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The Christmas spirit didn’t last, and we suffered for it
12/21/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comI’m probably overly simplistic, but for as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve never been able to figure out why the Christmas spirit can’t be sustained...
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County gives official OK to 85 wind turbines
MidAmerican project not without its critics12/28/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comJay Thompson always wanted to settle down on an acreage, and 15 years ago he bought four acres north of Dana for...
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SEA LEGS NOT REQUIRED
Don Harrington has been around submarines his entire Navy career. So what is he doing in the African desert?12/28/17By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comWhen Don Harrington first learned he would be...
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Pizza Ranch still a work in progress
1/4/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comNearly two years after arson closed Jefferson’s Pizza Ranch, insulation in the ceiling still smells like the coat of someone who’s been sitting around a...
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Drive for new animal shelter gets underway
1/4/18By BRANDON HURLEYb.hurley@beeherald.comWhat should have been a stress-free vacation turned disastrous upon return.A Jefferson resident’s dog escaped from its home during his time away and when he...
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Skin disease suspends Greene County wrestling season
Senior Night canceled by outbreak of mat herpes1/11/17By BRANDON HURLEYb.hurley@beeherald.comWhen a group of Greene County athletes entered her office last week, high school nurse Ann Hicks knew...
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Hall of Fame bound
The Bushmen elected to the Iowa Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame1/11/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comMore than 53 years ago, David Williamson mailed a mimeographed letter to the owner of Fort Dodge’s...
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NOT JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
The mason behind the Muir building loves what he does1/18/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comMark Devilbiss can point out the exact parking spot across from Muir Embroidery where his dad, Keith,...
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Board mulls new superintendent evaluation process
1/18/18By BRANDON HURLEYb.hurley@beeherald.comGreene County school board president Mark Peters proposed a new superintendent evaluation process Wednesday near the tail end of January’s meeting in...
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A tale of two bonds
School bond issues not related1/25/18By RICK MORAIN For The Jefferson HeraldSome area voters have reported confusion about the two upcoming school bond issue elections of area interest.The two...
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The trip of a lifetime
Roger and Jan Aegerter among the few to visit Antarctica1/25/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comVisiting Antarctica is sort of like traveling back in time — and as anyone who knows anything about...
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New preschool to help solve day care pinch
2/1/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comYou’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice the construction work quietly underway on a little rise of land nestled between trees on Westwood Drive.That’s the...
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One for the record books
County recorder hopes to digitize and preserve 91,000 pages of local land history2/1/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comWhen James H. Phillips affixed his John Hancock to Greene County’s first...
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First, Scranton, next, the world
Fiedler awarded $1M prize to advance work in 3-D printing2/8/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comSpeaking in 2015 to The Jefferson Herald, Matthew Fiedler floated a vision of the future that made...
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Million-mile man
Rural mail carrier Mike Piepel drove a million miles without ever leaving home2/8/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe plaque welcoming Mike Piepel to the U.S. Postal Service’s “Million Mile...
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The screenplay Hollywood is still too afraid to touch
Jefferson native and Firesign Theatre producer have a doozy of a story to tell2/15/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comFor 38 minutes last month, people in Hawaii were made to believe they were...
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Believe the hype
Two local farmers hope to be so far ahead of the cover crop curve, they’re selling the seed2/15/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comIowa farmers know how to grow corn and soybeans, there’s no...
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Idle tofu plant to be turned into beef feed operation
2/27/18There’s something deliciously ironic about a former tofu plant becoming a facility that will serve the region’s beef producers.Nothing against tofu, but who doesn’t prefer a good, thick...
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Homegrown trumpeter to be seen on IPTV special
Once demoted by Jack Oatts, Al Naylor joined him in the Jazz Educators Hall of Fame2/22/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comAll great empires are partially built atop myth.There’s no question that...
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Cyborg chic
Paton native’s new bionic hand ups the game for prosthetics2/22/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comA pepper grinder.Of all the hurdles Debbie Roberts has overcome in the 53 years since being born...
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