Jason W. Selby

1 week ago | globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby

It took a little over three hours to drive from our farm to the University of Northern Iowa. From here to there and back, it was mostly side highways and backroads, nothing over 55 miles per hour, therefore patience and a good stereo system were virtues. There was usually one necessary pit stop for restroom duty and to buy a Red Bull. This was around the time Hurricane Katrina hit — Aug. 29, 2005 — therefore gasoline cost almost as much as an energy drink purchased from a convenience store.

1 week ago | globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby

This fall, Greg Adams will be flipping the script, becoming the Osage Community Middle School principal, while current middle school principal Bill Carlson will take over Adams’ position as Lincoln Elementary School principal. Both Adams and Carlson needed a change of scenery. “It’s something we were talking about,” Adams said. As well, before being hired by Osage, at Riceville Community School District, Adams was principal for second through 12th grades. He has done it all.

2 weeks ago | globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby

This is the season of submission for writers like my wife and me. We love the punishment. Literary magazines with affiliations to colleges and universities open up with the start of fall classes. These are small presses. Some pay only in copies of the review, if you’re lucky enough to get an acceptance. More people will read my work in the Mitchell County Press News than most of these small publications. That’s one of the things I like about this job. I have a readership.

2 weeks ago | globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby

“These facts and opinions look so similar.”Those are Joy’s words from a scene in the animated movie “Inside Out,” as she inadvertently dumps crates of both while riding the Train of Thought into an unsorted puzzle at her feet. It is a joke for adults. When she was younger, my daughter Jasmine picked this Sunday evening film. When I needed subject matter for my column, she sensed it, and she made it about her, which is the four-year-old mentality most of us never outgrow.

2 weeks ago | globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby

Brent Jennings is a winner. He has led Osage to multiple state championships. He has also led his industrial arts students to professional fields they can be proud of. This May, Jennings will be stepping down. It is not the first time. He left the Army National Guard in 2009. He leaves a legacy of success. Jennings is originally from Clarinda. He graduated from high school in 1986. His mother was on the school board. He grew up with three sisters. “I was a typical teenager in the 1980s,” he said.