To the editor, The closing of the Landus Cooperative facility in Scranton will be a difficult and costly change for the area farmers and for the community. I commend Dawn Rudolph for writing her heart-felt op-ed in the April 10 edition of the Scranton Journal about this sad news. Although I lost my race for county supervisor against Dawn, I…
Read MoreDay: April 17, 2019
Iowans on the Titanic topic April 28 at Churdan library
What do an orphan train rider, a kidnapper, a betrayed wife, church missionaries, wealthy businessmen, a land baron’s wife, a maid, a farmer, a college student, immigrants and a newspaper reporter have in common? They all had ties to Iowa and the legendary Titanic, which struck an iceberg and plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912. Lake…
Read MoreCattlemen pledge $5,000 to flood relief
Cash donations welcome to lend more aid The Greene County Cattlemen feel the pain and stress of their neighboring beef producers in western Iowa and Nebraska. The organization has agreed to donate $5,000 to the Iowa and Nebraska Cattlemen’s Association to be distributed to their members. The Greene County Cattlemen’s board of directors welcome monetary donations to add to their…
Read MoreWinners told in Jefferson March Mania contest
Virginia pulled off the win in overtime in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament securing Samantha Busch first place in the Jefferson March Mania contest. Nearly 400 individuals participated in this year’s contest. Samantha Busch came in first and won a 43” Smart TV. Janice Keasey won second place and the Apple AirPods and Jeri Cunningham won third place and a…
Read MoreAvailable Buildings Tour, EntreBASH slated in Jefferson
Greene County Development Corporation and Jefferson Matters: Main Street are partnering to host a tour of available buildings for business and residential opportunities in downtown Jefferson on April 25 & 27. The tour includes retail space, office space and housing options within the Main Street District. To date, twelve locations will be on the tour.
Read MoreLocal groups represented at tourism workshop
A contingent from Greene County attended the Guide Training and Certification program at the Central Iowa Expo administration building on Thursday, April 11. The workshop was an opportunity to learn methods to allow visitors to have a more memorable experience, as well as to network with 100 other persons representing various tourist opportunities from across the state of Iowa.
Read MoreLaehn warns of precedent set by sculpture on the courthouse grounds
~by Janice Harbaugh for GreeneCountyNewsOnline Displaying art on the courthouse grounds was the topic of a lesson county attorney Thomas Laehn provided the county supervisors at their April 15 meeting. His lesson may mean that the 2019 Ring Out for Art sculpture contest organized by Jefferson Matters: Main Streets Tower View Team may be the last, or at least the…
Read MoreFarmers slowed by last week’s rainy, windy weather
Iowa farmers were waiting for warmer weather and drier conditions as snow, ice and rain throughout the state prevented much fieldwork during the week ending April 14, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Statewide there were 1.9 days suitable for fieldwork. Southwest Iowa had the most days suitable for fieldwork at 4.1 days. Farmers in west central Iowa had…
Read MoreSome people work to save the world, not make it worse
~a column by Colleen O’Brien If you, like me, have a tendency to worry about climate change, overpopulation, floods, fires, loss of farmland to urbanization, mass migration because of all these things and most governments ignoring it all for power grabs and other political idiocy that does not advance and protect humankind and its planet…it’s comforting to come upon news…
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