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BELIEVE THE HYPE
For Iowa’s Tech Community of the Year, the post-pandemic future is bright12/3/20By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comIn the kind of year where the news has seemingly alternated between awful and...
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Cosnotti to prison
Laehn says justice served12/10/20By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comA Jefferson man who assaulted his girlfriend in July with brass knuckles in plain view on someone else’s lawn is headed to prison,...
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GCMC closing women’s clinic, halting surgeries
12/10/20The Women’s Health Clinic at the Greene County Medical Center will be eliminated at the end of February due to limited patient volume, the medical center officially announced Monday in a news...
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COOPER’S BIG BREAK
Skyline near Cooper to change with new grain elevator, feed mill12/10/20By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comDan Dix, general manager of NEW Cooperative, admittedly wasn’t sure what the name of the...
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Police wages get boost in new contract
City forced to table by PD staffing crisis12/17/20By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldThe Jefferson city council on Dec. 8 approved a new five-year collective bargaining agreement between the city...
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Mechanical Santa a simple charm for an ever-complex time
12/17/20By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe sun had already set and I was beyond ready to settle down for that long winter’s nap.Actually, it was only a few minutes past 5 o’clock on Monday, and...
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TO THE LAST MAN
VFW grapples with leaky roof, vanishing membership12/17/20By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe Navy taught James Wasson how to sew.Over the course of a 20-year military career, Wasson put the...
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New shelter may fall on city to fund
Bids far exceed money raised12/24/20By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldMembers of the Jefferson city council at a special meeting Friday appeared to agree that the city will probably need to get...
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UPPING THE GAME
AAI/Spalding donates NBA-caliber backstops to new high school12/24/20By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe pyrotechnics and the Laker Girls are each sold separately.But if Greene County High School...
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HOPE RISING
12/31/20’Twas two days before Christmas when frontline staff at the Greene County Medical Center began receiving vaccinations against COVID-19, a sign in more ways than one that our longest year ever...
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ON HOLD
Covid thwarts band’s reunion after 50 years1/7/21By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThis much is certain: if we have any hope of ever visiting the “Land of 1,000 Dances” again, we’ll need to first...
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THE MOTHER OF ALL PICKS
Greg Ruth has spent a lifetime picking, salvaging and repurposing — so why not take on a historic, three-story building ravaged by fire?1/7/21By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comIt was on a February...
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Questions persist after hit and run
Travis Fincel died Jan. 71/14/21By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comGRAND JUNCTION — Chances are, the sidewalk on 16th Street North will be covered with snow, water or mud.That probably explains why...
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DOREEN’S LUCK
New minister came to the right town — her son training to be Olympic archer1/14/21By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comBetween the open books on her desk and the punctured archery targets on the...
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Residents urge city to save animal shelter plan
1/21/21By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldThe Jefferson city council at its regular meeting Jan. 12 instructed its bonding consultant to draw up documents to provide some city bond funding for the...
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Vaccine wait list initiated
Those 75 and older, school staff, first responders can call or email1/21/21COVID COUNT 720 cases locally as of Jan. 20Staff reportThe Greene County board of supervisors on Jan. 14 extended the mandated...
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E PLURIBUS UNUM (Out of many, one)
Local bald eagle photos by Matt Wetrich1/21/21“In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle,” President Ronald Reagan said in his...
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Bike trail bridge work pushed to November
1/28/21By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldThe expected completion date for repair work on the Raccoon River Valley Trail bridge south of Jefferson has been extended to Nov. 30 from its original date...
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Tower falls oddly quiet
Request for ‘patriotic’ music invites legal hand-wringing1/28/21By RICK MORAINFor The Jefferson HeraldThe Greene County board of supervisors on Jan. 21 temporarily suspended the playing of live and...
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THE SHOW WILL GO ON
New high school auditorium is a showstopper1/28/21By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.comThe first thing most people seem to notice is the sheer size of the space.“It’s really big,” Greene County High...
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