Jingle Into Junction, Grand Junction’s annual community holiday celebration, will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 5 to 6:30 pm in the Grand Junction Community Center. Now in its 12th year, the event will include a silent auction of holiday decor, and ready-made gifts and baked goods for sale by the Naked Ladies Garden Club. Tyler Gathercoal will provide…
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First snow, last crop report for the season
Rain along with snow showers in the northeast and north central parts of Iowa resulted in an average of 4.3 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Nov. 24, 2024, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Field activities slowed down this week with reports of fall tillage, and fertilizer and manure applications wrapping up. Topsoil moisture condition…
Read MoreGrow Greene County ‘Gives Back’
A tradition was started in 2016 by the Grow Greene County Board of Directors to surprise deserving agencies in Greene County with a Give Back Award during the holiday season. This year on the heels of another successful year at Wild Rose Jefferson, the Grow Greene County Board gave out six Give Back Awards on Nov. 19. Rather than surprise…
Read MoreToys needed to help Santa
The annual Toys for Greene County Kids drive has begun. Last year, through the generosity of donors, more than 320 Greene County children received toys as Christmas gifts. “Many of these kids will not receive toys at Christmas if they don’t get them from this type of project,” volunteer organizer Sherry Graven said. Toys are needed for ages newborn through…
Read MoreSupervisors have new plan to use LOSST funds to help pay for courthouse HVAC
Two weeks ago rural voters in the county turned down Public Measure IM that would have allowed a portion of the Local Option Sales and Service Tax (LOSST) revenue allocated to the county on behalf of rural residents to be used to repay bonds for a new HVAC system at the courthouse. The vote was 877 (62.82 percent) against and…
Read MoreBonds sold to finance jail construction
Interest on $10 million in capital loan notes sold to fund construction of a new county jail is locked in at 3.821 percent. The Greene County supervisors with Northland Securities advisor Heidi Kuehl opened bids at their regular meeting Nov. 18, and then reconvened during the afternoon to accept the bid. Low bidder was BNY Mellon Capital Markets of Pittsburgh,…
Read MorePoet Caleb Rainey returning to Jefferson for workshop, showing of documentary about him
Caleb Rainey, featured poet at Ekphrasis this past Sunday, will return to Jefferson Saturday, Nov. 23, for “A Day with Caleb ‘The Negro Artist’ Rainey and Friends”. The Saturday event will include a 10 am workshop on writing poetry, a noon luncheon, and a 1:30 pm screening of the 2024 documentary about Rainey, “The Negro Artist,” produced by Emmy Award-winning…
Read MoreGrCo school board elects officers, okays early retirement incentives
Greene County Community Schools board elected Cindi Daubendiek as president and Michelle Fields as vice president at an organizational meeting Nov. 13. Board committee assignments are as follows: Daubendiek – Jefferson park & recreation board, negotiations, school improvement advisory (SIAC), and scholarship; Fields – administrative and classified salaries, and facilities; Bonnie Silbaugh – negotiations, Greene County Community Schools Foundation board,…
Read MoreCorn harvest 97 percent complete
Iowa’s farmers had an average of 3.6 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Nov. 17, 2024, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Primary fieldwork activities included fall tillage, fertilizer applications, and some row crop harvest. Topsoil moisture condition across Iowa rated 8 percent very short, 28 percent short, 61 percent adequate and 3 percent surplus. In west…
Read MoreNo 3-lane Hwy 4 in Jefferson, and fewer dead trees, too
A three-lane Hwy 4 through Jefferson is now in the rearview mirror. The Jefferson city council at its Nov. 12 meeting approved a recommendation from the council’s streets committee not to proceed with the Department of Transportation’s plan to remark the road from four to three lanes. Committee member Chad Sloan said the plan was an “absolutely horrible idea” given…
Read MoreSupervisors table decisions on HVAC project, hear another plan to thwart carbon pipeline
The Greene County supervisors at their Nov. 12 meeting tabled two agenda items regarding the proposed HVAC project due to uncertainty caused by the failure of Public Measure IM in the Nov. 5 general election. That measure, put before voters in the unincorporated areas of the county, would have allowed revenue from the local option sales and service tax (LOSST)…
Read MoreEkphrasis 2024 Sunday in Jefferson
Special guest, spoken word poet Caleb Rainey Art inspired by poetry will be featured at Ekphrasis 2024 Sunday, Nov. 18, in Jefferson. Thirteen Greene County poets have written original poems to which 13 local artists have responded. At the event, which starts at 2 pm at the Courtyard Event Center, 214 E. State St, poets will share their poetry and…
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