The gymnasium at the Greene County Community Center is closed until Aug. 8 as the gym floor is being replaced. A crew began taking out the 20-year-old SportCourt® Wednesday morning as the first step in installing a new SportCourt floor. According to Jefferson park and recreation director Vicky Lautner, the polypropylene floor has a life expectancy of 15 years. “It held…
Read MoreMonth: August 2018
Corn, beans still ahead of average year
Iowa farmers had 6.3 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending July 29, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Activities for the week included harvesting hay and oats for grain, applying chemicals and moving grain. Topsoil moisture levels statewide rated 5 percent very short, 20 percent short, 71 percent adequate and 4 percent surplus. Topsoil moisture levels…
Read MoreRAGBRAI – Two teams, two stories
~by Taylor Bates and Tori Riley The 2018 Registers’ Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI)® was the 21st time to ride across Iowa for Chicago native Brad Prendergast. Those 21 years have been all due to being “bit by the bug” as Prendergast put it. Prendergast, along with 50 to 60 other Chicago residents, come together for RAGBRAI, forming…
Read More‘Libraries Rock’ at Jefferson public library
This year’s summer reading program “Libraries Rock” at the Jefferson public library was all about things that rock…animals, science, music, art, books, and of course, rocks.
Read MoreGenealogical Society to meet Aug. 4
The regular meeting of the Greene County Genealogical Society will be held Saturday, Aug. 4, at 10 am in the basement meeting room of the Jefferson public library. Corinne Bancroft will have the program “This & That, Plus a Brick Wall Repair”. Everyone is welcome and the library is handicapped accessible.
Read MoreISU Extension names new farm management specialist
Tim Christensen will serve 11 counties including Greene AMES, Iowa ― Tim Christensen has joined Iowa State University Extension and Outreach as a farm management specialist. Christensen, who has worked at Iowa State as an agricultural specialist since 2015, will cover the counties of Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Greene, Harrison, Shelby, Audubon and Guthrie for ISU Extension…
Read MoreRAGBRAI gallery
Day two of RAGBRAI®, the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, left Denison on Monday, July 23, passed through Coon Rapids and Scranton before spending the night in Jefferson. An estimated 25,000 bicyclists rode the route, enjoying the hospitality of local residents and other vendors.
Read MorePheasant survey Aug. 1-15
The extent of impact that a late winter and heavy rains and flooding in northern Iowa in June and July had on pheasant nesting success will likely be seen when the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conducts its annual pheasant counts. The statewide survey takes place Aug. 1-15.
Read MoreAre you a tiny-house person?
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Upon visiting a house advertised as a “tiny house” in a neighborhood near me, it dawned on me that long ago my husband and I had become tiny house folks without knowing it. The term wasn’t around when we started out, so we thought of ourselves as merely living in smaller houses than most people…
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