Category: Good News

With March Madness upon us, basketball is on almost everyone’s mind.  But whether you like to play it, watch it, or even if you’re not athletically minded the annual 4-H County Basketball Tournament provided much entertainment for all.  It was hosted by the Greenbrier 4-H Club and was held Sunday, March 9, at the Scranton Community Center. “Generally when you…

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Greene County Middle School students continued their ‘reading ways’ during the second trimester of the school year, amassing a collective 1,495 books completed for the 12-week period. The independent reading initiative is a part of the Greene County School’s efforts to ensure that all students become successful readers.

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Whether they’re Irish or Iowa-ish, people who leave holiday baking to someone else will have more time for St Patrick’s Day fun. Jefferson Telecom will host a St Patrick’s Day bake sale Monday, March 17, from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm in the company showroom at 105 W. Harrison, Jefferson. Proceeds will go bring some of the proverbial “luck o’…

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Video embedded below…. Dozens of Greene County residents took a road trip to Emmetsburg, sister city to Dublin, Ireland, last summer to investigate for themselves what the impact of a proposed casino might be for Greene County and Jefferson. The trip was hosted by Grow Greene County and Wild Rose Entertainment. Some of those who went on the trip to Emmetsburg…

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Resolutions stated aloud must be kept, particularly when they’re stated in front of about 150 people, some of them holding big video cameras and others holding recorders. Gov Terry Branstad, with a room full of witnesses, pledged Thursday morning to lose 8 pounds before Memorial Day. Jim Andrew of Jefferson, a college buddy of the governor and emcee of the…

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…cold and warm and cold and warm and cold again What month in Iowa has more variable weather than March? On Monday we enjoyed a high temperature of 65 degrees. The Jefferson police reported proved it was weather to be outdoors – there were several calls about loud mufflers and revved engines. That doesn’t happen in the cold of winter…

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Students of Jefferson-Scranton elementary, Greene County Intermediate School and Greene County Middle School who participated in the Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart  in February raised a grand total of $9,458 for the American Heart Association.

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Robins were plentiful in Jefferson this past week, a sure sign of spring…..or so most of us think. It’s a small disappointment to learn that robins aren’t any more a harbinger of spring than a disappearing groundhog on Feb. 2 is a harbinger of six more weeks of winter. Folks who really know birds know that not all robins migrate; some stay…

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Does anybody really know what time it is? Did you remember to “spring ahead” for Daylight Savings Time? Yawn. We all missed an hour of sleep Saturday night, and we don’t get to reclaim it until November. We’ll complain a little. We’ll be a little less productive at work Monday, claiming fatigue.

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Members of Trinity Lutheran Church invite all area residents to a fundraiser next Sunday, March 16, to benefit Keisha Kopecky, whose Grand Junction home was destroyed in a Jan. 28 fire. Organizers are planning a silent auction, supper, and kitchen shower from 5 to 7 pm at the church, located at 801 W. Lincoln Way in Jefferson.

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In most homes the kitchen is a favorite gathering place, especially on cold winter days. Kids are welcome. This past week Nicole Schilling and Austin Tuel shared on Facebook a story of an extra kid in their Bristol Township kitchen. Bubbles, a four-legged kid, is camped out in the kitchen, at least for awhile.

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Area residents from several Christian traditions are once again gathering weekly for a meal, fellowship and a Lenten devotion. Each Wednesday a light lunch is served at 11:45 am, with an ecumenical devotion from 12:15 to 12:45 pm. A donation of $5 is requested to defray the cost of the meal.

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