Jefferson voters will elect three persons to four-year terms on the city council in the Nov. 2 election. Five candidates are on the ballot: incumbents Harry Ahrenholtz, Darren Jackson and Pat Zmolek; and challengers Heath Enns and Mark Wright. All five participated in a candidate forum hosted by the Jefferson Rotary Club Oct 19. Rotarian Rick Morain was moderator. About…
Read MoreDay: October 27, 2021
GrCo students selected for All-State choir
Auditions for the All-State Music Festival were held Saturday, Oct. 23, at six sites around the state. Greene County students went to Atlantic to audition. Ten students auditioned for the All-State choir. Kierstin Purdie, Ava Schilling, Olivia Hoyt, Gavin VanderLinden and Brianna Blasnitz were selected. Daniele Madsen and Wyatt Villebro were both recalled and Daniele was chosen as a first alternate. These…
Read MoreCity/School election Tuesday, Nov. 2
Gaming referendum also on ballot Voters in Greene County will go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 2, for the city and school board elections. The five polling places will be open from 7 am to 8 pm. Voters will also cast a ballot on the continuation of gambling in the county. While the measure was overwhelmingly approved in 2013,…
Read MoreRams romp over R-S 55-14
Greene County (8-1) hosts OABCIG (8-1) Friday night ~by Taylor Teays for The Scranton Journal Greene County faced off against the Roland-Story Norsemen in the first round of Class 2A football playoffs last Friday night, taking the win 55-14 and advancing on to the second round this week. The Rams will host defending Class 1A state champion, OABCIG on Friday,…
Read MoreJeff council awards contract for animal shelter
Also learns of sale of former DrugTown building It’s taken longer than three years, but a new animal shelter is now close to becoming a reality. The Jefferson city council at its regular meeting Oct. 26 approved a contract with Jensen Builders to construct an animal shelter. Jensen’s base bid, at $894,900, was the low bid of three on the…
Read MoreDream on
~a column by Colleen O’Brien A fellow I recently met asked me to describe myself. I told him I was a worried Pollyanna. He said, “Isn’t that impossible?” Being pollyannaish means that one is “pleasantly, even unrealistically optimistic.” Which means I can’t be worried. But I’ve always been able to walk down the middle of the road, so I am…
Read MoreNew NHS members at Paton-Churdan
The Paton-Churdan National Honor Society inducted three new members Thursday, Oct. 21. Sophomores, juniors and seniors are eligible for National Honor Society based on their scholarship achievement of maintaining a 3.0 grade point average. Eligible students must then apply for membership. Applications are reviewed and scored based on a rubric. A faculty committee then reviews blind applications and selects new members based…
Read MoreSupes hear about naming an unnamed creek, need for a new communications tower
~by Janice Harbaugh for GreeneCountyNewsOnline The federal government wants to know if the Greene County board of supervisors supports naming an officially unnamed tributary of Cedar Creek. County attorney Thomas Laehn presented the question to the board at the regular meeting on Oct. 25. Laehn said a Churdan area resident had submitted an application to the federal government to have…
Read MoreCasino proves its value turning a ‘no’ vote into a ‘yes’
When Guy Richardson called his fellow supervisors in 2013 about possibly bringing a casino to Greene County, Dawn Rudolph of Scranton supported the idea right away, but thought it was a long shot. “I thought, ‘Well, that would be great if we can really do it,’” she recalls. Fast forward to 2021, Rudolph meets friends to plant flowers and grasses…
Read MoreHistorical Society will learn about Greene County’s early ‘fountain of youth’
~by Chuck Offenburger for the Greene County Historical Society At the Friday, Nov. 5, program of the Greene County Historical Society in Scranton, Mary Weaver of rural Rippey will tell of her home area’s Eagle Mineral Springs, which produced water so rejuvenating that the springs were touted as a local “fountain of youth.” They were located on the pioneer farm…
Read MoreCorn harvest 56 percent complete, bean harvest at 90 percent
Harvest was in full swing across Iowa until precipitation slowed progress over the weekend and limited farmers to 5.0 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending October 24, 2021, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Field activities continued to include harvesting soybeans and corn, fall tillage and applying fertilizer. Topsoil moisture levels statewide rated 7 percent very…
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