Winners at Greene County Middle School in the Patriot’s Pen essay contest, sponsored locally by VFW Post 9599, were announced at a school assembly Monday morning. Madison Hayes won first place. She was awarded $50 and her essay will be forwarded to the district competition. Avery Walker placed second and received $20 and Jonathan Mobley placed third place and received $10.
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Churdan library slates open house, silent auction
The Churdan public library board and staff will host a Christmas open house Saturday, Dec. 17, from 11 am to 1 pm. Special honored guest will be Joanne Legore, who is retiring after serving 40 years on the library board.
Read MoreJefferson publisher featured in The Iowan
Janice Harbaugh of Jefferson and Raspberry Ridge Publishing are featured in the “iowareads” column in the November/December issue of The Iowan magazine. Harbaugh, doing business as Raspberry Ridge Publishing, has since 2011 preserved books by republishing them. She digitally scans at high resolution vintage books that are in the public domain (published before 1923), corrects the pages to enhance the clarity, and…
Read MoreNew book recalls Cooper in the 1940s
Cooper, Iowa, as experienced by a fourth-grade boy in 1945, is an important chapter in a new book about an Iowa boyhood. “Mistaken for a King: Sketches of a Small-Town Boyhood,” by Dan Kellams, recalls the adventures and characters encountered by the author during the 1940s in Marion, Iowa, then a town with a population of less than 5,000.
Read MoreIowa Central bond referendum fails to get super majority
Results are unofficial Iowa Central Community College’s $29.5 million bond referendum got the approval of a majority of voters but missed the 60 percent needed to pass a bond issue.
Read MoreNew terms for county Extension council members start in January
Five Greene County residents were elected to the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Greene County council in the Nov. 8 general election. They are Tom Heater, Pam Olerich, Doug Rieder and Bob Smith of Jefferson and Shari Minnehan of Churdan.
Read MoreScranton selected for 2017 Community Visioning program
Scranton is one of 10 Iowa communities that have been selected to participate in the Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning program in 2017. The award-winning program integrates technical landscape planning and design techniques with sustainable community action to assist community leaders and volunteers in making sound and meaningful decisions about the local landscape.
Read MoreE-57 bridge still closed after Nov. 29 accident
Greene County engineer Wade Weiss hopes to have County Road E-57 between K and L Avenues open again by the end of the week. The stretch of road has been closed since Pepsi truck driver Brad Ruhnke of Carroll lost control and dropped part of his rig through a bridge railing and into Greenbrier Creek last week.
Read MoreCounty health insurance rates increase 27 percent
The Greene County supervisors will be in cost savings mode when they consider the county’s health insurance benefit and the budget.
Read MoreSchool nets $1,000 for new books in ‘Read with Me!’ program
Students at Greene County Elementary will have new books to read thanks to a donation of $1,000 from “Read with Me!”, a collaboration of KCCI-TV and EMC Insurance. Along with the check came a dozen or so T-shirts in various sizes to use as incentives or at the school staff’s discretion.
Read MoreSupervisors end discussion of Grand Junction drainage
In the heat of August and with more than 20 landowners present the Greene County supervisors, acting as trustees of Drainage District 2, backed away from a decision to reclassify the district. In the cold of December, the supervisors made a decision not to reclassify the district, and they also decided not to proceed at this time with installing cured…
Read MoreGot mice? APE can help
West central Iowa farmers with mouse problems and Animal Protection and Education (A.P.E.) director Linn Price can help each other. A.P.E. has been asked to relocate 100 barn cats and another 30 house cats since the death of their Warren County owner last weekend. According to Price, the request came from the Animal Rescue League of Des Moines. The animals…
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