Patriotic music will play from the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower Wednesday, Inauguration Day, at 12:15 pm. Mahanay Maestro Rick Morain’s playlist will include “The National Anthem,” “America, the Beautiful,” “America,” “This Land Is Your Land,” and “God Bless America”. The Greene County Democrat central committee was told Tuesday mid-day that their request for patriotic music would be granted after initially…
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‘People’s Inauguration’ set for Thursday
All interested persons are invited to participate in a “People’s Inauguration” Thursday, Jan. 21, at 12:15 pm on the south side of the courthouse in Jefferson. The event, which will be mirrored across the nation, will be an opportunity “to renew our spirits and recommit to our core values,” wrote Sikh activist, author and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project…
Read MoreSupes change their tune on bell tower music
~by Janice Harbaugh for GreeneCountyNewsOnline The Greene County supervisors changed their tune about music from the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower at their regular meeting Monday. In a sudden and complete reversal from what they said just four days earlier, the supervisors and county attorney Thomas Laehn decided at their meeting on Jan 18 that the Public Art policy is in…
Read MoreCovid positivity rate at 10.1 percent
The 14-day positivity rate for Covid-19 testing in Greene County has again crossed the 10 percent mark. Greene County public health director reports the rate at 10.1 percent as of Tuesday morning, Jan. 19. The total number of Covid-19 cases in the county is 719. There have been three new cases in the last 24 hours, five in the last…
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