The proposed FY2026 (year ending June 30, 2026) for the city of Jefferson shows general revenue of $4,182,678, general fund expenditures of $4,404,312, and a combined levy rate of $14.88 (per $1,000 of taxable valuation). The combined levy rate is unchanged from the current year. However, the portion of the levy for debt service is up 36 cents over the…
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Annual BRR is this Saturday
The town of Rippey will once again follow its annual Bike Ride to Rippey tradition this Saturday, Feb. 1. Registration and check-in at Hotel Pattee in Perry will be from 8 am to 1 pm. The 48th annual BRR ride will kick off at Willis Ave and 2nd St in Perry at 10 am. From Perry, riders will start their trek toward…
Read MoreTwo Ram grapplers champions at HOIAC tourney
~by Dustin Teays for The Scranton Journal A pair of Ram wrestlers earned champion titles at the Heart of Iowa Activities Conference tournament at Roland-Story Jan. 24. Overall, the team netted two champions, two second-place finishes, one fifth-place finish, and one sixth-place finish. The two champions on the day were Jaron Jacobs, who took first place at 113 pounds with…
Read MoreCarman’s scoring burst not enough to top PCM
~by Dustin Teays for The Scranton Journal The Greene County Rams boys’ basketball team had a career high scorer but it wasn’t enough to win when they faced Jan. 24. Senior Isaac Carman led the Rams with 22 points with most of his damage coming from beyond the arc. Carman went a blistering seven for 11 from three-point land and…
Read MoreRam girls, boys bowlers both pick up wins
~by Dustin Teays for The Scranton Journal They may have been over different teams, but both the Greene County Rams girls’ and boys’ bowling teams earned wins last week. In their first meet of the week, both Rams teams took on Fort Dodge Jan. 20. The girls ultimately fell by a score of 1,919-1,730, but the boys were able to…
Read MoreP-C boys fall to AR-We-Va, CR-B in hoops
~by Dustin Teays for The Scranton Journal The Paton-Churdan Rockets boys’ basketball team is enjoying one of its best seasons in recent years, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its speed bumps. The win total for the Rockets so far this year represents the most wins in a season since the 2019-20 season – their record is now 6-9 –…
Read MoreP-C girls hoops team marks Senior Night
~by Dustin Teays for the Scranton Journal The Paton-Churdan Rockets girls’ basketball team recently celebrated its seniors during Senior Night. Overall, the Rockets are an extremely young team, as showcased by the fact that there is just one senior on the roster, Grace Cullum. Cullum was recently recognized Jan. 21 during Senior Night against Ar-We-Va for her time with the…
Read MoreRam girls remain winless in hoops
~by Dustin Teays for The Scranton Journal This past week of matchups for the Greene County Rams girls’ basketball team featured one powerhouse. The Rams girls had two matchups last week, one against the Madrid Tigers Jan. 20, where they fell by a score of 58-35, and another against the high-powered and ranked PCM Mustangs Jan. 24, where they lost…
Read MoreView from my window – Ask our legislators about cancer rates at ‘Meet Your Legislator’ event
Governor Kim Reynolds provided the 2025 Condition of the State on Jan. 14. The budget she recommended was $9.43 billion. She recommended a $1 million allocation to study cancer in Iowa. This was 0.0111 per cent of the total budget. This allocation was to offset that the state of Iowa now has the second-highest cancer incidence among all U.S. states,…
Read MoreNew president actually dares people to respond to his hell-bent directives
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Pardon more than a thousand traitors, rioters, seditionists and insurrectionists from the damage they committed against the Capitol buildings’ police, windows, doors, walls, art, portraits, offices as they hit, broke, shat upon to the tune of millions of dollars not counting several lives and injuries on that day of Jan 6, 2021; and has Trump…
Read MoreLocal man finds strength, stamina in cardiac rehab at Greene County Medical Center
Tom Custer and his wife Laine, of rural Jefferson, are no strangers to healthcare. Tom spent nearly all his working career as a pharmacist and Laine served patients locally as a registered nurse. However, an early morning incident in mid-July was an eye-opening experience that has led to long-term changes for the Custer family. Tom woke up around 1 am on…
Read MoreWild Rose assessment dispute settled without the appeals board
Greene County attorney Thomas Laehn called a settlement in a dispute over the property valuation of Wild Rose Casino “the best outcome the county could get under the circumstances.” Laehn told the county supervisors at the Jan. 27 meeting that the Iowa Property Assessment Appeal Board (PAAB) recently heard an appeal of the assessment of Wild Rose Casino in Clinton…
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