By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.com

Monsignor Kevin McCoy, a Jefferson native, is vicar general of the Sioux City Diocese at a time of change for Catholics in western and west-central Iowa, due in part to a critical shortage of priests. The fates of St. Columbkille in Churdan (pictured below) and St. Brigid in Grand Junction were largely undecided until recently, when the bishop declared they would remain open, to a point. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD

By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.com Do more with less. If there’s one edict every working man and woman has undoubtedly heard in the early 21st century, it’s that — do more with less.

BFFs: Joel Opp (left) and Andy Dick, of Mortenson Construction, treat the Shahan girls Friday to treats at Twiins Shoppe after giving the family a donation to buy “chemo shirts” for kids. Avril Shahan, 4 (far right), is fighting leukemia.

Wind turbine crew blows local family away

By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.com Everything about a wind turbine is huge. The blades are more than 100 feet long. The tower is more than 200 feet tall.

Nancy (Cuddy) Pennell was a stewardess whose July 1, 1968, flight got a little too close to the Soviet Union.

I was a captive of communism!

By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.com After 50 years, the stubby, silver jet fighter captured mid-air at speeds pushing 600 mph in a hazy color photo taken by a $12 Instamatic camera looks fake. Like, Godzilla-movie fake.

Going up? Not wanting to take up more parking space, Home State Bank is expanding vertically.

Home State moving on up, literally

Home State Bank announced plans Tuesday for the addition of a second floor to its current location.

A new 3-D mammography unit went into service last week at the Greene County Medical Center. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD

GCMC offering cutting-edge mammograms

By ANDREW MCGINNa.mcginn@beeherald.com Soft music. Park-like imagery on two TVs. And, wait, is that a songbird somewhere off in the distance? An Eastern bluebird, by chance? A black-capped chickadee?