By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Aug. 31, 2022 — A group of 18 Latino business owners & entrepreneurs from Denison, Storm Lake, Perry, Carroll, Coon Rapids and Omaha spent Tuesday, Aug. 30, in Jefferson and Greene County on an invitation from Greene County Development Corp. to come see opportunities here for re-location, expansion or totally…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Aug. 4, 2022 — Before Mark Prosser was hired 33 years ago as the new police chief in Storm Lake in northwest Iowa, he’d been a homicide detective in O’Fallon, Ill., also serving as an investigator and supervisor for a “Major Case” homicide unit working the entire St. Louis metro…
JEFFERSON, Iowa, April 19, 2022 — The Greene County Development Corporation – the economic development agency working for the whole county – will be hosting town hall meetings over the next couple of weeks to introduce its diversity project. The sessions, being held all around the county, are free and the public is encouraged to…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Nov. 21, 2021 — The big electronic sign at the entrance to the Greene County Fairgrounds last weekend flashed a happy message in Spanish: “Felicidades, Sr. y Sra. Rodriguez!” It was a salute to the wedding of Jacqui Casas and Edgar Rodriguez and their reception for 250 mostly Latino friends and…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Dec. 30, 2021 – In five days around Christmas, I sat down and talked at length with eight members of the tiny Latino community here in Greene County, and those interviews produced one of the best gifts I’ve had in a long time. That gift is hope. It’s what brought them…