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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the greatest reason so many large-city metro newspapers are failing is the lack on the part of management to provide sufficient local content. My wife, Connie, and I were attending a Saturday ...

Special to the Jefferson Herald After years of planning and more than 12 months of construction despite some supply chain delays, the new childcare center at 306 South Vine in Jefferson is ready to ...

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 ...

Special to the Jefferson Herald Greene County Medical Center’s annual employee recognition and service awards’ ceremony was held Tuesday, March 26 in the main lobby. Traci Wiggins with Materials ...

About two decades ago, my father gave a book to me from his personal library he hoped I would read to learn more about our Dutch heritage. Boasting 1023 pages, this book was always both enticing and ...

SUBMITTED PHOTO American Legion Post #11 conducts an annual Flag Essay Contest for all fifth graders. The purpose of The American Legion of Iowa Essay Contest is to develop a more profound knowledge ...