To the editor: After reading the article about the proposed new high school and a career academy to coordinate with Iowa Central Community College, it seems to me that this idea–brought to Greene County by Chris Deal and endorsed by others–has turned into a huge opportunity.
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Letter to the editor – Joan Conroy
To the editor – Sitting in my comfortable propane heated house situated on glacial till left by the Wisconsin Glacier, I am pondering the global warming fears generated by Al Gore. Thanks to Dr Roy G Spencer I will sleep quite well tonight. For only $3.99, I was able to download Dr. Spencer’s book “An Inconvenient Deception – How Al…
Read MoreBully
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I had a column ready to go for this week’s edition of GreeneCountyNewsOnline when I heard that a small town north of Sacramento, a rural area, was shot up by somebody or somebodies (early news as I write this), and I decided that I’m pretty much sick to death that there are people out there…
Read MoreA better way to get there
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Daydreaming is a time-honored endeavor. It’s invention time, it’s poetry time, it’s take-a-break time, it’s wasting time, it’s probably been going on since the first hominoids had a chance to relax for a minute when the local Giganotosaurus (length 47 feet, weight 8 tons) was way on the other side of the swamp. I like…
Read MoreA different kind of roof art
Challenging Greene County to go green ~by Colleen O’Brien Clean energy is the buzz phrase, especially since our government bowed out of the Paris Climate Accord that was signed by 195 countries. Bad news came out this past Monday from “The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin,” the UN weather agency’s annual report. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Barb Labate, American Legion Post 11
Winners will earn scholarship money, chance to compete in national finals Dear Parents of Greene County High School and homeschooled students, High school students of Greene County High School and homeschooled students have been invited by the local Post #11 of the American Legion to compete in the 81st annual American Legion High School Oratorical Scholarship Program.
Read More‘Humbility’
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Humbility is a made-up word. It either belongs to Mr. Rogers, inveterate in his coining of new offerings for a dictionary, or I just made it up. Humbility sounds like him, and he might have defined it in his kind, Mr. Rogers manner as “the way you are when you’re not acting like you’re better…
Read MoreFuture Ready Iowa Alliance recommendations told
Gov. Kim Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg announced new Future Ready Iowa Alliance recommendations Tuesday. The recommendations are a major step forward in achieving the Reynolds/Gregg administration’s No. 1 goal: 70 percent of Iowa’s workforce having education or training beyond high school by the year 2025. In order to achieve that goal, an additional 127,700 Iowans need to earn…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Bruce Banister
To the editor, Dick Finch’s recent letter made many, many good points. So much of our taxes, often disguised as “grants”, are going to pay for pie in the sky projects. Vision 2020 should have taken a trip to Dr. Terry Brown’s office for a check up before squandering $98,000 on a “study” which suggests we build a sports complex…
Read MoreBack door
~a column by Colleen O’Brien When I was in grade school, most of the friends in my little Iowa farm town were back door kids, like me. We went out our back door to play and knocked at each others’ back doors so they would come and play with us. It was the entry to the great outdoors and the…
Read MoreRead it and weep
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Al Gore’s new book, An Inconvenient Sequel, Truth to Power, is a convenient handbook on how to save the earth, and in the process, ourselves. If we don’t save it, we will be wandering in the wilderness that is encroaching and soon after that we will be gone. The book offers solid information and ways…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Annie Smith
Thank you, Beta Tau Delta To the editor, I am writing this letter to express my gratitude and appreciation for all of the many community members throughout Greene County that go above and beyond each day for the students in all of the Greene County schools.
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