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Pillar Technology has plans to renovate the two-story double-storefront former IOOF building just off the Square on East State Street

THE FUTURE IS NOW

Wed, 03/07/2018 - 16:51 admin1

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Bushmen for sale: 52 years after they broke up, a Bushmen shirt has gone on sale at More Time.

What’s a band without merch?

Wed, 03/07/2018 - 09:13 admin1

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It’s a real shame the Bushmen never got to go through a “Sgt. Pepper” period.

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“Every kid matters,” says Kyle Kinne, special needs counselor at Greene County High School. He’s alarmed by the number of local students who say they’ve seriously thought about killing themselves.

‘Someone is going to succeed’

Wed, 03/07/2018 - 09:07 admin1

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Better, stronger, faster? Well, not quite yet. “Every day, it gets a little easier,” Debbie (Wilson) Roberts says of the bionic hand she started wearing this month. Pictured in her office at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, the Paton native was born without a left hand. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD PHOTOS

Cyborg chic

Thu, 03/01/2018 - 09:45 admin1

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A pepper grinder.

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Jefferson’s Al Naylor (far left) will be seen March 4 on a new IPTV special, “Bob Dorr and the Blue Band: Encore.” IPTV PHOTO BY PATTY FOSTER

Homegrown trumpeter to be seen on IPTV special

Thu, 03/01/2018 - 09:38 admin1

By ANDREW MCGINN
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All great empires are partially built atop myth.

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Cutline: The former Nichii soy flaking plant in Jefferson will be revived this summer by Landus Cooperative to distribute and eventually manufacture cattle feed. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Idle tofu plant to be turned into beef feed operation

Tue, 02/27/2018 - 18:43 admin

There’s something deliciously ironic about a former tofu plant becoming a facility that will serve the region’s beef producers.

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Greene County farmers and entrepreneurs James Holz (left) and Bill Frederick are convinced that cover crops that hold nutrients in place are the most probable way to address Iowa’s water quality woes. They established Iowa Cover Crop in 2014 to seed fields in the off-season with everything from rye and oats to hairy vetch and radishes. While business has doubled every year, still only 2 percent of Iowa farmland acres are seeded with cover crops. ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD

Believe the hype

Thu, 02/22/2018 - 10:44 admin1

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Jefferson native Clair Tomlinson (right), pictured with daughter Casey, signed up in 1962 for the Air Force and found himself manning a new ICBM called the Titan II for three years in the Arizona desert. Later, a producer in L.A. named Bill McIntyre saw in Tomlinson what he heard in the Firesign Theatre: Subversive comedy gold. Drawn from Tomlinson’s stories about his time in the service, their screenplay, “Nuclear Warriors: A Serious Comedy,” reads like a real-life version of “Dr. Strangelove.”

The screenplay Hollywood is still too afraid to touch

Thu, 02/22/2018 - 10:38 admin1

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“I’d like to think that I provided a service that went above and beyond,” says retiring rural mail carrier Mike Piepel, closing the door of a mailbox on Grimmell Road for perhaps the last time. “Hopefully people got their money’s worth.” ANDREW McGINN | JEFFERSON HERALD PHOTOS

Million-mile man

Thu, 02/15/2018 - 11:43 admin1

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Matthew Fiedler’s life has taken him from Jefferson-Scranton High School to a meat-packing plant in Perry to a job with NASA and now to the forefront of 3-D printing. In 3-D printing, physical objects are made one layer at a time using plastic filament.

First, Scranton, next, the world

Thu, 02/15/2018 - 11:29 admin1

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THE FUTURE IS NOW

What’s a band without merch?

‘Someone is going to succeed’

Cyborg chic

Homegrown trumpeter to be seen on IPTV special

Idle tofu plant to be turned into beef feed operation

Believe the hype

The screenplay Hollywood is still too afraid to touch

Million-mile man

First, Scranton, next, the world

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