Grab your clubs and rally your team. This isn’t just a round of golf; it is a chance to power the future of healthcare in rural Iowa. Join the Greene County Medical Center Foundation on Friday, June 12, for a day on the course that supports life-saving MRI services, strengthens traditions like the Bell Tower Festival and keeps high-quality care local. …
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Iowa’s high cancer rate linked to nitrate, pesticides, PFAS and radon, new report finds
~by Nina Elkadi for Sentient When Iowa resident Chris Henning was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, her youngest sister and brother-in-law had already died of cancer 13 years earlier and her father had been treated for lung cancer. Since her diagnosis, another one of her sisters died of cancer and two more women in her family have received cancer diagnoses.…
Read MoreOpen house April 3 at The Jeffersonian
The Jeffersonian, the housing renovation project of the 1921 Jefferson high school, will be open to the public for self-guided tours Friday, April 3, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Tours will be self-guided. Visitors are asked to enter through the east doors along S. Vine St. The school is located at 203 W. Harrison St, directly across from the Greene…
Read MoreSupervisors delay decisions on Schoolboy Soldiers monument, recycling agreement, solar project
The Greene County supervisors delayed a number of decisions at their March 23 meeting, delaying decisions on a 9-foot-tall monument commemorating the Schoolboy Soldiers of Rippey, a 28E agreement with the city of Jefferson for recycling services for rural residents, and a proposed solar project. After taking care of drainage business and an amendment to the FY26 budget, the supervisors…
Read MoreJeff council purchases $2 million in GO bonds for various projects
The Jefferson city council at its March 24 meeting approved a bond purchase agreement for $2 million in general obligation bonds at a rate of 4.28 percent, including all fees. Tim Oswald of Piper Sandler handled the transaction. He said he had been concerned the bonds wouldn’t be purchased due to fluctuation in interest rates reflecting uncertainty created by the…
Read MoreZoo in Jefferson topic of April Historical Society program
South of Jefferson, at the northwest corner of the old Panora Speedway (now S. Mulberry St/Neola Ave) and 250th St, there once was a small zoo called Totem Acres. The wooded site was developed in the 1960s by Carl Daubendiek, founder of the Jefferson Telephone Co., as nature retreat for his employees, according to Jefferson publc library director Jane Millard.…
Read MoreCommunity Foundation awards grants
It took the Greene County Community Foundation just longer than 30 minutes to award more than $250,000 in grants Sunday afternoon, March 22. Community Foundation board president Patty Fisher made the awards. She first explained the Foundation had received $175,000 to award in grants of less than $35,000 from Grow Greene County, and accessed another $81,229 from the Community Foundation…
Read MoreGrCo school calendar set for 2026-27
Board ratifies teachers’ contracts, okays college classes for freshmen, new lights at Allensworth Field The Greene County Schools board of directors opened their March 11 meeting with a public hearing on the 2026-27 school calendar. The calendar is similar to the current year except for parent-teacher conference dates. Conferences next year in October and March will be held on a…
Read MoreCounty to share attorney position with Sac, Calhoun counties
Staffing in the county attorney’s office took up a large portion of the Greene County supervisors meeting March 16. The final result will be a smaller staff and a county attorney who doesn’t live in the county. Early in the meeting county attorney Thomas Laehn told the board that assistant county attorney Kaitlyn Willms’ last day will be April 30.…
Read MoreBuilding permits in process for multi-family housing and a fast food restaurant
A pair of building permits have been filed, one for a contentious housing development and the other for a McDonald’s restaurant. The first is for a multi-family housing project between Ace Hardware and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. The project – calling for 40 to 50 apartments in a mix of one-, two-, and three bedroom units – was proposed…
Read MoreJeff council puts final wrap on wastewater treatment plant upgrade
The Jefferson city council at its March 10 took the final actions on the wastewater treatment plant upgrades. The council approved payment to Shank Constructors of all funds retained – $183,945.16, and final acceptance of the project. Final cost for the upgrades, which were mandated by the state, was $18,394,000. The project was first estimated at $15 million. After the…
Read MoreSolar panels, children’s books topics at supervisors’ March 9 meeting
The Greene County supervisors heard more about placing solar panels on county-owned properties at their March 9 meeting. Terry Dvorak of Red Lion Renewables, who had spoken with the supervisors in January about the potential savings to the county, returned to remind them that available tax credits for the project will expire and asked them to make a decision regarding…
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