Year: 2023

The skies were sunny and the mood definitely upbeat for the 75 or so area residents who attended the official opening of the Greene County Animal Shelter and Rotary Centennial Dog Park Sunday, Sept. 24. The animal shelter has been operational for several months, but the majority of the work on the dog park was finished last week. Don Orris,…

~by Taylor Teays for the Scranton Journal | photo courtesy of Bridget Allen Nathan Behne, kicker for the Greene County football team, has more than just college prospects riding on his senior football season as he raises money for childhood cancer with every point he scores.  Last summer, Behne attended the Kohl’s National Showcase, a national kicking and punting camp,…

This November will mark the 25th consecutive year for the Rotary Club of Jefferson’s Annual Charity Auction. Thanks to the generosity of local businesses and individuals over the past quarter of a century, the auction has resulted in more than $600,000 being given back to the community in the form of grants to non-profits, schools, youth, and other community projects,…

~by Denise Van for the Greene County Historical Society Driving on Highway 144 from Grand Junction to Perry, local oldtimers probably note the town of Angus on the Greene and Dallas County line, a place anchored by an aging grain elevator before the eastward turn to Perry. Nancy Hanaman of Rippey will tell the story of that ill-fated mining town…

A large swath of Iowa received rainfall this week reducing the days suitable for fieldwork to 5.3 during the week ending Sept. 24, 2023, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Field activities for the week were mainly harvesting corn and soybeans. Topsoil moisture condition across Iowa rated 27 percent very short, 46 percent short, 26 percent adequate and…

Greene County is one of several governmental agencies who were asked for documents by Michael J. Merritt of Newton under Iowa’s Freedom of Information Act. Merritt’s requests have been so expansive, and followed so many times by complaints to the Iowa Public Information Board (IPIB), that the IPIB is now considering proposing legislation that would enable state agencies, as well…

by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital DispatchSeptember 22, 2023 A Navy veteran who says he has PTSD is the man responsible for triggering proposed new restrictions on Iowans’ access to government documents. The individual, Michael J. Merritt of Newton, calls himself “Cipher Hunter” and describes himself as a “creative writer/musician and information warfare specialist.” In the lengthy, stream-of-consciousness missives he has…