‘He’s our captain’
Rams dedicate season to the late Landon Martin8/30/18By BRANDON HURLEYb.hurley@beeherald.comAs a community mourned, football brought them together. A touching tribute immortalizing a child taken from...
View ArticleMan with 2 pounds of pot guilty of multiple felonies
9/6/18By JARED STRONGj.strong@carrollspaper.comA 23-year-old Scranton man suspected of being part of a “large-scale drug trafficking network” was found guilty by a Greene County jury last week of six...
View ArticleMy metalhead friend still doing his own thing
9/6/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comA decade after the fact, Ben Christopher feels kind of bad about how he left his job at Power Lift.Let’s just say he’s still on his lunch break.“I really did...
View ArticleU.S. Agriculture Secretary visits Lake Panorama
9/13/18By SUSAN THOMPSONTimes VedettePANORA — The nation’s top agriculture official made a stop Aug. 30 in Guthrie County at a wetland built to protect Lake Panorama from nitrates and sediment. Sonny...
View ArticleWork underway on new vet clinic
9/13/18By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldDr. Mark Peters, proprietor of Jefferson Veterinary Clinic, is targeting the first part of December for the opening of his new clinic building on U.S....
View ArticleIT HAPPENED HERE, TOO
Alleged sexual abuse by priest forever haunts Jefferson man9/13/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comIn his 50 years in the priesthood, Father Bill Brunner rarely, if ever, wore a collar and black...
View ArticleAccused killer lived in Jefferson
Man accused of murdering ex-ISU golfer had local past9/20/18By JARED STRONG andANDREW MCGINNj.strong@carrollspaper.comA 22-year-old man accused of stabbing an Iowa State University student to death...
View ArticleNow pitching for Churdan: Bob Feller?
As summer comes to an end, the unbelievable true story of how one big leaguer boosted a small town9/20/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThere’s something about a throwback baseball jersey that’s...
View ArticleMaddie Poppe, Iowa’s first ‘Idol,’ coming to Jefferson
9/27/18Maddie Poppe, the first Iowan to win TV’s “American Idol,” will perform Friday at Wild Rose Casino — only her second home-state concert since winning the competition in May.Des Moines...
View ArticleIowa Central touts plans for Jefferson
Academy to be more of a ‘regional center’9/27/18By DOUGLAS BURNSd.burns@carrollspaper.comThe president of Fort Dodge-based Iowa Central Community College said a planned career academy in Jefferson will...
View ArticleThe further adventures of Tim and Rich
Jefferson natives walking across Iowa on Lincoln Highway9/27/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comWhen they finally walk into Council Bluffs this weekend, their legs will have carried them nearly...
View ArticleWalk across Iowa
10/4/18 In the age of Fitbit, we now measure our days in steps. So how many steps is a 30-day walk across the state of Iowa? Exactly 1,000,410, according to Tim Donovan, the Jefferson native whose...
View ArticleIowa’s ‘Idol’ delights crowd
Maddie Poppe concert turned into celebration of ‘first Iowa ladies’10/4/18By ANNIE MEHLFor The Jefferson HeraldWomen from all over Iowa wrapped their arms around each other, hoisted their wine glasses...
View ArticlePen pals still at it after 75 years
10/4/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comTypically, if you want to establish how long someone has been at something, you can date them using presidents.For example, “Chuck Grassley has been an...
View ArticleKicking it up a notch
Chef D.C. Bland II has a plan to expand J-town’s palate10/4/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comEven before his graduation from Le Cordon Bleu gave him carte blanche to make lobster bisque...
View ArticleThompson guilty of all charges for deadly house fire
10/11/18By JARED STRONGj.strong@carrollspaper.comALBIA — A former Jefferson resident set fire to a house in Guthrie Center last year to kill his stepsister because of sexual abuse allegations she had...
View ArticleBlast from the past
Like Crystal Pepsi and ‘DuckTales,’ D.A.R.E. is back — and it’s needed more than ever10/11/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comBob Hurley always hated overhearing a parent in a restaurant tell...
View ArticleArea sailor, killed at Pearl Harbor, home at last
10/18/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comYet another veteran of World War II will be laid to rest Saturday in Glidden.But what will make this funeral different than others taking place on the same...
View ArticleHiggins handed 90 days in jail on drug charges
10/18/18Staff reportA 24-year-old Scranton man who was facing up to 20 years in prison for his role in a “large-scale drug trafficking network” will serve 90 days in jail, a judge ruled Friday. After...
View ArticleDECISION 2018
Future of EMS top issue in county races10/18/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comSpeaking two years ago about their three decades as owners of Greene County EMS, the county’s quasi-public ambulance...
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