Moore let go
Coach had planned to work until spring12/28/18Staff reportDeparting Greene County High School head football coach and activities director Mitch Moore won’t be returning from winter break.In a move...
View ArticleClose encounters of the Greene County kind
New TV series ‘Project Blue Book’ will explore government’s response to UFOs, but 50 years before Roswell, there was Jefferson12/27/18By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comOne hundred and twenty-one...
View ArticleP-C will pay more to play sports, take classes in Jefferson
1/3/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comIt may actually be easier to persuade North Korea to denuclearize than to convince the Paton-Churdan Community School District to enter into whole-grade...
View ArticleEMS to become public entity in 2019
1/3/19By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldThe Greene County board of supervisors is discussing a transition from a privately owned ambulance service to a publicly owned one.Board chairman John Muir...
View ArticleA PRIME PROBLEM
As more people shop online, they’re sticking Genesis Development with the packing materials1/3/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comIt’s bad enough that Amazon and a cabal of e-commerce copycats...
View ArticleSchool board member can’t attend school events
1/10/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comA school board member banned from attending sporting events in his own school district will have to be chaperoned by the school board president Jan. 15 in...
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From making his own hydrogen fuel cell to dining with the VP of Peru, Crawford Petterson’s senior year is going well1/10/19‘I can change the status quo.’ — Crawford PettersonBy ANDREW...
View ArticleCoalition forms to aid local homeless
1/17/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe Rev. Julie Poulsen at First United Methodist Church was beginning to feel overwhelmed.It seemed like every time law enforcement encountered a homeless...
View ArticleDestination: El Salvador
Local couple vacations in a place people are dying to leave1/17/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe pictures show a vacation that will be talked about for years: standing in front of ancient...
View ArticleHigh school bidding process underway
1/24/19By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldThe Greene County school board at its Jan. 16 meeting voted to let the high school/career academy building project out for bids, and set the date of Feb. 20...
View ArticleA bumper crop of girls
Kept out of FFA until 1969, Greene County girls have made up for lost time1/24/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comNearly 20 girls assembled on a recent day in the vo-ag room at Greene County High...
View ArticleWe need your vote!
Voting underway in Bee & Herald Readers’ Choice Awards1/29/19The 2019 Jefferson Bee and Herald's Best of Greene County Reader's Choice awards. Click here to vote on the best of Greene County....
View ArticleMayor kicks cat discussion down the road
1/31/19By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldJefferson’s city government officials continued their discussion Jan. 22 of what to do about cats running loose in the city.As the brief meeting of the city...
View ArticleCouncilman faces felony for threatening police chief
1/31/19By JARED STRONGj.strong@carrollspaper.comA Jefferson city councilman threatened and swore at the town’s police chief early this month because he was upset about a traffic stop that involved his...
View ArticleOoh, my head!
Sixty years after ‘the day the music died,’ could a forgotten story in the Jefferson newspaper rewrite rock ‘n’ roll history?1/31/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comAfter 60 years, countless news...
View ArticleMan to register as sex offender
2/7/19By JARED STRONGj.strong@carrollspaper.comA 29-year-old Bouton man who admitted he had sex with a Grand Junction girl when she was 12 or 13 will be sentenced to up to six months in jail in March,...
View ArticleMeth dealer to get 10 years in prison
2/7/19By JARED STRONGj.strong@carrollspaper.comA 55-year-old Grand Junction man who was profiting about $9,000 per month from selling methamphetamine last year faces up to 10 years in prison as part of...
View ArticleDelaney visits AAI on area trip
2/7/19By DOUGLAS BURNSd.burns@carrollspaper.comThe story behind a defining statue wasn’t lost on a recent high-profile visitor.John Delaney, a working-class kid from New Jersey who built a publicly...
View ArticleYang touts universal income
2/7/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comAndrew Yang talks like a guy who’s seen “The Terminator” a few too many times.His vision of a near-future if left unchecked is pretty dismal — robots,...
View ArticleA NEW ERA
Mechaelsen settling into job as county’s first new treasurer in a generation2/7/19By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comKatlynn Gannon was on her way into a college final when her phone rang.It was the...
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