick Clinton
~by Denise O’Brien Van, special to GreeneCountyNewsOnline More than 200 Democrats from Jefferson’s three precincts showed up Monday evening at Greene County High School to help begin the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The majority of Democrats in all three precincts went for Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders made a good showing. Martin O’Malley didn’t get one delegate to the Democrats’ county…
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