Year: 2016

Sixteen storefronts in Jefferson’s Main Street district will be improved with an eye to historic integrity with financial help from a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant awarded by the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA).

Paving is being done this week on Trinity Ave and 125th St on the east edge of Paton. The paving is being done nearly a year later than planned but at a substantial savings. The project was scheduled for last summer, but rainy weather during the spring and summer kept the county secondary roads crew from doing the necessary grading.…

The four local candidates running in the Republican primary June 7 will attend a forum Monday, May 23, at 7 pm at the Churdan public library.

The 100 or so persons who attended the rededication of the cornerstone of the Greene County courthouse Sunday afternoon got a rare and very informative look at Freemasonry as members of the Grand Lodge of Iowa conducted the rite’s cornerstone ritual. Only three Masonic rituals are done in public – the cornerstone dedication, the Masonic funeral, and a public installation…

Tom Fiegen, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in the June 7 primary, will be in Jefferson Wednesday, May 25. The meet-and-greet event from 7 to 8 pm at Prairie Blue Creative Arts, 114 N. Wilson, will be an opportunity for community members to hear Fiegen’s views and his proposed solutions to issues that include food, agriculture, and the environment.

The unregulated Union Pacific railroad crossing at C Ave will be equipped with crossing arms and signals after the county supervisors approved the project at their May 16 meeting.

Persons who are past due on court fines have an unexpected friend. Boone county attorney Dan Kolacia on Monday proposed a 28E agreement between Boone and Greene Counties for collection of delinquent fines. It would take a third party collection agency, and its 25 percent collection fee, out of the picture.

The Greene County board of supervisors will hold a public hearing to amend the current year budget Tuesday, May 31, at 9 am in the board room at the courthouse.

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) will hold a roundtable discussion in Greene County with Iowa veterans and community leaders as part of her 99 county tour across the state.

The Greene County Schools board of education’s public forum May 11 was the scene of a conversation that is held in school districts all over the country – what could and should the school do to address bullying. The answer from the board – continue discussion until strategies are developed.

Wet and cold conditions across much of Iowa slowed field work or even brought it to a standstill for the week ending May 15, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Statewide there were just 2.2 days suitable for fieldwork. There were some reports of frost in low-lying areas. Farmers in west central Iowa reported just 1.9 days suitable…