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 BRANDON HURLEY [email protected] EDITOR’S NOTE: For the sake of everyone’s sanity, and time, we have split the County All-Decade teams into two parts. This week, we release the boys’ All-Decade ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] On July 12, when the promotion company known as Iowa Chill sent word on Snapchat that River Farm Recreation west of Jefferson would be hosting a “foam party” on ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] The analogy that’s been used as justification to keep Jefferson’s historic Square intact is that knocking down one building, or two buildings, would be like ...

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 ...

The holiday season, stretching from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, has become a time of cheerful overeating and overindulgence. Once the New Year rolls around, the latest diet and exercise crazes ...

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 JIM WYCKOFF Special to The Jefferson Herald Fifty years ago on any snowy winter night in Jefferson, Lincoln Way was a thoroughfare for dozens of brightly colored snowmobiles whizzing through town.

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 ...

Staff report Heartland Bank this week donated $10,000 to support food pantries in the communities it serves, including Jefferson and Gowrie. “Heartland Bank is proud to support their local food ...