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Joyce and Bob Ausberger are pictured at their Lincoln Highway museum in Grand Junction. With their drive 30 years ago to save Eureka Bridge west of Jefferson, the Ausbergers started a movement to preserve Iowa’s 460-mile stretch of the nation’s first transcontinental highway. The movement reached its apex on Feb. 16 with designation of the Lincoln Highway in Iowa as a National Scenic Byway. “The designation we’ve been fighting for,” Joyce says. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD PHOTOS

ROAD TRIP!

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 16:20 admin1

By ANDREW MCGINN

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Greene County Schools bus drivers and bus monitors were among the first school staff on Feb. 5 to receive their initial dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. HERALD FILE PHOTO

Vaccine supply woefully short

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 16:16 admin1

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Tellers at Peoples Bank in Scranton reported an armed robbery about 10:45 a.m. Feb. 25. For many residents of Scranton, this sort of thing was unthinkable. It had been nearly 12 years since a Greene County bank was robbed. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD

THE SCRANTON JOB

Wed, 03/10/2021 - 16:31 admin1

By JARED STRONG and ANDREW McGINN | a.mcginn@beeherald.com

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In Barry Sadler’s 1966 hit song “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” he saluted them as, “Men who mean just what they say.” Jefferson native Nick Friess, who served with Army Special Forces in Vietnam, is still living proof. “I am shocked by the lack of care and the lack of compassion,” he says, assessing the current state of the Union.

A PROFILE IN COURAGE

Thu, 03/04/2021 - 08:10 admin1

By ANDREW MCGINN

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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she knows how hard it is to be a working parent seeking child-care options. Ernst on Feb. 18 visited Glidden to talk with board members and other advocates of The Lil’ Wildcat Education Center, which is slated to open there in the fall of 2022. Ernst said the closure of schools and child care centers during the pandemic has disproportionately impacted women, most notably moms. HERALD FILE PHOTO

HAVE CARE, WILL TRAVEL

Thu, 03/04/2021 - 08:06 admin1

By DOUGLAS BURNS

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Tellers at Peoples Bank in Scranton reported an armed robbery about 10:45 a.m. Thursday. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD

Scranton bank robbed at gunpoint

Thu, 02/25/2021 - 14:41 admin1

By JARED STRONG and ANDREW McGINN

A man dressed in all black with a zebra-print gaiter robbed Peoples Bank in Scranton Thursday morning.

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Daniel Rohner (left) and Steve Kohl hope to see the creation of an 18-hole, destination disc golf course at Daubendiek Park. The sport is scored like traditional golf, with golfers aiming their flying discs at a metal basket, er, hole like the one pictured at far left. Traditional golfers, however, are either giving up the game or dying by the thousands each year. Disc golf, which emerged from the laid-back hippie Frisbee culture of the ’60s and ’70s, is taking its place. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD PH

GOLF IS DEAD. LONG LIVE GOLF!

Wed, 02/24/2021 - 15:34 admin1

By ANDREW MCGINN

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Green for school vouchers, Thompson mixed

Wed, 02/24/2021 - 15:27 admin1

By DOUGLAS BURNS

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Dennis Stevens, a Scranton native who enjoyed a career on Madison Avenue as an ad agency art director, has found a new calling in retirement as a cartoonist. His first book of cartoons is the perfect antidote to the never-ending stream of bad news over the past year.

LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

Wed, 02/17/2021 - 15:47 admin1

By ANDREW MCGINN

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VACCINATION DAY

Wed, 02/17/2021 - 15:44 admin1

Greene County Public Health on Friday began the process of vaccinating staff against COVID-19 at both county school districts.

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ROAD TRIP!

Vaccine supply woefully short

THE SCRANTON JOB

A PROFILE IN COURAGE

HAVE CARE, WILL TRAVEL

Scranton bank robbed at gunpoint

GOLF IS DEAD. LONG LIVE GOLF!

Green for school vouchers, Thompson mixed

LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

VACCINATION DAY

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