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Elaine Deluhery of Jefferson is the winner of the Jefferson Telecom directory photo contest. She produced a collage commemorating the Greene County courthouse 100th anniversary. The winning photograph will grace the cover of the Jefferson Telecom 2018-2019 telephone directory. Deluhery won $100 in Greene County Chamber Checks. A celebration of the Greene County courthouse’s centennial was held Oct. 27, 2017.…

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Student athletes in fall sports will be saluted at a community pep rally on the downtown square Tuesday, Aug. 21. The evening begins with the weekly Greene County farmers market from 4 to 6:30 pm. The Greene County Early Learning Center will serve a supper of sloppy Joes, chips, carrots, cookies/bars, and a beverage. There is a charge for the…

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Last Thursday wasn’t the hottest August night, but it was hot enough that many of the exhibitors in the Hot August Night car, truck and motorcycle show took advantage of the shade on the courthouse lawn. According to organizer Chuck Wenthold, about 325 vehicles were on display. Award winners were selected by Peoples Choice voting.

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Don Orris and Phil Siglin are the winners of Home State Bank’s Extraordinary Citizen Award for August. Wendy Vander Linden, mother of Gavin and Lucy Vander Linden, nominated Orris and Siglin for their many hours each summer to make the children’s archery classes possible and a success year after year.

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Greene County Farm Bureau held a member appreciation picnic on Monday evening, Aug. 6, at Clover Hall in Jefferson. Approximately 100 members attended. Iowa Farm Bureau president Craig Hill gave the keynote address. Hill told members that this year marks Iowa Farm Bureau’s 100th anniversary of serving members and enriching Iowa’s communities.

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Safe home food preservation will be the topic of an evening session Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the ISU Extension and Outreach office in Jefferson. Ann Heuer, ISU Extension & Outreach nutrition and wellness specialist will be the instructor at Food Preservation 101. Participants will be introduced to safe home food preservation methods including canning, dehydrating, and freezing. They will receive…

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The seventh annual Scranton tractor ride will be on the road Sunday, Aug. 19. Registration will begin at 8 am at the Scranton Community Center. Tractors will roll out at 9 am. The tentative route takes the tractors north out of Scranton, back south on P-14 and then east on E-53 to the Greene County Fairgrounds in Jefferson. After a…

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Juhl Feed Inc of Dana was presented the Greene County Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture award at the 2018 Greene County Farm Bureau member appreciation picnic held Monday, Aug. 6.

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~by Taylor Bates and Tori Riley The 2018 Registers’ Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI)® was the 21st time to ride across Iowa for Chicago native Brad Prendergast. Those 21 years have been all due to being “bit by the bug” as Prendergast put it. Prendergast, along with 50 to 60 other Chicago residents, come together for RAGBRAI, forming…

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This year’s summer reading program “Libraries Rock” at the Jefferson public library was all about things that rock…animals, science, music, art, books, and of course, rocks.

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The regular meeting of the Greene County Genealogical Society will be held Saturday, Aug. 4, at 10 am in the basement meeting room of the Jefferson public library. Corinne Bancroft will have the program “This & That, Plus a Brick Wall Repair”. Everyone is welcome and the library is handicapped accessible.

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  Tim Christensen will serve 11 counties including Greene AMES, Iowa ― Tim Christensen has joined Iowa State University Extension and Outreach as a farm management specialist. Christensen, who has worked at Iowa State as an agricultural specialist since 2015, will cover the counties of Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Greene, Harrison, Shelby, Audubon and Guthrie for ISU Extension…

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