Addison Gannon was named Greene County Fair Queen and will represent Greene County in the State Fair Queen pageant next month. Gannon will be a senior at Greene County High School this fall. She has been an active 4-H member for eight years and has participated in numerous activities throughout high school, including cheer, volleyball, track, softball, National Honor Society,…
Read MoreDay: July 9, 2025
History repeating
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Books and movies about World War II have invited me in since I first fell in love with Iowa native William Schirer’s writing. He was a correspondent in Paris and then Germany for the Chicago Tribune, among other media. He eventually worked with Edward R. Murrow, stationed in London with CBS, in setting up reporters…
Read MoreSupervisors agree to funding for P-C ELC, discuss Zoom options after hack
Honor longtime secondary roads employee Kevin Bauer on his retirement The Greene County supervisors at their July 7 meeting approved a 28E agreement with the Paton-Churdan Early Learning Center, allowing the county to provide $180,000 to the center for construction of a new building. The payments will be spread out over several years. The ELC board is working to raise…
Read MoreStop in for ‘Fair Chats’ this weekend
The Greene County Historical Society will again present three “Fair Chats” in its building near the north entrance on the Greene County Fairgrounds on Friday, July 11, and Saturday July 12. The short informal chats invite audience participation. Here’s the schedule: Friday, June 11, at 11 am – “Why 4-H: Yesterday and Today”. Former Grene County Extension director Craig Hertel…
Read MoreMedical Center preparing for in-house MRI machine
Greene County Medical Center CEO Chad Butterfield announced that minor construction work will soon begin in the Imaging Department as the organization prepares for the arrival of a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit. “Back in 2015, during a major renovation of the medical center, leadership had the foresight to include a dedicated space within our Imaging Department to one…
Read MoreIowa soil moisture levels improving
Farmers had 4.8 days suitable for fieldwork to during the week ending July 6, 2025, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Topsoil moisture condition across Iowa rated 1 percent very short, 10 percent short, 73 percent adequate and 16 percent surplus. Ratings in west central Iowa were 3 percent very short, 9 percent short, 71 percent adequate and…
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