Babysitting Basics offered Oct. 10

Registration deadline Oct. 1 Babysitting Basics, a course for Greene County youth in grades 5-8, will be held Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Greene County Extension office in Jefferson. Cost is $40 for all registrations received by Thursday, Oct. 1, and class size is limited. If there is room, additional registrations will be accepted…

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Deputies to start covering JPD shifts next week

Laehn explains ‘benchmarks’ in 28E agreement The Jefferson city council followed suit with the Greene County supervisors, approving the necessary 28E agreement between the two entities to assure adequate law enforcement coverage for the city of Jefferson. The one-year agreement is intended to give the Jefferson police department time to rebuild from a critical shortage of personnel. The agreement is…

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A brave magazine

~a column by Colleen O’Brien “Scientific American,” the longest published magazine in America (August 28, 1845), for the first time in its 175 years has endorsed a presidential nominee. Editors have endorsed Joseph R. Biden because they are so afraid of Donald J. Trump. The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its…

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