By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley The world’s greatest rivalries often lay claim to equally as riveting backstories. In Greene County’s case, victory never sounds ...

By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was compiled with references to the Smithsonian Magazine, the Des Moines Register, Thegreatautorace.com ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] Thirty-seven years ago, newspaper readers — there were more of them then — weren’t so obsessed with whether a paper’s editorial board leaned to the left or to ...

Global supply chain disruptions, rising prices for foods and farm production inputs, increasing evidence of agriculture’s impact on climate change, and unconscionable numbers of people experiencing ...

Special to the Jefferson Herald Connie Neese spent her entire life as a caregiver, first to her family and then as a nurse. After everything she has seen and done, she often points to the many ways ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] Between the open books on her desk and the punctured archery targets on the floor, Kim Nofel’s office at First Presbyterian Church looks pretty much like you’d ...

Last Sunday, May 1, would have been my late brother Tom’s 75th birthday. He is much missed by his extended family members and many, many friends. Tom was blessed with many talents, among them an ...

Harold Addison Osterman (HO), a devoted family man, veteran, and avid collector, passed away on June 28, 2023, at age 95. Born on April 23, 1928, to Walter and Hazel (Shaffer) Osterman, Harold lived a ...

Editor’s note: I originally wrote the following as a Facebook post late Friday (Jan. 8) following the most tumultuous week in Washington, D.C., since the War of 1812. I’m tired. I’ve consumed more ...

Carla Offenburger, an MVP kind of Iowa citizen from rural Cooper in Greene County, died at home on July 24 at the age of 62 after a 12-year-long “dance with cancer,” as she often described it. She ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] It was on a February night, more than a century ago, when the home of the Iowa Stock Remedy Co. — makers of a popular worm remedy for animals known as Iowa Worm ...

Republicans, who control the Iowa House, the Iowa Senate and the Iowa governorship, make no secret of their intent to entirely eliminate the state’s income tax. It probably won’t happen this coming ...