Two board members agree with 75 percent of teachers who want mask mandate; three board members see it differently At the end of a grueling school board meeting, Greene County school superintendent Tim Christensen delivered a bit of good news related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The USDA has extended funding for free breakfast and lunch for all students for the…
Read MoreDay: October 21, 2020
World Polio Day Oct. 24
Rotary Clubs around the world are marking Oct. 24 as World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds, and support to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today. When Rotary and its partners launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative more than three decades ago, polio paralyzed 1,000 children every day. Great progress against…
Read MoreHazel Frederick, 1928 – 2020
Private family services were held Oct. 22 for Hazel Lavonne Frederick, 91, of Jefferson. Pastor Larry Monthei of Bagley United Methodist Church offered words of comfort. Casket bearers were Daniel Frederick, Sarah Borgeson, Carolyn Renshaw, Elizabeth Pierce, Karen Tungesvik, Mary Hinton and Bill Frederick. Interment was at Richland Township Cemetery in Guthrie County. Hazel Lavonne Byrns Frederick was born November…
Read MoreCovid-19 is trending down in county
The number of positive Covid-19 cases in Greene County grew by two more on Tuesday, bringing the Wednesday morning total to 182, according to Greene County director of public health Becky Wolf. Although numbers are still increasing, the rate of increase has slowed. The average positivity rate over the past 14 days is 6.5 percent. Days to double is at…
Read MoreVFW auxiliary distributes grant funds
The David Mosher VFW Post 9599 auxiliary applied to the VFW Foundation for a 2019-2020 Community Support Grant and received a $1,000 grant. Fund were recently distributed to non-profit organizations in Greene County. The non-profit organizations chosen who received $200 each were Boy Scout Troop #534, Girl Scout Troop #462, the Action Resource Center food pantry, PAWS and Imagine the…
Read MoreChurdan library board nixes Halloween party
The Churdan libfary board announced earlier this week that restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic make it too difficult to host the annual Halloween party for youngsters in the community. “Let us only hope the pandemic will soon come to an end and some sense of normalcy will return,” said library board president Anthony J. Geisler
Read MoreSchool board to hold hearing on disposition of 1921 building
The Greene County Schools board of education expects to decide the fate of the 1921 school building, the former middle school, at its regular meeting Wednesday, Oct. 21. A public hearing will be held at 6:30 pm as required by Iowa Code. The following Notice of Public hearing was posted in the district’s official newspapers: “Notice is hereby given that…
Read MoreJeff council takes first step on animal shelter
The Jefferson city council at its Oct. 13 meeting cleared the way for construction of a new animal shelter on property donated for that purpose by Greene County Development Corporation. The council accepted the property from GCDC in order to put the title in the city’s name. That will allow utilities to be run to the site, which is approximately…
Read MoreHow to get rid of the news-blues
~a column by Colleen O’Brien It’s not just the political news that dismays me; it is just about all the news. Today I learn that Amazon paid no taxes last year. And for nine years they’ve paid federal income taxes at a 3.0 percent rate. Corporate tax hovered around 35 percent during all that time. The company paid so little…
Read MoreHoliday lights and drainage ditches topics for supervisors
~by Janice Harbaugh for GreeneCountyNewsOnline Preparation for winter was among topics presented to the Greene County supervisors at their regular meeting October 19. On a festive note, the supervisors asked county attorney Thomas Laehn to prepare resolutions under the public art policy to allow for the display of snowflake lights in the trees on the courthouse grounds. The lights were…
Read MoreHarvest three weeks ahead of last year, two weeks ahead of average
Harvest is nearing completion for some as Iowa farmers had 6.4 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Oct. 18, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Other field activities again included baling corn stalks, applying fertilizer and manure, and fall tillage. Cover crops are beginning to green up where early planting was possible. Topsoil moisture condition across…
Read MorePheasant season promising with counts high, crops out of fields
Tens of thousands of hunters in blaze orange will take to the fields when Iowa’s pheasant season opens Oct. 31. And with pheasant populations on par with the best counts in the past decade, including six of the nine survey regions averaging more than 20 pheasants per route – the most since 2007, hunters can afford to be optimistic. “Given…
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