Volunteers needed to help load container Midwest Mission will celebrate a historic milestone Tuesday, Aug. 4, as it sends its first international shipment from its Jefferson location. The shipment, consisting of student tables and desks, will be loaded at Greene County Elementary School. Greene County Community Schools has replaced the tables and desks for the coming school year and is…
Read MoreDay: July 29, 2026
The proof is in the pudding: A play
~by Colleen O’Brien Scene in a pub in Jefferson, Iowa, on a late summer day, 2026: Six townies lounge at the bar chatting, sipping, gazing into space. A lone woman sits at a table smiling dreamingly as she munches on French fried onion rings. The bartender chats with the old guy leaning against the wall at the end of the…
Read MoreView from my window – Corn back in the ‘old’ days
July 26, 2026 The corn in and around Greene County is showing its tassels. I used to have a quirky evil inward smile when I worked in the Lucas Building at the Capitol Complex. I smirked as I told my city slicker friends that “the corn was having sex at this time of the year.” The tassel is the male…
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