Tickets are on sale through March 9 for the inaugural BOOST Bash, slated for Saturday, March 24, at the Greene Room at Wild Rose Casino in Jefferson. BOOST is an acronym for Bringing Opportunities and Optimism for our Students and Teachers. Community members came together to plan this event that will directly benefit the students, teachers and classrooms of the…
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Extension, Farm Bureau to host grain marketing workshop in Ogden
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach of Boone and Greene Counties and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation are teaming up to offer a local “Winning the Game” workshop to help farmers work though their 2018 pre-harvest marketing plan.
Read MoreTalk’s cheap
~a column by Colleen O’Brien There are many wry expressions about hypocrisy that could define public officials who addressed the shooting of 17 people in a Florida school a week ago. “If you’re going to talk the talk, you’d better walk the walk.” “Talk doesn’t cook rice.” “He liked to go from A to Be without inventing letters between.” My…
Read MoreJefferson Matters slates Family Feud~Jefferson Edition
Where do you get ice cream in Jefferson? Name a business on the Square … or a street named after a President. It’s questions like these that will have four teams competing in the second edition of Family Feud~Jefferson Edition on Saturday, April 14, at the History Boy Theatre at RVP~1875 in Jefferson.
Read MoreYES campaign for school bond referendum begins
A contingency of more than 80 volunteers has organized to support the Greene County Community School’s effort to pass a school bond referendum on April 3. The name of the committee is Our Kids, Our Future – Greene County and is co-chaired by Keith Van Beek, Bill Raney and Peg Raney.
Read MoreOrnamental and turfgrass applicators course is March 7
Early registration ends Feb. 28 An ornamental and turfgrass applicators continuing instruction course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators will be held Wednesday, March 7. The program can be seen at locations across Iowa through the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP) team.
Read MoreChamber, Main Street tell Java & Juice schedule
Due to the popularity of this Java & Juice, Jefferson Matters Main Street and the Greene County Chamber will continue working together in the scheduling hosts for the Friday morning event.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Doug and Karen Lawton
To the editor, Doug and I would like to share our support for the upcoming school bond initiative, “Our Kids, Our Future…..Greene County”. The campaign slogan in itself has caused us to realize how strongly we personally believe in this project. Our own kids, who benefited from their education here, have now brought their own kids to Greene County to…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Karen Shannon
Dear editor, Third time’s a charm, or three strikes and you’re out! Which will it be? The opportunity that is being presented to Greene County with the career academy is one that reassures people like me that we made the right decision in choosing Greene County as our home.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Audrey Hinote
Dear residents of Greene County, My name is Audrey Hinote. I have called Greene County home for all of my 33 years. I grew up in Cooper next door my dad’s welding business, graduated from Jefferson-Scranton High School in 2003, and lived in Greene County while attending college in Carroll to pursue a degree in education. I teach second grade…
Read MoreThe Behn Report
February 16, 2018 In the Legislature: This week is the first funnel for this legislative session, making our days busy and full. This deadline focuses us on the issues we’d like to accomplish this year. Any bills, except for tax, spending, and oversight bills, we would like to consider for the rest of the session need to be through the…
Read MoreReynolds, Gregg announce ‘See something, say something’ campaign
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Kim Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg announced on Monday the launch of a new campaign to educate Iowans on the importance of reporting suspicious activity.
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