Coltrane Carlson

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1 week ago | raccoonvalleyradio.com | Coltrane Carlson

A special event is taking place this weekend where some visitors on horseback are coming through the Greene County area. Petra Dawson is the Chair of the Greene County Pony Express Riders of Iowa and says the Pony Express Rider Ride Weekend is taking place tomorrow and Saturday, where youth are riding horses to Camp Sunnyside.

1 week ago | raccoonvalleyradio.com | Coltrane Carlson

National Telecommunicators Week highlights those individuals that are on the receiving end of emergency calls and perform other services to the community in times of need. Mindy Durlam has been a dispatcher for the Greene County Sheriff’s Office for 21 years. She tells Raccoon Valley Radio that she was working as a nursing assistant when a friend of hers who was a dispatcher at the time asked her to watch what a dispatcher does and she knew from then on that’s what she wanted to do.

1 week ago | raccoonvalleyradio.com | Coltrane Carlson

There are quite a few welcomed improvements happening to the city of Jefferson owned softball fields. The Greene County School District has a sharing agreement with the city to play its high school softball games and Superintendent Brett Abbotts says one noticeable change is going to be new batting cages. He explains that the area where the old batting cages were located, directly behind the pressbox, are now going to be placed past the right field fence.

1 week ago | raccoonvalleyradio.com | Coltrane Carlson

A bill that recently passed the Iowa Senate and is now in the House for consideration would add a requirement to graduate high school. If Senate File 369 passes the House and is signed into law, high school seniors would have to pass a civic test before they could graduate. District 24 Senator Jesse Green was the sponsor of the bill and says students should take the same test that immigrants have to take to become US citizens.