The committee planning the Scranton’s sesquicentennial celebration for 2019 is looking for help. Carol Eason reported the committee’s activities at the Scranton city council meeting Aug. 8. Many Scranton residents attended the Glidden sesqui celebration earlier this month and were impressed with that committee’s ideas and organization, Eason said.
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City wants to share anger over railroad noise with UP
The Jefferson streets committee wants to share some of the heat for noisy railroad crossings with the source of the annoyance – Union Pacific railroad. The committee asked city staff to find a telephone number or email address residents can use to report excessive noise directly to UP.
Read More‘Hot’ vehicles but not hot weather for Hot August Night
Hot August Night in Jefferson last Thursday was all it was expected to be, except hot. Temperature was in the high 70s, making it a near perfect evening to stroll around the courthouse square and see the approximately 375 cars, trucks, motorcycles and tractors on display. There was no attendance count, but the Greene County Chamber & Tourism served 800…
Read MoreFarmers market, concert and pep rally next Tuesday
The courthouse square in Jefferson will be a busy place for people of all ages next Tuesday, Aug. 22, with the farmers market and supper, a band concert, and a community pep rally for the fall sports season. The farmers market will be on the east side of the courthouse from 4 to 6 pm. The season is in full…
Read MoreDeer licenses available now
Licenses to pursue Iowa’s deer herd went on sale Aug. 15 at more than 700 license sales agents statewide and online at www.iowadnr.gov. Resident Iowa hunters may purchase one any deer license for a gun season, one any deer license for archery season and one county specific antlerless deer only license.
Read MoreCounty moving forward on hoop building for storage
The county secondary roads department has applied for a building permit to put a hoop building on property it purchased in Scranton, county engineer Wade Weiss reported to the county supervisors Monday. The property is located on S. Kendrick St just south of Elm St. The secondary roads crew earlier this summer finished demolition of a house that had been…
Read MoreFirst Vision 2020 report – a microbrewery in Jefferson
The Vision 2020 project has yielded its first preliminary study on one of several ideas put at the top of the list by a steering committee – a brewery. The report was prepared by Megan McKay of PTB Consulting. She is affiliated with Peace Tree Brewing in Des Moines. After looking at the demographics of the county, the proximity of…
Read MoreFair Foundation planning benefit auction
The fourth annual dinner and auction to raise funds for improvements at the Greene County Fairgrounds is slated for Tuesday, Sept. 5, at Clover Hall on the fairgrounds. A social hour will begin at 5 pm, with dinner at 6 pm and the auction at 7 pm. Up for auction will be seed, chemicals, services and other agricultural and livestock…
Read MoreTest of voting equipment Aug. 29
A public test of the voting equipment to be used in the Sept. 12 school election will take place Tuesday, Aug. 29, starting at 9 am on the third floor of the courthouse. Testing of the OpenElect Voting Optical (OVO) scanners and OpenElect Voting Interface (OVI) machines will be done. Public testing of the equipment is required by the Code…
Read MoreCourthouse 100 celebration set for Oct. 27
The Courthouse 100 committee invites the public to mark the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Greene County courthouse Friday, Oct. 27, with a program reminiscent of the ceremony held exactly 100 years earlier. The committee will start the day hosting Java and Juice at 9:30 am in the rotunda. Tours of the building will be available during the…
Read MoreCrops struggle with continued dry weather
Most of Greene County in moderate drought All of Iowa experienced cooler than normal temperatures with very little precipitation scattered across the state during the week ending August 13, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Statewide there were 6.3 days suitable for fieldwork. Activities for the week included applying fungicides and insecticides, hauling grain, and haying.
Read MorePlant seduction
~a column by Colleen O’Brien The sight of my first palm tree when I stepped off the plane in San Diego as a young Navy bride hit something so familiar in my mind that it took me by surprise: I had been romanticizing palms since my preschool encounter with the line drawings of them in Kahil Gibran’s The Prophet, a…
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