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March 15, 2026

Building 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...

March 15, 2026

Jeff council puts final wrap on wastewater treatment plant upgrade

The Jefferson city council at its March 10...

March 15, 2026

Solar panels, children’s books topics at supervisors’ March 9 meeting

The Greene County supervisors heard more about placing...

March 14, 2026

Blizzard warning issued for 91 Iowa counties

Greene and surrounding counties are in a blizzard...

March 15, 2026

New Opportunities using media campaign to warn about the dangers of fentanyl

New Opportunities prevention specialists have been working hard to raise awareness of the dangers of opioids. One of those opioids is illicit fentanyl. Most people have heard of fentanyl, but they may not understand how dangerous of a threat it poses to them. Fentanyl is a powerful opioid...

March 12, 2026

A journey of resilience

A story of hope and healing at Greene...

March 11, 2026

Mass, lunch March 15 at St Patrick historic church

The tradition of Sunday mass at St Patrick...

March 10, 2026

St Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Elks lodge

The Jefferson Does and Elks will serve a...

March 4, 2026

Murmurations – Can we learn to handle chaos from birds?

~View from my Window by Mary Weaver We have survived through January and February and thankfully now March is with us, coming in as a lamb. So, it may mean going out as a lion. The girls’ basketball tournament almost always brings us a winter storm, so it...

March 4, 2026

One more thing we need to know everything about

~a column by Colleen O’Brien AI is on the...

February 25, 2026

Do I dare think things are looking up?

~a column by Colleen O’Brien After a two-week...

February 18, 2026

Let’s put things in perspective

~Sue Richardson of Jefferson, retired school teacher There...

March 12, 2026

4-H news

Clover Connection At the Clover Connection 4-H meeting in February we learned about setting SMART goals. We then set goals of how many items we wanted to collect for the food pantry. We also talked about what items we could bring such as non-perishable food items and toiletries. ...

January 31, 2026