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State to get tougher on texting and driving beginning Saturday
6/29/17It turns out it wasn’t all about fireworks and collective bargaining this past legislative session in Iowa.State Rep. Chip Baltimore, R-Boone, released information Monday on a few notable bills...
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Hamann’s memory shines at Iowa Speedway
Race fan honored at NASCAR event6/29/17By BRANDON HURLEYb.hurley@beeherald.comThe late Doug Hamann’s dreams came to life Saturday on the hood of the crisp white and baby blue No. 52 Chevy.A heart...
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Greene County Presbyterians look to the future
Changes take effect as First Presbyterian celebrates 150th year as a congregation 7/6/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comFrom eight members grew a church community that has thrived for 150...
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Jefferson student to represent Iowa at Girls Nation
Haley Hall, 17, pegged as an emerging leader7/13/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comHaley Hall has applied to West Point, but admits she’d rather join the Air Force at some point.What’s certain is...
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What would we do without our phones?
Sixty years in, Jefferson Telecom’s phone museum more vital than ever7/13/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe history of the telephone is one of perpetual innovation — and we’re not just...
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Biorefinery eyes completion of $28M expansion
7/20/17By DOUGLAS BURNSd.burns@carrollspaper.comRALSTON — Renewable Energy Group, North America’s largest biodiesel producer and a publicly traded company, expects to have a $28 million Ralston...
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Local man facing attempted murder charge
7/20/17Staff report A 23-year-old Jefferson man was booked Wednesday into the Greene County Jail on a charge of attempted murder.Niko Lee Rice is accused of assaulting his 31-year-old girlfriend so...
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HOME AT LAST
Adam Brubaker determined to walk again after paralysis7/20/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comAdam Brubaker didn’t end up in a wheelchair because he dove headfirst into a shallow lake.He wasn’t...
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Road trip subject of historical program
7/27/17Special to The Jefferson Herald Roger Aegerter says in 39 years of living in Jefferson within a block of the Lincoln Highway, his curiosity about the historic transcontinental roadway finally...
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County grapples with cost of inmate medical care
County on the hook for man’s $7K hospital bill7/27/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comAs the nation debates whether health care is a basic right, there’s still one way to guarantee free access to...
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It’s not you: The carillon sounds odd
Engineer’s office says bell strikers need broken in8/3/17Everything’s normal. It may not sound normal... Don Van GilderBy ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comIt was a $440,905 dream come true in May...
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‘We have a community that believes in us’
Booming home business finds new home on the public square8/3/17By BRANDON HURLEYb.hurley@beeherald.comA new business to the Square should allow residents to let their personalities shine.Through a...
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Beauty and the Beast
The new face of big game hunting is a 17-year-old high school girl8/3/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comEmily Finch was fed up and ready to go home — not unlike any other typical 17-year-old on a...
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Investigators: Abused girl was murdered just before her father’s arrest
8/10/17By JARED STRONGj.strong@carrollspaper.comGUTHRIE CENTER — A 12-year-old girl who said she was sexually abused by her father and older brother died in a May house fire in Guthrie Center that was...
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A FLICKER OF HATE
How a movie 100 years ago helped give rise in Greene County to the KKK12/15/16By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comWell, so much for that secret, “mystic order” thing.Leave it to one of the Bee &...
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Sweet surprise
P-C students who made unlikely connection with a German artist returning from summer with a print waiting for them8/17/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comAn artist in Germany whose work has been...
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Junction school to be torn down
8/17/17By BRANDON HURLEYb.hurley@beeherald.comA century-old school building in an eastern Greene County community will soon meet its demise.The Grand Junction city council unanimously voted Monday in...
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Local firefighters headed for Houston
Will help area hit by Hurricane Harvey8/29/17By ANDREW McGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comFirefighters in Houston put out a call for help “and we responded,” Jefferson Fire Chief Jack Williams said...
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Wahl-McAtee moving to prime Highway 4 location
8/24/17By DOUGLAS BURNSd.burns@carrollspaper.comOne of Jefferson’s legacy businesses is making a future-minded move to a more high-profile location.Wahl-McAtee Tire & Service Center, with roots...
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20/20 Vision on housing
It’s Jefferson’s biggest challenge and opportunity, Paxton says.8/24/17By DOUGLAS BURNSd.burns@carrollspaper.comGreene County’s Vision 2020 Project Team has from the outset identified housing as its...
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