The Greene County girls track and field team placed third of 10 teams and the boys placed fifth of 10 teams at the Carroll CoEd track and field meet held April 10 at the Carroll athletic field. The track portion of the meet began with sprint medley relays for the girls. The senior relay team of Katrina Heupel, Isabella Schroeder,…
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Trinity Lutheran Church to dedicate building improvements April 23
When is the best time to tear up carpets, move furniture, and turn things upside down for construction work? For Trinity Lutheran, that time was in the midst of the Covid pandemic. Church services were being broadcast online—few members were present in the church on Sunday. No Sunday school was being held for children. When meetings were needed, they were…
Read MoreSupervisors officially oppose Senate bill to add another cent to statewide sales tax, eliminate LOSST
The Greene County supervisors at their April 10 meeting approved a resolution in opposition to Senate File 550, a bill that would eliminate the 1-cent Local Options Sales and Service Tax (LOSST), now in place in most Iowa counties, and replace it with an additional 1-cent state sales tax. The state sales tax would increase from 6 to 7 cents.…
Read MoreStopfinder app goes live April 14
Beginning Friday morning, April 14, parents of Greene County Schools bus riders will have access to information about their children’s bus location in real-time. The district has completed Phase 2 of the Stopfinder app roll out with the installation of GPs devices on route busses. GPS will be enabled on the busses Thursday evening. At that time parents will be…
Read MoreGreene County Fine Arts Hall of Fame inductees announced
The Greene County Schools activities office recently announced the inaugural class of the newly formed Greene County Fine Arts Hall of Fame. This year’s class is highly decorated. Teresa Lawler – Teresa Lawler served as Jefferson-Scranton’s speech coach from 1995 to 2007. During her time as the speech coach, 94 individual events and 32 large group events were chosen as…
Read MoreFood safety for events offered by ISU Greene County Extension
Is your organization planning to serve food at an upcoming event? The Bell Tower Festival, RAGBRAI and other summer events are often fundraisers or service projects for clubs and non-profit organizations. From popcorn to hotdogs, nachos to fresh fruit, the safety of everyone eating at an event relies on workers and volunteers following proper food safety procedures. Iowa State University…
Read More‘An Afternoon of Poetry’ April 23 at the museum
~by Denise Van for the Greene County Historical Society Local poets will read their rhymes aloud on an April Sunday afternoon at the Greene County Historical Museum in celebration of National Poetry Month. There will be blank verse poems, too. The public is invited to the free program, which will be held at 2 p.m., on April 23. The event…
Read MoreView from My Window
Books and library control in Iowa ~a column by Mary Weaver OK! I admit it. When in Mrs. Osborn’s fourth grade class at the former Rippey Consolidated School, two of the boys showed me National Geographic colored photos of bare breasted African women. I suspect our teacher knew what we were giggling about. No parents called the school in protest.…
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