The work being done on the Greene County Medical Center isn’t really top secret…. it just can’t be seen from the street. The medical center communications team – Carla Offenburger and Emily Brewer – updates the medical center Facebook page frequently with photos that show exactly what’s happening at the bottom of a very large hole. Rebar dowels are placed…
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Friends raising funds for Tanner and Amber Lawton
It’s clean fun at a dunk tank at the Greene County Fair, with $1 a pitch to dunk ducky folks who are raising money to help Tanner and Amber Lawton. Pictured is Tim Tucker making sport of harassing the folks who would knock the seat out from under him to plunge him in the water. The Lawton’s son Tate was…
Read MoreThe prettiest things at the Fair? Check out the chickens!
In the pecking order of creatures, chickens are closer to the bottom than the top when it comes to beauty…. unless you’re visiting the Greene County Fair. The chicken barn was musical, too, when these photos were taken, with roosters crowing duets with the nearby sheep. Not all the poultry is pictured here… Lucas Fisher, Hardin Happy Hustlers Barred rock…
Read MoreThe products of smart, creative, hard-working and nice 4-H members
GreeneCountyNewsOnline columnist Colleen O’Brien shares the following in her column posted Wednesday: The Greene County Fair was once a carnival with cows. It’s now cows, no carney. Although the glitz is gone, the fair remains, and it’s worth a stroll through Clover Hall and the barns – the whole 4-H scene – because these 4-H’ers are smart, creative, hard-working and…
Read MoreOpen exhibits, a County Fair tradition
The tradition of showing off your best cabbage, potatoes, hostas, bread, pie, quilts, photos, genealogy projects, crafts……and more continues at the Greene County Fair. The open class exhibits are located on the east end of Clover Hall.
Read MoreSundaes on Sunday at the fair
Sunday afternoon at the Greene County Fair will be a little sweeter with a Sundaes on Sunday ice cream social at the Roger Nailor Shelter House on the west side of the fairgrounds. Serving will be from 2 to 4 pm. A free will donation will be accepted for the Roger Nailor Memorial Fund.
Read MoreJudging contest, cribbage and arm wrestling at the fair next Sunday
Activities at the Greene County Fair next Sunday offer friendly competition in three different venues. After watching experts judge livestock for four days, fair-goers of all ages are invited to try their own skills in a livestock judging contest in the show ring. Participants should be signed in by 11 am, with the competition beginning at noon. A round robin…
Read MoreWhip-cracking, watermelon eating, cute babies and more at the Greene County Fair
A variety of activities and competitions are sure to keep fairgoers on their toes with excitement, including a cattle fitting competition, Chris Camp: The Whip Guy and the Whip Crackin’ Dare Devils, a baby contest, a watermelon eating contest, and a pair of barbecues. A cattle fitting competition will be held on Thursday at the show ring for those wanting…
Read MoreYoung tennis players meet the Lobster
A dozen youngsters took advantage of a free tennis clinic offered last week by the Jefferson park and recreation department. They were also the first to use a new Lobster Elite tennis machine, just purchased by JPRD with memorial funds and donations from the family of the late Dr Robert Burke. The clinic was also funded in memory of Dr Burke.
Read MoreNews flash! County doubles number of traffic lights
With news of hundreds of new jobs coming to the county, growth in inevitable. Greene County may, at some point in the next few years, grow to being a two traffic light county. We have temporary status as a two-light county with this portable traffic light doing traffic control duty at a resurfacing job on the bridge over Hardin Creek just…
Read MoreRegister online for Glo Run/Walk to benefit GJ Community Center
Heidi Fouch Bell, a Grand Junction alumni and now an optometrist in Des Moines, is lending her support to the new Grand Junction Community Center in a fun exciting way. She is the organizer of a Glo Run/Walk to be held in conjunction with the Lincoln Highway Days in Grand Junction on the evening of Saturday, July 26. Many fun…
Read MoreA run up Sewer Hill?
Known by some as “Sewer Hill,” the hill on W. Russell St in front of the animal shelter and the wastewater treatment plant in Jefferson is a challenge for most runners. It’s the sort of hill that can make a runner feel like he’s going at a turtle’s pace. This fellow, a painted turtle 8 or so inches long, lumbered up the hill…
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