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Day: November 9, 2022

Adventures along Iowa’s historic Lincoln Highway to be presented Sunday

Darcy Dougherty Maulsby of Lake City published her new book, “The Lincoln Highway in Iowa – A History” in October.  Maulsby, who is known as “Iowa’s Storyteller”, will present stories from her new book during a fun, interactive program, “Adventures Along Iowa’s Historic Lincoln Highway—the Ultimate Iowa Road Trip,” at the Grand Junction Community Center on Sunday, Nov. 13, at…

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Supes hear of new housing initiative, consider charging to use courthouse property

Next week’s meeting moved to Tuesday ~by Janice Harbaugh for GreeneCountyNewsOnline Describing themselves as a “outgrowth of Nueva Vida,” the program to encourage Latino families and workers to locate in Greene County, local representatives of the newly-formed 144-Corridor Housing Initiative (144-CHI) spoke to the Greene County board of supervisors at the meeting on Nov. 7. Mary Weaver of Rippey and…

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Community Thanksgiving service planned

An ecumenical community Thanksgiving service will be held Sunday, Nov. 20, at 7 pm at Central Christian Church in Jefferson. Pastor Daniel Cunningham of First Baptist Church in Jefferson will share the message, and the Greene County Singers will share music. The offerings from this service will be used to support the Homeless Coalition. A fellowship time will follow the…

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Harvest nearly complete, much of Iowa gets needed rain

Warm and dry conditions early in the week helped accelerate row crop harvest, which remained ahead of average with 5.3 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Nov. 6, 2022, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Fieldwork included harvesting row crops, completing fall tillage, anhydrous application, baling stalks, seeding cover crops, and applying manure. Topsoil moisture condition…

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Veterans Day events told

Greene County veteran services director Mike Bierl reminds veterans of these Veterans Day observances: 1) Greene County High School hosting a breakfast on November 9thbecause of students’ trimester testing Nov. 11.  Breakfast will be served for veterans from 7:30 am until 8:15am in the Ram Restaurant at the north entrance to the school. Veterans will go to the auditorium at…

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American Legion places new bench near WWI tank

Members of American Legion Post #11 of Jefferson dedicated a 6-foot concrete bench to the community Oct. 22. The bench is located across from the Army tank on the north side of Lincoln Way, across from the Milwaukee Road depot. American Legion members thought seating was needed in the immediate vicinity of the tank and World War I monument. Veterans…

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Who are the slackers?

~ a column by Colleen O’Brien I hope you all voted. We were reminded so many times to do so in the last month I feared any anti-authoritarian would just shut down and go fishing. There’s a condescension in repeating directives, and people get this; we aren’t all dumb deplorables. An occasional reminder of the county treasurer who lost by…

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