The 2021 Bell Tower Festival with a theme “Mission Impossible 2.0” is slated for this weekend, June 11-12, in Jefferson. Favorite events like the opening ceremony and the parade will look very much as they have in years past. New events this year include Ironside axe throwing, Big Wheels races, a Ribs cook-off and more. The schedule follows: Friday, June…
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Entries welcome for Bell Tower Festival parade
All area businesses and organizations, class reunion groups, churches, political groups, and anyone who wants to be in a parade still has time to register to be part of the Rotary Club of Jefferson’s Bell Tower Festival parade Saturday, June 12. The parade will step off from the Greene County Middle School student parking lot at 11 am and follow…
Read MoreMore baseball coming to Rippey
The Mid-Iowa Baseball League has scheduled several games at Walt Anderson in southwest Rippey. There is no admission charge. Bleacher seating is available. All are welcome!
Read MoreSneak peak at TJG greenhouse Friday
Thomas Jefferson Gardens board members invite all to “take a peek inside our greenhouse” on Friday, June 11 from 5-7 pm. The first 100 visitors will receive a free plant started from seed in the new greenhouse. In March of 2021 the new greenhouse was delivered to Thomas Jefferson Gardens at 201 E. Lincoln Way in Jefferson after a trip…
Read MoreGarden Club Yard of the Month to Magills on Riverside Drive
A search of more than 100 Iowa places brought Tim and Kay Magill to Jefferson where they chose to retire. Their imaginative garden at 1200 Riverside, their home since 2015, is the June 2021 Yard of the Month chosen by the Jefferson Garden Club. A focal point at the corner of the front of the yard is a perennial garden encircled…
Read More‘Reading COLORS Your World’ at the Jefferson public library this summer
“Orange” you glad it’s time for the summer reading program at the Jefferson public library? No, it’s not a “pigment” of your imagination! It really is time for the 2021 summer reading program: “Reading COLORS Your World!” Children 4 years old through 5th grade are invited to participate in this free program. There will also be a special reading program…
Read MoreChurdan library tells summer reading plans
The Churdan public library staff has announced plans for the 2021 summer reading program. Story Time will be Wednesdays, June 9 – July 21, as follows: 9:15-9:30 am – Rubber Ducky program for children birth to 2 years old. 9:30 -10:30 am – Story time activities will be geared for a preschool audience. Any child may attend, but activities will…
Read MorePeoples Bank donates to GC Early Learning Center
A gift of $15,000 from the Peoples Bank will help ensure that “Growth Happens Here” at the Greene County Early Learning Center (GCELC), a nonprofit childcare center serving children and families from throughout Greene county. An early supporter of the project, the Peoples Banks are supporting the construction of a new building for the center in Jefferson that will…
Read MoreNew pet ordinance would mandate TNR
The Jefferson city council will once again discuss the issue of unowned cats. On the agenda for the June 8 meeting is discussion of a proposed addition dealing with feral cats to the city’s animal protection and control ordinance. The ordinance would mandate participating in a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program. The ordinance defines “feral” as “wild or untamed.” It specifies that…
Read MoreGreene County district court, week ending June 4
In Greene County district court Scott Thomas Perdue, 44, of Ogden was sentenced May 28 to five years in prison after he changed his plea to guilty to a charge of possession of methamphetamine- second offense. The prison term was suspended and he was placed on probation to the Iowa Department of Correctional Services for two years. He was fined…
Read MoreWolf reports another death due to Covid-19
Covid-19 remains a serious health issue. Greene County public health director Becky Wolf on June 4 reported the death of a Greene County resident due to Covid-19. The county’s death toll due to the pandemic is now at 11. “Covid-19 is still a real threat. Please get vaccinated,” Wolf said. She reported that 3,696 persons, 42 percent, of all Greene…
Read MorePheasant causes fatal accident
A pheasant is thought to the be the cause of a single-vehicle crash in southern Greene County that killed a Des Moines early Friday. According to information from the Iowa State Patrol, Theodore Wayne Sanford McGinnis, 30, of Des Moines was southbound on County Road P-14 (J Ave) just north of County Road E-63 in Greenbrier Township when he apparently…
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