Day: March 11, 2020

The Greene County supervisors awarded county elected officials salary increases ranging from 3 to 6 percent March 9 just prior to adopting the budget for Fiscal Year 2021 (beginning July 1, 2020). The increases follow the recommendation of the compensation board last December. Receiving the comp board’s recommendation was an agenda item for the supervisors, but  discussing it was not…

~courtesy of The Scranton Journal Changes made by the Iowa State Legislature have potential candidates for political and non-political offices rushing to get signatures before the deadlines this month. The filing period for public offices for the June 2 primary and the Nov. 3 general elections are fast approaching. Any Republicans or Democrats running for federal or state offices have…

Jayme Ungs has been selected as the new market president of the Peoples Bank Jefferson location. John Rigler III, president & COO of Peoples Bank, made the announcement last week. Ungs brings a significant amount of expertise to the Peoples Bank team with direct emphasis in agriculture and commercial banking. His most recent experience includes serving as a commercial team…

sSt Patrick’s Day, March 17, is one of the biggest drinking nights of the year, according to the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau and the Iowa Department of Public Safety. Unfortunately, drunk driving accounts for nearly one-third of vehicle-related fatalities in the United States. Nationally, in 2018 alone, 73 persons (39 percent of all crash fatalities) were killed in drunk-driving crashes…

~by Janice Harbaugh for GreeneCountyNewsOnline Mike Palmer, Jefferson city administrator, updated the board of supervisors about downtown building projects at the regular meeting on March 9. Palmer said an architect looked at the Air Temp building and walked through the former Pizza Ranch. Palmer said there is some interest in the former Pizza Ranch eventually being rented as individual bays.