All are invited to celebrate the monarch’s journey from Canada, through Iowa, to Mexico at the 2016 Monarch Festival Sunday, Sept. 18 from 12 to 4 pm at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines. “Each fall, the iconic monarch butterfly sets it sights on the mountains of Mexico,” said Jessie Lowry, conservation manager at Blank Park Zoo. “They travel, en…
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Youth deer hunting season starts Sept. 17
The Iowa deer hunting tradition will be passed on to about 10,000 youths who are participating in the youth deer hunting season, which opens on Sept. 17. This season provides an opportunity to teach deer hunting, wildlife behavior, and safe hunting practices to resident youths while they are under the watchful eye of a licensed adult.
Read MoreRam football team at 0-3 after loss at home to DC-G
Updated Sept. 14 with additional stats prepared by The Scranton Journal The Greene County Ram football team opened its home season and Class 3A District 2 play with a 18-12 loss to the Dallas Center-Grimes Mustangs. The Mustangs were ranked #8 in Class 3A two weeks ago, but fell out of the rankings with a loss to Pella High School last…
Read MoreRams fall to S. Hamilton in v’ball
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 MoreUpdate: 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.
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